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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 5.4 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. Red Cliff
    Red Cliff is a dichotomous beast: The computer-generated imagery that makes so much of it possible is served up in heaping, state-of-the-art portions, but the results occasionally border on the cartoonish. At the same time, Red Cliff is a classic tale that gets a classicist's treatment.
  2. Crude
    If the movie is any indication, Chevron would have the public believe there was no Amazon at all -- something people might be willing to believe, were Berlinger not sticking Crude in their faces.
  3. A Prophet
    Audiard delivers on and exceeds the promise he evinced in that earlier film, drawing viewers into the densely layered, ruthless ecology of a French prison and, against all odds, making them not mind staying there awhile.
  4. Inception
    Inception is that rare film that can be enjoyed on superficial and progressively deeper levels, a feat that uncannily mimics the mind-bending journey its protagonist takes.
  5. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
    Manages to be both engrossing history and astonishingly germane to present-day political debates.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Way We Get By
    Not so much a slice of life as the whole pie, the highs and lows of twilight living, all found and filmed in a terminal at an airport in Maine. What a country.
  7. City Island
    In this story, everyone, man or woman, is a walled fortress of paranoia, secrecy, unsatisfied yearnings and anger-at-low-tide, all of which will rise and collapse over the course of what is a very funny film, and one that operates at the sea level of humanity. Quaint. Slightly peculiar.
  8. Please Give
    Holofcener has accrued a rabid, loyal following for her singular brand of observant wit and aching tenderness. Both pour forth in abundance in Please Give, a wry, wistful portrait of contemporary urban manners.
  9. The Adjustment Bureau
    Equal parts playful, sophisticated and engrossing, The Adjustment Bureau is like the first songbird of spring, signaling that the winter of our collective brain-freeze is over and it's safe to go back to the multiplex.
  10. Get Low
    It's as soothing and pure as the sweetest water from the deepest well.
  11. Lebanon
    While the title alone may send people into a tizzy, this actually isn't a movie about which side is right or wrong.
  12. The Tillman Story
    Emerges as the summer's first true must-see film, required viewing for everyone, but especially audiences in Washington.
  13. Megamind
    Megamind has presentation in spades. But it also has something even rarer than that. It's got heart.
  14. Waiting for 'Superman'
    Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim's scathing, moving critique of American public education, makes you actually want to do something after you dry your eyes.
  15. Inside Job
    If you think you've absorbed all you could about subprime mortgages, credit default swaps and the arcana of elaborate derivatives, think again. Inside Job traces the history of the crisis and its implications with exceptional lucidity, rigor and righteous indignation.
  16. 127 Hours
    Although Ralston's act of desperation is admittedly difficult to watch, viewers who might avoid the film out of squeamishness would be depriving themselves of one of the year's most exhilarating cinematic experiences.
  17. Black Swan
    A near-masterpiece of a film set in the hothouse world of New York ballet.
  18. The King's Speech
    It's the kind of absorbing, attractive, unfailingly tasteful enterprise that a critic can recommend without caveat.
  19. The Fighter
    If you think "Rocky" and "Raging Bull" define the alpha and omega of boxing movies, think again. David O. Russell's The Fighter proves there's still punch in the genre, especially when a filmmaker tells a familiar story in a brand-new way.
  20. The Way Back
    The Way Back diligently catalogs the outrages through which extreme cold, hunger and thirst put the body, and Weir's camera finds the terrible beauty in his actors' chapped lips, windburned cheeks and tenderized feet.
  21. And Everything Is Going Fine
    Spalding Gray himself has the last word on his life, something this exacting storyteller would surely have demanded.
  22. 13 Assassins
    Does Guinness World Records have an entry for longest on-screen fight? If it doesn't, Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins just set it. And if a record actually exists, Miike's film just broke it.
  23. The Muppets
    The Muppets is both a delightful family film about the Muppets and a winking, self-referential satire about how lame the Muppets are.
  24. Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia)
    Telling an old story in a new way and infusing what might have been a dry political polemic with poetry, passion and unlikely warmth.
  25. Margin Call
    Chandor's film goes a long way toward making understandable - in vivid, cinematic terms - what exactly happened to make that first big domino fall over.
  26. 50/50
    Considering that any one of those elements could have scuttled its fragile mix of drama, comedy and life-and-death stakes, 50/50 beats the odds with modest, utterly winning ease.
  27. Take This Waltz
    Known for comedy, Rogen and Silverman are the film's most delightful surprises, and their performances shine.
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