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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. A Separation
    A Separation is a landmark film. No way will you be able to get it out of your head.
  2. 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.
  3. War Horse
    War Horse gets to you. It's one from the heart.
  4. We Bought a Zoo
    Damon is extraordinary. He's heartfelt performance has a tough core of intelligence and wit.
  5. The Adventures of Tintin
    The movie comes at you in a whoosh, like a volcano of creative ideas in full eruption.
  6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    From him (Fincher), we get – what? – a faithful adaptation that brings the dazzle but shortchanges on the daring.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    It's implausible as hell, but no less fun for that.
  10. 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.
  11. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Oldman gives a performance that is flawless in every detail.
  12. New Year's Eve
    Bad beyond belief.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. The Muppets
    The Muppets slaps a smile on your face you won't want to wipe off.
  18. 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?
  19. 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.)
  20. The Descendants
    Payne's low-key approach only deepens the film's intimate power. Want a movie you can really connect with? The Descendants is damn near perfect.
  21. Melancholia
    Von Trier draws us inexorably into the web of these characters. He loses us in a dream of his own devising. That's filmmaking. Now if he'd only learn to shut up at press conferences.
  22. Jack and Jill
    A total bust, a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe-worthy jokes and overt product placement.
  23. J. Edgar
    Even when the film trips on its tall ambitions, you can't shake it off.
  24. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    We're getting more of the same, but less of the impact, like weed from a bad dealer.
  25. Tower Heist
    There's not much to say about a jerry-built caper comedy, except that this one has timeliness on it side, and some first-rate clowns.
  26. Anonymous
    Say this for Emmerich, he's not stuffy. And he lucks out big-time with his cast.
  27. The Rum Diary
    At best diverting, at worst drearily conventional, The Rum Diary is pre-gonzo Thompson, before the fusion of fact and trippy fantasy that flowered into a brilliant delirium.
  28. Like Crazy
    Jones is a marvel. Sundance couldn't get enough of her. You won't, either. Her performance grabs hold and won't let go.
  29. In Time
    Pretty cast. Potent premise. Piss-poor execution. And so dies In Time.
  30. Paranormal Activity 3
    I fully expect Paranormal Activity 3 to be box office gold. But it's barely worth two stars, let alone two cents. As for future followups, I offer this plea: STOP!
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