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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. Bad Teacher
    For all her desk-stashed booze and inappropriately tight skirts, the movie offers Diaz a pretty bland badness.
  2. Jig
    The film's inability to illuminate the finer points of the rigid form, to define what separates the great from the good, proves frustrating for the outsider.
  3. Kidnapped
    The result is a stylishly executed but punishing ultra-realistic thriller that might be classified as family torture porn.
  4. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    The six penguins cast in this amiable family comedy steal the movie -- along with any fish they can find -- although the film's star, Jim Carrey, does manage to hold his own. Barely.
  5. Green Lantern
    Serves up all the requisite elements with enough self-deprecating humor to suggest it doesn't take itself too seriously.
  6. The Art of Getting By
    There's just not enough going on behind actor Freddie Highmore's eyes to convince us this kid's existential angst is real.
  7. The Lips
    Camera stays very, very close to faces, emphasizing their humanity, and by the end of the film you feel you know something about these women.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Buck
    A quietly captivating portrait of an unlikely character, Buck is as modest as its subject and wins viewers over just as easily.
  9. Just Like Us
    The movie is fast, funny and light on its feet, dipping less into politics or religion than into cultural quirks and characteristics.
  10. Bride Flight
    The sort of sweeping romantic saga rarely attempted on our shores these days, Bride Flight should well please art house audiences, especially of older females, starved for this sort of old-fashioned fare.
  11. The Trip
    The project suffers badly from being largely improvised as the pair fall back on familiar impressions and old jokes. Lazy and indulgent, it smacks of being what the British call a "jolly," that is a freebie with no obligation to turn in work afterward.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Viva Riva!
    Driven by its charismatic upstart gangster protagonist Riva, the film is one joyride that knows it will careen into a spectacular crash. Djo Tunda wa Munga captures the particular vibe released by this mixture of carpe diem and self-destructive instinct.
  13. One Lucky Elephant
    The film is an impressive and affecting entry in the growing body of work addressing the effects of keeping wild animals in captivity.
  14. Trollhunter
    The Troll Hunter injects inventiveness, folkloric idiosyncrasy and deadpan humor into the overexploited faux-documentary trend. A generous dollop of "Jurassic Park" inspiration doesn't hurt either.
  15. Super 8
    Like an old airplane (or spacecraft) jerry-rigged from scrap pieces and made air-worthy again, Super 8 has been patched together with 30-year-old spare parts to provide an enjoyable ride of its own.
  16. Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    The film wants to put on screen the sense of random play and concentrated games that fill a child's world for a few summers. In this it succeeds, but the film does not welcome others who might still retain memories of those NOT bummer summers.
  17. !Women Art Revolution
    It took 42 years for filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson to make !Women Art Revolution. The film, about the emerging feminist movement, is comprehensive and vibrant.
  18. X-Men: First Class
    Audacious, confident and fueled by youthful energy.
  19. Beautiful Boy
    Directing from the nonjudgmental script he wrote with Michael Armbruster, Ku's assured, unadorned documentary style allows his leads ample breathing room to inhabit their devastated characters.
  20. Beginners
    All the movie's playfulness rubs off on the actors. Scenes crackle with life. The chemistry among all the actors is terrific.
  21. The Last Mountain
    The Last Mountain makes a powerful case against the coal mining industry in West Virginia. Films like this are largely preaching to the choir -- opponents are unlikely to go near it. But its importance cannot be underestimated.
  22. Love, Wedding, Marriage
    Supplied with uniformly vapid dialogue, the characters come off like a bunch of twits.
  23. Rejoice and Shout
    For anyone with a keen interest in this unique American musical form, Rejoice and Shout is a must-see and see-again.
  24. Submarine
    Writer-director Richard Ayoade's feature debut is witty and quirky, with a gripping performance by Paddy Considine.
  25. Spork
    This relentlessly quirky tale of a teen-age hermaphrodite displays some creativity on the part of debuting writer/director J.B. Ghuman, Jr. but not enough.
  26. Tuesday, After Christmas
    The dissected minutiae of this adultery drama unfortunately doesn't add up to a very original or moving whole.
  27. Kung Fu Panda 2
    It all moves along briskly, with a degree of visual grace and a solid feel for 3D.
  28. The Hangover Part II
    Manages to deliver more laughs than most of the competition.
  29. The Big Uneasy
    While Shearer admittedly makes an impassioned directorial debut, the film plays out like a data-heavy, extended investigative report with an academic emphasis on scientific findings over portraits of human suffering.
  30. The Tree of Life
    Brandishing an ambition it's likely no film, including this one, could entirely fulfill, The Tree of Life is nonetheless a singular work, an impressionistic metaphysical inquiry into mankind's place in the grand scheme of things that releases waves of insights amid its narrative imprecisions.
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