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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. Waste Land
    Spend some time there, thanks to the documentary Waste Land, and you start to get the sense that, amid the trash, something really is blooming.
  2. Biutiful
    Biutiful soars to its highest points once it shifts its focus away from death to ask us how we are choosing to live our lives.
  3. Tiny Furniture
    A funny, affecting movie about growing up in the shadow of a formidable mom.
  4. Gnomeo and Juliet
    Any film that dares to cast the bat-chewing heavy-metal legend as a gentle, ceramic reindeer named Fawn is okay in my Bard book.
  5. Unknown
    The weakest link in Unknown - okay, other than the utter preposterousness of its entire premise - is Jones, who as a modern-day version of Hitch's ice queens can't hold her own with the likes of Kim Novak, Grace Kelly and Eva Marie Saint.
  6. Rango
    Depp possesses one of the finest speaking voices in the business - a nimble, mellifluous instrument that can go from sexy growl to fey warble in no seconds flat.
  7. Undertow
    As if love triangles aren't complicated enough, the bittersweet Peruvian film Undertow offers a couple of twists on the archetype.
  8. Nénette
    The animal's striking resemblance to a human is part of what makes Nicolas Philibert's documentary Nenette so evocative.
  9. In a Better World
    This meditation on violence explores the toxic knock-on effect of powerlessness and overcompensation, delivering a potent essay on the roots of society's most primal evils.
  10. Fast Five
    It delivers the most entertaining "Fast and Furious" adventure while also getting 2011's summer movie season off on the right lead foot.
  11. Source Code
    A taut, mostly well-crafted race against the clock that combines the time-loop conceit of "Groundhog Day" and the postwar paranoia of "The Manchurian Candidate."
  12. Rio
    This is a movie that imbues even the hoariest quest-peril-life lesson tropes of family animated films and imbues them with new life and rhythm.
  13. African Cats
    Ultimately, this is a universal story about how these wild mothers, like their human counterparts, sacrifice again and again - all to make sure their children are happy, healthy and well fed.
  14. Haywire
    One of the reasons Haywire is such a pleasure to watch is that its director, Steven Soderbergh, doesn't overplay the film's hear-me-roar subversions.
  15. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    On Stranger Tides feels as fresh and bracingly exhilarating as the day Jack Sparrow first swashed his buckle.
  16. The Last Lions
    The result is a movie that may be geared to a nature film fan base but will also appeal to admirers of good storytelling.
  17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    With its heartening final note of hope and renewal, Deathly Hallows -- Part 2 provides an altogether fitting finale to a series that has prized the fans above all.
  18. Captain America: The First Avenger
    Captain America might hold the most promise, not just of saving the world, but of saving comic book movies from themselves.
  19. X-Men: First Class
    First Class happily delivers on the escapism and rich narrative texture the best of its predecessors have promised.
  20. The Lincoln Lawyer
    A pleasantly seedy crime thriller.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mars Needs Moms
    A majestic musical score by the great composer John Powell somehow makes everything old feel fresh and wondrous again.
  22. Rubber
    Rolls straight over silly, smashing through stupid without stopping and then barreling into a kind of insane comic brilliance without so much as a speed bump to slow it down.
  23. Bridesmaids
    Wiig has the natural beauty and self-deprecating expressiveness it takes to be a star comedienne; she spends much of Bridesmaids looking like a slightly girlier version of Lucinda Williams.
  24. Winnie the Pooh
    A memorable return to the Hundred Acre Wood and a lively, interactive adventure that should delight everyone from wide-eyed preschoolers to nostalgic grandparents.
  25. Fright Night
    It stands apart from the rehash pack by accomplishing something rival remakes rarely do: It improves on the premise it has been handed, producing a modernized version of a decades-old story that's superior to its predecessor in virtually every aspect.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Warrior
    The catharsis Warrior offers in the end is hard won, and it will take a steely viewer not to find it gratifying, however over-the-top it may be.
  27. Arthur Christmas
    A worthy addition to the Christmas movie canon. It's funny and good-looking, with an impeccable voice cast of U.K. actors. It's also unexpectedly fresh, despite the familiar-sounding premise.
  28. Puss in Boots
    For a kids' movie, the humor, at times, strays a bit too far into grown-up territory.
  29. A Dangerous Method
    Mortensen has called A Dangerous Method Cronenberg's "Merchant-Ivory picture," but it just as often resembles a Woody Allen movie - literate, sophisticated and deeply concerned with sex and manners. (It's even mordantly funny, as an early scene at the Freud family dinner table attests.)
  30. Hugo
    Strangely, Scorsese's very passion for the subject matter turns out to be both a blessing and a curse for Hugo.
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