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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Jack and Jill
    A total bust, a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe-worthy jokes and overt product placement.
  4. J. Edgar
    Even when the film trips on its tall ambitions, you can't shake it off.
  5. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    We're getting more of the same, but less of the impact, like weed from a bad dealer.
  6. 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.
  7. Anonymous
    Say this for Emmerich, he's not stuffy. And he lucks out big-time with his cast.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. In Time
    Pretty cast. Potent premise. Piss-poor execution. And so dies In Time.
  11. 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!
  12. Martha Marcy May Marlene
    It's Olsen, as a damaged soul clinging to shifting ground, who makes this spellbinder impossible to shake.
  13. Margin Call
    Margin Call is an explosive drama that speaks lucidly and scarily to the times we live in.
  14. Footloose
    Footloose 2011 is harmless as far as it goes, but on the dance floor and off it never goes nearly far enough.
  15. The Thing
    One gut-busting death after another, terror giving way to tedium. Your call.
  16. The Skin I Live In
    Even when the film's frigid elegance, perfectly captured by cinematographer José Luis Alcaine, becomes off-puttingly clinical, Almodóvar's passion burns through. The skin he lives in is alive to challenge no matter what warped form it takes.
  17. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    The film is in black-and-white so the gore doesn't spray quite as colorfully. But you'll still puke up a storm. Not so much at the movie, whose shock value wears off quicky, but at Six, who seems to hate himself almost as much as his audience. Masochists will give the movie a thumbs-up, as long as their thumb isn't already up their ass.
  18. The Way
    Estevez keeps his touch light, with a minimum of pedantry. The Way is really a gift from this son to his father. Sheen, gradually revealing a man painfully getting reacquainted with long buried feelings, who gives the film its bruised heart.
  19. Real Steel
    Sugar Ray Leonard helped with the motion-capture, and it shows. Good stuff. But the tear-jerking in Real Steel is as shameless as its product placement. We're being hustled.
  20. The Ides of March
    A big, bruisingly funny moral fable etched in acid and Obama disillusion.
  21. Take Shelter
    Nichols throws curveballs, but his film is unique and unforgettable.
  22. 50/50
    A movie handled with this kind of care is a rare gift. Refusing to hide from pain or bow to it, 50/50 makes its own rules. It'll get to you.
  23. Killer Elite
    Killer Elite pretends to be fact-based and true to its 1980s period. Just know it's all baloney.
  24. Moneyball
    Moneyball is one of the best and most viscerally exciting films of the year.
  25. Restless
    Wasikowska, from "Alice in Wonderland" to "Jane Eyre," is an actress of translucent expressiveness. And Hopper has his father's brooding intensity and a quicksilver humor all his own. They are both so good, I suggest you dive into the story unfolding in their eyes rather than the banal one in the script.
  26. Straw Dogs
    Peckinpah rubbed our noses in the bloodlust. Lurie invites objectivity. He gets strong, complex performances from actors who won't be painted into corners.
  27. Drive
    A brilliant piece of nasty business that races on a B-movie track until it switches to the dizzying fuel of undiluted creativity. Damn, it's good. You can get buzzed just from the fumes coming off this wild thing.
  28. Contagion
    The film is most riveting in its early scenes, when Soderbergh's digital cameras locate germs everywhere – don't touch those peanuts!
  29. Warrior
    Warrior aspires to myth. It's Cain and Abel battling it out in the face of a decidedly ungodly father before humanity goes down for the count. Strong stuff.
  30. The Debt
    Chastain (a nifty match-up with Mirren) is a live wire, and her scenes with Csokas and Worthington have a spark the later scenes lack. No matter. The Debt holds you in its grip.
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