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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. The Devil Inside
    It's a pestilence of infectious claptrap.
  2. Norwegian Wood
    At times, the story seems to exist in the instant between wakefulness and sleep, a dreamy state that's also startlingly realistic.
  3. Pariah
    This invigoratingly fresh, optimistic film - which features the breathtaking debuts of director Dee Rees and leading lady Adepero Oduye - plunges the audience into a world that's both tough and tender, vivid and grim, drenched in poetry and music and pain and discovery.
  4. War Horse
    Spielberg has created an appropriate showcase for the magnificent creature that emerges, one that recalls the great movie horses of yore in a story guaranteed to pluck, grab and wring viewers' hearts, but thankfully not break them.
  5. We Bought a Zoo
    Provides a welcome seasonal dash of wholesomeness and humor.
  6. The Adventures of Tintin
    Sadly, Herge isn't around to see The Adventures of Tintin, Spielberg's crisp, richly rendered animated adaptation, which could be counted as both a success and a failure. Spielberg has brought Tintin to the big screen all right, but not quite to life.
  7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo may want it both ways, getting its tawdry kicks while tsk-tsking those who deliver them in real life, but Mara's bristling, unbridled performance gives the film the ballast it needs to pull off that curious, undeniably engrossing, balancing act.
  8. 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.)
  9. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    There's a place in the movies for wish fulfillment, no doubt, including the wish for it all to be over.
  10. Young Adult
    Though marketed as a comedy, this film is too creepy and acerbic to be consistently comic.
  11. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    As a stylistic and narrative throwback, Alfredson's adamantly un-thrilling procedural reminds viewers of an era when viewers allowed themselves to be entertained by a good yarn about a few colorful or at least colorlessly compelling characters.
  12. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    This sequel is just as profligate as its 2009 predecessor with explosions, anachronisms and quick cuts. But the dialogue is a little sharper, and Holmes gets a worthy opponent in Professor Moriarty.
  13. Le Havre
    Le Havre is a playful parable that conveys profound truths about compassion, humility and sacrifice. It offers proof that miracles do happen - especially in Kaurismaki's lyrically hardscrabble neighborhood.
  14. The Sitter
    One of the weaknesses of The Sitter is that Hill doesn't develop much comic chemistry with the children.
  15. New Year's Eve
    Behind all the noisemakers and funny glasses, New Year's Eve - and everyone in it - is dead behind the eyes.
  16. Shame
    Fans of Fassbender's yummy performances in this year's "Jane Eyre" and "X-Men: First Class" should be forewarned that, although we see the handsome Irish actor in the altogether, Shame is strangely un-sexy.
  17. The Artist
    The Artist is anything but mute, with a lush orchestral score and a little sonic wink at the the end; fewer movies this year reward listening - and watching - so lavishly.
  18. 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.
  19. The Muppets
    The Muppets is both a delightful family film about the Muppets and a winking, self-referential satire about how lame the Muppets are.
  20. My Week with Marilyn
    At one moment, Marilyn turns to Colin and asks, "Shall I be her?" And, instantly, she is - effortlessly bewitching a crowd with movie-queen poses. If only the movie could turn it on so reliably, My Week with Marilyn might be profound rather than simply pleasant.
  21. Hugo
    Strangely, Scorsese's very passion for the subject matter turns out to be both a blessing and a curse for Hugo.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Conquest
    Where the film might have found its greater meaning is in the interplay between Sarkozy's public and private lives - an especially fertile ground here, given that wife Cecilia (Florence Pernel) was a key adviser and their very public separation threatened his eventual run for president.
  23. Into the Abyss
    A shapeless collection of encounters with Texas prison inmates and their victims, what could have been a well-aimed examination of the most troubling contradictions of capital punishment instead becomes a maudlin, unrestrained wallow.
  24. Melancholia
    As von Trier's ultimate wish-fulfillment fantasy, Melancholia is a broodingly downbeat self-portrait but also the inspiring work of an artist of seemingly boundless imaginative power.
  25. The Descendants
    A pitch-perfect movie that threads a microscopically tiny needle between high comedy and devastating drama.
  26. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    The "Twilight Saga" hasn't matured along with its heroine. In fact, the latest movie regresses a bit, delivering more filler, less feeling and crummier CGI than last year's "Eclipse."
  27. Immortals
    The movie's self-importance is further inflated by the usual pseudo-Wagnerian score and occasional narration by John Hurt.
  28. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
    And that's the moral of this story. Or one of them, anyway. Clash's success is shown as the result of a combination of talent, gumption, pluck, misadventure, supportive parents, following your dreams, luck and, yes, love.
  29. Janie Jones
    Nivola and Breslin make a terrific mismatched pair in a film that often resembles a mash-up of "Crazy Heart" and Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere," which may account for why it too often feels derivative and contrived.
  30. Jack and Jill
    The unapologetic laziness and ineptitude of Jack's impersonation, which is played for cheap laughs, is just as lazy as Sandler's performance as the real Jill. You don't buy it for a minute.
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