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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. A Better Life
    With such classics as "El Norte" and, more recently, "Sin Nombre" and "Under the Same Moon" having addressed the subject matter already and so well, viewers might be forgiven for asking just how many immigration movies we need. As A Better Life proves, as many as there are stories to tell.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    The lines are drawn early on in "Beats," which is surprisingly tense and combative given the overwhelmingly positive and playful music in the band's catalogue. But that makes what could have been a sappy, fanboy loveletter a compelling look at the group's inner workings.
  3. Crime After Crime
    Some movies prove so eye-opening that a viewer may feel the urge to recount the story, start to finish, to friends and acquaintances. Crime After Crime is that kind of film.
  4. Friends with Benefits
    If Kunis gets the showier role in Friends With Benefits, Timberlake proves a quietly charming stalking horse, finally claiming and fully owning the spotlight with a hilarious homage to the 1990s rap duo Kriss Kross.
  5. 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.
  6. Tabloid
    McKinney, a woman whose spellbinding and baffling presence - nay, performance - in Tabloid more than lives up to her recent off-screen antics.
  7. Terri
    Tender, observant coming-of-age comedy.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Zookeeper
    Pratfalls and agonizing tumbles appear to be James's business, and man, business is booming.
  11. Horrible Bosses
    Scorchingly raunchy - and yes, pretty funny.
  12. Farmageddon
    Kristin Canty's surprisingly engrossing documentary, a worthy addition to the growing annals of movies and books advocating for sustainable farming methods.
  13. Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
    What is their passion for? Not newspapers, or even a single newspaper, per se, but for journalism itself, the practice of which is nowhere stronger than at the Times. That, at least, is how Page One argues it. It's a compelling argument.
  14. Trollhunter
    The film's real problem is that it can't seem to make up its mind about whether it wants to frighten us or make us laugh.
  15. Monte Carlo
    Dependable entertainment for young girls.
  16. Larry Crowne
    It's a light and breezy, recession-themed romantic comedy; "Up in the Air" without all the angst and introspection.
  17. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    Dark of the Moon is capable of having a little fun with itself. In one scene, mini-Autobots watch "Star Trek'' on TV, not noticing that Spock has the same voice as Sentinel Prime, the formerly moon-stuck 'bot who's rescued and revived in order to play a major role in this installment.
  18. Bad Teacher
    This fitfully funny but mostly dull misfire defines exactly where the line can be drawn between truly subversive humor and lazy cynicism.
  19. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    It isn't as sad a movie as "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work," another behind-the-mask documentary. It's funnier. But it's just as illuminating.
  20. Bride Flight
    Lovely scenery and historical context elevate the sentimental story lines above the soap opera domain.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Buck
    You don't have to be a horse nut to fall for Buck, one of those rare documentaries whose subject is so inherently fascinating that a fictional character could hardly compete.
  22. The Trip
    Have you ever been trapped in the back seat of a car while the old married couple up front bickers and banters for hours? It's either sheer torture or, if the couple happens to be Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, wildly entertaining.
  23. Cars 2
    Unfortunately, the sequel shortchanges the very relationships that gave the first movie its surprising heart.
  24. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    During the movie's awww-inducing conclusion, those of you who are allergic to cuteness - or to Jim Carrey - might want to look away.
  25. Louder Than a Bomb
    The real value of poetry - of the contest itself - is not revealed until the closing credits, when we see the impressive list of colleges that the movie's four subjects have gone on to.
  26. The Art of Getting By
    There's no sense of perspective here.
  27. Green Lantern
    It's neither amusing nor exciting enough to ensure a long-running franchise.
  28. City of Life and Death
    It's a muscular, physical movie, pieced together from arresting imagery and revelatory gestures, large and small.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    With summer comes theaters filled with superheroes, sequels and forgettable family fare. In the last category, we find Judy Moody.
  30. Submarine
    For much of the film, this is very funny and fairly original stuff, though Submarine starts to run aground about the time that Jordana and Oliver's relationship does.
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