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For 4,834 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Days of Being Wild (re-release)
Lowest review score: 0 Oh, Ramona!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,017 out of 4834
  2. Mixed: 1,309 out of 4834
  3. Negative: 508 out of 4834
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  1. The Lone Ranger
    By the time the origin movie stuff is wrapped up and the audience finally gets to see The Lone Ranger and Tonto on their first of their legendary deeds, it's far too late in the movie, particularly if your patience has already been drained by the simple yet over-elaborately staged plot, that struggles to be compelling.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    The biggest failing of this mostly enjoyable documentary is that it works like a Michael Moore film. It probably won't convince those outside the circle, it will only serve to push them further away.
  3. Some Girl(s)
    Acerbic and purposefully vile, LaBute’s story is clearly self-aware of its various cruel manipulations of character and audience, but the formula itself -- taken from his early modus operandi -- is simply becoming more and more rote.
  4. Thanks for Sharing
    Never quite as deep or probing as it thinks it is, Thanks For Sharing is an unsatisfying tease.
  5. Breathe In
    Intimate, expressive, agonizing and beautifully rendered.
  6. The Heat
    One character dares to open up a debate about sex roles in the workplace; because he does so indelicately, Feig expects you to cheer when he takes a bullet to the head. To his credit, he is correct.
  7. White House Down
    White House Down wants to riff on the stirring action crowd-pleasers of old. But instead of playing on those motifs, White House Down becomes a slave to them, turning into the very kind of rote, brainless, poorly choreographed and leaden action movie it wants to lighten up.
  8. A Band Called Death
    This rock doc rewrites punk history while telling an emotional story about an artist’s spirit and his faithful family.
  9. Unfinished Song
    Comparatively simplistic and somewhat lazy, Unfinished Song presents one-dimensional characters in a thoroughly predictable story that aspires to be little more than easily digestible.
  10. Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship
    A bit slight, often funny, mostly likable, and importantly, a romantic comedy that is not obnoxious.
  11. The Look of Love
    While stylishly capturing the verve, exotica, and free-spirited mojo of swinging '60s London, uber-prolific English director Michael Winterbottom's portrait of legendary U.K. smut impresario Paul Raymond is otherwise a shallow misfire.
  12. Monsters University
    It’s easily the most enjoyable animated film so far this year, one that is visually stunning, wickedly subversive, incredibly funny (Day's character is a hoot), and (at times) lump-in-your-throat emotional.
  13. Touchy Feely
    There's a great movie somewhere inside Touchy Feely desperately trying to swim to the surface, but its obscurity also comes with an inarticulateness that robs it of its potential.
  14. I'm So Excited
    While there’s drugs and sex and drinking and dancing, for sure, if one looks at I’m So Excited as a metaphor for the ills of society today and how we react to it, it becomes a much more poignant and biting satire of the state of our world, and how we as a people decide to react to it.
  15. Man of Steel
    Goyer and Nolan have crafted in Man of Steel a taut, exploratory vision, and Snyder's later inheritance of the material indeed proves his best work since “Dawn of the Dead.”
  16. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
    Although the documentary excels at giving us a better picture of the women who are inspiring folks around the world to voice support for them, Lerner and Pozdorovkin leave many other details unexplored.
  17. World War Z
    The film can be engaging, well-made, and even a touch more interesting than it has much right to be. But it's also far from a satisfying work as a whole.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
    A testament to [Resnais'] positive outlook on not only the possibility of cinema, but the possibilities of life.
  19. Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
    Directors Kramer, Miller and Newberger prefer embellishment, allowing personal stories about Downey to fuel animated re-enactments that trivialize rather than penetrate.
  20. The Internship
    The Internship might be the best worst comedy of the year thus far.
  21. The Source Family
    The Source Family is a comprehensive and fair-minded look at the life and times of an inspired, mystified and possible deranged man.
  22. The Purge
    The Purge manages to be smart, scary, and subversive.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Hannah Arendt
    As a filmic examination of an extraordinary mind, it doesn't breathe much life into the frame.
  24. Wish You Were Here
    Even though he only manages length and intensity when he’s aiming for emotional depth and dramatic sweep, Darcy-Smith does accomplish one rare feat with Wish You Were Here -- he somehow manages to tell a story that’s simultaneously mysterious and mostly uninteresting.
  25. This Is the End
    Your mileage with the movie will depend on how much you like these guys to begin with, because even if you're a fan, the one joke premise has a hard time sustaining a full length movie.
  26. The Wall
    The Wall seems to be telling the story about assimilation, about a woman who accepts her lot and attempts to persevere through the cruelest of conditions, an unspoken martyr. Perhaps it would carry much more power had she not been so chatty.
  27. American Mary
    Ultimately, American Mary simply reveals itself as a film with little on its mind, content to scare rubberneckers into contemplating the backstory of the more outlandish body manipulation jobs they’ve seen in public. A documentary would have sufficed.
  28. Now You See Me
    Leterrier's film is a reminder that sometimes a good yarn can do enough heavy lifting on its own to provide thrills. Whether or not the illusion pays off will be up to you, but the trick itself may be intriguing enough.
  29. After Earth
    The film progresses to the point where it feels less like father and son, and more like a young boy listening to an inspirational audiobook.
  30. La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus
    “La Camioneta” is at once an insightful documentary and a poignant allegory.
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