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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. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    The fourth Ice Age freshens up the 10-year-old franchise by shunning easy ­pop-culture jokes and embracing its weird side.
  2. Take This Waltz
    Known for comedy, Rogen and Silverman are the film's most delightful surprises, and their performances shine.
  3. Savages
    Savages is a B-movie striving for an A-plus, a decadently energetic summer escape with bloody action, bold visuals and bodacious attitude to burn.
  4. Katy Perry: Part of Me
    Fan or not, it's hard not to give in to Perry's endearing charms.
  5. The Amazing Spider-Man
    The good news is that Garfield and Stone whip up a warm, convincing froth as two teenagers caught up in a beguiling case of puppy love. The not-so-great news is that by "reboot," the studio means taking audiences once again through every step of Peter's transformation into Spider-Man.
  6. People Like Us
    It's the flaws that Kurtzman builds into People Like Us that make it interesting.
  7. Magic Mike
    It's a nicely balanced blend of comedy, drama and athletic dancing that plies its trade with winking, unforced self-assurance.
  8. Ted
    Eventually MacFarlane's formula -- consisting of filthy, ethnically offensive jokes, scatological humor, tacky pop culture references and random cameos -- begins to wear thin.
  9. The Invisible War
    Dick, whose films include a revealing expose about the movie industry's film ratings board, has created yet another galvanizing call to action with The Invisible War.
  10. To Rome with Love
    A giant disappointment. It's as bustling as its titular city's piazzas, but it goes nowhere.
  11. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
    A strange little movie. Unsure whether it wants to be a quirky, sad-eyed indie pixie or a brassy, raunchy broad, it veers uneasily between the two, never quite settling into a comfortable or recognizable groove.
  12. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    Both terribly silly and a lot of fun.
  13. Brave
    The conflicts, magic spells, chase sequences and reconciliations feel strangely by-the-book for a studio so well known for throwing the book out entirely.
  14. Safety Not Guaranteed
    As happens with many time-travel films, this one ultimately paints itself into a bit of a narrative corner.
  15. The Woman in the Fifth
    It's a curio, ripe with dreamy atmospherics and intriguing mysteries, but little else.
  16. Lola Versus
    Gerwig remains one of the most captivating new stars to hit the big screen, but she's still looking for a movie that deserves her.
  17. Your Sister's Sister
    Very little is simple in Your Sister's Sister -- not the emotions, the naturalistic tone or the unstudied, easygoing performances. But the film's pleasures are.
  18. Rock of Ages
    Rock of Ages gets too mired in plotty cul de sacs, manufactured setbacks and numbers that are all staged as show-stoppers. In the words of the Journey song that serves as a climactic singalong, it goes on and on and on and on.
  19. That's My Boy
    That's My Boy is radical only in its extreme laziness.
  20. Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
    It's like "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Catskills.
  21. Bel Ami
    It's just that Pattinson's performance is so enervated that his Georges Duroy comes across as something of a cipher. He's not quite alive, yet also clearly not dead, given the amount of sex he has. He's undead, or at least uninteresting.
  22. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
    It's a kid's Cirque de Soleil, for a lot less money.
  23. Prometheus
    All the God-talk and philosophical musings about morality and "meeting our makers" aside, Prometheus is primarily about delivering those visceral, terrifying jolts. That it does so without generating the taut suspense and moody atmosphere of its antecedents qualifies as one of its greatest failings.
  24. The Intouchables
    The lens through which the The Intouchables was filmed may be too rose-colored for some people's taste, but the window that these talented performers throw open -- a window onto the strange and touching friendship between two very different men -- is crystal clear.
  25. Hysteria
    It's cute. So is the movie. If it never rises to greatness, it may be because it's also a fairly formulaic romcom.
  26. I Wish
    The vignettes are linked as much by theme as story, yet they're carefully structured and delicately balanced.
  27. U.N. Me
    If it weren't so shocking, it would be a lot funnier.
  28. Polisse
    Polisse is hard to watch at times, but it's also hard not to.
  29. Moonrise Kingdom
    Moonrise Kingdom is already shaping up to be this summer's art house sleeper hit, and no wonder: It traffics in the very kind of escapist spectacle -- in this case of a thoughtfully composed world brimming with whimsy, enchantment and visual brio -- that the season was made for.
  30. Snow White and the Huntsman
    Overlong, overcrowded, overstimulating and with an over-the-top performance by Charlize Theron as the evil queen Ravenna, the movie is a virtual orchard of toxic excess, starting with the unnecessarily sprawling cast of characters.
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