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For 1,847 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Asteroid City
Lowest review score: 0 The Divergent Series: Insurgent
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,361 out of 1847
  2. Mixed: 317 out of 1847
  3. Negative: 169 out of 1847
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  1. Bright Star
    What animates this dramatically constrained film are the lively words and the vitality of nature. An image of butterflies blooming in a bedroom is Keats' worldview in miniature.
  2. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
    An exciting cloak-and-dagger thriller.
  3. No Impact Man: The Documentary
    Succeeds as both advocacy and entertainment by focusing on the family.
  4. 9
    Although it has a great look and offers a few thrills, the animated film 9 is one of this year's biggest disappointments.
  5. Walt & El Grupo
    While Walt and El Grupo is less than a penetrating analysis, it's more than a Mickey Mouse advertisement.
  6. Extract
    Extract has some flavor, but the comedic kick is diluted by flat characters and a thin story.
  7. All About Steve
    There are good movies to be made about romantic obsession, but the premise doesn't work if the crazy stalker isn't juxtaposed with a sympathetic victim.
  8. Amreeka
    It's one of the funniest and most perceptive films of the year.
  9. Big Fan
    Near the two-minute warning, Big Fan becomes chillingly unpredictable.
  10. The September Issue
    What's most conspicuously missing from this ensemble is some input from the advertisers who subsidize Wintour's tyranny, and the readers who are seduced into buying her beautiful four-pound paperweights.
  11. Play the Game
    Ultimately it's sunk by the hole in the middle: Paul Campbell (presidential aide Billy on "Battlestar Galactica") who substitutes smarm for charm as the archetypal player who gets played.
  12. Taking Woodstock
    Taiwanese director Ang Lee sees the '60s through a rose-colored telephoto lens, but his sympathetic spirit extends the generous message of the hippie era like a passed joint.
  13. Post Grad
    After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality.
  14. Inglourious Basterds
    With its exploded notions of heroism, torture-rack dramatics and kamikaze gusto, it's a fiendishly entertaining flick.
  15. The Baader Meinhof Complex
    Has been criticized as endorsing or condoning violence, but that assessment is unfair and inaccurate. If terrorism is to be eliminated, it must be understood, not oversimplified.
  16. Five Minutes of Heaven
    A director whose breakthrough was the story of a madman's last stand has exceeded that feat with the story of an angry man's next step.
  17. My One and Only
    Despite the title, My One and Only is irritatingly repetitive.
  18. World's Greatest Dad
    The edginess here isn't merely facile. Goldthwait's movies, including the under-appreciated "Shakes the Clown," are about reclaiming dignity from the dung heap. And he's found a fitting collaborator.
  19. Still Walking
    A miniaturist's masterpiece, the ebb and flow of familial love distilled to its essence.
  20. District 9
    The reason District 9 reverberates so loudly is because its moral indignation is cranked to 11.
  21. Ponyo
    Traditional in the best sense.
  22. It Might Get Loud
    Davis Guggenheim, the St. Louis director who won an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth," mines less controversial material this time around.
  23. Bandslam
    Two incompatible movies duke it out in Bandslam. Although it's the wimpy teen musical that prevails, it's the misfit coming-of-age story that leaves an impression.
  24. Earth Days
    There's little that's new in the retelling, except mellowed musings on Environmentalism 2.0.
  25. Julie & Julia
    Streep is astonishing, conveying Child's gusto, her quavering voice, even her height.
  26. Paper Heart
    This movie may be sickly sweet, but it's harmless; and as a handcrafted antidote to a toxic toy story like "G.I.Joe," Paper Heart has healing properties.
  27. A Perfect Getaway
    More scenic than scary.
  28. Funny People
    The sharpest parts of the movie hack through the Hollywood jungle with an insider's certitude. But Apatow is so grounded in the comedy circuit that he can't quite capture the emotional wavelength of the life-and-death drama.
  29. Flame and Citron
    While it may not be a smorgasbord of red herrings and red meat, Flame and Citron is often chilling.
  30. Lorna's Silence
    This isn't just another crime story, and it would be misleading to suggest that it has anything to do with stylish gunplay, exhilarating car chases or brutal fistfights.
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