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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 Eclipse
    McPherson has managed a rare hat trick in genre mash-up, fashioning a deeply absorbing movie that balances horror, romance, comedy and observant humanism with surprising finesse.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Train Your Dragon
    A briskly paced computer-animated entertainment that uses the format to maximum effect, the way "Avatar" does.
  3. The Terminator
    A slickly made, shoot-'em-up sci-fi fantasia, it stands for the proposition that, inside the most staid local theater, there is a drive-in yearning to be free. [29 Oct 1984, p.B4]
    • Washington Post
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Amadeus
    Amadeus works as pure entertainment, with some of the world's greatest tunes added to a funny and macabre plot. But hidden behind its twisting scenario are some basic questions about life and death. [19 Sep 1984, p.B1]
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  5. Salt
    It's popcorn pulp that collided -- at 100 mph, natch -- with a far more sober and crafty grown-up movie.
  6. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    If Slade doesn't necessarily advance the medium with this installment, he nonetheless advances the franchise, with enough lucidity and skill that he's persuaded at least one erstwhile agnostic to take a stand.
  7. Knight and Day
    It's both straight-faced spy film and sly spy spoof. That's a difficult balancing act, but director James Mangold gets it exactly right.
  8. Shrek Forever After
    Believe it or not, there's life in the old boy yet. After a disappointing third outing, this "Shrek" brings the cycle of fairy-tale-themed films to a fine finish.
  9. The Kids Are All Right
    Arrives as the perfect midsummer movie, a comedy about a flawed-but-functional family that, like "Toy Story 3," captures the drama of growth and separation in all its exhilaration and heartache.
  10. Date Night
    Regardless of the silliness of the situation -- or, in truth, because of it -- they're a joy to watch.
  11. Kick-Ass
    Kick-Ass should delight fans of the original comics and garden-variety action junkies as well. Suggested subtitle: "Iron Man, You Just Got Served."
  12. Flame and Citron
    Like "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," Flame and Citron is the story of handsome rogues with guns. It's fast-paced, stylish and thrilling.
  13. American Casino
    You won't soon forget the therapist at Johns Hopkins who counsels recently homeless patients who've fallen into depression or substance abuse -- and then goes home to her own bitter foreclosure fight.
  14. 35 Shots of Rum
    The French actor Alex Descas is mesmerizing in 35 Shots of Rum, where he plays a metro conductor.
  15. Skin
    If you didn't know that it was based on a true story, Skin would be a little hard to believe.
  16. Ajami
    While its themes of revenge, mutual resentment and grim fatalism offer little hope for a ready solutions, the movie itself testifies to the power of creative collaboration in finding common ground.
  17. The Ghost Writer
    Offers an unusually astute glimpse of power at its most alluring and corrosive.
  18. Neil Young Trunk Show
    May not achieve the transcendent heights of "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," but it has its own pleasures.
  19. The Secret in Their Eyes
    An elegant romantic thriller adapted from a novel of the same name, is a terrific film.
  20. World on a Wire (1973)
    Seen now, the movie seems as timely as it is outdated, its themes contemporary even if its clothing and hairdos are anything but.
  21. Babies
    A mesmerizing and weirdly manipulative experience.
  22. The Last Exorcism
    Stamm creates an anxious psychological horror that's vaguely familiar yet refreshingly original.
  23. Cyrus
    Even at its most troubling, Cyrus is powered by a deep vein of humanism, one that offers hope to even the weirdest among us.
  24. Agora
    Agora, Alejandro Amenábar's absorbing historical drama, proves that, in an era of movies made for iPhones with artistic ambitions to match, there are still filmmakers willing to swing for the fences.
  25. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    Stone has a knack for pacing, detail and atmosphere that manages to feel authentic and fancifully allegorical at the same time.
  26. I Am Love
    As a full-on celebration of beauty in all its forms, this gem of a contemporary melodrama invites viewers to plunge into a world of unerring taste and luxury, where even tragedy comes softly when it inevitably arrives.
  27. Toy Story 3
    Lasseter and his team plunge the audience into a collective case of empty- nest syndrome, with a dash of mortal terror thrown in for grins. And again, they make it work.
  28. Despicable Me
    Hang in there and Despicable Me turns into an improbably heartwarming, not to mention visually delightful, diversion.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Winnebago Man
    Entertaining and thoughtful documentary.
  30. Ramona and Beezus
    Knits together scenes and themes from all eight of Cleary's Ramona Quimby novels into a sweet and funny, if slightly overlong, portrait of life on a modern-day Klickitat Street.
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