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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. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
    Igor may be the most important composer of the 20th century, but he is a mere human. Coco, in this beautiful but indulgent French film, is a work of art.
  2. Winter's Bone
    A tough movie to love.
  3. Splice
    The yuck factor spins off the charts in Splice, a thoroughly repulsive science fiction-horror flick that slicks up its B-movie tawdriness with high-gloss production values and two otherwise classy stars.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Get Him to the Greek
    Unlike its forebears, "Greek" lacks a truly sympathetic central character to hold things together when it's time to get sappy.
  5. Marmaduke
    The movie itself is already like one long commercial.
  6. Micmacs
    Micmacs brings an infectious note of caprice to the old-fashioned caper film.
  7. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    An energetic if empty-headed adventure based on the popular video game.
  8. Agora
    Agora, Alejandro Amenábar's absorbing historical drama, proves that, in an era of movies made for iPhones with artistic ambitions to match, there are still filmmakers willing to swing for the fences.
  9. Sex and the City 2
    The biggest sin of Sex and the City 2 is its lack of beauty. It's garish when it should be sumptuous, tacky when it should be luxe, wafer-thin when it should be whip-smart and sophisticated.
  10. Shrek Forever After
    Believe it or not, there's life in the old boy yet. After a disappointing third outing, this "Shrek" brings the cycle of fairy-tale-themed films to a fine finish.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    MacGruber
    For all the wacky, taboo, parodic situations that MacGruber plunges into, the film seems content to simply point at its hero, yell "What a schmuck!" and leave it at that.
  12. Robin Hood
    Except for the last five minutes, Robin Hood is the story of the radicalization of some guy named Longstride. Who?
  13. Letters to Juliet
    Save yourself 10 bucks, and an hour and 45 minutes of your precious time.
  14. Just Wright
    Telegraphs its every move. There are simply no surprises.
  15. Iron Man 2
    "Everything is achievable through technology," a character says more than once in Iron Man 2. Not so.
  16. Casino Jack and the United States of Money
    Gibney's documentary strains to make sense of the minutiae without losing the audience's attention over its formidable, two-hour length.
  17. Mother and Child
    Garca brings his finely calibrated sense of drama to the subject of adoption, which he handles with characteristic restraint and insight -- at least until the film's maudlin, too-pat finale. That sharp melodramatic turn is a shame, because so much of what has gone before in Mother and Child is of real quality.
  18. Babies
    A mesmerizing and weirdly manipulative experience.
  19. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    Good ol' Fred loses any sense of playful shock he once possessed and turns into a generic figure meticulously manufactured to simultaneously gross and freak us out. It doesn't work.
  20. Furry Vengeance
    The problem, or problems, stem from the lazy, unfunny script; the weak computer-generated animals (never have God's creatures looked less lifelike while dancing to Chic's "Le Freak"); and the squandering of so much talent.
  21. Harry Brown
    Michael Caine delivers a stunning performance in Harry Brown, a rancid little revenge fantasy that probably doesn't deserve him.
  22. Please Give
    Holofcener has accrued a rabid, loyal following for her singular brand of observant wit and aching tenderness. Both pour forth in abundance in Please Give, a wry, wistful portrait of contemporary urban manners.
  23. The Back-up Plan
    A not-as-bad-as-you-think-it-is romantic comedy.
  24. The Losers
    The first dumb-fun action movie of the summer season has arrived early with The Losers, a loud, loving homage to guns and testosterone based on a series of comic books about a renegade band of CIA operatives. How dumb is it? You might actually kill a few million brain cells just watching it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Oceans
    But for all Oceans does to please the eyes and ears, it does nothing to engage the brain.
  26. Death at a Funeral
    Still, if for the most part Death at a Funeral is as tame as the tasteful parlor where most of its action takes place, it manages to explode one taboo, in casting mostly black actors in roles originally played by whites.
  27. Kick-Ass
    Kick-Ass should delight fans of the original comics and garden-variety action junkies as well. Suggested subtitle: "Iron Man, You Just Got Served."
  28. The Joneses
    Unfortunately, the movie's second half drags, never again achieving the first half's level of narrative dexterity.
  29. The Secret in Their Eyes
    An elegant romantic thriller adapted from a novel of the same name, is a terrific film.
  30. Date Night
    Regardless of the silliness of the situation -- or, in truth, because of it -- they're a joy to watch.
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