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For 4,677 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,969 out of 4677
  2. Mixed: 1,022 out of 4677
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4677
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  1. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    Sometimes Crazy, Stupid, Love captures the complexity, humor and sweetness of relationships. But in several scenes, the film takes that insight and replaces it with farcical coincidences and strained scenarios that undercut the poignancy and wit.
  2. Cowboys & Aliens
    Dialogue is terse and predictable, and the sci-fi thriller portion is even less compelling than the Western saga.
  3. Friends with Benefits
    When it's good, Friends With Benefits is quite good - especially as it skewers rom-com clichés.
  4. Captain America: The First Avenger
    While the story is preposterous and most of the cast standard-issue, it's hard not to like a comic-book movie that features both Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and high-tech vaporizing weaponry.
  5. Sarah's Key
    Sarah's Key is, for the most part, an exercise in reserve. We never see Hitler, never enter battle. Paquet-Brenner (Pretty Things, Walled In), rightly tells his Holocaust story as it now lives: through survivors and descendants.
  6. Another Earth
    Another Earth proves compellingly that science, intellect and emotion can coexist in mesmerizing synchronicity on the big screen.
  7. Winnie the Pooh
    Pooh succeeds by embracing much of what modern films (including Potter's) have largely forgotten: old-fashioned movie pleasures.
  8. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    The lesson of the lovely-looking, but disappointing, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is avoid tinkering too much with a novelist's work.
  9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    The ideal culmination of a fantasy series that has artfully blended excitement, adventure and terror with humor, kinship and love.
  10. Zookeeper
    There isn't much in the way of plot to get in the way of Sandler's world: There's poo, ripped pants and hot girls falling for fat guys.
  11. Horrible Bosses
    It's over-the-top stuff, to be sure. But Bosses never crosses that line into the macabre.
  12. Larry Crowne
    Hanks directs with assurance. Perhaps if he had teamed with a more agile writer, less given to cheesy yuck-fests, Larry Crowne would be the nuanced adult love story it aims to be.
  13. Monte Carlo
    Monte Carlo is a wish-fulfillment fantasy. (What luck! The heiress' clothes fit all three girls like a glove!)
  14. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    Stinting on story, dialogue or character development, Bay leaves us with little more than destruction and a hollow, clanking spectacle.
  15. Cars 2
    It's not that it's a bad film. But the bar is high, and it's lackluster and predictable, missing that alchemic blend of humor, pathos and indelible characters that give Pixar movies their brilliant shine.
  16. Bad Teacher
    Misanthropic to the extreme, Bad Teacher fails across the board.
  17. Green Lantern
    For a movie that touts the importance of humanity, Green Lantern is a strangely lifeless spectacle.
  18. The Art of Getting By
    Though it doesn't fully resonate as a romance, it is effective as a character study.
  19. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    Predictable, but well-intentioned fun.
  20. Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    Though the lead actress, newcomer Jordana Beatty, gives a spunky performance as third-grader Judy, her character's borderline bratty charm wears thin fast. Mostly it's undercut by the movie's irritatingly antic slapstick style.
  21. Super 8
    This sci-fi thriller has an engrossing plot and a strong cast of fully drawn characters. There's even a sweet youthful love story. In other words, it's a summer blockbuster firing on all cylinders.
  22. Beginners
    What results is a disarmingly honest tale of affection, both romantic and filial.
  23. X-Men: First Class
    This X- Men is indeed first class: an exciting, bold and thoroughly enjoyable summer blockbuster.
  24. The Tree of Life
    A shape-shifting film, it resembles a poem. At other moments, it is closer to a symphony. Most often, it approximates a fervent prayer.
  25. Kung Fu Panda 2
    Black is clearly suited for the role of a modern-day Inspector Clouseau, a hero clown who can't help but save the day.
  26. The Hangover Part II
    Hangover II marks one of the most derivative sequels of the year: The opening and closing scenes are taken almost shot-for-shot from the original. Just substitute Asians for Americans, gross-outs for guffaws.
  27. The Beaver
    The story lacks honesty. For a film about the real problem of mental illness, it never feels authentic. Depression is not something neatly tied up. If this is meant as an allegory, it's vague and unconvincing.
  28. Midnight in Paris
    The familiar dialogue here makes one long for something closer to the edginess of "Manhattan" or the offbeat humor of "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
  29. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    Here's how it goes down: 4 is better than 3, about the same as 2 and worse than 1.
  30. Bridesmaids
    Those looking to get a raucous laugh should say "I do" to Bridesmaids.
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