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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. Empire of Silver
    The movie is occasionally muddled and always melodramatic, yet it's pictorially compelling, thanks to dramatic locations and exacting art direction.
  2. Beginners
    You know you're in the hands of a superbly gifted filmmaker when he can pull off a talking dog.
  3. Super 8
    All too often the plot feels calculated rather than organic, the result of a time-tested formula rather than genuine innovation.
  4. The Tree of Life
    At its best, The Tree of Life makes the viewer lean forward, eager to enter Malick's own dreamy, poetic consciousness. At worst, it leads to the vague feeling that we're listening to the meanderings of someone who's not sure we're smart enough to keep up.
  5. X-Men: First Class
    First Class happily delivers on the escapism and rich narrative texture the best of its predecessors have promised.
  6. 13 Assassins
    Does Guinness World Records have an entry for longest on-screen fight? If it doesn't, Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins just set it. And if a record actually exists, Miike's film just broke it.
  7. Incendies
    It knocks you off your feet and leaves you shaken.
  8. Midnight in Paris
    Sheer pleasure to watch, full of rich visuals and felicitous comic turns.
  9. Kung Fu Panda 2
    And, yes, Kung Fu Panda 2 is a little darker and a little more intense than the first film, especially for very young viewers.
  10. The Hangover Part II
    The Hangover Part II offers absolutely nothing new to fans of the first film. In fact, once the comfort of familiarity has worn off, they may well feel as baited-and-switched as the patrons of one of the sketchier clubs the boys visit.
  11. The First Grader
    It's heartwarming. But the film never really takes fire.
  12. Jumping the Broom
    Thank goodness for Tasha Smith's character, Shonda. She supplies the only reliable laughs as Pam's fun-loving best friend.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Forks Over Knives
    Forks is a plate of vegetables. It's high on nutritional value but absent any pleasure.
  14. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    He (Herzog) emerged with a breathtaking tour of art that, in its formal sophistication, dynamism and rhythmic lines, looks as bold and new as Cezanne's work must have looked in the 1860s.
  15. Meek's Cutoff
    A mesmerizing cinematic journey that is often as arduous and spare as the lives of its hard-bitten protagonists.
  16. 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.
  17. Hesher
    Bad role models sometimes make the most interesting movie characters. The ill-mannered, unkempt, foulmouthed and hot-tempered title character of Hesher is just such a walking contradiction.
  18. 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.
  19. Everything Must Go
    If it sounds wholly bleak, it isn't. Remember, this is a movie about a yard sale. Over the course of the film, Nick struggles with the idea of, as he puts it, "selling all my crap" - he means that both literally and metaphorically - and getting on with his life. That sentiment, and Ferrell's refusal to sentimentalize it, is reason enough to smile.
  20. Something Borrowed
    Something Borrowed clinches it: It is not okay to sleep with the fiance of one's best friend. What's odd, and ultimately icky, is how enthusiastically the film attempts to justify doing so.
  21. There Be Dragons
    There Be Dragons is like fine wine, served in a Big Gulp cup. A little is very nice. A lot is way too much.
  22. The Beaver
    In a triumph of cinema over celebrity gossip, The Beaver mostly makes us forget about Gibson's madman persona and simply draws us into the story that he and director Jodie Foster, who also plays Walter's wife, Meredith, want to tell.
  23. Thor
    The effects are effective. The humor is humorous and just self-referential enough to let you know the film doesn't take itself too seriously.
  24. Prom
    Nor will you find much excitement, tension or resemblance to actual teen culture in this whitewash of the quintessential rite of passage.
  25. The Princess of Montpensier
    At times, "Princess" resembles a widescreen Hollywood western, with exhilarating Steadicam shots of horsemen galloping across broad plains and corpse-strewn fields.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    Like the best ad man, he makes his point by making us laugh.
  29. Potiche
    Fortunately, for both Ozon and the viewer, the title character is played by Catherine Deneuve, who can very nearly carry a film by herself.
  30. Winter in Wartime
    The most compelling thing about Winter in Wartime, the Netherlands' official entry for Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscars, is not the story. And the story is pretty darn compelling.
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