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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. Green Lantern
    Hal claims that a Lantern's only enemy is fear itself. The thought of a sequel to this shamelessly soulless Hollywood product scares me plenty.
  2. Super 8
    This movie, a true beauty, will put a spell on you.
  3. Beautiful Boy
    Blazing performance will burn in your memory. Same goes for the film.
  4. Submarine
    Ayoade, the British comic making a remarkable feature debut with his adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel, blends mirth and malice with deadpan brilliance.
  5. Beginners
    McGregor goes bone-deep in a performance of shining subtlety. And a never-better Plummer is simply stupendous, refusing any call to sentiment as he shows us Hal's resonant lunge at life. Mills works the same way. Beginners is one from the bruised heart.
  6. X-Men: First Class
    In this cheerfully perverse origin tale of Magneto, Professor X and their mutant team, Vaughn delivers a fireworks display of action, smarts and fun, plus a touch of class from actors who can really act.
  7. The Tree of Life
    Like its predecessors (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The New World), Tree delivers truths that don't go down easy. No one with a genuine interest in the potential of film would think of missing it.
  8. The Hangover Part II
    How could a 2009 raunchfest that slapped a grin on my face I couldn't unglue degenerate into a cold dish of sloppy seconds?
  9. Midnight in Paris
    What's fresh about Midnight in Paris is the way he (Allen) identifies with Gil's idealization of the past, of the Paris that represented art and life at their fullest.
  10. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    Marshall deserves props for putting the "show" back into the Pirates business. But face it, he's polishing a giant turd.
  11. Hesher
    As played by the spectacular Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hesher is the id run rampant.
  12. Everything Must Go
    Ferrell delivers a performance of implosive intensity that rings true in every detail.
  13. Bridesmaids
    Kristen Wiig is an indisputable goddess of comedy. And this rowdy fem-friendship movie she stars in and wrote with Annie Mumolo is infused with the Wiig brand of wicked mischief.
  14. Something Borrowed
    The half-star rating goes to John Krasinski for heroically rising above this vile dung heap of a movie.
  15. Hobo with a Shotgun
    Moralists, beware. Hobo looks like a garish cartoon puked up by a filmmaker overstuffed with cheap thrills and celluloid scuzz. What's not to like?
  16. The Beaver
    The Beaver, directed by Jodie Foster from a script by fearless first-timer Kyle Killen, is operating on a plane far above multiplex formula. This flawed but heartfelt movie has the power to sneak up and floor you.
  17. Thor
    Hemsworth, an Aussie actor with a vocal command to match his heaving brawn, doesn't just play the role, he owns it. I'm expecting both sexes will feel his impact.
  18. Fast Five
    Fast Five will push all your action buttons, and some you haven't thought of. So what if you hate yourself in the morning.
  19. Prom
    Prom has its modest delights, chiefly its young cast.
  20. Incendies
    A devastating mystery thriller from Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve that grabs you hard and won't let go.
  21. Rio
    A brightly-colored, dizzying pinwheel of 3D animation in which nothing much happens. Sounds like summer is here early.
  22. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    Spurlock says he's not selling out, he's buying in. I'm buying into Spurlock. As ever, he makes you laugh till it hurts.
  23. Water for Elephants
    It's all in the telling. Gruen provided grit and pungent detail. The movie settles for gloss.
  24. Scream 4
    Between a diabolically funny start and a surprise climax, Scream 4 offers nothing more than a series of gory deaths that grow tiresome with repetition. The rating is a hard R, but Craven and Williamson keep it soft at its core. "Scream 1" is still the only keeper.
  25. Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    Who's the idiot responsible for this fiasco? You can't blame the Tea Party, an organization of 9 million that the film's producers are exploiting to get butts into seats. There's an object lesson in objectivism for you.
  26. The Conspirator
    The film pivots on McAvoy's powerfully implosive performance as a man trying to grow beyond his own prejudices. His scenes with Wright, under Redford's nuanced guidance, give this film its timely resonance and its grieving heart.
  27. Meek's Cutoff
    Reichardt has crafted a haunted dream of a movie to get lost in.
  28. Your Highness
    Nothing works. Nothing.
  29. Arthur
    Gordon, who died shortly after the first Arthur, never had to see the luckless 1988 sequel that made his beloved characters seem like strangers. The new Arthur, insipid when it should be infectious, leaves the same deadly impression.
  30. Hanna
    As Hanna confronts her past, the movie becomes like nothing you've ever seen. I'd call it a knockout.
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