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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Iron Man 3
    A frantic, occasionally funny, finally enervating bricolage of special effects, explosive set pieces, sardonic one--liners and notional human emotions, this branch of the Marvel franchise tree feels brittle and over--extended enough to snap off entirely.
  2. Joyful Noise
    Despite some mawkish dialogue, there's something to be said for leaving the theater with a smile. Can I get an amen?
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Safe House
    Swedish director Daniel Espinosa isn't as adept at chase scenes as "Bourne" director Paul Greengrass: We sometimes lose track of who's supposed to be where and which direction the bullets are flying.
  4. The Vow
    The romantic drama The Vow looks like the kind of annual Valentine's Day staple that arrives just as calls start flooding flower shops and chocolate bonbon displays invade your local CVS.
  5. Ouija
    Though Ouija starts off evoking a nicely eerie atmosphere of dread, it ultimately goes too far, making the liminal space between the spirit world and this one all too eye-rollingly literal.
  6. Prometheus
    All the God-talk and philosophical musings about morality and "meeting our makers" aside, Prometheus is primarily about delivering those visceral, terrifying jolts. That it does so without generating the taut suspense and moody atmosphere of its antecedents qualifies as one of its greatest failings.
  7. Here Comes the Boom
    What's missing from this color-by-numbers screenplay is the bizarre touch of eccentric humor Sandler often lets creep into his comedies.
  8. Total Recall (2012)
    So what makes this 2012 Total Recall superior to the Arnie model? For starters, there's an actual actor in the starring role.
  9. Mirror Mirror
    As Snow White, actress Lily Collins is a washout.
  10. Our Idiot Brother
    There are times when Our Idiot Brother possesses a loping, genial sweetness. But it lacks conviction, and it doesn't hold a beeswax candle to such similarly themed films as "You Can Count on Me" and "Momma's Man."
  11. Wreck-It Ralph
    Emphasizes action and eye-popping visuals over emotion.
  12. The Devil's Double
    In the end, The Devil's Double is one long balance sheet. On the plus side are the dueling performances of Cooper, which anchor the film. On the minus side is a seemingly interminable litany of violence, abuse and degradation. They cheapen the film by nudging it in the direction of a splatter flick.
  13. Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
    Still, what separates Walking With Destiny from a run-of-the-mill war documentary isn't necessarily its insights into its main subject but its tangential stories about fascinating nobodies.
  14. Another Earth
    As large as Earth Two looms - literally - in the frames of Mike Cahill's film, so do its implications. It's one big, honking metaphor, as much as a special effect. As a symbol of second chances, it's as intriguing as it is frustratingly obvious.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Forks Over Knives
    Forks is a plate of vegetables. It's high on nutritional value but absent any pleasure.
  16. Seven Days in Utopia
    With all due respect to Cook's novel, another book - the Bible - teaches us that on the seventh day, God gave it a rest. Seven Days in Utopia should have followed His lead.
  17. Upside Down
    In Upside Down, writer-director Juan Solanas takes the gimmick about as far as it can go, rendering the metaphor of longing and separation in effective, and richly visual, terms. If anything, however, he goes too far.
  18. What to Expect When You're Expecting
    The movie turns out to be a little of everything yet succeeds only occasionally at anything.
  19. The Campaign
    Tends toward the broadest possible takes on slapstick, sophomoric sexuality and post-"Hangover" raunch.
  20. Empire of Silver
    The movie is occasionally muddled and always melodramatic, yet it's pictorially compelling, thanks to dramatic locations and exacting art direction.
  21. Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
    At its best, it's joyful, uplifting and even, occasionally, moving. And at its worst, it's a propaganda piece designed to win our undying loyalty to a TV show/cash cow that advocates for the little guy even though it's clearly turned into a diva.
  22. The Woman in Black
    Director James Watkins knows how to make a body jump out of its skin, even if he does use the face-reflected-in-the-mirror/window trick once too often. At the same time, the film is kind of, well, silly.
  23. Hotel Transylvania
    Entertaining enough for the trick-or-treat crowd, but a bit more bite wouldn't kill it.
  24. Act of Valor
    The exercises are genuine, and so is the hardware. But the script undermines the sense of authenticity at every turn.
  25. The Iron Lady
    Can a performance be too good? Meryl Streep disappears so uncannily into former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady that her performance overpowers the movie it's in - a perfectly executed triple axel that renders everything else just featureless ice.
  26. Halloween
    Sometimes feels like a horror movie with a contact high.
  27. Thor: The Dark World
    Hiddleston steals the show here, making wickedness and treachery look a heck of a lot more fun than virtue.
  28. Love in Space
    Silly and slapsticky, Love in Space is too busy devising absurd set pieces to develop the characters or make their mutual attractions plausible. That makes it much like recent Hollywood rom-coms. It seems Chinese filmmakers have learned more than just a few phrases from American movies.
  29. This Is 40
    Overlong, unnecessarily sex-obsessed and downright nasty at times, This Is 40 feels haphazard and unfinished, despite a few moments of laugh-out-loud humor.
  30. The Watch
    The Watch takes the same ethos of male bonding, obsession with sex and sardonic violence that has proved so profitable in recent years on yet another summer spin. The tires may be in need of changing pretty soon, but for now the jalopy still runs.
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