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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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    • 90 Critic Score
    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
    What makes "Ecstasy" essential viewing for any pop-music fan and any student of celebrity pathology is the interview itself. Spector, despite his immodest comparisons of himself to Bach, da Vinci and Galileo, is surprisingly entertaining company, not simply the mad recluse with crazy hair that was his shocking image during the trials.
  2. Love Ranch
    Thanks to the great Helen Mirren as the wife and Spanish actor Sergio Peris-Mencheta as the boxer, the film does create a convincing portrait of a late-flourishing love that takes everyone by surprise.
  3. Grown Ups
    Despite the lazily self-satisfied results, his (Sandler) aging fan base likely will come along for the lackadaisical ride.
  4. Dogtooth
    Horror and cold humor commingle in Dogtooth, a Greek import whose screenwriters approach scenario construction like misanthropic social scientists planning an experiment -- one whose result suggests that governments might want to rethink policies allowing parents to home-school their children.
  5. Restrepo
    In-depth account of Army deployment in an Afghanistan hotspot shows soldiering at its most rugged.
  6. Wild Grass
    Narratively, Wild Grass is a fractured romance, that never jells on any level, except for the backdrop visuals. Visually scrumptious, as if culled from the pages of good-taste magazines, it has the appeal of a designer catalog, and also the depth.
  7. South of the Border
    Good-humored, illuminating and without cant, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone's documentary South of the Border is a rebuttal of what he views as the fulminations and lies of right-wing media at home and abroad regarding the socialist democracies of South America.
  8. Knight and Day
    Laziness permeates the film from the inexplicable escapes to the neglected romance.
  9. Jonah Hex
    It admittedly starts off great guns, but all too quickly it becomes apparent that the big-screen arrival of the supernatural Western DC Comics series Jonah Hex"is firing loud, empty blanks.
  10. Cyrus
    Insightful but ultimately ponderous entertainment.
  11. 8: The Mormon Proposition
    If the impact of co-director/writer Reed Cowan's film is undercut by its sometimes sloppy execution, it nonetheless provides a disturbing portrait of the increasing overlap between church and state.
  12. I Am Love
    An ambitious film, and Guadagnino deserves praise for the risks he takes here.
  13. Let It Rain
    This is very much an actors’ film, not least because director-scripter Agnes Jaoui also appears in front of the camera in the well-seasoned role of Agathe Villanova.
  14. Toy Story 3
    Woody, Buzz and playmates make a thoroughly engaging, emotionally satisfying return.
  15. Wah Do Dem
    As a depiction of youthful resilience, the film works, but Max's trials and tribulations might have had more dramatic impact with a trained actor in the role.
  16. Stonewall Uprising
    For an event of such seismic social importance in the modern era, the 1969 Stonewall riots went shockingly undocumented. Almost no archival footage exists, which gives Kate Davis and David Heilbroner's documentary feature Stonewall Uprising the frustrating air of an oral history lesson. But it's a vitally important one nonetheless.
  17. The Nature of Existence
    If its summary approach is less than penetrating, its underlying message of tolerance and open-mindedness is commendable.
  18. The Karate Kid
    It's a measure of the times that the new version of The Karate Kid manages to be longer and bigger-budgeted than the original while having lesser impact.
  19. The A-Team
    The film seems nearly writer-free. Absolutely no time gets wasted on story, character development or logic.
  20. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    A highly entertaining documentary revealing a serious talent behind the one-note present-day reputation.
  21. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
    There are so many guilty pleasures here that it's amazing the film is as good as it is. The passions feel real, the roles are fully inhabited and the art speaks for itself.
  22. Winter's Bone
    Grim backwoods tale takes its time building momentum.
  23. The Lottery
    With fierce arguments, often drawn on partisan lines, raging across the country, The Lottery will be of vital interest to anyone interested in the topic, especially the parents of young children.
  24. Ondine
    This redemptive tale set against southwest Ireland's moody seascape holds its tangible charms.
  25. Splice
    Writer/director Vincenzo Natali takes his tale in some truly icky directions, not quite making it into Cronenbergland but going far enough to elicit solid 'ewww' laughs from the crowd.
  26. Get Him to the Greek
    Never achieves the propulsive traction and outrageous/endearing balance that made "The Hangover" such a smash this time last year.
  27. Killers
    An action comedy that nearly renders the term an oxymoron, Killers is devoid of suspense and laughs.
  28. Marmaduke
    One thing Marmaduke does have in common with the earlier Disney titles is a blessed scarcity of crass bodily-function gags that often pass as family comedy.
  29. Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
    These are people at the frontline of idealism in action, working to alleviate suffering, one patient at a time, in some of the most devastated places on Earth.
  30. Finding Bliss
    As the film veers between cartoonish and earnest, it doesn't so much find bliss as try very hard to manufacture it.
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