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For 7,298 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,355 out of 7298
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7298
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7298
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  1. The Avengers
    Expected too is the result: a kind of sterile opulence or, if you prefer, a magnificent emptiness.
  2. Sound of My Voice
    The star of Sound of My Voice is co-screenwriter, female lead Brit Marling, who plays Maggie with melancholy, amusement and scorn. Compulsively watchable, she can change who we think she is by simply turning her face. In profile, she's Vanessa Redgrave. Laughing, she becomes Debbie Reynolds. Marling might become a great character actress. Let's hope the movies use her well.
  3. Darling Companion
    The film sputters and stalls and winds up behaving like the worst sort of oldster – passing gas and pretending to be deep.
  4. The Lady
    Contrast this to "The Iron Lady," a film which managed to be both obnoxiously condescending and flattering to the divisive British leader Margaret Thatcher, and left those of all political stripes irritated. The Lady, devoid of either iron or irony, is merely forgettable, a much deeper insult to its subject.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
    At times, Warriors sacrifices dramatic nuance for scale, but even its most rousing passages are tempered by a sense of loss. Rather than simply enshrining its underdog heroes' efforts, it considers their cost.
  6. The Raven
    The pervasive gore overpowers the few clumsy attempts at wit here, though the film does have one funny line. As one of Poe's literary rivals watches a razor-edged pendulum slice into his abdomen, the man screams in protest: "But I'm only a critic!"
  7. Safe
    Love the kid though, and Statham too – it takes a star with quality to be so rock solid in a crumbling yarn.
  8. The Five-Year Engagement
    A lot more cutting would have made this movie much funnier – but it should have taken place in the editing room, not on the screen.
  9. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    Designed to please all generations of irreverent humour-lovers, The Pirates! Band of Misfits may not be heart-warming (it is about nasty, scurvy pirates!) but it's breezy rollicking fun.
  10. Payback
    Payback is nothing if not brave. It's a documentary attempt to give concrete shape to an abstract discussion, using the medium of film to transplant a nuanced thesis – on the concept of debt – from its natural home on the printed page.
  11. To the Arctic
    After seven trips made over four years, the production was about to wrap when the crew, aboard an icebreaker, encountered a polar bear mom and twin cubs that decided to hang around for a week – offering a rare opportunity to film the daily life of these notoriously camera-shy creatures.
  12. My Way
    Adolescent boys will savour My Way's bombast and solemnity. Cringing adult audiences will more likely beat a retreat before final call.
  13. The Lucky One
    Another Nicholas Sparks novel, another cinematic brush with insulin shock.
  14. Chimpanzee
    Blend sound with sight, though, and the package becomes more difficult to take.
  15. Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
    A surprisingly tender look at San Diego Comic-Con.
  16. Inside Hana's Suitcase
    What always feels genuine, movingly so, are the faces of the school children caught up in their account of the unforgotten past.
  17. Fightville
    The mistake filmmakers Tucker and Epperlein (Gunner Palace) make here is assuming that fighters reveal their true characters in discussing their craft, when in fact just the opposite occurs.
  18. Lockout
    Pearce pumps a surprising amount of levity into his one-liners – sure, it's still hot air, but at least the banter comes fully inflated.
  19. The Three Stooges
    The result, which could be entitled There's Something About Curly, is an unabashedly moronic celebration of slap shtick.
  20. The Deep Blue Sea
    Happily, in his adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play, The Deep Blue Sea, Davies has found a setting close to his heart and a subject more nearly suited to his style.
  21. Keyhole
    Like Maddin's melancholic and relatively more conventional "My Winnipeg," Keyhole is about a memory house, but one that is even more fragmented, mythical and elusive.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Hunter
    By the time The Hunter jettisons its narrative ballast altogether and embraces its elemental appeal, it's too late. The near-mythic grandeur of its final scenes is less a welcome payoff then a suggestion of the truly striking film that might have been; it's ironic that a movie about a man who sets traps for a living would itself end up ensnared by formula.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Cabin in the Woods
    Cabin is a meta-horror-comedy mash-up that, at least for two-thirds of its running time, holds together smartly.
  24. Monsieur Lazhar
    It's an exquisite, humanistic and subtly topical work of cinema art that manages to keep the intimate, revelatory sensibility of a one-man play intact while fleshing out the characters and creating a very realistic and richly detailed school community.
  25. The Salt of Life
    Overall, The Salt of Life has more bite but less charm than "Mid-August Lunch."
  26. Bully
    Indeed, like all bureaucracies, the educational version is a bit of a bully itself. In Sioux City at least, the official response to bullying is to recognize its existence but to deny it's an "overwhelming issue," and retreat behind the comforting bromide that "kids will be kids."
  27. American Reunion
    Halfway through, everyone starts drinking heavily and the film turns into agreeably sloppy fun. (Isn't that always the way – class reunions often perk up when someone spikes the punch.)
  28. Surviving Progress
    Though often fascinating and beautiful to look at, Surviving Progress falls into the adapting-a-book-into-a-movie trap. Trying to do too much too fast.
  29. Damsels in Distress
    This is a mannered comedy, more stylized and theatrical, almost surreal at times, and less accommodating to his trademark brand of razor-sharp dialogue.
  30. The Forgiveness of Blood
    There's much to observe – for example, the thoroughly credible performances of the cast, most of them non-professionals.
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