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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 7.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defenders
    As in most court TV (the film is produced by KQED), the action is faster paced than in reality, and the graphics are cheesy. But the lawyers are far more compelling than David E. Kelley's.
  2. From the Other Side
    Akerman's characteristically patient, pensive approach elegantly accommodates her reportorial responsibilities.
  3. Justifiable Homicide
    Meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and craven concealment.
  4. Raja
    It plays out as an unsettling solipsistic love story--an account of erotic obsession with a family relation to "Of Human Bondage."
  5. Morlang
    Penning's film applies too much force behind its hairpin turns, but broad scripting and acting are counterbalanced by crisp photography, shivery sound design, and well-chosen debts.
  6. One
    Even more than the subtlety of the writing and acting, it's this sophisticated and emotionally potent visual strategy that suggests Barbieri's promise as a filmmaker and lifts One above the low-budget indie heap.
  7. Union Square
    The total effect, of course, is abject sadness as we helplessly watch each enact a unique anti-success story in an inverted reality show.
  8. I'll Sing for You
    The reverent pacing lags a bit, but the film's meditation on the struggle to find spirituality that reconciles Islam with tribal belief systems is powerful in its understatement, and its wordless observation of France's Malian community quietly evidences daily cultural preservation amid the hard labor.
  9. Free Radicals
    An intelligent, viscerally intellectual exercise in ensemble acting and associative montage, enlivened with some terrific visual and dramatic ideas.
  10. The Season of Men
    A very beautiful film, but its bleached desert colors and flatter perspectives are less inviting, and the back-and-forth between present and past can occasionally be confusing.
  11. Alma
    As fragmented and unresolved as the experiences of mother and daughter, Alma bears witness to a situation for which there are no easy answers.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Persons of Interest
    Beautiful, powerful, and moving interrogation.
  13. No Sex Last Night
    Compelling viewing, even if there's nothing pretty (pictorially or emotionally) about it.
  14. Massoud, the Afghan
    It's not the least of Afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Arna's Children
    Refreshing and depressing.
  16. Titanic Town
    Isn't convincing on every front, but as a political conversation piece, it's potentially effective.
  17. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    Spheeris gives every indication of having gotten too close to her material, but her film's overall air of discombobulation is poignant in itself.
  18. James' Journey to Jerusalem
    A deceptively modest fable of innocence abroad that resonates with the situation within Israel and without.
  19. Santa Smokes
    Overall the acting is sound, the missteps few, and the murky digicam smash-and-grab sheen entirely apt for the cacophonous Christmas crush.
  20. Army of One
    If you can handle the truth, Sarah Goodman's entropic doc is as exquisite a basic training in banal U.S. Army culture as you're likely to find.
  21. 16 Years of Alcohol
    16 Years' greatest asset may be its star: Trainspotting's McKidd, coiled and queasy, transcends the dubious romanticism and hard-man clichés of his role -- he exudes a commanding air of constancy in a film that teeters between the rapturous and the ridiculous.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    After the Apocalypse
    While short on narrative propulsion, Yasuaki Nakajima's low-budget, 72-minute After the Apocalypse turns out to be a surprisingly engaging ride.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beyond the Sea
    This is hardly the most in-depth doc on Cuban refugees (see the epic Balseros). Still, Beyond the Sea grants a quiet dignity to its subjects without sanctifying them.
  24. Up for Grabs
    Wranovics's entertaining documentary feels appropriately detached.
  25. Another Road Home
    Politics hover at the edges of even the most affectionate encounters among Danae, her parents, and the Obeidallah family. Amos Elon's negativity regarding the future of the Jewish state mars the film, yet Another Road Home moves beyond dark predictions.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hard Goodbyes: My Father
    A tender Greek drama.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Time We Killed
    Reeves's remarkable skills for expressive cinematography grant this grim tale a stark beauty bereft of sentimentality.
  28. The Swenkas
    This peculiar and sweet film--which lushly scores the silent tournaments with Henry Mancini and Tommy Dorsey--more or less leaves it at that, exploiting the poetic surreality of the overdressed Zulus in Pierre Cardin primping in the basements and barren fields of the Transvaal but resisting the urge to contextualize or explain it.
  29. The Grace Lee Project
    A breezy first-person video essay that goes in search of the average Asian American woman, all the while wondering if there is in fact such a thing.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Am Taraneh, I Am Fifteen Years Old
    Can nobly stand behind its more celebrated forebears.
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