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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. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    As Balthazar, Cage doesn't disappoint. He's just manic enough to keep the character from becoming too predictable.
  2. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    And the action? It's especially hard to determine who's fighting whom in "Legends," because, well, because they are a bunch of owls.
  3. Charlie St. Cloud
    Charlie St. Cloud, like its star Zac Efron, is a gorgeous, unblemished thing. Both would be much improved with a tiny flaw or two.
  4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    A dog-frequency movie: enjoyable only to those tuned in to its particular register.
  5. Lottery Ticket
    Things really slow down during the movie's ill-advised forays into drama.
  6. Bran Nue Dae
    So light and airy, it almost floats away on its own breeziness.
  7. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
    It's a highbrow romantic farce, without the laughs.
  8. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    There's very little that's even kind of funny in It's Kind of a Funny Story, which can't accurately be described as a comedy but isn't a true drama, either.
  9. Monsters
    No ordinary horror film. If it were, it might be a bit better than it is. As the movie stands, it's a less-than-compelling relationship drama, with aliens.
  10. Faster
    In Faster, it's a car, not actors, that drives movie.
  11. Yogi Bear
    An uninspired studio product that demands as little from the audience as it did from its writers, directors and actors.
  12. Love and Other Drugs
    A jagged little pill of a movie from baby boomer avatar Edward Zwick.
  13. The Tempest
    Boasting a plot that's heavy on the magical shenanigans, this pretty and poetic adaptation of Shakespeare's play is a fantasia for the smart set, a literary novelty for anyone who wants to have fun without giving up food for thought. On that score, at least, it delivers, in spades.
  14. The Tourist
    Cinema-as-shoplifting is okay, as long as you still get the feeling it's for a greater good. But that's something The Tourist is sorely missing.
  15. Country Strong
    Disjointed drama filled with one-dimensional characters and melodrama so Lifetime movie-esque that it careens into unintentional comedy.
  16. Jumping the Broom
    Thank goodness for Tasha Smith's character, Shonda. She supplies the only reliable laughs as Pam's fun-loving best friend.
  17. Battle: Los Angeles
    H.G. Wells did it better. This movie spends so much yawn-inducing time on variations of the same combat scenario that its final showdown feels rushed.
  18. Scream 4
    The problem is, the movie doesn't really care if we are laughing with it or at it.
  19. Soul Surfer
    The swells of inspirational storytelling sometimes threaten to swamp the underlying inspirational story.
  20. Insidious
    You can't criticize it for false advertising.
  21. Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 is nearly as stilted, didactic and simplistic as Rand's free-market fable.
  22. Something Borrowed
    Something Borrowed clinches it: It is not okay to sleep with the fiance of one's best friend. What's odd, and ultimately icky, is how enthusiastically the film attempts to justify doing so.
  23. The Eagle
    Nothing more than an action-packed bagatelle masquerading as history.
  24. I Am
    While I Am has its boogeymen - especially the rich, the racist and the ultra-competitive - Shadyac implicates himself whenever possible.
  25. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    For those with no vested interest in this protracted and supernatural soap opera, but who do care about cinema, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2 will be, unsurprisingly, a silly and somewhat cheesily made waste of time.
  26. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    The "Twilight Saga" hasn't matured along with its heroine. In fact, the latest movie regresses a bit, delivering more filler, less feeling and crummier CGI than last year's "Eclipse."
  27. Take Me Home Tonight
    If director Michael Dowse took Matt and Tori out of the equation - which is to say, if he took out the main storyline - the whole event could have been a lot more fun.
  28. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    You can't fault the filmmakers for reshaping a diary into a cohesive film. You can however, fault them for taking one of the great antiheroes in preteen literature and turning him into, well, an even wimpier kid.
  29. Bad Teacher
    This fitfully funny but mostly dull misfire defines exactly where the line can be drawn between truly subversive humor and lazy cynicism.
  30. The Change-Up
    As it is, the audience must content itself with baby poop, naughty words and the female anatomy at its pneumatic extreme, while Bateman and Reynolds's search for transcendence continues.
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