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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 5.2 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. Safe Haven
    Safe Haven is one of those Valentine’s Day confections that satisfy your sweet tooth until you get to their weird, off-putting center. The problem with movies is that you can’t put them back in the box.
  2. Beautiful Creatures
    His screenplay for Beautiful Creatures is sharp and witty, considering the needlessly complicated source material. His cast is stellar, and the chemistry between his young stars magical. But too much of rest of the movie, like Thompson’s monstrous mother, is an unholy mess.
  3. A Good Day to Die Hard
    Both assaultive and tiresome, A Good Day to Die Hard barely registers on the action movie Richter scale. It goes bang, it goes boom, and then it blessedly goes away.
  4. Identity Thief
    McCarthy’s willingness to go to the mat notwithstanding, it’s viewers who are likely left feeling punched in the gut.
  5. Side Effects
    Like a gel cap in a sip of orange juice, the psycho-pharmacological thriller Side Effects goes down easily, even if its long-term impact turns out to be barely dis­cern­ible.
  6. Stand Up Guys
    It's Walken who grounds every scene with the kind of watchful honesty that has become his brand in late-career.
  7. Warm Bodies
    Cute without being especially clever, Warm Bodies is almost as pallid and as brain-dead as its zombie antihero.
  8. Bullet to the Head
    Hill and Stallone seem determined simply to prove that, even in their golden years, they're still tough enough to rumble with all comers. Bullet to the Head exposes that bravado for the pose that it is, and it's not a good look.
  9. Parker
    Parker the movie, like the man, delivers exactly as promised.
  10. Movie 43
    Movie 43 is a near masterpiece of tastelessness. The anthology of 12 short, interconnected skits elevates the art form of gross-out comedy to a new height.
  11. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    A rarely funny spoof that's heavy on bone-crushing and blood-gushing.
  12. Quartet
    Smoothly navigating the perilous line between insufferably twee and heartbreakingly grim, Quartet is a subtle, sure-footed delight.
  13. West of Memphis
    West of Memphis makes a lucid, absorbing contribution to an epic saga that Berlinger and Sinofsky first wrestled into an 18-year-long narrative that changed two lives and saved one. And it gives that epic an ending that's happy, sad, inspiring, infuriating, right and terribly wrong, all at the same time.
  14. Mama
    There's something dead and rotting at the center of Mama, and it isn't the ghost of the woman who lends the horror film its title.
  15. The Last Stand
    That's the thing about this corpse pileup of an action movie. It persistently tries to drag the audience down to its mindless level.
  16. LUV
    It's a shame that the plot proves to be such a head-scratcher when so many elements of the film seem promising.
  17. Broken City
    Overall, this is an entertaining diversion.
  18. Amour
    Amour is a must-see film that not everyone must see, at least right now.
  19. Gangster Squad
    Slick, sick, self-consciously stylish and defiantly shallow, Gangster Squad is one of those movies you can't talk about without invoking other (often better) movies. A lot of movies.
  20. Zero Dark Thirty
    By and large, Zero Dark Thirty dispenses with sentimentality and speculation, portraying the final mission not with triumphalist zeal or rank emotionalism but with a reserved, even mournful sense of ambivalence.
  21. Not Fade Away
    In writer-director David Chase's heartfelt delivery, this same old tune somehow comes out sounding fresh.
  22. Promised Land
    Despite their Everyman appeal, Damon and Krasinski don't create much by way of emotional investment, instead becoming mirror images of their most mild-mannered, white-bread selves.
  23. Parental Guidance
    It's hard to know who exactly Parental Guidance was made for.
  24. Django Unchained
    Breathes its own refreshing, occasionally demented, life into that time period, albeit in a pulpy, stylized cinematic language more akin to vampire-hunter cartoonishness than "Lincoln's" more classical reserve.
  25. Les Miserables
    For better or worse, though, this adaptation of the mega-hit Broadway musical fits neither description, largely because it lives in that kinda-sorta, okay-not-great, this-worked-that-didn't in-between for which words like "better" and "worse" fall woefully short.
  26. Rust and Bone
    Turns out to be one of the most transportingly romantic movies of the year, one that finds the most stirring emotion in struggle rather than in ginned-up melodrama or easy resolution.
  27. The Guilt Trip
    Anne Fletcher's lifeless comedy about an overbearing mother and her exasperated adult son, has no flawlessly delivered punch lines. It doesn't even have a hangnail.
  28. Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
    Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away has plenty of eye candy... What the movie lacks, unfortunately, is coherence.
  29. Barbara
    In the vein of such recent classics as "The Lives of Others" and "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," Christian Petzold's Barbara re-visits the quiet, everyday tragedies of the Iron Curtain era, when paranoia ran deep and for very good reasons.
  30. The Impossible
    The film is studded with many tiny, lovely moments.
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