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For 20,324 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,408 out of 20324
  2. Mixed: 8,449 out of 20324
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20324
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  1. Tiny Furniture
    Tiny Furniture is at times more pleasurable to think about than it is to watch, more of a conceptual coup than an enjoyable experience.
  2. Unknown
    Despite its A-movie aspirations, as the chases continue and the plot holes widen, Unknown quickly settles into the familiar B-movie comfort zone.
  3. Me, Too
    Sensitive without being unrealistically utopian (this isn't a fairy tale), Me, Too movingly represents the frustration of the high-functioning yet falling-short individual.
  4. Undertow
    A small movie with a full heart, Undertow takes an old idea - the loving, lingering ghost - and gives it reverberant, resuscitated life.
  5. Bhutto
    If nothing else, the directors, Duane Baughman and Johnny O'Hara, deserve praise for devoting this kind of attention to a foreign leader and to the internal politics of another country (as opposed to how those politics affect the United States).
  6. Come Undone
    Like Mr. Soldini's last film, "Days and Clouds," a calm, very sad examination of the effects of a husband's sudden job loss on an affluent couple's relationship and social life, Come Undone is solidly grounded in mundane reality. If the movie tells an old story, its unvarnished realism lends it poignancy and depth.
  7. Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
    Make of it what you will: like its subject, Saint Misbehavin' is an unabashed love letter to the world that defies the cynicism of our age.
  8. Rabbit à la Berlin
    Teasing and shrewd, Rabbit à la Berlin is a floppy-eared fable about the uneasy trade-offs between liberty and security.
  9. I Am Secretly an Important Man
    While I Am Secretly an Important Man skims the surface of Mr. Bernstein's life, it's a surface with more than enough texture to keep you interested.
  10. The Strange Case of Angelica
    The charm of The Strange Case of Angelica lies in the way it balances this mysticism with a thoroughly secular sense of the business of everyday life.
  11. Summer Wars
    There's a lovely, unhurried quality to Mr. Hosoda's storytelling, which nicely matches the clean, classically composed images of his outer story.
  12. A Somewhat Gentle Man
    Patiently directed by Hans Petter Moland, Ulrik's journey back to life slowly draws you in.
  13. Go Go Tales
    A lovely drift of a movie, Go Go Tales commands your attention even as it lulls you along. Conspicuously inspired by John Cassavetes's "Killing of a Chinese Bookie," among other touchstones, it is a sincere and inspired meditation on art and creation, but in a loose, funny key.
  14. Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
    The story told by Mr. Bowser's film is complicated and tragic.
  15. Every Day
    Very well written and acted, Every Day feels like a glorified television drama softened with comic and surreal trimmings.
  16. The Housemaid
    An admiring, clever remake of Kim Ki-young's legendary film of the same title from 1960, this version, directed by Im Sang-soo, is at once more explicit than the original and less kinky.
  17. Nobody Else But You (Poupoupidou)
    If Nobody Else but You is smart and entertaining, it is a little too clever for its own good.
  18. Prom
    There are new tweeners every year. To them, the characters and plot devices in this perfectly competent film might well seem fresh.
  19. Source Code
    In crucial ways, Source Code, written by Ben Ripley, recalls "Moon," Mr. Jones's accomplished feature debut about a solitary astronaut played by Sam Rockwell. Source Code is bigger, shinier, pricier.
  20. When We Leave
    It is frequently gripping and sincere in its intentions, but never quite as revelatory, or as devastating, as it should be.
  21. Kung Fu Panda 2
    Accomplishes the depressingly familiar mathematical trick of being both more and less than its predecessor.
  22. Carancho
    At heart an unlovely love story illuminated by sudden flares of violence, the film reeks of hopelessness and moral destitution, offering its lovers few means of escape.
  23. Orgasm Inc.
    Explores the link between female sexuality and corporate profits with a style that's as entertaining as it is revelatory.
  24. Vidal Sassoon: The Movie
    Its upbeat tone, perky visual rhythm and sleek graphics capture the "swinging '60s" aesthetic epitomized by Mr. Sassoon's major invention: the geometric "five-point" haircut.
  25. Brotherhood
    The script, by Mr. Canon and Doug Simon, eventually strains credulity - even frat boys aren't this dumb - but Mr. Canon, in his first feature, shows a great knack for keeping things moving. The gathering implausibility is dispelled by a nice ending twist.
  26. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    The latest and best of the movies about a girl, her vampire and their impossible, ridiculously appealing - yes, I surrendered - love story.
  27. Friends with Benefits
    The results are about as naughty as that sounds (not very), but it also makes for a fairly giggling good time.
  28. Captain America: The First Avenger
    Has a winningly pulpy, jaunty, earnest spirit.
  29. X-Men: First Class
    With its spy-on-spy globetrotting, old-fashioned villains, flirty but prematurely swinging minis and fan-boy bits (look for an eye-blink-fast tribute to "Basic Instinct" and a cameo from the cult actor Michael Ironside), the whole enterprise has an agreeable lightness, no small thing, given its rapidly moving parts.
  30. The Lincoln Lawyer
    There are modest pleasures in a familiar story told differently enough that you're happy to keep guessing and watching.
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