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For 12,933 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,625 out of 12933
  2. Mixed: 5,140 out of 12933
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 12933
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  1. Alila
    Ultimately lacks the textural depth and emotional precision that marks the work of obvious influences here like Robert Altman, but it does offer a pungent slice of contemporary Israeli life that should prove resonant for audiences interested in the social complexities of the region.
  2. Shwaas
    While the film sometimes plays like an hour TV medical drama padded to reach feature length, Sawant achieves touching, naturalistic performances from a fine ensemble cast.
  3. Daybreak
    The characters are so over-the-top with emotional pain -- that they are hardly credible as characters.
  4. Freak Weather
    Director-screenwriter Kuryla displays some talent and an audaciously daring sensibility but ultimately fails to display the assured cinematic style that would make the unsavory proceedings more palatable.
  5. David Hockney: The Colors of Music
    An elongated, rather aimless portrait that doesn't fully convey the essence of its titular subject.
  6. Eros
    Only one of the three episodes of the anthology film Eros delivers on the title's promise.
  7. Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
    Unfortunately, this feature, originally made for Italian television, doesn't quite do justice to its stirring subject.
  8. A Man's Gotta Do
    Although not without a certain cheeky, outrageous charm, Chris Kennedy's film isn't nearly as much fun as it seems to think it is.
  9. Finding Eleazar
    A promotional video masquerading as a documentary.
  10. The Grace Lee Project
    Its observations seem more suited to the op-ed pages of a magazine than the big screen.
  11. Cowboy del Amor
    The film doesn't quite manage to sustain interest for the duration of its 86-minute running time. But it does exert a certain voyeuristic fascination, thanks in no small part to the eccentricities of its central figure.
  12. What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole
    While it does render scientific and philosophical principles in a highly accessible format, the film is nonetheless a real chore to sit through.
  13. Desert Wind
    While the experience may have been highly rewarding for its participants, viewers may be less than enthralled.
  14. Trudell
    Feels padded in some places, truncated in others. It also feels too respectful, especially when its subject is such a deep thinker and questioner of authority.
  15. Drawing Restraint 9
    Visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney's follow-up to his acclaimed "Cremaster" film series continues this provocateur's penchant for outrageous imagery and numbing non-narratives.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Havana Suite
    Aspires to the poetic but falls short because of a lack of dynamism.
  17. Police Beat
    Soulful performance by non-pro Pape Sidy Niang as the bicycle-riding police officer Z, gives the film a poetic tone, but cumulative impact is diffused rather than enhanced by the fractured form.
  18. Autumn
    Although reasonably compelling to watch and featuring fine performances from its charismatic and attractive lead performers, it ultimately displays little reason for being other than to serve as a transatlantic cinematic calling card.
  19. A/k/a Tommy Chong
    First-time filmmaker Josh Gilbert, whose skills behind the camera are rudimentary, might be a bit too close to his subject to do disinterested viewers justice; he clearly is a fan and is making no effort to show both sides of the story he reports.
  20. Guernsey
    Ultimately adds up to less than the sum of its parts. But it possesses a visual power, as well as a lingering resonance, that gives it a certain distinction.
  21. Two Sons of Francisco
    For more than half the film's running time, it's an engaging one. Centering on the boys' hardscrabble formative years, first-time director Breno Silveira delivers an assured first hour before losing grasp of his material.
  22. Buzz
    While the film is made in English by a mostly Greek crew, Buzz"seems geared to foreign audiences. The film's "historians" spend too much time explaining things about Hollywood that are common knowledge to many Americans.
  23. Highway Courtesans
    While Highway Courtesans has many relevant points to make about the subjugation of women in impoverished societies, it lacks the focus and narrative momentum to sustain its admittedly brief running time.
  24. Family Law
    A meticulously observed story about fathers and sons within the Argentine Jewish community...What the film desperately lacks, however, is any meaningful conflict. Thus, there is little story here.
  25. Chats perchés
    The film doesn't really manage to sustain attention through its brief running time. But it is heartening to see that the filmmaker, now in his mid-80s, is as passionately engaged as ever.
  26. Arthur and the Invisibles
    The result isn't an unpalatable pudding but rather a fair-to-middling children's film that is half CG-animation and half live-action.
  27. Room 314
    The filmmaker clearly has a gift for incisive characterizations and dialogue, but the overall impact of the vignettes is muted by an overall artificiality.
  28. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
    In her brave first feature, Bosnian writer-director Jasmila Zbanic tackles the theme of war's aftermath.
  29. Glastonbury
    A performance film, but sadly the majority of the performers are not the acts that have played at the long-running pop festival over 35 years, but the exhibitionists who make up the crowd.
  30. Goodbye Momo
    A frequently charming, if ultimately slight, coming-of-age tale.
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