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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. Drift
    This poor-surfers-make-good drama from Morgan O’Neill and Ben Nott relies more than it should on toned thighs and taut gluteals. Be grateful; there’s nothing to see on dry land that’s anywhere near as compelling.
  2. The Artist and the Model
    It is a film with nothing but delight — no major revelations, no gravity and no meaning. This superficiality is a problem only because of the pretense of being about great art.
  3. Cockneys vs Zombies
    As subtle as its title, Cockneys vs. Zombies is mildly funny and easily likable.
  4. Europa Report
    Banishing showy effects and cheap scares, the Ecuadorean director Sebastián Cordero has meticulously shaped a number of sci-fi clichés — from the botched spacewalk to the communications breakdown — into a wondering contemplation of our place in the universe.
  5. Our Children
    Much like the Dardennes, Mr. Joachim holds to the truth that the personal is political, which is why this isn’t simply a movie about a woman and an unspeakable crime, but also an exploration of the power and cruelty that brought her to that very dark place.
  6. The Spectacular Now
    Mr. Ponsoldt ably charts a journey through the high stakes of adolescence, with both Sutter and Mr. Teller showing great promise.
  7. 2 Guns
    Mr. Kormakur sets and keeps up a fast rather than frantic pace that never runs the movie off the rails even when the story nearly does.
  8. The Canyons
    With The Canyons, [Mr. Schrader] tries to get at something real under all the hard, glossy surfaces, but ends up caught in the divide between the movie that he seems to have wanted to make and the one he did.
  9. When Comedy Went to School
    Fortunately for the filmmakers, most of the comedians interviewed here — Jerry Stiller, Jackie Mason, Jerry Lewis and many other (mostly male) voices — provide lighthearted remembrances to elevate this poorly executed documentary.
  10. Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
    Smash and Grab has a grating, repetitive score and can look a little homely on the big screen. But unlike many true-crime accounts, it cherry-picks its material successfully and preserves the conspiratorial sense that we’re learning the ins and outs of an illicit art.
  11. The Smurfs 2
    A new, not very engaging movie featuring a lot of blue skin and household-name voices.
  12. Red Tide
    The undisciplined shooting style and underdeveloped script confound the actors at every turn. Despite their best efforts, they never overcome the limitations of a movie more intent on cutting corners than fleshing out a story.
  13. Postales (Postcards)
    While the film is let down by its plot, it is much too smart for reductive visions of “the other.” And there are moments, like a heartfelt exchange of keepsakes, when seeing Postales is a memory worth preserving.
  14. Stranded
    The actors work hard to make us feel their fear of a creature that, for much of the movie, we don’t get to see. We don’t really need to see it, because we’ve seen it or something like it before.
  15. The Time Being
    An exhaustingly pretentious heave of artistic self-involvement, The Time Being takes an exceptionally handsome journey to nowhere at all.
  16. Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man
    Routinely botching the basics of setting up characters and scenarios, the film lets punch lines die like dogs and at times resembles a pornographic film without the sex.
  17. Frankenstein's Army
    Narrative depth may be in short supply, but the energy, invention and humor are bracing.
  18. Drug War
    The brilliant, unsettling action scenes — ugly, savage, dehumanizing — speak volumes.
  19. Breaking the Girls
    An erotic thriller with too many twists and back stories to count.
  20. Wasteland
    To borrow from a term for the gritty, working-class British dramas that this film also nods to, it’s a kitchen-sink caper.
  21. The To Do List
    This movie is smarter and better acted and just plain funnier than most of its predecessors in the my-first-time genre, no matter which sex is losing what.
  22. The Wolverine
    A modest superhero picture may sound like a contradiction in terms, but really it is a welcome respite.
  23. Blue Jasmine
    [Allen's] most sustained, satisfying and resonant film since “Match Point.”
  24. Terraferma
    As Terraferma tightens its focus on a courageous resolution of tough issues, too much nuance is jettisoned along the way.
  25. First Comes Love
    The approach is cheerfully candid and the humor often sly... Yet this midlife confessional could have reached beyond the maternal cravings of highly educated, urban-dwelling singletons had it plumbed people’s heads as thoroughly as Ms. Davenport’s birth canal.
  26. Ramaiya Vastavaiya
    There is something for everyone in Prabhudheva’s ambitious Bollywood film Ramaiya Vastavaiya — comedy, romance, action and the obligatory music-and-dancing numbers — but hardly any of it is convincing, and the proceedings are rife with clichés.
  27. R.I.P.D.
    What’s missing is what’s often absent in industrial moviemaking of this type: story and characters, yes, but also the human touch and a sense that someone behind the scenes actually cares about the work.
  28. La Playa D.C.
    An urban drama limited by its nonprofessional cast and impressionistic, scattered storytelling.
  29. The Rooftop
    The Rooftop is frenzied, funny and knowing, drenched in lavish, often surreal, imagery.
  30. The ROMEOWS
    There’s nothing flashy about The Romeows the film or the Romeows the men, but what they’ve created — their life’s art — matters.
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