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For 2,984 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: 1,815 out of 2984
  2. Mixed: 939 out of 2984
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2984
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  1. Animal Kingdom
    A contemplative crime drama with a high startlement quotient.
  2. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    The perfect summation of Hollywood at this moment - an apotheosis of American male infantilism - and, on its own, a most likable mess.
  3. The Other Guys
    Like some silly summer song that can't be shaken from the mind, this is a catchy enterprise, no better than it tries to be and no less funny.
  4. Dinner for Schmucks
    On the way to this predictable conclusion, the movie offers plenty of smart entertainment. You'd be a schmuck to miss it.
  5. Get Low
    Without Duvall's rich, supremely skilled performance, this slim period piece wouldn't amount to much.
  6. Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
    Watching the film is like reading Playboy for the articles.
  7. Salt
    She's (Jolie) got what no other Hollywood woman even tries for, and which is embodied among recent international stars perhaps only by Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh: feminismo.
  8. Ramona and Beezus
    A gentle, charming movie and really a parent's dream: a kid's movie that doesn't involve action sequences or explosions. Yet you wish the filmmakers had adhered to Mr. Quimby's no-nonsense point of view and found a way to make this family slightly less squeaky-clean.
  9. Life During Wartime
    His films will never be mainstream fare; audiences who wander into the theater may well find them derisive, needlessly shocking, perhaps unforgivable. But I'd call them, and especially Life During Wartime, unforgettable.
  10. Inception
    Inception is precisely the kind of brainy, ambitious, grand-scale adventure Hollywood should be making more of.
  11. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    Somewhere in recreational value between an afternoon on a San Diego beach and one at a Detroit public swimming pool. Either way, before you know it, it's evening.
  12. 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.
  13. The Last Airbender
    Surely the worst botch of a fantasy epic.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Toy Story 3
    An instant classic.
  18. Cyrus
    The scariest romantic comedy of the year.
  19. The Karate Kid
    Jaden may have to carry the burden of family celebrity, even as he carries his new film. Expertly.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.?
  24. Get Him to the Greek
    Shaggily amusing but familiar and way-too-long.
  25. Killers
    Take what pleasure you can from the two stars. They look great; it's just the state of romantic comedy that looks terminal.
  26. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    No masterpiece, Persia is fun for exactly as long as it takes to sit through it.
  27. Sex and the City 2
    A movie gaudy enough to make Dancing with the Stars seem dignified.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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