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For 17,831 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 IMAX: Hubble 3D
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,163 out of 17831
  2. Mixed: 7,031 out of 17831
  3. Negative: 1,637 out of 17831
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  1. Adela
    Artfully observed, it's content to let Linda be the sole, compelling focal point.
  2. The Way We Get By
    Although the trio's work as "troop greeters" is the film's ostensible subject, their renewed and somewhat tenuous sense of purpose gives the doc its bite.
  3. Skin
    One of the more bizarre illustrations of racial injustice under apartheid is dramatized in Skin.
  4. Women in Trouble
    A wildly uneven but compulsively watchable mix of high camp and grand passions, soap opera and softcore sex. Very much in the deliriously lewd style of Pedro Almodovar.
  5. Home
    Typically sharp work by d.p. Agnes Godard and lead thesp Isabelle Huppert.
  6. Made for Each Other
    Often wryly hilarious, completely overboard and unpredictable.
  7. Garbage Dreams
    Mai Iskander's stunning documentary-helming debut.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pop Star on Ice
    Smartly structured, crisply lensed docu Pop Star on Ice is a fascinating portrait of outspoken Olympian and three-time U.S. figure skating national champion Johnny Weir.
  9. Eyes Wide Open
    Quietly devastating picture reps a natural draw for gay, Jewish-interest and upscale audiences.
  10. American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
    For some, the documentary will represent the endorsement of a self-hater spouting traitorous ideas; for others, it celebrates the courage of a reviled, truth-telling martyr to the cause of academic freedom.
  11. 3 Idiots
    3 Idiots takes a while to lay out its game plan but pays off emotionally in its second half.
  12. Formosa Betrayed
    A decent political thriller set in Taiwan with the requisite Western-market-friendly lead and a determinedly pro-independence message embedded in a formulaic but diverting tale of intrigue and oppression.
  13. Delta
    A beautifully atmospheric vessel that will seem infinitely deep to some and chafingly dry to others.
  14. Severe Clear
    Scotti's amateur camerawork proves strangely compelling.
  15. The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights
    While the black-white-and-red-clad duo's mystique survives intact, there's some backstage insight.
  16. Children of Invention
    Urgent, artful and even austerely poetic.
  17. Ghost Town
    At a leisurely 172 minutes, the pic takes on the desultory rhythms of rural stagnation, its rigorous compositions imparting aesthetic weight and meditative scope to everything in its purview.
  18. Blue Beard
    This offbeat but compelling take on the tale, arguably the first serial-killer yarn, emphasizes sisterly bonds but still gets to the original story's heart of mysterious darkness with impressive results.
  19. Lbs.
    The intimately personal chronicle is more impressive for Famiglietti's disarming self-exposure than for any fully formed cinematic style or consistency of tone, but the modest production has a genuine, warm spirit.
  20. Teza
    Ultimately rewards the viewer's patience with a potent sense of Ethiopian history and culture.
  21. The Square
    A tasty neo-noir from the James M. Cain school of lust-driven dirty dealings, The Square reps a promising debut by Aussie stuntman-turned-helmer Nash Edgerton.
  22. Who Do You Love
    Ultimately an entertaining story about a deeply lonely man.
  23. Women Without Men
    Has striking moments comparable to the best of Neshat's potent imagery. But the script jettisons most of the book's more powerful sections.
  24. It Came from Kuchar
    Gleefully piles on everything anyone could want in a docu on the fabulous Kuchar brothers, whose deliriously campy zero-budget mellers -- with titles like "Hold Me While I'm Naked" or "Sins of the Fleshapoids" -- enlivened many otherwise somber evenings of '60s underground cinema.
  25. The Misfortunates
    Calling the Strobbe clan a working-class family would imply that some of its members worked (or had class), but none of the lowlife protags do in the visually robust and often hilarious Flemish tragicomedy The Misfortunates.
  26. Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D
    Sound is crystal-clear, and unobtrusive stereoscopic footage looks great throughout the 99-minute feature, though some weird compositional snafus scuttle the desired concert experience, and the set's lack of variety makes it a fans-only proposition.
  27. Behind the Burly Q
    The women's outspoken commentaries prove consistently colorful and their long-ago stripteases -- feathers flying, tassels spinning -- still pack a sensual, sassy, what-the-hell punch.
  28. Best Worst Movie
    Strangely moving, insightful and entertaining documentary.
  29. The Good, the Bad, the Weird
    East meets West meets East again, with palate-tingling results, in The Good the Bad the Weird, a kimchi Western that draws shamelessly on its spaghetti forebears but remains utterly, bracingly Korean.
  30. Harry Brown
    Bleak, gripping, sporadically exciting drama.
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