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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. Muppets Most Wanted
    After the delicious treat of 2011's "The Muppets," with Jason Segel and Amy Adams joining Kermit, Miss Piggy and the gang, Muppets Most Wanted feels like tasteless leftovers.
  2. Snow White and the Huntsman
    Snow White and the Huntsman is definitely a missed opportunity. Sanders was on to something in taking the Snow White tale to its most menacing extreme.
  3. Be Kind Rewind
    Gondry and the gifted indie cinematographer Ellen Kuras have fun with the amateur versions of the likes of "RoboCop," "Rush Hour," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "King Kong" and "Driving Miss Daisy." These snippets are fun but frustratingly brief.
  4. Elvis & Nixon
    It ain't fact, but it is damn entertaining fiction.
  5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    From him (Fincher), we get – what? – a faithful adaptation that brings the dazzle but shortchanges on the daring.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beneath the Planet of the Apes
    The craziest installment of the Apes series starts out as an almost point-for-point remake of the 1968 original, somehow making it even darker and stranger.
  7. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    This PG-rated movie feels safe and constricted in a way the story never does on the page. It leaves out the deep magic of a good movie, or a good sermon: the feeling that something vital is at stake.
  8. Freeheld
    If Freeheld cuts corners to get its point across, Moore and Page never do. You'll be with them all the way.
  9. The Equalizer
    The material shows its age when McCall goes all "Taxi Driver" to save a teen hooker (a scrappy Chloë Grace Moretz) from her pimps. But Washington and director Antoine Fuqua, who teamed for the actor's Oscar-winning role in 2001's "Training Day," keep the action humming.
  10. Into the Woods
    Yes, the sets and costumes elicit swoons, but it's the peerless Sondheim score, however truncated, that makes this Woods a prime destination.
  11. You're Next
    The surprise is how effective Wingard is at keeping the atmosphere jumpy and tense. And you can't help rooting for Erin, who could win Survivor if she went on the show. Vinson's take-charge performance is the life of this badass party. When you're ducking in your seat, it's nice to have someone to root for.
  12. Paranormal Activity 2
    If you're looking for wicked fun this Halloween, Paranormal Activity 2 is the best goosebump game in town.
  13. The Greatest
    Brosnan, on a roll with this film and "The Ghost Writer," vividly etches the emotional fissures in a man coming apart. The Greatest takes a piece out of you.
  14. Captain America: The First Avenger
    Here's the funny thing: Despite all the Captain America rah-rah in costume and indestructible shield, the movie is at its best when the story sticks with skinny Steve.
  15. True Crime
    At first it's a kick to watch Clint Eastwood play Steve Everett, a horn-dog newsman...Is Clint being Clinton-esque? Even if he's not, these scenes are the liveliest part of this dog-tired movie.
  16. The Shallows
    While this nailbiter sure as hell ain't swimming in the same classic waters as "Jaws," it gets the jolting job done.
  17. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    Though the movie ups the TV ante on nudity, language and violence, Lynch's control falters. But if inspiration is lacking, talent is not.
  18. Adult Beginners
    Byrne is sensational, finding the broken places under Justine's rebellious hot-mom surface. Nothing groundbreaking here, but there's something to be said for a fun time that won't let the laughs go down too easy.
  19. Edge of Darkness
    Gibson's acting has deepened. Too bad his comeback vehicle springs so many leaks.
  20. Hot Tub Time Machine
    Hot Tub Time Machine should have been better than this. It could have been poignant.
  21. Magic Mike XXL
    We get bracing bro banter, pectoral flexing and the whole gang going wild on Molly. Good times.
  22. Bad Moms
    The movie cops out by going soft in the end, but it's still hardcore hilarity for stressed moms looking for a girls night out. Guys should also check out Bad Moms — you just might learn something.
  23. Angels & Demons
    The movie can be enjoyed for the hell-raising hooey it is.
  24. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    True Kingsman fans will appreciate that director Matthew Vaughn reacted to digs at "The Secret Service" for being gratuitously violent, sexually adolescent and politically reactionary by laying all of it on three times thicker.
  25. Poetic Justice
    If Singleton, 25, stumbles, it is over ambition and not the complacency of a new Hollywood hotshot riding a trend.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Pump Up the Volume
    Roaring into the microphone with all the passion he can't put into his life, Slater gives this movie what it otherwise so desperately lacks: a reason for being.
  27. August: Osage County
    The acting styles of Streep and Roberts, both Golden Globe nominees, don’t exactly mesh, but they’re a hoot.
  28. Taking Woodstock
    The film's major sin of omission: the music.
  29. Air Guitar Nation
    Documentarian Alexandra Lipsitz believes that air-guitar competitions are worth a whole feature-length movie. She's wrong, of course. But the fun lasts longer than you might think.
  30. Easy A
    The jokes are hit-and-miss. But Stone is one sassy babe and a breakout star who nails every zinger and brings genuine warmth to her scenes with her parents, played by the priceless Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci. You mean girls can eat it.
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