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For 12,922 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: 6,619 out of 12922
  2. Mixed: 5,136 out of 12922
  3. Negative: 1,167 out of 12922
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  1. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    It generally succeeds, too, thanks to a visually energetic approach by director Jon Chu that keeps all the obligatory backstage/onstage bits moving fluidly.
  2. Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia)
    While the concept may sound schematic, it is brought to vivid life by wonderful characterizations.
  3. Lovers of Hate
    Designed to make you laugh and squirm, Lovers of Hate does more of the latter.
  4. Vidal Sassoon: The Movie
    Entertaining and comprehensive in its account of the man's career.
  5. Carancho
    Punishing for some, it could be just the cup of tea for the young male demographic.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Poetry
    Not everyone will wax lyrical about this enigmatic and troubling film, which is also Chan-dong's most slow-moving one. But those with an eye for reading between the lines can find layers of meaning.
  7. Cedar Rapids
    It's not exactly "The Hangover," but the dialogue and situations often get distinctly gamey.
  8. The Eagle
    The Eagle is an engaging, if straightforward and one-dimensional.
  9. The Roommate
    Managing nary a single original idea throughout its 93-minute running time, the film does benefit from a cast of sexy young TV stars who should attract the desired female teen demographic.
  10. Waiting for Forever
    Mistaking arrested development for enlightened innocence, Waiting for Forever is an indigestible hash of whimsy, drama, romance and, for good measure, crime.
  11. Sanctum
    Banal dialogue, over-modulated performances and melodramatic scoring combine forces to sink the stirringly photographed proceedings quicker than that treacherous flash flood.
  12. Troubadours
    Director Morgan Neville does an adequate job in retracing the explosion of singer-songwriter talent out of West Hollywood's legendary Troubadour club, but makes a bad choice by starting now, not then.
  13. Cold Weather
    Mumblecore meets Arthur Conan Doyle in the ambitious, if not always satisfying, Cold Weather.
  14. From Prada to Nada
    Features sitcom-style stock characters and situations, not to mention the sort of ethnic stereotypes to be found in TV ads for fast-food Mexican restaurant chains.
  15. The Mechanic
    Like many action stars, Statham is good at cool brooding, but West's frantic style works against this.
  16. The Rite
    The Rite becomes more ludicrous as it goes along, with more than a few lines of dialogue from Michael Petroni's over-the-top screenplay eliciting unintended titters.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ip Man 2
    Compared to his stellar hit "Ip Man" - a biopic on the Wing Chun master who tutored Bruce Lee - Wilson Yip's more lavishly produced sequel Ip Man 2 is a fistful of hits and misses.
  18. The Woodmans
    As frank, discerning and eloquent as its subjects, The Woodmans is one of the most affecting art-themed documentaries.
  19. Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
    Easily one of the most dynamic cinematic portraits of that decaying, vibrant, impossible city ever made; it treats the city itself as a character.
  20. Repo Chick
    A "non sequel" to Alex Cox's 1984 classic "Repo Man," the crazily plotted and deliberately garish Repo Chick only serves to provide further evidence of the cult director's diminishing talents.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Housemaid
    The outcome is a flamingly sexy soap opera whose satire on high society is sometimes as savage as Claude Chabrol's "La ceremonie."
  22. Burning Palms
    Never quite achieves the balance of melodrama and dark comedy for which it's aiming.
  23. No Strings Attached
    Predictable, cutesy and nowhere near hot-blooded enough.
  24. The Way Back
    Beyond its visual splendors, however, the film achieves searing moral power.
  25. Plastic Planet
    Fast-paced and episodic, the film at times provides such a torrent of information that it becomes more wearisome than enlightening.
  26. I'm Dangerous with Love
    While the film is occasionally frustrating in its lack of analysis, it nonetheless delivers a riveting portrait of the driven and troubled Mugianis.
  27. Nobody Else But You (Poupoupidou)
    There's a hint of 'Twin Peaks' and a large helping of the Coen Bros. in this offbeat, cleverly crafted French thriller.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let the Bullets Fly
    As an allegory on power, corruption and rough justice, it has flashes of intelligence and political acumen.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sacrifice
    Chen's direction is his most staid yet, but the riveting story speaks for itself.
  30. The Dilemma
    The Dilemma is so tone deaf to its themes that it thinks it's a light and slightly rude Vince Vaughn movie. It's not.
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