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For 2,973 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,806 out of 2973
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2973
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2973
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  1. The Girl Who Played with Fire
    In Rapace, it has an actress who brings a memorable literary character to indelible movie life, as Vivien Leigh did for Scarlett O'Hara.
  2. The Last Airbender
    Surely the worst botch of a fantasy epic.
  3. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    Certainly it's the lightest and brightest -- everyone is still chaste, but the movie is actually sexy in parts. It appears to have embraced its own sense of camp and is consistently funny in an intentional way. For the first time, I found myself curious to see what comes next.
  4. South of the Border
    The 70-minute movie -- which was co-written by the British-Pakistani commentator Tariq Ali, author of the 2006 study "Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope," and photographed in part by docu-doyen Albert Maysles -- is amateur night as cinema, as lopsided and cheerleadery as its worldview.
  5. Knight and Day
    Yet he just kept going and going, and the slick, proficient Knight and Day is proof that you should never count Cruise out.
  6. Toy Story 3
    An instant classic.
  7. Cyrus
    The scariest romantic comedy of the year.
  8. The Karate Kid
    Jaden may have to carry the burden of family celebrity, even as he carries his new film. Expertly.
  9. The A-Team
    You could also say the picture lacks a coherent plot and complex characterization, but those are irrelevant to the genre. The movie is like a superior athlete who gets tongue-tied in a post-game interview but on the field is poetry in motion.
  10. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    Remarkably, thanks to this documentary, we hope for the sake of this smart, vibrant, apparently good-hearted woman, that the invitations keep coming.
  11. Ondine
    Farrell's work as Syracuse is understated to the point that some may find it unremarkable -- but it's a beautifully confident performance, an irony given that he constructs his portrayal of Syracuse around the concept of humility.
  12. Splice
    The movie is ridiculously over the top, inelegant and so defiantly ?crazy?that it works, reminding you how fun gore and creatures that go bump ?(and? grind) in the night can be. It's a sci-fi horror film, but no actual ?comedy?has made me laugh as much this year as Splice.?
  13. Get Him to the Greek
    Shaggily amusing but familiar and way-too-long.
  14. Killers
    Take what pleasure you can from the two stars. They look great; it's just the state of romantic comedy that looks terminal.
  15. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    No masterpiece, Persia is fun for exactly as long as it takes to sit through it.
  16. Sex and the City 2
    A movie gaudy enough to make Dancing with the Stars seem dignified.
  17. Shrek Forever After
    The resulting adventure is once again lively and clever, although its creative underpinnings -- a sort of flea-market pastiche of antique fairy tales, vintage vaudeville and contemporary pop culture -- seem rather more shabby than chic.
  18. Letters to Juliet
    I'd take any woman in my life, ages 10 to 100, to Letters to Juliet and my guess is we'd both leave with a little Italian glow.
  19. Iron Man 2
    He (Tony) could be a self-destructive hero out of a Dostoyevsky or Mailer novel. That portrait gives Iron Man 2 its fascination. The rest is a cluttered, clattering toy story.
  20. Mother and Child
    The movie unfolds with novelistic pacing for a leisurely but engaging two hours.
  21. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    A fine copy.
  22. Harry Brown
    Tawdry but compelling.
  23. The Back-up Plan
    My pregnancy lasted 41 weeks and five days, involved morning, afternoon and night sickness and culminated in 25 hours of labor capped off by an emergency C-section. Yet all that seems like a walk in the park compared with the 100 minutes I spent watching Jennifer Lopez mug her way through The Back-Up Plan.
  24. Kick-Ass
    Kick-Ass moves with such bloody assurance that you'd be forgiven for not seeing how smart it is. But smart it is. Smart, important and deadly.
  25. Date Night
    It's a lively, often astute piece of marital sociology wrapped up in an action frolic involving an extremely average New Jersey couple.
  26. The Greatest
    The Greatest often feels like a mash-up of Sarandon's greatest grief hits.
  27. Clash of the Titans
    As to the chief complaint about Clash of the Titans -- that the movie stinks -- what can I say? I liked it. This is a full-throttle action-adventure, played unapologetically straight.
  28. Hot Tub Time Machine
    The movie made me laugh as much as anything since "The Hangover" or the love scenes in "Avatar."
  29. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    I finished Larsson's novel with the uncomfortable sense it used a good mystery as an excuse to dwell on sadism and perversity -- an aspect only exacerbated on screen.
  30. Greenberg
    That Greenberg has merits is undeniable. Gerwig, a funny mix of Kate Winslet and the joyfully ditzy young Diane Keaton, should end up a star. Stiller dials back his own schtick and deserves to be taken seriously.
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