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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. Made in Dagenham
    Sally Hawkins is just plain irresistible in this funny, touching and vital salute to women in the work force.
  2. The Next Three Days
    It's damn hard to enjoy a thriller when you don't, won't, can't believe a word of it.
  3. Morning Glory
    A tart, terrific comedy that gives Harrison Ford his best and funniest role in years.
  4. 127 Hours
    Like the A.R. Rahman score that drives the movie, the triumphant 127 Hours pays fitting tribute to Aron by being thrillingly alive.
  5. Fair Game
    Spends too much time covering ground well known from the headlines. But the scenes of the couple at home with their children and friends are uniquely fascinating, if not, in Wilson's words, "very 007-ish."
  6. Welcome to the Rileys
    The actors and admirably sensitive director Jake Scott (son of Ridley) can't compensate for Ken Hixon's long slog of a script.
  7. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    Hornet's Nest is talky but indisputably terrific, and it ends in a dazzling display of courtroom fireworks. Rapace is hot stuff in any language. Oscar, take heed.
  8. Paranormal Activity 2
    If you're looking for wicked fun this Halloween, Paranormal Activity 2 is the best goosebump game in town.
  9. Conviction
    Sam Rockwell has yet to find a movie as good as he is (Moon comes closest). He's still looking.
  10. Hereafter
    Hereafter, set to a resonant Eastwood score, truly is haunting.
  11. Jackass 3-D
    Knoxville and his boys seem to be saying goodbye. To which I can't help thinking, fondly, it's time.
  12. Carlos
    The movie crawls hypnotically into the skin of this global assassin and astonishes you with its brazenly violent and sexual audacity.
  13. Secretariat
    If it's hip to be square, then this racehorse movie is the ultimate in cornball cool.
  14. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    I don't blame you for backing off a movie that focuses on a suicidal teen who learns warm life lessons by spending five days in a Brooklyn hospital's psych ward. Stop worrying. It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on Ned Vizzini's semiautobiographical novel, breaks the jinx.
  15. Life as We Know It
    This is crap as we know it, a 113 minute package of romcom suck.
  16. Nowhere Boy
    Johnson doesn't resemble, much less embody, Lennon, but he does catch his distinctive glint of mischief tinged with pain. Duff and Scott Thomas are both exceptional, revealing how John's relationship with these two clashing sisters marked his character.
  17. The Social Network
    Keep your eyes on Garfield - he's shatteringly good, the soul of a film that might otherwise be without one. The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.
  18. Let Me In
    Reeves plugs in a live wire to play Abby, the girl vampire who's been 12 for, well, a very long time. That would be Chloë Grace Moretz, an acting dynamo (see Kick-Ass) whose mesmerizing performance goes deep.
  19. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    Maybe money never sleeps, but this missed opportunity of a movie will have audiences dozing.
  20. Buried
    Ninety minutes of being buried alive with Ryan Reynolds: Didn't we all suffer that in "The Proposal"?
  21. Waiting for 'Superman'
    This movie isn't just a necessity (listen up, do-nothing politicians) - it might change your future.
  22. Jack Goes Boating
    The movie stays alert to the dreams and disappointments of four average people on an emotional roller coaster. It's a sublimely acted movie, hilarious and heartfelt.
  23. Easy A
    The jokes are hit-and-miss. But Stone is one sassy babe and a breakout star who nails every zinger and brings genuine warmth to her scenes with her parents, played by the priceless Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci. You mean girls can eat it.
  24. The Town
    Affleck and Hall make this unlikely love story palpably moving. And Renner (The Hurt Locker) is dynamite - he radiates ferocity and feeling.
  25. Catfish
    There's more killer suspense and shocking intimacy in this one-of-a-kind documentary than you'll find in a dozen thrillers. You'll laugh hard and cry too.
  26. Never Let Me Go
    The melancholy attached to the impermanence of life and love suffuses this film, making it memorably haunting and hypnotic.
  27. I'm Still Here
    Affleck's provocative, postmodern take on JP as half-joke, half-victim is the damnedest plunge into the dark heart of our "reality" culture since Sacha Baron Cohen invented Borat.
  28. The Romantics
    I wanted Paquin, who deserves better than this, to call on her vampire pals from "True Blood" and yell, "sic em!" Oh wait, they're already bloodless.
  29. Going the Distance
    A sappy-sweet romcom that seems to have been invaded by a screenwriter - one Geoff LaTulippe - with delusions that he's David Mamet.
  30. Machete
    This unholy mess replaces the artful ambition of "The American" with torture, blood spray, kinky sex, twisted fun and a bizarro critique of U.S. policy on illegal immigration.
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