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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. Gulliver's Travels
    Unnecessary and unfunny re-imagining of the classic satire by Jonathan Swift.
  2. Rabbit Hole
    What on the surface seems to possess all the melodrama and photogenic suffering of a banal prime-time weepie instead becomes a lucid, tough, deeply sensitive examination of emotional fortitude.
  3. How Do You Know
    It's the kind of movie that succeeds as a culmination of moments that ring true and sweet.
  4. Somewhere
    "Don't tell, show" has been the writer's imperative for generations; Coppola takes that edict to its most visual and satisfying extremes.
  5. Casino Jack
    That's the problem with the whole movie, which lies halfway between poker-face documentary and broad farce.
  6. Little Fockers
    How bad is the third installment... So bad that this bland, pointless sequel features a gratuitous scene where the stunning Jessica Alba - one of many new faces added to an already overstuffed ensemble - strips down to her lacy undergarments, belly-flops into a backyard pit, rolls around in the mud, and I still can't recommend you pay to see it.
  7. True Grit
    True Grit has sweep and scope and entertainment value to burn, but it's Mattie who invests even the grandest aesthetic elements with meaning.
  8. The Fighter
    If you think "Rocky" and "Raging Bull" define the alpha and omega of boxing movies, think again. David O. Russell's The Fighter proves there's still punch in the genre, especially when a filmmaker tells a familiar story in a brand-new way.
  9. The Tempest
    Boasting a plot that's heavy on the magical shenanigans, this pretty and poetic adaptation of Shakespeare's play is a fantasia for the smart set, a literary novelty for anyone who wants to have fun without giving up food for thought. On that score, at least, it delivers, in spades.
  10. Yogi Bear
    An uninspired studio product that demands as little from the audience as it did from its writers, directors and actors.
  11. TRON: Legacy
    There are worse things than being trapped inside a computer game with Olivia Wilde. In Tron: Legacy, the loud, long and less than wholly satisfying sequel to "Tron," that's the bittersweet fate of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), the computer-nerd hero of both the 1982 sci-fi cult classic and its high-tech, 3-D update.
  12. The King's Speech
    It's the kind of absorbing, attractive, unfailingly tasteful enterprise that a critic can recommend without caveat.
  13. Megamind
    Megamind has presentation in spades. But it also has something even rarer than that. It's got heart.
  14. Due Date
    Due Date isn't pretty; in fact, it gets kind of ugly. But, at least in the eyes of certain beholders, therein lies its peculiar, bent beauty.
  15. Cool It
    Some of it sounds, quite frankly, nuts. And a few of Lomborg's enemies have said as much. But throwing tons of money at the problem with little result? That also sounds kind of crazy.
  16. Unstoppable
    From the story itself to the way it's told, Unstoppable is a hymn to stylish, unpretentious competence.
  17. Love and Other Drugs
    A jagged little pill of a movie from baby boomer avatar Edward Zwick.
  18. Faster
    In Faster, it's a car, not actors, that drives movie.
  19. Monsters
    No ordinary horror film. If it were, it might be a bit better than it is. As the movie stands, it's a less-than-compelling relationship drama, with aliens.
  20. Welcome to the Rileys
    "Welcome to the Rileys"? Thanks, but no thanks.
  21. Tangled
    One thousand points of light never looked so fetching.
  22. Burlesque
    Burlesque delivers eyeful after eyeful of rapid-fire opulence and spectacle. But its most memorable sight is the indelible image of one star taking flight, and another triumphantly staying put.
  23. Marwencol
    At its heart, it's about the communities we forge - real and imagined - to save our own lives.
  24. I Love You Phillip Morris
    There's plenty to scratch your head about here. Is it a drama? A comedy? And if it's a farce, what's it making fun of?
  25. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    After all, it isn't every kid's movie that wrestles with the subject of faith in a higher power, or sin, or the afterlife. And it isn't every kid's film that can do it so entertainingly. Sure, that's heavy stuff if you're looking for it. But it doesn't spoil the great, great fun to be had in Narnia - or the magical spell it casts - if you're not.
  26. All Good Things
    All Good Things is creepy and weird and sad, and little else.
  27. The Tourist
    Cinema-as-shoplifting is okay, as long as you still get the feeling it's for a greater good. But that's something The Tourist is sorely missing.
  28. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    It's half of a really good movie, full of the enchantment, emotion and incident for which the Potter series has become so fanatically cherished.
  29. Tiny Furniture
    A funny, affecting movie about growing up in the shadow of a formidable mom.
  30. Waste Land
    Spend some time there, thanks to the documentary Waste Land, and you start to get the sense that, amid the trash, something really is blooming.
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