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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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  1. Screwed
    Miraculously seems a great deal longer (this is not a good thing) as it careens from shit joke to corpse joke to ass joke to dog-turd joke and back.
    • 6 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    A May-September sex farce so prodigiously unintriguing that audiences could be forgiven for stampeding from theaters to strangle its writer-director, Gary Preisler, in his sleep.
  3. Strippers
    That clunky, God-awful bit of exposition-heavy dialogue perfectly encapsulates all that's wrong with this dismal film.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Vulgar
    First-time director Bryan Johnson's failure to resolve the film’s two moods -- psychopathic sexual brutality and light social satire -- proves fatal.
  5. The Singing Forest
    Bad movies can be a hoot, but rather than campy, Ameer appears to be dead serious; and it's hard to feel anything but fury toward a filmmaker whose opening title sequence intersperses black-and-white flashbacks of his sexy young lovers with actual concentration-camp photos of stacked, emaciated corpses.
  6. Chaos
    Writer-director David DeFalco's ugly, pointless and dishonest remake of Craven's remake.
  7. Dirt Boy
    The film essentially grinds along in second gear. A promising debut, Dirt Boy nevertheless fails to fully deliver.
  8. Going By
    If one were to parody Iranian cinema, packing into one film its common tropes and themes to the point of bursting, it would probably be a lot like Iraj Karimi’s Going By.
  9. White Boy
    Here, Lohman's luminous presence rises above the badly directed violence and mayhem -- even if the movie's a dud, she's a star.
  10. Sorority Girls' Revenge
    It's a nice try, but the film remains a pinhead's idea of softcore fetish material.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Carman: The Champion
    Drags through one tough-love moment after another without much energy or originality from its single-monikered star.
  12. Low Heights
    Hatamikia isn't just a button pusher; he's a skilled craftsman with a dynamic wide-screen shooting style, who draws us into the story with visceral devices such as speedy tracking shots and gliding slow motion -- flashy elements the fastidious new wavers wouldn't touch.
  13. Downward Angel
    Screams straight-to-video.
  14. The Mesmerist
    The actors do what they can with direction, from Gil Cates Jr., that calls for yelling, flailing and rapid-fire delivery of stale bons mots, but none of the film is as funny or clever as Cates and screenwriters Ron Marasco and Michael Goorjian (adapting Edgar Allan Poe's short story) seem to think.
  15. Creature
    It's this trip home that lifts this unpolished, homegrown documentary above the ordinary.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Brown's Requiem
    Flat-footed.
  17. Snide and Prejudice
    The Marat/Sade irony of setting these scenes in a madhouse helps, but Macfadyen's volcanic magnetism and spot-on mimicry of Hitler's body language and speech patterns make insight flesh.
  18. No One Sleeps
    Intriguing yet muddled thriller.
  19. Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel
    A little too familiar to be wholly satisfying. What makes it worthwhile is Julia Jay Pierrepont III's direction.
  20. My 5 Wives
    The deliriously deficient new excuse for a comedy.
  21. A Galaxy Far, Far Away
    Jalil penetrates a carnivalesque subculture of self-reinvention and obsession, emotional need and materialist greed, with a camera that is, by turns, cruel, kind and incisive.
  22. Under the Moonlight
    A flat, middlebrow variation on some of the central themes of recent Iranian cinema.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Hungry Bachelors Club
    This spineless feel-good nonsense means to warm the cockles of your heart. Somebody check the oven: My cockles were charred.
  24. Looking Through Lillian
    Torem drifts into formula and his initially promising film goes unbearably soft.
  25. Sakura Wars
    As a story it’s nothing much, but as eye candy it is world-class.
  26. Hansel & Gretel
    For trashing a classic, Tunnicliffe and his writing cohorts deserve a Grimm-style fate -- perhaps a long, slow boil in the witch’s vat?
  27. The Lonely Affair of the Heart
    A tedious viewing experience.
  28. Khab-e sefid
    The movie often seems as innocent and goodhearted as its subject. Still, Jebeli is possessed of an impish visual sense. He also has the Iranian gift for bringing to vivid life people we wouldn't give a second glance.
  29. Going Down
    Going Down is woefully lacking in the comedy (or the sex for that matter), and even some of the teens look a little long in the tooth.
  30. Soap Girl
    Silly and pretentious would-be romance.
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