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For 4,546 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: 2,929 out of 4546
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4546
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4546
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  1. Haywire
    Haywire comes close to achieving Soderbergh's goal of creating "a Pam Grier movie made by Alfred Hitchcock."
  2. 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.
  3. Margaret
    Margaret, for all its flaws, is a film of rare beauty and shocking gravity.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Contraband
    Wahlberg could sleepwalk through this role, and does. See this movie and you'll surely follow his lead.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Albert Nobbs
    As directed with grit and grace by Rodrigo García, this quietly devastating film goes bone-deep.
  11. Pariah
    The gifted Rees makes finding out a stirring and heartfelt journey. And Oduye is unforgettable. A star is born.
  12. A Separation
    A Separation is a landmark film. No way will you be able to get it out of your head.
  13. In the Land of Blood and Honey
    At times, Jolie rises to the pulpit when she should stay on the ground. Her theme is too complex for her scattered screenplay to encompass. It's as a director that Jolie shines.
  14. War Horse
    War Horse gets to you. It's one from the heart.
  15. We Bought a Zoo
    Damon is extraordinary. He's heartfelt performance has a tough core of intelligence and wit.
  16. The Adventures of Tintin
    The movie comes at you in a whoosh, like a volcano of creative ideas in full eruption.
  17. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    From him (Fincher), we get – what? – a faithful adaptation that brings the dazzle but shortchanges on the daring.
  18. Carnage
    The film version of Carnage hasn't just lost God from its title, it's lost the laughs from the play that brought it life.
  19. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    So the sequel, A Game of Shadows, is more of the stupid same. It wouldn't matter so much if Downey and Jude Law, as the bromantic Dr. Watson, didn't look so ready to turn on the cerebral dazzle. Instead, Ritchie treats them like action goons out of his "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" basement.
  20. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    It's implausible as hell, but no less fun for that.
  21. Young Adult
    In this tale of stunted development, Theron is a comic force of nature, giving her character considerable density and humanity despite her monstrous aspects.
  22. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Oldman gives a performance that is flawless in every detail.
  23. New Year's Eve
    Bad beyond belief.
  24. Shame
    Michael Fassbender delivers a bold and brilliantly immersive performance as a sex addict in Shame. He is so raw and riveting you won't be able to take your eyes off him.
  25. A Dangerous Method
    The actors give it their all, especially Knightley, whose jaw- jutting, heavily accented and unfairly criticized portrayal gives the film its fighting spirit.
  26. My Week with Marilyn
    The luminous Michelle Williams goes bone-deep here. Monroe's beauty was one of a kind. No one, not even Williams, can act it. What Williams does, with fierce artistry and feeling, is illuminate Monroe's insights and insecurities about herself at the height of her fame.
  27. Hugo
    Scorsese builds Hugo in the Méliès manner, creating a complete, ravishing Parisian world on a soundstage in England and reveling in the sheer transporting joy of it. Hugo will take your breath away.
  28. The Muppets
    The Muppets slaps a smile on your face you won't want to wipe off.
  29. The Artist
    The Artist encapsulates everything we go to movies for: action, laughs, tears and a chance to get lost in another world. It just might leave you speechless. How can Oscar resist?
  30. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    Start hating me now, Twihards, but the sexless, bloodless, padded and plodding Breaking Dawn, Part 1 is the worst Twilight movie to date. (I don't get it either.)
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