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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. Martha Marcy May Marlene
    It's Olsen, as a damaged soul clinging to shifting ground, who makes this spellbinder impossible to shake.
  2. Margin Call
    Margin Call is an explosive drama that speaks lucidly and scarily to the times we live in.
  3. Footloose
    Footloose 2011 is harmless as far as it goes, but on the dance floor and off it never goes nearly far enough.
  4. The Thing
    One gut-busting death after another, terror giving way to tedium. Your call.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. The Ides of March
    A big, bruisingly funny moral fable etched in acid and Obama disillusion.
  10. Take Shelter
    Nichols throws curveballs, but his film is unique and unforgettable.
  11. 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.
  12. Killer Elite
    Killer Elite pretends to be fact-based and true to its 1980s period. Just know it's all baloney.
  13. Moneyball
    Moneyball is one of the best and most viscerally exciting films of the year.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Contagion
    The film is most riveting in its early scenes, when Soderbergh's digital cameras locate germs everywhere – don't touch those peanuts!
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Higher Ground
    Farmiga expertly guides a large and gifted ensemble cast and proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground and makes it funny, touching and vital.
  21. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
    With Del Toro's name in the credits, standard chills aren't enough. We want imagination to run riot.
  22. Our Idiot Brother
    Our Idiot Brother comes off as a blueprint for a smart script no one really made. Now that's what I call dumb.
  23. Amigo
    Amigo is combustible filmmaking, something that stays with you long after the final credits. In an entertainment universe of escapism and short attention spans, Amigo is a rousing antidote and a cause for celebration.
  24. One Day
    This tear-jerking twaddle, adapted by David Nicholls from his 2009 bestseller, is nearly as bad as Anne Hathaway's British accent, which is heading for infamy.
  25. Fright Night
    Menace and mirth can cancel each other out. But the combo clicked in 1985's Fright Night (banish the 1988 sequel), and it clicks again in this frisky 3D remake.
  26. Final Destination 5
    The cheap thrills wear off way fast, and we're left with atrocious acting, feeble writing and clueless directing (from first-timer Steven Quale). The horror! The horror!
  27. Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
    The movie plays like an evangelical prayer meeting, though I'd hold the hallelujahs. The characters we came to admire as vulnerable misfits hit the stage like visiting royalty and with a nonstop perkiness that makes the Von Trapps look like manic-depressives.
  28. 30 Minutes or Less
    Fleischer isn't much on details. It's all about the zigzagging rush of the ride. Fair trade.
  29. The Help
    A deeply touching human story filled with humor and heartbreak is rare in any movie season, especially summer. That's what makes The Help an exhilarating gift.
  30. The Whistleblower
    The film swings from melodrama to sermonizing, both blunting the human drama that needs to come to the fore.
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