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For 20,311 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: 9,399 out of 20311
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20311
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20311
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  1. Wreck-It Ralph
    Manages to be touching as well as silly, thrilling and just a bit exhausting. The secret to its success is a genuine enthusiasm for the creative potential of games, a willingness to take them seriously without descending into nerdy pomposity. I am delighted to surrender my cynicism, at least until I've used up today's supply of quarters.
  2. Flight
    Flight is freakishly real; it's one of those big-screen nightmares that will inspire fear-of-flying moviegoers to run home and Google car rental deals and Greyhound schedules.
  3. Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
    With marvelous discipline, Mr. Shapiro crams a wealth of material into a tight 77 minutes, smoothly communicating the group effort required to achieve the perfect shot.
  4. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
    The film is nothing if not liberal with its bloodletting, which integrates cleverly at times with the 3-D: lopped fingers, for example, fly toward the audience. But personalities and plot are thumbnail sketches at best.
  5. The Revisionaries
    Interviewing a wide range of concerned parties, Mr. Thurman's presentation is admirably evenhanded; though he clearly supports the scientists.
  6. Dust Up
    Flaunting gross-out violence and cartoonish trappings, Dust Up is the sort of self-impressed tedious effort that many thought had died with the post-Tarantino imitations of the 1990s.
  7. Long Shot; The Kevin Laue Story
    Mr. Laue is an intriguing subject, smart, affable and with a dry wit.
  8. Dinotasia
    Neither educational nor engaging.
  9. The Black Tulip
    Newlyweds are slaughtered, a child kidnapped and a suicide bombing foiled, all of it advanced by chunks of clumsy dialogue and embarrassingly labored acting.
  10. The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965
    What you see is the intensity of rock 'n' roll at a time when it still felt risky and thrilling.
  11. Pusher (2012)
    There's an ugly, jittery beauty to Pusher, a very fine British redo of a 1996 Danish movie of the same title.
  12. Orchestra of Exiles
    Orchestra of Exiles aspires to a level of primary research that other historical documentaries could take a page from.
  13. The Other Son
    Ms. Lévy is rescued from her maudlin, preachy tendencies by the skill and sensitivity of the actors, who turn a wobbly parable of tolerance into a graceful and touching story of real people in a surreal situation.
  14. The Loneliest Planet
    It is gripping and haunting, but also coy and elusive.
  15. Gut
    Unfolding in awkward diner conversations and uncomfortable bedroom scenes, Gut has a cold, flat look that gives even a child's stuffed toy a sinister sheen.
  16. Fun Size
    Movie merits include a good cast, a tidy script and jokes just provocative enough.
  17. Chasing Mavericks
    When the movie works, its buoyancy can be infectious and persuasive.
  18. Sleep Tight
    Mr. Balagueró is so overtaken by his villain that he becomes like César, displaying an eagerness to play the role of tormentor, which kills both the movie's pleasure and its flickering political subtext.
  19. The Zen of Bennett
    In simple, blunt language he exalts "quality," "warmth," "feeling," "truth" and "beauty," without trying to define or elaborate on those concepts.
  20. Sassy Pants
    Once the film softens, it starts to come unglued.
  21. Cloud Atlas
    This is by no means the best movie of the year, but it may be the most movie you can get for the price of a single ticket.
  22. Paranormal Activity 4
    Paranormal Activity 4 will please the fans, and that should sustain this low-budget, highly profitable franchise.
  23. Le Grand Amour (1969)
    The delightfully playful, playfully imaginative Grand Amour was directed by Pierre Etaix, a filmmaker, illustrator, musician and clown whose major work and poetic melancholia has long been denied to filmgoers.
  24. Bad 25
    Though at times a tad worshipful, the film's tone is ultimately more awed than hagiographic, its commenters too cleareyed and candid to back away from negative publicity or public disenchantment.
  25. Chicks
    Ms. Letourneur's film also bears a rare, even strange, stamp of authenticity.
  26. Bestiaire
    This may not be a fuzzy wuzzy, warm-and-cuddly song to animals, but in revealing the everyday, sometimes repellent surrealism of the park - where zebras, elephants, camels and ostriches walk among slowly moving cars, and lions bang wildly against their small cages - he forces you to look at the often unseen. It may not be pretty, but it is essential viewing.
  27. Yogawoman
    Yogawoman, with narration enunciated by the actress and yogini Annette Bening, begins with an intriguing premise: yoga, historically a practice dominated by men in India, now occupies a mat-carrying slot on women's schedules the world over. That idea remains anthemic more than analyzed, and doing yoga proves more appealing than watching a film promote it.
  28. Sexy Baby
    This scattershot investigation of the effects of Internet pornography on female behavior only ruffles the surface of a complex issue, one that demands a much larger sample than three white, educated women.
  29. My Worst Nightmare
    Its tepid satire of art world pretensions culminates with a visual dirty joke that is mildly amusing but still not worth the wait.
  30. All Together
    If the characters are likable enough, they are underdeveloped and have little of the quirky individuality or dimension of the adventurous seniors portrayed in the superior (but sugarcoated) movie "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel." For a truthful film about those final years, you'll have to wait for Michael Haneke's heartbreaking masterpiece "Amour," which is to open in December.
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