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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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
    The film is narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, who also shows up as an interviewee, and in a Sesame Street clip, which frankly feels odd. Worse: the script she has to work with is often lacklustre.
  2. King of Devil's Island
    Possibly no one else does "grim" with as much unsparing enthusiasm as the Scandinavians.
  3. Being Flynn
    In this tale of two lives, Being Flynn gets the emphasis wrong. The success that has many fathers is altogether predictable; it's the despicable orphan of failure who has us in his thrall.
  4. Casa de mi Padre
    Really, Casa de mi Padre is a skit blown up to a feature flick, amusing for a while until its welcome wears out.
  5. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    This little movie – it's only 83 minutes – seems so determined to if not avoid, then only caress the tropes of slacker films that it commits the worst sin for a comedy: It's boring.
  6. 21 Jump Street
    A try-anything, fitfully amusing muddle that wears its mocking cynicism a bit too proudly.
  7. Friends with Kids
    Whom is this movie for, really? It's too tame for the whooping crowds of women who made hits of the "Sex and the City" movies and "Bridesmaids." And for sure it isn't for parents with kids. You can probably find them, diaper bags in the aisles and toddlers on their laps, watching "Dr. Seuss: The Lorax."
  8. Silent House
    Silent House is a bundle of horror-flick tropes yoked together like a package deal.
  9. A Thousand Words
    For a comedy about the quest for inner peace, A Thousand Words reeks of desperation.
  10. John Carter
    Epically fantastic would be a welcome change, although epically awful would at least keep the symmetry. Alas, epically bland will have to do.
  11. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    As the title more than hints, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is all about a leap of faith, and faith is exactly what this picture requires of us. Make the leap, and you'll be delighted by a movie that's sugary goodness, a guilty pleasure.
  12. Attenberg
    What a strange, moving, puzzling, funny, frustrating and ultimately absorbing film this is.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    A Drummer's Dream
    It's pure emotion. Drumming, for these masters of the instrument, is about communication, acceptance and, above all, deep love.
  14. Footnote
    A father-son academic rivalry provides fodder for this caustic comedy set in the Talmud Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  15. Let the Bullets Fly
    Low on nuance and high on body count, the movie is primarily of interest to fans of Asian action spectacles and followers of the charismatic Chow Yun-fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), here cast as both a dandyish villain and his idiotic double.
  16. Undefeated
    Compared to many of last year's documentaries (Pina, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Cave of Forgotten Dreams or The Interrupters), this film is distinctly minor league. But it does provide the thumbs-up emotional lift of a bumper-sticker message on game day.
  17. Norwegian Wood
    This is the one Murakami work that would seem an ideal candidate for the leap from page to screen. It should be a good movie. But it isn't.
  18. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    If the word masterpiece has any use these days, it must apply to the film Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, a mature, philosophically resonant work from Turkey's leading director, 53-year-old Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Climates, Distance, Three Monkeys).
  19. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    So it's puffed up with lots of extraneous stuff – Super fun for the kids but for grown-ups? Just fluff.
  20. Project X
    Judged by the usual aesthetic standards – Project X sucks. It's just another lame movie. Yet apply a different standard, the mores of our time, and you get a different verdict: Suddenly, it's a perfectly lame movie that speaks intriguingly to the way we live now.
  21. This Is Not a Film
    Deft and ironic, mixing banal reality with poignant metaphor in a typically Iranian style.
  22. Good Deeds
    What the film needs more than anything is Perry's alter ego, Medea – a rampaging bowling ball who might knock all these stiff, upright characters spinning.
  23. The Flowers of War
    While Bale speaks in an anachronistically modern American vernacular, the Chinese cast recite grammatically perfect, phonetic English so stilted you find yourself wishing the film would stick to subtitles. This is not so much a question of a story being lost in translation as a movie that never finds the right story to tell.
  24. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
    Not often does a film double as a literary critic, but this is the Northrop Frye of docs. Essentially, it revises and sharpens the blunted reputation of a great writer.
  25. Act of Valor
    A recruitment poster loosely disguised as a movie.
  26. Wanderlust
    Film encyclopedias may beg to differ, the Cahiers du Cinéma might correct me, but, as far as your humble correspondent knows, Wanderlust is the first mainstream movie ever to star a Floppy Prosthetic Penis.
  27. This Means War
    This Means War is a Valentine's date dud: Think wilted roses, squashed chocolates and flat champagne.
  28. In Darkness
    Though the conclusion is foregone, Canadian screenwriter David F. Shamoon's script manages to extract suspense out of Poldek's ruthless, calculating nature.
  29. The Secret World of Arrietty
    The result is an intriguing hybrid, mixing a Japanese reverence for nature (a raindrop shimmering on a leaf is a visual haiku) with quaint Victorian architecture and a story featuring contemporary, Caucasian-looking Japanese characters speaking in American accents. Somehow, it all works.
  30. Michael
    Dreadful as the subject matter is, the authenticity of the performances and the skill of Schleinzer's filmmaking are difficult to deny in this portrait of a monster as the bland guy next door.
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