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For 20,313 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 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: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. A House on a Hill
    The film is full of artists who seem to be straddling the line between compromise and conviction. There is much straddling in A House on a Hill, and not enough engagement.
  2. Controlled Chaos
    As a movie, Controlled Chaos is often bumpy, naïve and erratically acted.
  3. Union Square
    Mr. Szklarski doesn't seem to have a strong point of view on his material. Too often, the film drifts into a kind of passive voyeurism, offering the unhappy spectacle of these wasted lives without perspective and without hope.
  4. Ali Zoua: Prince of the Streets
    An overdose of morbid sentimentality.
  5. Born to Be Blind
    Born to Be Blind, for all its haphazard structure, takes you about as far inside Maria's world as a film could reasonably be expected to go, but at moments it also feels uncomfortably exploitative.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Condo Painting
    An 87-minute documentary on the life, work and thought of George Condo, a garrulous painter with a mischievous sense of humor and an eccentric, quasi-mystical view of art and the world it inhabits.
  7. Evergreen
    Directed by the first-timer Enid Zentelis, Evergreen seems waterlogged with rainy-day imagery and somber moods.
  8. Rockets Redglare!
    Aimless, sometimes amiable documentary.
  9. Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
    Less savvy propagandists than Mr. Moore, the Celsius 41.11 filmmakers apply their thesis with a trowel.
  10. Bound for Pleasure
    It's all oddly sweet, and, for the viewer at least, more than a little dull.
  11. Ya lyublyu tebya
    There's not much in the way of message here. Or wit. Or convincing sexual chemistry. You I Love' just wants to say that young Muscovites are wild and crazy guys and that they can laugh at capitalism's excesses.
  12. In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq
    Surprisingly dry and dispassionate.
  13. Hollywood Buddha
    In Hollywood Buddha, Mr. Caland plays, directs and reimagines himself. This is truly a vanity project, as evidenced by the ample amount of screen time he gives his own pecs and thighs.
  14. My Wife's Name Is Maurice
    The obvious forerunner of My Wife Maurice, is "La Cage aux Folles," a movie that is several cuts above this frantically overwrought imitator.
  15. Loners
    With its studied nonchalance, Loners reaches neither the hilarity of an episode of "Friends" nor the ethnographic stickiness of "The Real World" on MTV.
  16. Shwaas
    The simplicity of the tale becomes a bit tedious.
  17. Sky Blue
    Teeters unsteadily between dystopian fable and Saturday-morning cartoon.
  18. Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
    Giorgio Perlasca, who has been compared to Oskar Schindler, deserves better than this Italian television film.
  19. Night of Henna
    Broadly acted, clumsily written and directed with crude sincerity, it is a well-meaning feminist morality play unlikely to be of much interest outside the community in which it takes place.
  20. Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat
    The offending videotape is never seen, but the entire film is built around its absence. Periodically, the film returns to a written police account of the video, which scrolls up the screen, documenting the animal's suffering blow by blow to the sound of ominous music.
  21. Sex, Politics & Cocktails
    Structurally, Sex, Politics and Cocktails is wildly, almost frantically inventive, with techniques ranging from stop-motion to split-screen to silent film-style intertitles. But no amount of directorial trickery can mask the essential vacuousness of the story and its characters.
  22. A Decent Factory
    A cursory, irritatingly facile look at the human cost of globalization.
  23. Proteus
    An incomplete portrait of a complicated man.
  24. Human Error
    The film's many voids are not meaningfully filled by all the monsters and assembly-line workers that crop up.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Piggie
    With its exasperating camerawork, murky lighting - at least two scenes are near indecipherable - and interminable shots of Fannie gazing slack-jawed at the world, Piggie is a disappointing debut.
  26. Doing Time for Patsy Cline
    The saving graces of the film, written and directed by Chris Kennedy, are its performances, especially Mr. Roxburgh's portrayal of a floundering lost soul with little to show for an itinerant life, and Ms. Otto's ditsy, mercurial and ultimately touching country singer.
  27. 95 Miles to Go
    Two groups of people should probably not see 95 Miles to Go. Unfortunately, they're the two groups that were probably envisioned as the film's core constituencies: stand-up comics and Ray Romano fans.
  28. Standing Still
    Yet another movie dedicated to privileged self-involvement; just once, it would be nice to observe the early-adulthood traumas of, say, some plumbers or pipe fitters. Surely they have friends, too.
  29. Peaceful Warrior
    For all its manifest corniness, this is an achingly sincere and supremely unembarrassed effort to transform an audience for the good. Its heart is very much in the right place - a place that movies all but ignore - but its mind is a mush.
  30. Going Under
    The director, Eric Werthman, a practicing psychotherapist, presents Peter and Suzanne's dilemma like a case study from his own files rather than a real, flesh-and-blood-and-handcuffs relationship.
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