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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 Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    Everyone hits their marks with gusto and believability in Catching Fire... But the engine of the entire operation is Jennifer Lawrence.
  2. Submarine
    For much of the film, this is very funny and fairly original stuff, though Submarine starts to run aground about the time that Jordana and Oliver's relationship does.
  3. Marguerite
    In the end, Marguerite isn’t a comedy so much as a love story. True love, it seems, isn’t just blind; it must be deaf, too.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Nouvelle Vague
    Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” — an uncanny homage to French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard and, specifically, the making of his 1960 breakthrough, “Breathless” — balances its fervor with a stunning cinematic undertaking. Put simply, lovers of “Breathless” will be left so.
  5. Superbad
    Christopher Mintz-Plasse steals the movie in his screen debut as a nerd di tutti nerds, a kid whose fake I.D. reads "McLovin."
  6. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Andre Hennicke is particularly chilling as the yappy mad dog judge who sends them to death.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pearl
    As a prequel, it never finds its footing, bogging down a potentially fascinating character study with unnecessary details — traveling old paths instead of seeking new ones. “Pearl,” like the version of the character we see in “X,” is stuck in the past.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Hau Chu
    Paris, 13th District
    Audiard’s direction is engaging, especially his choice to portray one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world as a place defined by stark, concrete slabs of apartments and high-rises. But the film never quite lands on anything profound about how this generation lives.
  9. Suzhou River
    A Chinese film whose simple surface belies greater mysteries.
  10. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Enter the world of the sociopathic killer and enjoy.
  11. The Manchurian Candidate
    It all adds up to something less powerful and interesting than the original.
  12. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
    The film is probably of interest only to those viewers who, like Gondry himself apparently, already have an obsession with Chomsky.
  13. A Hard Day
    You’ll be glad that A Hard Day isn’t happening to you, but you won’t regret observing it all from a safe distance.
  14. The Lovers
    Flustered, flirty and filled to the brim with compassion, The Lovers is charming, even when it’s proving how hollow charm can be.
  15. Final Account
    Final Account aims to provide insight into the psychological mechanism that would allow otherwise good people to stand idly by (or actively participate in) the perpetration of mass murder. As such, it’s only partly effective, and frustrating.
  16. Greenberg
    A delicate, if slightly smoggy, feeling of regret hangs over Greenberg, a quietly funny portrait of grown-ups growing up.
  17. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    It's the rare 2 1/2 -hour film that doesn't make you look at your watch once. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is such a film.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Fire Inside
    Ryan Destiny’s performance as Shields is persuasive and commanding.
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