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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. Tangled
    They really pulled out all the stops on this one.
  2. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    Alas, in the third instalment of the C.S. Lewis odyssey, the devolution continues with the inexorability of a fairy tale thrust in reverse – the sublime first film morphed into the routine second and now this wispy banality.
  3. The Tourist
    What should have sizzled fizzles.
  4. Burlesque
    Falling in the pillowy cleavage between mildly awful and slightly entertaining, Burlesque is a clichéd rags-to-diva story that culminates in a series of Christina Aguilera videos.
  5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    The tale is about meeting Death and comes with this moral: When The End arrives, better to embrace it with love than to try to cheat it with avarice. Hey, if nothing else, Part 1 has got some nerve, so greedily refusing to practice what it earnestly preaches.
  6. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
    Guy and Madeline is a decidedly modern film, whose frightened, impulsive, charming characters could walk into our lives tomorrow.
  7. Black Swan
    Audaciously whacked-out and never less than entertaining, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan mixes a backstage dance drama with a Freudian psychological thriller that's indebted to Roman Polanski's studies of shattered feminine psyches and David Cronenberg's movies about repressed bodies in rebellion.
  8. The Nutcracker
    Anything but a seasonal treat. This special-effects-heavy, big-budget musical from expatriate Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky (Runaway Train, Tango & Cash) ranks as one of the most misguided children's films ever made.
  9. Made in Dagenham
    This time out, with a few exceptions, the inspiration feels solid and earned, not saccharine and contrived.
  10. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    When Spitzer resigned, they broke out champagne on the stock exchange trading floor. Shame on them.
  11. The Next Three Days
    An okay thriller with lots of smart flourishes, The Next Three Days has us hooked early on but never quite gets us in the boat.
  12. Skyline
    So intent are the Strausses on showing off their visual chops, they leave the film's story, dialogue and acting in shambles.
  13. 127 Hours
    Shiver-making moments aside, in a important way 127 Hours suffers from the filmmaker's lack of nerve, a reluctance to let the audience taste Ralston's dread and the expectation of a slow, absurd death.
  14. Morning Glory
    Yes, it's "The Devil Wears Prada," redux.
  15. For Colored Girls
    The film is a mawkish mess, only occasionally alleviated by the performances or Shange's poetry.
  16. Fair Game
    The more compelling performance comes from Watts as Valerie.
  17. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    Sorry, this one doesn't really work at all, but don't blame the workers.
  18. Paranormal Activity 2
    The principle suspense is wondering when the suspense is going to start, as you scan the darkly-lit screen looking for any hint of imminent horror.
  19. Carlos
    A preening terrorist for the Me generation, his primary drive was vanity and his main professional asset an absence of empathy.
  20. Conviction
    A story based on exceptional facts gets converted into an unexceptional movie.
  21. Hereafter
    Hereafter is unpredictable enough to be consistently watchable.
  22. Stone
    No, the trouble isn't with them but with a screenplay (by Angus MacLachlan) that loads their characters with too much symbolic baggage and then points them off in obscure directions.
  23. You Can Live Forever
    For all its aches and pains, the heart of You Can Live Forever doesn’t so much beat as skip, haltingly and disconcertingly, as it tries to keep its own lifeblood pumping.
  24. C.R.A.Z.Y.
    The reality measures up to the rep.
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  25. Dark River
    The rugged emotional territory (and the Yorkshire accents) prove heavy-going in an uncompromising film that elicits a lot more admiration than enjoyment.
  26. Gabriel and the Mountain
    Director Barbosa's love letter to his late friend is emotionally satisfying and cinematically splendid, with social commentary shoe-horned in for better or worse.
  27. Angels Wear White
    Qu’s symbolism, including a giant statue of Marilyn Monroe in her provocative Seven-Year-Itch pose presiding over an empty beachfront playground, is big, bold and impressively cinematic, thanks also to cinematographer Benoît Dervaux.
  28. The Death of Stalin
    There is one thing that power can’t stand, and that is to be mocked: The social importance of this topical romp should not be underestimated.
  29. The Wild Hunt
    More entertaining in concept than execution. What starts as geek comedy gradually slides into a familiar morality play about the savagery beneath the veneer of civility.
  30. RED
    The star turns are Red's raison d'être, with the winking performances filling the place of any credible dramatic tension.
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