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For 12,935 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,626 out of 12935
  2. Mixed: 5,141 out of 12935
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 12935
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  1. Ironclad
    A gore fest aimed at indiscriminate action fans. Those interested in learning more about goings on in medieval history will probably find the splatter tedious and off-putting.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Rapt
    Lucas Belvaux's Rapt is two movies, both excellent, for the price of one.
  3. Septien
    Weakly spoofing, or at least deliberately tweaking, Southern Gothic conventions, writer-director Tully can't fully get his arms around this messy genre mashup.
  4. The Ward
    While by no means a masterpiece of the form, John Carpenter's The Ward is an economical period piece that still effectively demonstrates what a skilled technician can accomplish in a single location with a compact cast and sturdy old-school effects.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Delhi Belly
    Director Abhinay Deo and producer Aamir Khan's gleeful experiment in "Hangover"-caliber humor delivers the laughs, and its young stars, including Khan's nephew, A-lister Imran Khan, rise to the challenge.
  6. Project Nim
    While this is fascinating material, it's the flawed human behavior it exposes that makes the story so compelling. And yet what elevates Marsh's film is the even-handedness of his perspective.
  7. The Ledge
    Charlie Hunnam and Terrence Howard put enough actors' oomph into these ledge mates to make them authentic characters even though the film fails to achieve anything like the same level of authenticity.
  8. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    Though it may not have much of an audience beyond the band's fan base, it offers enough context to serve as a primer on the hugely influential Native Tongues clique and should have life on home-vid.
  9. Winnie the Pooh
    Little kids will enjoy it all, while parents, when not checking their cell phones, will be thankful for the thoughtfully brief running time.
  10. Another Earth
    The best science fiction tells stories about people in extraordinary environments or situations that serve to open up the vast, still largely unexplored terrain of the human heart. Mike Cahill's Another Earth is science fiction at its best.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Welcome
    The movie offers no simple solutions, nor even a feel-good ending, but throws a cold light on the human tragedy that underlies many of today's headlines.
  12. Love Etc.
    Cheesy reality shows monopolize the TV schedule, but must they infect our multiplexes as well? Love, Etc., Jill Andresevic's documentary depicting the romantic travails of various New Yorkers, is a disturbing example of a trend that is to be soundly discouraged.
  13. Monte Carlo
    Even as she is the center of attention here in a double role, the jury is still out on Gomez's bigscreen potential; she's not very appealing or magnetic here, nor does she display any particular comic gifts for this sort of broad fare.
  14. Small Town Murder Songs
    There's still much to admire about this carefully drawn but concise character sketch, especially the strong performances and a unique, affectingly ominous score by folk-rock-gospel outfit Bruce Peninsula.
  15. Polytechnique
    As much a memorial as it is a docudrama and as such it will interest educators and students, and make for sober television. It's a pity, though, that more of an attempt wasn't made to understand the killer and explain such things as why no one apparently thought to phone for help or hit the fire alarm.
  16. Larry Crowne
    Every scene is on the prowl for laughs at the expense of the inherent drama in the lives of its colorful characters.
  17. Crime After Crime
    With its bittersweet outcome, this is a tremendously moving story, strong in social commitment and deftly woven out of years of footage.
  18. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    The millions of man hours put into producing this techno shock and awe must be staggering. Everyone got his job done, but somewhere along the way, the movie got lost.
  19. Terri
    If the lighter scenes sometimes lean toward sitcom cuteness, Jacobs has a sufficiently deft touch to get away with it. The territory often seems closest to that of NBC's unjustly short-lived "Freaks and Geeks," which is by no means a bad place to be.
  20. The Perfect Host
    Tomnay skillfully shifts the film's initial tone from suspense to dark comedy so that the transition never feels forced.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beginning of the Great Revival
    A worthy history lesson on the founding of the Chinese Communist Party with only partially entertaining aspects.
  22. Vincent Wants to Sea
    The picture's quiet performances and occasionally surprising moments take it just far enough off the beaten path to make it more than a transparently formulaic feel-good story.
  23. Turtle: The Incredible Journey
    The loggerhead turtle's journey is indeed incredible. But you would rather the narration, delivered intelligently by Miranda Richardson, didn't feel a need to remind you of this fact so frequently.
  24. The Best and the Brightest
    Manages to be simultaneously offensive and bland.
  25. A Love Affair of Sorts
    "Just to document yourself being bored is very boring," Enci says at one point. It's one moment of fiction here that rings all too true.
  26. General Orders No. 9
    First-time writer-director Robert Persons' documentary on the Deep South introduces a new filmmaker with a distinctive sensibility.
  27. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    As entertaining as any showbiz documentary in recent memory.
  28. Cars 2
    Cooler cars and more action follow Lightning and Mater as they mix it up with spies and Formula 1 racers in yet another Pixar winner.
  29. A Better Life
    By keeping things simple and understated, director Chris Weitz and screenwriter Eric Eason have crafted a little gem where humanity is observed with compassion, not condescension.
  30. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
    Curry and co-editor Matthew Hamachek assemble the wide-ranging material into an informative, compelling story line, although details about McGowan's upbringing and early years in the environmental movement slow the narrative down and some of the footage of McGowan puttering around his sister's apartment proves too mundane to hold much interest.
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