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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bill W.
    All you needed was to accept your imperfection and reach out to others who'd done the same. Surely the man who said that must be perfect.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Awakening
    There is a rich movie to be made about this culture of fake seers and gullible marks, but it isn't The Awakening, a dull British import that never lives up to the pretensions of its period setting.
  3. The Odd Life of Timothy Green
    As anodyne as it is, Timothy Green may represent the last gasp of a genre, the live-action family fable, that has been an entertainment staple for a couple of generations of moviegoers.
  4. The Expendables 2
    Of course, the result is forgettable, but at least it's efficiently and breezily forgettable. What's more, there are laughs too and here's the best part – one or two of them are actually intentional.
  5. ParaNorman
    Norman is the "freak" bullied and ostracized and otherwise degraded by the alive-and-well crowd. Such is the outcast fate of most heroes in the best children's tales. And ParaNorman, a ghoulishly delightful exercise in stop-motion animation, is a very good children's tale indeed.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Sparkle
    Anyone who has seen "Dream Girls," "What's Love Got To Do With It?" or even "The Doors" will find themselves in familiar (if inferior) territory here.
  7. 2 Days in New York
    2 Days in New York plays like 2 years in Attica. You don't watch this movie so much as serve it out, a light comedy doled out as a heavy sentence.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Red Lights
    It works best when it doesn't take itself seriously, and some of the ways in which ESP is faked are briefly engaging, like short con games or magic tricks revealed. But, finally, the film doesn't offer the sense of release, or of surprise, that it seems to take for granted.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Oslo, August 31st
    Trier's all in a calendar-day conceit gives Oslo, August 31a clean, clear structure, and yet it doesn't hem it in.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Campaign
    A political parody that is almost as ridiculous as actual American politics.
  11. The Bourne Legacy
    Bourne fans will find much to enjoy about The Bourne Legacy, even if they are forced to do without the title character.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Killer Joe
    Credit goes to the actors (especially Gershon) for giving almost as good as they get in seriously demanding roles, and to Friedkin for having what it takes – guts, chops and a refreshing lack of artistic caution – to bring things thundering home.
  13. Hope Springs
    Yes, this is the fascinating stuff, a rare (in pop culture) look at the complex nature of the love-sex equation – when it's too direct, when it's too vague, when it breaks down completely.
  14. Cosmopolis
    The trouble with Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg's faithful-to-a-fault adaptation from Don DeLillo's 2003 novel, is that it's more metaphor than meat.
  15. The Queen of Versailles
    Everything about The Queen of Versailles, a documentary both sharply observant and deliciously funny, is jumbo-sized – the riches, the rags, his ego, her breasts, their steroidal pursuit of happiness.
  16. 360
    To their credit, both Meirelles and his cast infuse as much realism into the artifice as they can muster, but it's not nearly enough. The too-neat script boxes them in, and leave us out. In that sense, 360 doesn't so much connect our shrunken world as strangle the life from it – the circle feels like a noose.
  17. Searching for Sugar Man
    A pleasing fix, Searching for Sugar Man is a lost-and-found film about pursuits – one of them abandoned, and one not.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Compliance
    Compliance develops an intriguing premise intelligently, inquisitively and uncomfortably.
  19. Ruby Sparks
    The meta-fiction concept of characters interacting with their creator is hardly original, but it's neatly packaged here by Kazan herself, who wrote the script for this clever little charmer.
  20. Celeste and Jesse Forever
    So why are they divorcing, you ask. Who knows? Certainly not the creators of the very confused Celeste and Jesse Forever.
  21. Total Recall (2012)
    Today's Total Recall does nothing to tarnish the image of yesterday's – 22 years from now, I expect it to be hailed as a classic.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Yet the most startling scene in the film is when he returns home after confinement. He politely tells the journalists waiting outside his home studio that he is on bail and can not talk. He smiles and repeatedly declines to comment. It is utterly contrary to his true character.
  23. The Watch
    It's a dumb-ass comedy done strictly for a seriously large paycheque.
  24. Step Up Revolution
    Dance gets political in Step Up Revolution, the fourth installation of the popular movie franchise, which delivers plenty of spectacular fancy footwork in what is otherwise a flat-footed fantasy.
  25. Trishna
    Trishna, in short, seems to occur at too much of a remove; it's too fate-filled.
  26. The Dark Knight Rises
    It's not only packed with high-toned classical and contemporary cultural allusions, but manages to wear its popcorn inspirations on its sleeve.
  27. Union Square
    Union Square's biggest flaw is its predictability.
  28. Neil Young Journeys
    Over all, Neil Young Journeys is a pretty solemn affair, kinda like the man himself.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Collaborator
    Morse and Donovan hold us rapt in this clearly told tale about identity confusion.
  30. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Shot in Louisiana, with non-professional actors and apparently set-designed from a junkyard, Beasts of the Southern Wild marks one of the most auspicious American directorial debuts in years.
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