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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. The Other Guys
    Following the clues, The Other Guys turns more hectic than antic, and somebody didn't pack enough comedy for this long trip.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cairo Time
    Happily, writer-director Ruba Nadda's emphasis on body language ultimately trumps the clumsiness of her script.
  3. Middle Men
    But for all that predictability, Middle Men is smart and tense, with each scene drenched in dread.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Wildest Dream
    Everest looks suitably majestic in this IMAX documentary, though five different expeditions on the peak are awkwardly cobbled into one dubious narrative.
  5. Twelve
    Though Crawford's bangs and facial hair are the most art-directed aspect of the movie, he's costumed to look like a member of the Trenchcoat Mafia (Madison Avenue branch).
  6. Lebanon
    Not just the year's most impressive first feature but also the strongest new movie of any kind I've seen in 2010.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spring Fever
    For long stretches of this tantalizing, romantic, aggravating film-until just before its extremely satisfying ending, in fact-I wished Lou had caught a little spring fever himself, cranked up the volume, and turned on the lights.
  8. Brotherhood
    Sounds trashy, sounds silly, but first-time director Nicolo Donato, who wrote the screenplay with Rasmus Birch, and a superb ensemble refuse to wink, resulting in a film that constantly subverts expectation.
  9. Patrik Age 1.5
    One is never bored, thanks to the innate charms of Skarsgård and young Ljungman.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mundo alas
    Actual insight into these people's hearts and minds is replaced with skin-deep montages of cheery tour-bus road-tripping, hanging out with friends, and writing songs in the studio.
  11. Last Letters from Monte Rosa
    Ari Taub's film is a rich tale of moral complexity tinged with an invitingly surrealist air.
  12. The Parking Lot Movie
    Their sense of superiority toward the petty SUV drivers and rude midlife-crisisers who frequent the lot is matched by introspective considerations of traditional social contracts.
  13. The Sicilian Girl
    The facts are more gripping than the filmmaking in Marco Amenta's routine docudrama about tenacious teen informer Rita Atria.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dinner for Schmucks
    Paramount Pictures and director Jay Roach would like to invite you to a dinner they're hosting, at which you are welcome to laugh at these poor jerks. That's a little messed up.
  15. Charlie St. Cloud
    This handsomely shot melodrama has a twist too peculiar to dismiss as some two-bit Nicholas Sparks weepie.
  16. Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
    Playboy "gave us some of the best literature of our time," opines noted literary critic Tony Bennett, among a cast of mostly ridiculous and redundant talking heads.
  17. The Concert
    Beyond fans of Mélanie Laurent--who furiously fingers a fiddle and wears flashback wigs--The Concert may appeal to those who delight in stereotypes.
  18. The Dry Land
    The Dry Land does slip inside the inescapable, closed-circle logic of despair, and O'Nan's shy, precarious performance keeps you with him to the edge of the abyss.
  19. The Extra Man
    Going below the surface, the filmmakers and the cast (including a marvelous performance by Marian Seldes as an osteoporotic doyenne) successfully create the hardest characters to pull off: exotic yet recognizable New Yorkers.
  20. Get Low
    Despite that maddening third-act stumble, Get Low is a pleasure to watch.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Smash His Camera
    Gast's documentary portrait has a freewheeling charm that perfectly matches its subject.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What's the Matter with Kansas?
    Paradoxically, the movie feels dated in the sense that it pre-dates both the recession and Obama's campaign, yet prescient in illuminating a crisis that plagues us today.
  23. Who Killed Nancy?
    An unnecessary retelling of rock's dingiest "legend"--ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Salt
    From the start, this character plays to the star's strengths, merging subject and object, warrior and victim, ass-kicker and damsel-in-distress. And hero and villain.
  25. Ramona and Beezus
    Wholesome to the point of being dull.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Audrey the Trainwreck
    Frank V. Ross makes no-budget, impeccably acted, dryly funny, and unpretentiously melancholic movies about the tiny gray area between happiness and misery, and the frustrations of the suburban working-class. In his latest, Audrey the Trainwreck, there is no character named Audrey, and nothing as histrionic as a trainwreck.
  27. Countdown to Zero
    This is another well-intentioned but preaching-to-the-choir doc, and boring as well.
  28. Farewell
    A homely bit of international Cold War cloak-and-dagger, starring badly dressed bureaucrats instead of chic spies, Farewell is based on a vital early-'80s espionage break involving the KGB, DST French intelligence, and the CIA.
  29. Life During Wartime
    Todd Solondz is back. Life During Wartime shows the misanthropic moralizer as confounding and trigger-happy as ever, his big clown thumb poised over a garish assortment of hot buttons--race, suicide, autism, sexual misery, self-hatred, Israel, and, his old favorite, pedophilia.
  30. Mugabe and the White African
    As their extraordinarily brave black female attorney points out, at stake are not merely the rights of this family or indeed of all white farmers, but the future of race relations and human rights in Africa.
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