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On average, this publication grades 7.5 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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ong Bak
    The ferocious fighting moves (adapted from ancient Muay Thai manuals by veteran Thai martial arts director Phanna Rithikrai) that constitute Ong-Bak's money shots are often truly astonishing.
  2. Do Not Resist
    Do Not Resist is an order to the viewer: watch.
  3. We Live in Public
    Timoner takes Harris's erratic pulse--and diagnoses society.
  4. Sightseers
    Sightseers is a jet-black comedy that understands exactly how absurdist it is, and its murders are always played for laughs.
  5. The Milk of Sorrow
    In this wonderfully strange, hypnotically beautiful second feature from writer-director Claudia Llosa, the traumatic experience of the 1980s civil war on Peruvian women is passed down through song and, it is said, through their mothers' milk.
  6. Uncertain Terms
    The film is brisk, brief, well acted, smartly crafted, and shrewdly judged.
  7. Compliance
    Compliance lets neither men nor women off the hook.
  8. Infamous
    It's just a lesser version, light in weight and absent the ache that permeated the movie for which Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Academy Award. It can't withstand the comparisons. It's good, especially during its first half, just not good enough.
  9. Star Trek Beyond
    Star Trek Beyond might be the Star Trekkiest film of the new, J.J. Abrams–ified Trek era. That is to say, it's the one that feels the most like a turbo-loaded episode of the original series, and has at least some of that classic spirit of exploration and derring-do.
  10. A Sinner in Mecca
    Stirring, sad, and at times truly frightening.
  11. Icarus
    A real-life absurdist thriller that, in its electric coverage of one Russian scandal, can’t help but illuminate another ongoing one.
  12. BuyBust
    Though the film becomes a slog, it has a saving grace in Curtis and Vera’s performances, which serve as neat complements to each other in temperament as well as fighting styles.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Primo Levi's Journey
    Primo Levi's Journey is almost willfully opaque about the actual circumstances of Primo Levi's journey. Who exactly was this man we're meant to be paying homage to, and why did it take him so long to get home?
  14. North Country
    Having established Josey as the focus of the entire iron range's enmity, the filmmakers panic, and North Country spectacularly self-destructs in a climactic courtroom free-for-all.
  15. Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
    The director doesn't bother to interview the experts-only those who knew the man best.
  16. Bullhead
    The sentiment, just like the repeated shots of Jacky lying in the fetal position in a tub, shadowboxing, and erupting into a bestial 'roid rage, typifies the film's habit of flattening an idea rather than developing it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Business of Being Born
    Epstein and Lake have crafted an absorbing, thought-provoking inquiry into what modern birth has become and how to make it better.
  18. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
    Guggenheim may not be news to the art world, but for the rest of us the film might stir wishful nostalgia for a breakthrough time in cultural history.
  19. Like Crazy
    The idea is to show love in incidentals rather than big scenes, but the fragments selected do not build to any significance - this is a rote story, arbitrarily scattered into abstraction.
  20. Terms and Conditions May Apply
    A wide-ranging, if shallow, exploration of intrusive government surveillance practices.
  21. My Love, Don't Cross That River
    By focusing on the small details of Byong-man and Gye-yeul's life — from their humble, secluded home to their touches and glances — the film paints a sweet yet tragic portrait.
  22. Art and Craft
    Despite some cutesiness, the film’s a fascinating portrait of loneliness, of talent undirected toward purpose, of the mysteries of the mind.
  23. The Hunger Games
    Like the pacing of the novel, the film, even at almost two and a half hours, moves briskly, continuously drawing us in.
  24. A Housekeeper
    In a flawless performance, Bacri lets us glimpse the tender desperation beneath his character's harsh, curmudgeonly exterior.
  25. The War Zone
    We may not want another film about incest, but there's a necessity about this one that won't be denied.
  26. In My Skin
    Without deploying reductive backstory or simplistic psychology, this fearless movie -- easily the year's best debut feature -- illuminates Esther's pathology as an extreme response to the mind-body split.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Yes Men
    Though at times the film is snortingly funny, too much of the humor here rests on presupposed opinion about globalization.
  28. Jump Tomorrow
    The relationship between the hysterical Gerard and the careful, compulsive George is classic screwball material and more compelling than the relationship between George and Alicia.
  29. Così ridevano
    Exploring a specific generational moment in mid-century Italy's social weft, Amelio's family saga might be his grimmest film, if only for the tragic exploitation of fraternity.
  30. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    Dedicated follower of fashion Matt Tyrnauer crafts the slick, superficial portrait that you might expect from a Vanity Fair special correspondent.
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