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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 8.7 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. The Cockettes
    A fascinating, richly detailed documentary about the legendary queer collective based in San Francisco in the late '60s and early '70s.
  2. Unlovable
    Early on, sex addiction is called “a gaping hole in the soul” but Unlovable barely has us feel it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    Some of his mystical encounters are just too spooky and amazing to reveal here, and Feuerzeig (director of previous documentaries on Jon Hendricks and Half Japanese) weaves them into the story with excellent timing and a psychedelic eye, aided by editor Tyler Hubby and cinematographer Fortunato Procopio.
  4. Mountain Patrol
    Mountain Patrol: Kekexili is sometimes slow going, yet it builds in power as nature begins to take its toll on the patrol, and its cumulative effects are haunting.
  5. Humanité
    If only the whole thing didn't collapse in on itself, and quickly become a parody of artistic reach and terminal folly.
  6. Ulee's Gold
    Nunez is a master at rendering emotionally complex, ordinary folk into the kind of unassuming heroes that don't much appear in American films anymore.
  7. Grindhouse
    I suspect that Death Proof will throw some of its director's admirers for a loop, though it may be the most revealing thing Tarantino has yet done -- a full-throttle expression of a singular artistic temperament disguised, like so many gems of grindhouses yore, as a glittering hunk of trash.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The War Tapes
    With its weary disillusionment, The War Tapes shouldn't be criticized for its seeming lack of outrage. Indeed, from the overwhelming grief and anger it uncovers, the film feels appropriately, uncomfortably numb.
  9. Shanghai Noon
    A modest pleasure, driven by a jumble of Old West signifiers and goofball modern flourishes.
  10. Scratch
    Simultaneously hilarious and deeply informative thanks to the vibrant personalities at its center.
  11. Daughter from Danang
    The film's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need, history and presumption tangle, and sometimes destroy, blood ties.
  12. Under the City's Skin
    Under the Skin is distinguished, like so much contemporary Iranian cinema, by the way its striking visuals and strategic use of sound tell the underlying story.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Holy Girl
    It's a style at once ravishing and mysterious, austere and intimate, carrying with it the suggestion that even cinema may be powerless to invade the most clandestine antechambers of human behavior.
  14. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    Making an altogether impressive big-screen directing debut, Jones exudes quiet control over this full-bodied Western, taking pleasure in his measured pacing, mixing somber authority with flashes of surrealist wit and luxuriating in the magnificent, vanishing vistas of his home state.
  15. Stephanie Daley
    There is so much to admire and empathize with in Stephanie Daley that it feels almost boorish to quibble about whether the film needs to come packaged as a murder mystery.
  16. Water
    Hitches some of the most irresistible conventions of Hindi movie melodrama to an earnest agenda of social protest.
  17. The Rape of Europa
    It’s a History Channel or PBS special that’s leaped the fence from the boob tube onto the big screen. And it’s riveting.
  18. Italian for Beginners
    With its ludicrous parallels and brisk, funny script (pardon my provincialism, but it sounds all the funnier in Danish), Italian for Beginners is full of larky charm while drawing its emotional vitality from urban loneliness.
  19. Monsoon Wedding
    Nair, who, in this film as in so many others, aims for the beating heart of the predictable movie moment.
  20. Bukowski: Born into This
    As factoids do-si-do with testimonials from the likes of drinking buddy Sean Penn and fan-boy Bono, the movie all but becomes the very A&E Hagiography for which Bukowski would have had little or no patience.
  21. Dig!
    The no-frills documentary also makes it clear that Newcombe is the real deal -- both supremely gifted and organically nuts.
  22. Rosetta
    A portrait of dispossession so acute that it's caused a few critics to cry, Let her eat cake!
  23. Inside Man
    The heist at the heart of Inside Man is brilliant, and so is the movie.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Jesus' Son
    Wildly funny bum's rush through the existentially absurd, self-engendered peaks and valleys of the junkie's lament.
  25. In America
    The film is not emotionally subtle, but it is beautifully shot, by cinematographer Declan Quinn, with a grainy, impressionistic eye that mimics a perpetual dance of shards of remembered experience.
  26. Grosse Pointe Blank
    With a brisk pace and satiric blend of nostalgia and violence, it's the sharpest, funniest comedy so far this year.
  27. 3:10 to Yuma
    Under Mangold’s sure if uninspired hand, the new Yuma is reasonably exciting and terse, and, like its predecessor, built around a memorable villain of ambiguous villainy.
  28. Shaun of the Dead
    In this truly retro horror flick, the heroes and heroines don't just quip over the action (though they do get off some funny lines); they're knee-deep in it, and scared sh------.
  29. Syriana
    Seldom have form, content and cultural sensibility been so excitably aligned as in this fascinating, exasperating film about the unholy marriage of power politics and global business.
  30. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    Enormously enjoyable, high-adrenaline documentary.
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