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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 0.6 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. Holy Motors
    Holy Motors, fueled by pure feeling, is a dream of a movie you want to get lost in. It's a thing of beauty.
  2. Smashed
    Don't forget Winstead when making a list of the year's Best Actress contenders. Yes, she's that good.
  3. Argo
    Just so we're straight, Ben Affleck doesn't merely direct Argo, he directs the hell out of it, nailing the quickening pace, the wayward humor, the nerve-frying suspense.
  4. Seven Psychopaths
    Blood splatters, heads explode, and McDonagh takes sassy, self-mocking shots at the very notion of being literary in Hollywood. It's crazy-killer fun.
  5. Butter
    The chance for delicious satire melts away quickly in Butter, a spoof without oomph.
  6. The Paperboy
    This hot mess got booed by the snobs at Cannes, but there's no denying its profane energy.
  7. Frankenweenie
    Getting creeped out has never seemed this totally cool.
  8. Pitch Perfect
    Kendrick is terrific, taking a role that could have slid by on snide and building it into something uniquely funny and touching.
  9. Looper
    Lacing tremendously exciting action with touching gravity, Looper hits you like a shot in the heart.
  10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Perks deserves points for going beyond the typical coming-of-age drivel aimed at teens.
  11. End of Watch
    End of Watch gives you the savage whoosh of being on a job that can get you killed. Sins of cop clichés can be forgiven when a movie pays honest tribute to police on the line.
  12. Trouble with the Curve
    Eastwood and Adams are just so much damn fun to watch.
  13. Liberal Arts
    Radnor and Olsen are so funny and touching you want to say happythankyoumoreplease. What you get is frustratingly less. Still, to the movie's refreshingly uncynical credit, you feel for them.
  14. Arbitrage
    It's instructive to note what a killer actor Richard Gere can be when a movie rises to his level. Arbitrage is such a movie, a sinfully entertaining look at the sins committed in the name of money.
  15. The Master
    Written, directed, acted, shot, edited and scored with a bracing vibrancy that restores your faith in film as an art form, The Master is nirvana for movie lovers. Anderson mixes sounds and images into a dark, dazzling music that is all his own.
  16. Bachelorette
    Headland can write zingers that would make the cruelest bridezilla blush. And Caplan's treatise on the art of the blow job is time-capsule worthy. Sadly, Bachelorette is a comic cocktail that goes heavy on the bitters. That's no way to end a wedding.
  17. For a Good Time, Call...
    In a rare instance of truth in advertising, the movie actually is a good time.
  18. Lawless
    Lawless is a solid outlaw adventure, but you can feel it straining for a greatness that stays out of reach. There's even a prologue and an epilogue, arty tropes signifying an attempt to make a Godfather-style epic out of these moonshine wars. Not happening.
  19. Side by Side
    No true movie junkie is going to want to miss Side by Side.
  20. Hit and Run
    This slapstick road movie feels tossed off by people on a raunchy bender. I mean that as a good thing. The trouble with Hit & Run is that it can't sustain its trippy effervescence.
  21. Premium Rush
    Premium Rush features fearless stunt work that shames most computer trickery. Too bad I didn't believe a minute of it.
  22. Compliance
    Craig Zobel's potent and provocative Compliance is torture to sit through. It's also indispensable filmmaking. How is that possible? Check it out.
  23. Robot and Frank
    It also addresses questions of aging and neglect that Hollywood likes to run from. Langella, who's played everyone from Dracula to Nixon onscreen, is giving a master class in acting. Enroll now.
  24. Cosmopolis
    This mesmerizing mind-bender ought to prove two things: (1) Robert Pattinson really can act; (2) Director David Cronenberg never runs from a challenge.
  25. ParaNorman
    My advice? Just go with ParaNorman. There's magic in it.
  26. Sparkle
    Whitney Houston deserved better than to go out onscreen with this botch job remake of a 1976 soap opera that never deserved another thought.
  27. The Expendables 2
    Like the 2010 original, The Expendables 2 is all sound and fury signifying nothing, when at the very least it should add up to big, dumb fun.
  28. 2 Days in New York
    Delpy is boundlessly appealing. And Rock is acerbic fun, notably in the imaginary debates he stages with Obama. But the frenzied cross-cultural gags take the piss out of the real subject: how blood ties can turn love into a battlefield.
  29. Hope Springs
    Hope Springs knows happy endings are provisional. What this exuberant gift of a movie offers Kay and Arnold is a renewed appetite for life. And that never gets old.
  30. The Campaign
    The jokes never go deep, the toothless bites at the system leave no marks. It's only the wild-card energy of Ferrell and Galifianakis that keeps you on the ticket.
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