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For 17,782 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 IMAX: Hubble 3D
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,136 out of 17782
  2. Mixed: 7,010 out of 17782
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17782
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  1. Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead
    With Cross jump-starting others on a liquid road to health, this glorified infomercial could saturate latenight TV after its April 1 bow.
  2. Soul Surfer
    Distinguished by splashy cinematography, engaging performances from Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt as the girl's go-get-'em parents.
  3. Hanna
    An exuberantly crafted chase thriller that pulses with energy from its adrenaline-pumping first minutes to its muted bang of a finish.
  4. Wretches & Jabberers
    The ability to mix humor and emotion is the strong suit of this upbeat, music-saturated documentary.
  5. Two Gates of Sleep
    Starts off promisingly but peters out as the story, told practically sans dialogue, heads nowhere consistent.
  6. Wrecked
    Greenspan's solid but unexceptional debut, ably carried by Brody's one-hander performance.
  7. Super
    Waiting for Super to deliver the funny is an experience as long as the film itself.
  8. Rubber
    Neither scary, funny, nor anywhere near as clever as it seems to think it is, picture offers audiences few reasons to want to see it beyond its one-joke premise.
  9. Queen to Play
    Like Sebastian Silva's "The Maid," Queen posits a radically different approach to class and gender empowerment.
  10. In a Better World
    However didactic the film's final scenes, there's no denying the sheer dramatic intensity Bier achieves.
  11. Insidious
    A possession thriller less terrifying than fun.
  12. The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte)
    Very kid-friendly, the wordless pic could strike some as an overly-intellectualized attempt to fetishize remnant semi-pagan traditions in a picturesque corner of Italy's Calabria province.
  13. Strongman
    A strange and strangely beautiful movie.
  14. Sucker Punch
    Like Quentin Tarantino, Snyder is unapologetic about his influences -- the trashier the better -- though he's far less skilled in the art of pastiche.
  15. Mia and the Migoo
    Mia and the Migoo boasts a handsome, folkloric look that is often undermined by a ham-handed script.
  16. Drawing with Chalk
    Chalk suffers overall from a lack of subtlety, as problems abruptly get thrust into the foreground with little buildup or internal consistency.
  17. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    In the lead, Gordon has the wide-eyed appeal of a young Matthew Broderick: He looks nothing like Kinney's crudely rendered cartoon character.
  18. One Hundred Mornings
    Though never intended to match "The Road" for gruesome veracity or Michael Haneke's "Time of the Wolf" for full-on mysterious dread, this Irish production doesn't cut much of its own niche in an overworked genre.
  19. Illegal
    A prolonged stay in a Belgian immigration detention center causes more than a few chinks in the armor of a strong-willed Russian femme in Illegal, Olivier Masset-Depasse's fascinating study of perseverance in the face of subhuman treatment.
  20. I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
    Utterly unpretentious and deeply touching.
  21. Tyrannosaur
    Brit thesp Paddy Considine makes a strong writing-helming feature debut with Tyrannosaur, recycling the same cast, characters and setup he used for his 2008 award-winning short "Dog Altogether."
  22. Curling
    The emotional life of a Canuck bowling-alley handyman slowly turns to slush in Curling, the latest slice of arthouse misery from Quebecois director Denis Cote.
  23. Attenberg
    A captivating and vaguely disturbing experience.
  24. Putty Hill
    This curious blend of documentary and narrative, held together less by any plot device than by a rigorous aesthetic, proves all the more effective for being in service of casual naturalism.
  25. Miral
    Schnabel's signature blend of splintered storytelling and sobering humanism feels misapplied to this sweeping multigenerational saga.
  26. White Irish Drinkers
    A modestly engaging domestic drama that earns few points for originality but rewards aud attention with persuasive performances, outbursts of robust humor and a vivid yet understated evocation of time and place.
  27. Potiche
    Eight years after the crowd-pleasing "8 Women" and a mostly impressive run of small-scale arthouse films, Francois Ozon effortlessly moves back to the mainstream with another sparkling, occasionally side-splitting adaptation of a French boulevard-theater play.
  28. Peep World
    So lame that it barely gets a rise out of permanent erection jokes.
  29. Motherland
    Lacks focus, stumbling from one emotionally fraught stopping place to another but arousing less and less curiosity along the way.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Gift to Stalin
    Script weaknesses overwhelm ethnographic interest, historical tragedy and some solid performances in period drama "The Gift to Stalin."
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