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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 Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    Despite a shaky framework, the magic works. It's a chance to see Ledger one last time in the act of doing what he loved. Take it.
  2. It's Complicated
    You don't have to feel guilty for lapping up this froth. Just don't expect nourishment.
  3. Avatar
    Tone-deaf but thunderously exciting.
  4. Nine
    Rob Marshall's flawed but frequently dazzling Nine is a hot-blooded musical fantasia full of song, dance, raging emotion and simmering sexuality.
  5. Crazy Heart
    Even when you know what's coming, Crazy Heart haunts you like a classic country song. It's a mesmerizer. So is Bad Blake. This dude also abides.
  6. Invictus
    Eastwood's modest approach to these momentous events shames the usual Hollywood showboating. In a rare achievement, he's made a film that truly is good for the soul.
  7. The Lovely Bones
    All this is conveyed in the remarkable performance of Ronan, an Oscar nominee for Atonement. She and Tucci -- magnificent as a man of uncontrollable impulses -- help Jackson cut a path to a humanity that supersedes life and death.
  8. A Single Man
    The film belongs to Firth. Uncanny at showing the heart crumbling under George's elegant exterior, he gives the performance of his career.
  9. Up in the Air
    One-word reaction: bravo.
  10. The Last Station
    The film itself, energetically directed and written by Michael Hoffman, can't always rise to the level of its two dynamo stars.
  11. Everybody's Fine
    No trite, tear-jerking cliché goes undrooled in the script by director Kirk Jones.
  12. The Road
    In this haunting portrait of America as no country for old men or young, Hillcoat -- through the artistry of Mortensen and Smit-McPhee -- carries the fire of our shared humanity and lets it burn bright and true.
  13. Me and Orson Welles
    What do you say about a movie that proves Zac Efron can act, introduces a master thespian in Christian McKay and launches a charm assault that is damn near irresistible? I say, see it.
  14. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Any resemblance between this Bad Lieutenant and the 1992 Abel Ferrara landmark is purely in the head of the dude who thought up the title.
  15. Broken Embraces
    Cruz exudes a sensual aura of mystery that holds you spellbound. And Almodóvar, a true poet of cinema, creates images -- horrifying and healing -- that live inside your head like a waking dream. You want to miss a movie like that? I didn’t think so.
  16. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Ever since "True Blood" glamoured me, Twilight seems even more sexless and toothless. I prefer my undead with a little life in them.
  17. Fantastic Mr. Fox
    An adventure in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.
  18. 2012
    Beware 2012, which works the dubious miracle of almost matching "Transformers 2" for sheer, cynical, mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity.
  19. The Messenger
    Its truths are personal. It means to shake you. And does.
  20. Pirate Radio
    The boat nearly sinks from character overload, and Curtis brakes when you most want him to gun it. But there’s no denying the comic energy of the cast.
  21. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    Claireece "Precious" Jones, played by Gabourey Sidibe, 24, in an astounding debut that brims with grit and amazing grace.
  22. The Men Who Stare at Goats
    The go-for-broke performances help make all this paranormal activity too much fun to care.
  23. The Box
    What a shame that Kelly's pacing doesn't run as fast as his imagination. Instead of sweeping you along, The Box just sits there like something unclaimed at lost and found. Damaged goods.
  24. This Is It
    Watching his struggle is illuminating, unnerving and unforgettable.
  25. Antichrist
    Depending on your reaction to the cinematic outrages perpetrated by Danish director Lars von Trier (remember Dogville?), you might want to add or subtract two stars from the halfway (half-assed?) rating I just gave Antichrist.
  26. Amelia
    There’s not a real or spontaneous minute in it.
  27. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    Jammed with story threads that don’t cohere, Cirque commits the cardinal sin for a vampire movie: It’s bloodless.
  28. Where the Wild Things Are
    Jonze has filmed a fantasy as if it were absolutely real, allowing us to see the world as Max sees it, full of beauty and terror. The brilliant songs, by Karen O (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and the Kids, enhance the film's power.
  29. Law Abiding Citizen
    Jeez, did the "surprise" climax have to be this eye-rollingly stupid?
  30. An Education
    An Education is remarkable for the traps it doesn't fall into. Jenny, for all her naive impulses, isn't a victim.
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