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For 421 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score:
Back to the Future
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Creature
Critic Score 12
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 240 out of 421
  2. Mixed: 75 out of 421
  3. Negative: 106 out of 421
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  1. The A-Team
    The players embrace this for the lark it is. Their pleasure in going this gonzo spills off the screen.
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  2. Knight and Day
    The story is kind of all over the place, scatterbrained without being madcap (This one feels tinkered with, reshoots, re-edits.).
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  3. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    The Twilight Saga comes close to that sweet spot between swooning silliness and special effects slaughter with Eclipse.
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  4. The Other Guys
    It's amusingly off-the-wall, but entirely too cluttered to come together.
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  5. Eat Pray Love
    Eat Pray Love isn't a bad movie -- just a spiritually dead one, wearing and wearying.
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  6. Mao's Last Dancer
    Chairman Mao wouldn't necessarily approve. And even today, China won't be showing Mao's Last Dancer.
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  7. Machete
    Like those '70s movies it borrows from, there's a blast of tongue-in-cheek politics built around a "They messed with the WRONG Mexican" message. No, this may not go over in Arizona.
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  8. Micmacs
    An intricate and daft tale of love, family and revenge.
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  9. The Virginity Hit
    A transgressive blend of stoner comedy, horny teenager movie and "Blair Witch" reality riff, this no-budget romp through teen New Orleans crosses the line and erases that line in a hell-bent pursuit of hell-bound laughs. And yeah, it's often funny as all get out.
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  10. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    It's almost kitschy - the way Stone injects himself into a couple of scenes, an eccentric Eli Wallach cameo, the inclusion of a Charlie Sheen moment that flat out winks at the audience.
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  11. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    A gorgeously animated combat fantasy - "The Lord of the Rings" meets "Happy Feet."
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  12. Life as We Know It
    As uneven as it is, Life as We Know It still goes down like comic comfort food, especially for anybody who's ever dealt with parenthood.
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  13. RED
    Red has enough acting flourishes and incidental action pleasures to make it an adrenalin-jacked giggle, if not exactly the romp one so fervently expects.
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  14. TRON: Legacy
    Like "Avatar," "Legacy" is a film too in love with its own good looks. And like the original "TRON," the sequel's a bit of a slog.
  15. Megamind
    The voice casting is on the money and these funny people - and I'm including Pitt, who plays this sort of self-mocking Adonis well, even in animated form - make this cute comedy come off.
  16. Inspector Bellamy
    A dry and moody piece built on closely-observed characters, not on thrills or an unraveling plot.
  17. Casino Jack
    It's a sordid tale and, in Gibney's telling, a cautionary one.
  18. The Company Men
    This isn't "Up in the Air," and we're not dealing with this awful event on a metaphysical level. But there's truth in between the cliches.
  19. Sanctum
    It's a solid, old-fashioned action yarn filled with the very latest dive gear and the oldest plot formula in the movie-maker's playbook.
  20. Gnomeo and Juliet
    If it's not an unerringly faithful adaptation of Shakespeare's play, it still manages enough wit and charm to come off.
  21. Barney's Version
    Melodramatic, impulsive, painful, but never quite "totally unnecessary."
  22. I Am Number Four
    Brit hunk Alex Pettyfer has grown into a solid and quite interesting lead to build this potential sci-fi movie series around.
  23. Drive Angry 3D
    Heard sets herself up as a Megan Fox with talent. And Cage? He delivers. Mock him for his bad choices if you will, but consider this. Who else could have made this work, or would even want to?
  24. The Adjustment Bureau
    This "Inception" meets "Made in Heaven" by way of "They Live" is also the screwiest movie Matt Damon has been in since, what, "Dogma?"
  25. Marwencol
    Hogancamp seems a pleasant, offbeat and intuitive fellow who probably takes all this less seriously than those who "discovered" him.
  26. Mars Needs Moms
    Though light enough in tone, packed with good messages and delivering a couple of lovely, touching moments, "Mars" still has that plastic look that made you wish you were seeing the REAL Tom Hanks in "Polar Express" or the REAL Jim Carrey in "A Christmas Carol."
  27. Paul
    There's only so much humor you can wring from the f-bomb, even if you are a cute animated alien.
  28. Limitless
    This film based on Alan Glynn's novel "Dark Fields" is entirely too reliant on voice-over, a bit too tarted-up by Burger in an effort to make this head trip a visual experience.
  29. Tiny Furniture
    Lena Dunham's amusing meander through "post graduate delirium," a relationship comedy about nothing so much as the permanent relationships of family and New Yorker's relationship with space - and the lack of it.
  30. I Saw the Devil
    A thriller that makes you wish you knew how to scream "O.M.G." in Korean.
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