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For 20,335 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
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  1. The Path to Love
    Doesn't add much to the coming-out genre, as it has been established in countless Sundance competition films and made-for-television movies.
  2. Ghostlight
    Represents something new under the sun: sincere camp.
  3. Free Radicals
    Although Free Radicals overflows with messy feelings, it maintains such a measured distance from the gathered cries and whispers that it is difficult to empathize with the characters' fears and sorrows. Most of the women are victims, most of the men selfish pigs, and their stories are jarringly punctuated by brutish, joyless bouts of sex.
  4. L'autre monde
    Working in broad, often melodramatic strokes, Mr. Allouache paints a deeply pessimistic portrait of his native country.
  5. Babymother
    Would much rather wallow in music than develop the strands of a story.
  6. Venus and Mars
    Lopes along amiably enough, offering a few smiles and the standard bromides about the importance of being yourself and pursuing your dreams. It's tolerable but forgettable.
  7. Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
    Never finds a comfortable fit between its biographies and its theorizing.
  8. Persons of Interest
    Before the film hits its halfway mark, the presentation feels like a frustrating day at an immigration legal clinic where you can never look at the dossier or get to the bottom of the case.
  9. A Letter to True
    It all makes for a poignant mix, the boy inside the man, pressing his nose against the glass, longing for the journalistic authenticity of someone like Burrows while still believing in Lassie and the unconditional love of True.
  10. The Private Archives of Pablo Escovar
    There is always something inherently interesting about the combination of wealth and evil, and even more intriguing about people who claim to have seen a monster's humanity.
  11. In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed
    A cinematic canonization that presents the 40th president as the 20th century's godsend.
  12. 800 Bullets
    Entirely too well-behaved.
  13. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
    Openly polemical but also sobering documentary.
  14. Santa Smokes
    Ms. Hulslander is often charming, but Mr. Schauder's Johnny is one of those narcissistic characters whom, inexplicably, everybody in the movie adores.
  15. Magnifico
    Modest but engaging Filipino tear-jerker.
  16. Army of One
    Puts a bitterly ironic spin on the Army's best-known recruiting slogan, "Be all that you can be."
  17. Freak Weather
    Like its heroine, Freak Weather is courageous but disorganized; its loopy, screwball tone feels at odds with the gravity of the scenes of chaos and violence it depicts.
  18. Unscrewed
    If Ms. Smith's and Mr. Hoffman's mopey, sheepish performances are quite convincing and ultimately sad, the movie constructed around them doesn't really know what it wants to say or how to say it.
  19. The Other Side of the Street
    Ms. Montenegro's rough-hewn integrity is the one quality that ennobles The Other Side of the Street, an otherwise confused mixture of cat-and-mouse thriller and sentimental old folks' love story that is well below the level of "Central Station."
  20. 16 Years of Alcohol
    The tedium of this antidrinking hoodlum's tale inspires the wrong kind of longing entirely.
  21. Beyond the Sea
    These tales of upward mobility seem at odds with Mr. Pérez-Rey's choice to include a clip from the 1983 remake of "Scarface," in which Al Pacino, playing a Marielito thug, introduces a machine gun as his "little friend."
  22. Odessa... Odessa!
    As it observes these people, most of them well over 60, it conjures a melancholy definition of exile as a haunted state of mind.
  23. In Satmar Custody
    Modest, disturbing documentary.
  24. Stalin's Wife
    A dense biographical collage.
  25. Or
    This well-meaning but irritatingly naïve feature delves into the horrors of prostitution, or more accurately, the filmmaker's horror about the subject.
  26. La visa loca
    There are certainly deeper issues simmering below the deceptively lightweight film's surface, but its full impact will most likely be lost on non-Filipino audiences.
  27. Naked in Ashes
    Ms. Fouce has gained unprecedented access to her subjects, but her own admiration for them makes this documentary more heartfelt than it is rigorous.
  28. The Time We Killed
    The Time We Killed has the raw intimacy of a filmed diary, but as with reading a stranger's journal, it eventually gets dull.
  29. little man
    Weighing in at almost exactly one pound and unable to breathe or eat on his own, Nicholas James Baba-Conn seemed doomed to a very short life; his chance for survival was calculated at close to zero.
  30. El carro
    A huge hit at home, El Carro here plays for mild laughs and gentle pathos, though it arrives a little lost in translation.
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