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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. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    Yikes! Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda direct strictly for short-attention spans on a fruit-loopy palette that made me want to puke. Had Dr. Seuss lived (he died in 1991), I'm confident he would have puked as well.
  2. Project X
    Most teen flicks just fake being fueled by anarchy. But the gut-bustingly funny Project X is the real deal. It's raunchy, reckless and ready to party. What's not to like?
  3. Act of Valor
    I don't know what to make of Act of Valor. It's like reviewing a recruiting poster.
  4. Gone
    There's no thrill in Gone because you can see every surprise coming. It lies there flapping like a dying fish. Skip it.
  5. Wanderlust
    When the script sags, Wain and producer Judd Apatow rely on a top team of actors to keep you laughing.
  6. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
    One look at the dreadful mess that is Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance will turn your whisper into a primal Cage scream: MAKE THIS MOVIE STOP!
  7. This Means War
    A trio of appealing actors is trapped in an action-spiked romcom death-sentenced by a lack of humor, heart and a coherent reason for being.
  8. Chronicle
    Despite a gimmicky premise, Chronicle fuels its action with characters you can laugh with, understand and even take to heart.
  9. In Darkness
    In Darkness is an agonizing experience, especially when Jews are publicly humiliated in the streets and a driving rainstorm nearly drowns those cowering in the depths. Holland means to shake you. In Darkness has the power to haunt will haunt your dreams.
  10. The Vow
    The Vow is a sopping hankie of a romance for women who love to suffer and the men who love them.
  11. Rampart
    Yup, it could have been a bucket of bleak. But the electric talent of Harrelson and Moverman is too exciting to be anything but exhilarating.
  12. Safe House
    Worse, Safe House asks us to believe that Ryan Reynolds can outclass Denzel Washington in the art of being a hard-ass. Not on this planet, baby.
  13. W.E.
    Here's Madge one more time doing something for which she is eminently unsuited – directing.
  14. The Woman in Black
    The Woman in Black doesn't break new ground, but in its suggestions of fine film ghost stories, from "The Innocents" to "The Others" and "The Orphanage," it works you over with riveting restraint.
  15. Red Tails
    You leave Red Tails thinking of what might have been instead of what is – a missed opportunity.
  16. Man on a Ledge
    The shopworn script by Pablo F. Fenjves, who ghost-wrote the unpublished O.J. Simpson book, If I Did It: The Confessions of the Killer, gets no help from director Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cite Soleil).
  17. One for the Money
    Everything in One for the Money rings cringingly false, from Heigl's absurd Snooki accent to Plum's romance with Joe Morelli, an Italian cop, played by – faith and begorrah – Jason O'Mara. To dismiss Julie Anne Robinson's direction as clueless would be a kindness.
  18. The Grey
    A terrifically exciting, deeply unsettling survivalist epic.
  19. Coriolanus
    Think "The Hurt Locker," which shares a cinematographer in Barry Ackroyd with no damage to the Bard's bruising poetry. Neat trick.
  20. Haywire
    Haywire comes close to achieving Soderbergh's goal of creating "a Pam Grier movie made by Alfred Hitchcock."
  21. Miss Bala
    Naranjo, a graduate of the American Film Institute, has a gift for staging action that defines character. The film is a harrowing experience. It cuts deep.
  22. Margaret
    Margaret, for all its flaws, is a film of rare beauty and shocking gravity.
  23. The Devil Inside
    The Devil Inside manages not only to scrape the barrel's bottom but to drill a hole in said bottom and funnel deeper into the scum.
  24. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Acting doesn't get much better than the subtly brilliant display put on by Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin.
  25. Joyful Noise
    Lots of talented young singers decorate the scenery, notably Jeremy Jordan (late of Broadway's failed Bonnie & Clyde but soon-to-open in Newsies)who has vocal and acting chops that shine even in this bucket of Glee Goes Gospel cornpone.
  26. Contraband
    Wahlberg could sleepwalk through this role, and does. See this movie and you'll surely follow his lead.
  27. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    Solidly crafted, impeccably acted and self-important in the way that Oscar loves, Extremely Loud is also incredibly close to exploitation.
  28. The Iron Lady
    The sharp economy of Lloyd's direction allows the incontestably great Streep to take impressionistic snatches of a life and build a woman in full. This is acting of the highest order.
  29. Albert Nobbs
    As directed with grit and grace by Rodrigo García, this quietly devastating film goes bone-deep.
  30. Pariah
    The gifted Rees makes finding out a stirring and heartfelt journey. And Oduye is unforgettable. A star is born.
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