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For 6,371 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,474 out of 6371
  2. Mixed: 3,422 out of 6371
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6371
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  1. The Hunger Games
    If the movie had a lead actress more delicate or malleable than the strong-cheeked Lawrence-a Natalie Portman, say-it would tip over into sexy-girl-killer celebration; the same goes for Harrelson's salty mentor, who is never too supportive or paternal. Both performers lean into the economies of survival, certain of the savagery that lies ahead, and come up with sharp work.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Seeking Justice
    Once upon a time, the star would have added both gravity and a manic edge to this wronged everyman. At this juncture, Cage is less believable as an average Joe than he is as, say, a cursed trick rider with a flaming skull for a head.
  3. Natural Selection
    This writer-director still has some evolving to do.
  4. The Kid with a Bike
    Those Dardenne brothers…still making great movies with second-nature ease.
  5. Gerhard Richter - Painting
    You will see the man toiling and revising - killing off half-good ideas, struggling for clarity - and it's a routine well worth demystifying.
  6. Free Men
    Consider the movie a testament to Rahim's screen presence. If nothing else, Free Men proves that the can't-take-your-eyes-off-him charisma the Franco-Algerian actor displayed in Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet" was no fluke.
  7. Detachment
    The movie is one big scream, clichéd and hardly credible as an oblique call to civility.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Delicacy
    It's a rebound-romance movie that's simplistic but sweet, an uncomplicated cinematic bonbon. It'll only take a few quick bites, however, before you'll be ready to move on to something meatier.
  9. Casa de mi Padre
    The oddest thing about the movie - and perhaps the asset that will tip it over into the plus column for you - is that it's a bona fide scuzz-Western.
  10. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    As is, this semi-improvised feature comes off as a willfully vague exercise that, like its dimwit protagonist, presumes that profundity and enlightenment will emerge from the morass eventually. Er, maybe - or maybe not. Kinda like "Signs;" only much, much worse.
  11. 21 Jump Street
    The longer this "Abbott and Costello's Lethal Weapon" goes on, the more the fun dissipates - until a queasily violent climax, which, naturally, fully embraces genre stereotypes rather than dismantling them.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Thousand Words
    Before this star vehicle devolves into a soggy New Age sermon, Murphy's manic pantomiming offers a few faint flickers of the mad comic genius from 1987's "Raw".
  13. John Carter
    Aside from a few inspired vistas and alien life-forms (the Road Runner–fast red planet dog Woola is sure to sell a bazillion action figures), John Carter is as deadly dull as its basso-voiced, beefcake slab of a star, Taylor Kitsch.
  14. Dissolution
    Only Dissolution's divine climax feels truly poetic. Having the stamina to not break down on the journey to that moment is half the battle.
  15. Sound of Noise
    The backbeat anarchy is fun while it lasts, but without a persuasive purpose, it's all just noise in the end.
  16. Shakespeare High
    Unless you really dig "Glee"-level displays of high-school drama geekery, you and your date may want to quickly exeunt.
  17. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    Only Kristin Scott Thomas channeling "In the Loop's" Malcolm Tucker offers a spark; the rest is simply hokum designed to land overly sentimental suckers hook, line and sinker.
  18. Silent House
    Even this terrifically talented performer can't sell a Shyama-lana-ding-dong of a third-act twist that will make more eyes than heads roll.
  19. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    A dream, indeed. Sure to delight foodies and cinephiles alike.
  20. Friends with Kids
    The movie's multitasking creator seems to have bitten off more then she can chew. Her friends should have advised "baby steps."
  21. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
    Losier has made a quietly revolutionary work that treats a pair of people on the fringes with the decency all humans deserve.
  22. Footnote
    Cedar's idiosyncratically brilliant script also has a moral question at its heart: Is lying to spare someone's feelings ever justified? Surely the Talmud has a thing or two to say about that.
  23. Children of Paradise (1945)
    Carné's film has never looked more lush.
  24. Attenberg
    Attenberg shares with the Oscar-nominated "Dogtooth" a weakness for overgrown innocence and deadpan perversity.
  25. Project X
    Deeply irresponsible, this a film that will give parents seizures-and Roger Corman a big old smile.
  26. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    Unfortunately, a new problem rears its head: It seems no young audience member can be trusted to enjoy a thoughtful story without a heroic, borderline-obnoxious surrogate (here, he's voiced by Zac Efron) zooming around on a scooter, bonking villainous heads and saving the day.
  27. Where Are You Taking Me?
    The only time a subject directly addresses Takesue, it's with a doozy of a query: "Why are you taking my story to USA, New York?" The answer is as complex as the film itself, and as simple as deciding to not look away.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
    Fans will love the funny and subversive moments; anyone who didn't "get" them premakeover may simply feel like they've been sitting in a "brown bath" for 93 minutes. Don't ask.
  29. This Is Not a Film
    Sure it is - and a great one at that.
  30. The Snowtown Murders
    Cigarettes are sucked hungrily by all involved, old and young, in the trashscape of this depressing Australian crime film - a movie that heaps so much dank atmosphere on its suburbanites, you can't help but sigh with relief when events turn to serial killing (finally?).
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