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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. Vampire Academy
    What is surprising is that while the patchwork whole creaks terribly in places, the parts also show signs of life.
  2. The Attorney
    Mr. Song puts his usual big heart into the character, though there aren’t many layers or nuances to the drama. Every scene does its job, tears flowing on cue.
  3. Mars at Sunrise
    This setup is simple, but what follows is less so: an impressionistic battle between imagination and brute force that too often veers from enlightening to exasperating.
  4. Demi-Soeur
    This sickly sweet concoction sets your teeth on edge.
  5. The Outsider
    After a somewhat tense opening chase involving a lot of girders, much of the film is rather shakily assembled.
  6. A Field in England
    The actors are uniformly impressive, and Mr. Wheatley’s longtime cinematographer, Laurie Rose, shooting in black and white, combines stunning pastoral compositions with bursts of graphic violence punctuated by blazing flintlocks.
  7. Cavemen
    A terrible movie about a bland, morose young man’s search for love.
  8. Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
    This isn’t, it turns out, the usual once upon a time, but a story about the unknowns that can swallow us up.
  9. Nurse 3D
    Nurse 3D isn’t nearly as fun as a movie about a homicidal, sex-obsessed, clothing-averse health care provider ought to be.
  10. 7 Boxes
    The filmmakers stage an amazing race that almost absolves an overstuffed plot and an over-reliance on coincidence.
  11. The Pretty One
    The Pretty One is intermittently charming, occasionally touching and entirely lacking in credibility.
  12. The Last of the Unjust
    “Shoah” remains a heroic reckoning with the limits of collective understanding, but The Last of the Unjust is something smaller, stranger and more paradoxical: the portrait of an individual whose actions still defy comprehension, and the self-portrait of an artist consumed by the past.
  13. Love & Air Sex
    Love & Air Sex has a spontaneity and cheeky attitude... along with spirited naturalistic performances that infuse the standard rom-com formula with a zany vitality.
  14. After the Dark
    Slack acting (perhaps aggravated by the harsh lighting design) and the script’s inability to build characters together vaporize the chances for the movie, which is both smugly clever and at times distastefully clueless.
  15. The Monuments Men
    It can be nice to spend time with these actors even when you don’t believe their characters for a single second, and there’s no denying this movie’s easy pleasures... Yet because Mr. Clooney can’t figure out what kind of story this is, he too often slips into pandering mode.
  16. The LEGO Movie
    The visual environment created by the filmmakers (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller of “21 Jump Street” wrote and directed; the animation is by Animal Logic) hums with wit and imagination... The story is a busy, slapdash contraption designed above all to satisfy the imperatives of big-budget family entertainment.
  17. Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
    The movie is unusual for its absence of gossip. Instead it offers hardheaded commentary about the rigors of a dancer’s life and how everyone who chooses a dance career is aware of its brevity.
  18. Tim's Vermeer
    Shooting in unattractive, hard-edge digital, Teller condenses Mr. Jenison’s years-long pursuit into 80 glib, alternately diverting, exasperating and tedious minutes.
  19. The Wait
    It’s all just so much empty eye candy.
  20. Somewhere Slow
    The whole enterprise rests on Ms. Gilsig, who plays Anna with a subtlety rarely required of her crazypants girlfriend on “Nip/Tuck” or her clingy spouse on “Glee.”
  21. Peter Brook: The Tightrope
    Simon Brook used five hidden cameras, and the audience has a sense of witnessing intimate moments rather than watching a performance.
  22. Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
    It’s informative but not enlightening, and Mr. Berlinger packs in chattering news clips and a score that’s audible under the interview.
  23. Brightest Star
    Allegories involving astronomy, baseball and sandwiches are hinted at but are no better developed than the characters.
  24. Breaking the Frame
    Breaking the Frame is a tantalizing teaser for a story that still needs to be told.
  25. 12 O'Clock Boys
    12 O’Clock Boys packs more life into its 72 minutes than many longer documentaries do.
  26. Love Is in the Air
    The two leads have enough genuine sex appeal to make the film endurable.
  27. At Middleton
    Yes, it’s full of droll humor, but it’s also a bittersweet portrait of two people, who, in the process of helping their children choose a college, confront the emptiness of their respective marriages.
  28. Labor Day
    The movie’s principal saving grace is Ms. Winslet’s convincing portrayal of Adele, a despairing woman of low self-esteem just a twitch away from a nervous breakdown. In almost every other respect, this overbaked romantic hokum is preposterous.
  29. That Awkward Moment
    A vile, witless sex comedy.
  30. Charlie Victor Romeo
    It is a curious hybrid of documentary and experimental theater. It is also one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen.
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