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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Superstar in a Housedress
    In Superstar in a Housedress, Curtis remains frozen in his flamboyance. The most resonant parts of the movie are, oddly, the interviews with his fellow glam bohemians.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Condo Painting
    This vision of creativity as blind, instinctive ''process'' is exhilarating.
  3. Cinévardaphoto
    What lights Cinèvardaphoto is Varda's ageless ability to merge her spirit with that of the images she shows us.
  4. SubUrbia
    Driven by Bogosian's finger-snapping dialogue and theatrical structure, subUrbia doesn't allow for much pleasurably Linklaterish lounging; each character has got some serious orating to do before the night is over.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Up for Grabs
    I say the movie is infuriatingly unfair to Hayashi; others will cry foul for Popov. See it with an umpire.
  6. A/k/a Tommy Chong
    Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars.
  7. The Groomsmen
    Every actor registers...In a film of minor ambition, they're all worthy company.
  8. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
    The dramatic conflicts are soapy and unsubtle, but Karanovic pours intense authority into Esma's scarred psyche.
  9. Surviving Picasso
    Cool, assured, emotionally remote, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso is never less than watchable, but it's also a cinematic paradox, a movie that works to capture Picasso from every angle yet somehow misses the fire in his belly.
  10. Pierrepoint
    This measured bio-production might be viewed as a lesser companion piece to "Vera Drake" -- although in the case of Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, all the period-piece tastefulness makes for a story more instructive than emotionally tangible.
  11. Lights in the Dusk
    There's great music, an excellent dog, and that indescribable Kaurismäki tension between misery and a cosmic joke.
  12. Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox
    It's like "Capturing the Friedmans" scrubbed to a happy ending.
  13. The Unforeseen
    Add The Unforeseen to the catalog of artfully produced nonfiction films that show how humans are screwing up the planet.
  14. Smart People
    Smart People, unlike "Sideways" or "The Savages," has a plot that's a little too rote.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The First Saturday in May
    The First Saturday in May soon digs in its heels with acute portraits of six trainers, including a paralyzed ex-cyclist in California and an MS-stricken Lexington native who works for the royal family of Dubai.
  16. A Secret
    The filmmaker's decision to shoot the past in color and the present in murky black and white is an inspired visual translation of psychological truth.
  17. Shall We Kiss?
    Mouret not only stars (opposite a delicate Ledoyen) as the slightly schlemiely fellow in want of a woman's affection, he also wrote and directed this enticing, weightless divertissement.
  18. Flame and Citron
    Director Ole Christian Madsen combines sharp scenes of moral inquiry with a few too many functional, oldfangled espionage twists.
  19. Art & Copy
    An entertaining but also oddly naive documentary about American advertising.
  20. Peter and Vandy
    More naturalistic -- and as a result, more believable.
  21. That Evening Sun
    Holbrook makes Abner a shining-eyed, noble crank.
  22. The Missing Person
    Overly fussy and self-conscious in its noir details. But in The Missing Person, Buschel makes striking use of the Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe tradition.
  23. The Last Song
    And here's the revelation: Miley Cyrus is a really interesting movie star in the making, with an intriguing echo-of-foghorn speaking voice, and a scuffed-up tomboyish physicality (in the Kristen Stewart mode) that sets her apart from daintier girls in her celebrity class.
  24. The Secret in Their Eyes
    The performances are tender, the script elegant, the cinematography (especially during a virtuoso chase scene in a soccer stadium) artful.
  25. Just Wright
    The movie is a rigged game of clichés and platitudes, but fans will be pleased by additional proof that Latifah is a lovable Queen but not a pampered princess.
  26. The Expendables
    The way that Stallone directs, though, every machete thrust and relentless round of bullet spray is staged with a certain undeniable...conviction.
  27. Babies
    As the movie goes on, these fleshy little beings turn into…well, people. And that's something to see. But Babies, without falsifying its subject, could have used a more soul-stirring sense of showbiz -- that is, a riper display of infantile special effects.
  28. The Adjustment Bureau
    An enjoyable piece of hokum – your basic doom-laden parable of metaphysical sci-fi mind control, only with a surprise romantic sparkle.
  29. The Last Exorcism
    For a while, The Last Exorcism shrewdly exploits our voyeurism, as it sustains the teasing question of whether there's actually anything supernatural going on. The payoff, however, isn't scary enough.
  30. Cairo Time
    Cairo Time is affectingly gentle, with Juliette slowing down to open up -- a gossamer transformation that Clarkson makes tangible.
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