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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. Water for Elephants
    Big, slick and showy. It is also undeniably effective entertainment.
  2. Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 is nearly as stilted, didactic and simplistic as Rand's free-market fable.
  3. Scream 4
    The problem is, the movie doesn't really care if we are laughing with it or at it.
  4. The Conspirator
    In The Conspirator, Wright announces in no uncertain terms that she is back and more than ready for her close-up.
  5. Rubber
    Rolls straight over silly, smashing through stupid without stopping and then barreling into a kind of insane comic brilliance without so much as a speed bump to slow it down.
  6. Rio
    This is a movie that imbues even the hoariest quest-peril-life lesson tropes of family animated films and imbues them with new life and rhythm.
  7. Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
    Still, what separates Walking With Destiny from a run-of-the-mill war documentary isn't necessarily its insights into its main subject but its tangential stories about fascinating nobodies.
  8. Arthur
    This Arthur is an exercise in time-travel tedium, a trip to the Land That Funny Forgot.
  9. Soul Surfer
    The swells of inspirational storytelling sometimes threaten to swamp the underlying inspirational story.
  10. Your Highness
    While the chemistry between characters is impressive and the comic delivery spot-on, the jokes feel unoriginal.
  11. In a Better World
    This meditation on violence explores the toxic knock-on effect of powerlessness and overcompensation, delivering a potent essay on the roots of society's most primal evils.
  12. Hanna
    The single most compelling reason to see Hanna is Hanna herself. As played by Saoirse Ronan, who made her first big splash as another morally challenged youngster in Wright's 2007 "Atonement," the character is a fascinating and frustrating cipher.
  13. Source Code
    A taut, mostly well-crafted race against the clock that combines the time-loop conceit of "Groundhog Day" and the postwar paranoia of "The Manchurian Candidate."
  14. Hop
    A piece of fluff as artificially sweetened as a fuchsia Peep, rises above these low expectations - but only barely.
  15. Insidious
    You can't criticize it for false advertising.
  16. Sucker Punch
    An extremely boyish ode to girl power.
  17. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    You can't fault the filmmakers for reshaping a diary into a cohesive film. You can however, fault them for taking one of the great antiheroes in preteen literature and turning him into, well, an even wimpier kid.
  18. I Am
    While I Am has its boogeymen - especially the rich, the racist and the ultra-competitive - Shadyac implicates himself whenever possible.
  19. Limitless
    A heck of a ride. On the way to its unpredictable (if less than wholly satisfying) conclusion, it is entertaining, a little silly and visually dazzling.
  20. Win Win
    In spirit, and sheer joie de vivre, it's everything the movie business should aspire to. Win Win exemplifies movies the way they oughtta be.
  21. Paul
    The derriere-flashing, dope-smoking, potty-mouthed antics of this antisocial E.T. justify every bit of the rating that the MPAA has slapped on him.
  22. The Lincoln Lawyer
    A pleasantly seedy crime thriller.
  23. Jane Eyre
    While qualifying as the most gorgeously appointed and finely detailed version of the novel so far, still lacks the element of essential fire to make it come fully, even subversively, to life.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mars Needs Moms
    A majestic musical score by the great composer John Powell somehow makes everything old feel fresh and wondrous again.
  25. Red Riding Hood
    A lurid, loopy, utterly ludicrous enterprise.
  26. Battle: Los Angeles
    H.G. Wells did it better. This movie spends so much yawn-inducing time on variations of the same combat scenario that its final showdown feels rushed.
  27. Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia)
    Telling an old story in a new way and infusing what might have been a dry political polemic with poetry, passion and unlikely warmth.
  28. Drive Angry 3D
    "Drive Trashy" would be a more accurate title for the first 45 minutes of this gore-spurting, sex-flaunting romp. And that's the good part.
  29. Take Me Home Tonight
    If director Michael Dowse took Matt and Tori out of the equation - which is to say, if he took out the main storyline - the whole event could have been a lot more fun.
  30. Rango
    Depp possesses one of the finest speaking voices in the business - a nimble, mellifluous instrument that can go from sexy growl to fey warble in no seconds flat.
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