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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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  1. Family Portrait in Black and White
    Though only 85 minutes, the film captures an entire, bewilderingly extended family and way of life inside a sturdy frame.
  2. Alps
    Alps, in spite of its title, is a very flat film, from the shallow focus photography, to the actors' monotone delivery.
  3. To Rome with Love
    The current postcard from abroad is not great, but not grating.
  4. Savages
    So why does Savages feel so calculated, cutesy, free of suspense and trashy only in the uninteresting sense? No doubt, Stone is trying... but it all feels more like flexing atrophied muscles rather than creating a believable experience.
  5. The Amazing Spider-Man
    More honourable than "amazing," the latest reboot of the Spider-man franchise brings Marvel Comics web-slinging super-hero down to earth, in a mostly satisfactory way.
  6. China Heavyweight
    As with his previous film, director Chang nurses a compelling drama from a multilayered cultural reality, at once intimate and unfathomably large in implications.
  7. Take This Waltz
    At best, it shows how intense sexual attraction can be a form of temporary insanity.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ted
    As unabashedly idiotic movie comedies go, Ted goes fairly well.
  9. Dark Horse
    The plot's problem is insoluble: There is no honest ending for Abe other than a completely undramatic continuation of the trapped life he has lived so far. So we get narrative disjunction and a limp conclusion instead of the brilliant reversal of formula that was promised.
  10. People Like Us
    This is the sort of movie that ends up awash in sincere revelations, and not a moment of it feels remotely believable.
  11. Magic Mike
    Two things do redeem the film somewhat. One is the near-uniform excellence of the cast, led by Tatum, who has a compelling, eminently watchable aw-shucks charisma, and newcomer Horn as the cute, concerned sister. The other is the easy, naturalistic flow and ebb of Reid Carolin's dialogue, which gives none of his characters a vocabulary or insights above his or her station.
  12. 5 Broken Cameras
    Both a moving first-person essay and an artful exercise in political advocacy, 5 Broken Cameras is about the experience of West Bank protests from the inside.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Kite
    The film is just shy of being overstylized by Bhargava's habit of deftly bringing our attention back to the family and their subtle mannerisms amid the chaotic activity around them. The always wonderful Seema Biswas co-stars as the business man's calm sister-in-law.
  14. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    The biggest high comes from the images evoked by the title alone, or the title in tandem with the movie poster, doesn't it?
  15. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
    In Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, the times may be hard but the apocalypse is soft. Welcome to the anti-"Melancholia."
  16. Brave
    Brave feels like a merely good-enough children's movie.
  17. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
    Abramovic is a sensationally attractive narcissist and the filmmakers are clearly smitten with her, but the film goes a long way to establish the intellectual seriousness and dedication involved in her ambitious series of art stunts.
  18. Safety Not Guaranteed
    Call me biased, but I'm quick to put out the welcome mat for any movie – good, bad or indifferent – that resists easy categorizing. That's certainly the charm of Safety NotGuaranteed, which flirts with two very different genres yet never goes steady with either.
  19. Lola Versus
    Lola Versus is all Greta all the time, a bonanza for fans and proof that Gerwig's easy offbeat charm, obvious smarts and physical comedy gifts can carry a film.
  20. The Woman in the Fifth
    The Woman in the Fifth is an interesting chameleon until it runs out of disguises, and all that was transitory just looks transparent.
  21. That's My Boy
    Will be construed by the faithful as an embarrassment of riches and by the rest of us as cruel and unusual punishment.
  22. Rock of Ages
    Where this PG-rated adaptation of a hit Broadway show, adapted by Adam Shankman falls down is by being far too mild for its supposedly outrageous subject.
  23. Prometheus
    There's definite mastery here, but it's hardly a masterpiece.
  24. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
    The clever lines and themes of friendship and finding home are almost completely overwhelmed here by the breathless pace and sensory overload.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Crooked Arrows
    Crooked Arrows is no "Rocky." It lacks the emotional momentum required for that. But if it's just light, family-friendly entertainment you want, Crooked Arrows fits the bill.
  26. The Intouchables
    The Intouchables works as a crowd-pleaser not because it's true, but because it's a plausible enchantment.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    We Have a Pope
    If only Moretti had had the faith in his story and its gentle, organic comedy, and done away with the forced silliness.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    In the Family
    Despite a number of plot twists, In the Family is more about its constant blanks and dead time, its silence and inert camerawork, which require a viewer to fill in the gaps with one's own perceptions of what's happening.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lovely Molly
    Lovely Molly is determined to remain ambiguous, but the title says it all. Good-Lookin' Joanie just wouldn't have the same ominous ring to it.
  30. Moonrise Kingdom
    Even by his stylistic standards, Anderson has cranked up the artifice.
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