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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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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  1. The Homesman
    Glendon Swarthout’s 1988 novel offered a rare approach to those Old West stories by shifting the focus to the women and children who often bore its brunt the worst, and Jones has — for the most part — successfully captured this, often in devastating fashion.
  2. Henry Fool
    Henry Fool, which runs a leisurely and ultimately tiresome 138 minutes, is so self-conscious it feels uncomfortable in its own skin. [23 Jun 1998]
    • Village Voice
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    We Need to Talk About Kevin
    By treating Kevin's evil as a mystery to be solved, Ramsay only succeeds in making what was once allusive banal.
  4. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    This "Last Waltz"–like doc is almost funereal, full of reverent banalities spliced between overly folksy takes on melancholic Leonard Cohen bombshells.
  5. Watermark
    Watermark is a documentary filled with images both beautiful and wrenching, yet the film as a whole is a disappointment.
  6. Early Man
    Aardman Animations (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, and Shaun the Sheep) generally invests a great deal of care and precision into its storytelling, but this picture is somehow both simple and nonsensical. Early Man is the convoluted, caveman-populated skewering of FIFA that nobody asked for.
  7. The East
    For all its empathy and equilibrium, The East has nowhere to go after the script backs itself into a corner.
  8. Monster House
    The coolest thing about Monster House is that Kathleen Turner's face was actually motion-captured to create the house's movements, but actual human beings on-screen might have ratcheted up the tension, of which there is none.
  9. Black Mass
    Black Mass is a tightly wound piece of work, and Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace) keeps its many small parts moving with ease. He's skillful at merging telling, minute details with bigger, looping schemes.
  10. The Edukators
    The Edukators smiles indulgently as the kids rage belatedly against the dying of the SDS light.
  11. Off and Running
    A tactful but probing and richly satisfying study of an entire family thrown into self-doubt by a teenager venturing into risky territory as she struggles to find her way.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mule Skinner Blues
    Earnhart's auteurs are better adjusted, integrating their art into the daily routine of their (equally fucked-up) lives.
  13. Family Fundamentals
    Compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative Christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children.
  14. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (re-release)
    Sargent's whole enterprise doubles as a '70s archaeological dig.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Babí léto
    The reconciliatory finale comes with a sad footnote: Czech New Wave veteran Brodsky killed himself shortly after the film was released in his native country –- an eerie rebuke to the movie's spunky and life-affirming vision of old age.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Shaolin Soccer
    Crammed with wild action, obvious but well-mounted gags, and playful effects, the film is refreshingly silly.
  17. Hearts and Minds (re-release)
    Built to outrage, appall, and indict.
  18. Noi the Albino
    A lightly comic slacker drama that takes the desperation of teenage tedium seriously.
  19. Goodbye Lenin!
    Overlong and a bit tiresome but it's actually about something.
  20. A Trial in Prague
    Justman's A Trial in Prague acts as something of a corrective to the exuberant but oversimplified "Fighter."
  21. War and Peace
    Immersed in popular culture, War and Peace makes it clear that India's nuclear mania appeals not only to religious chauvinism, primitive nationalism, and a desire for modernity but, even more dangerously, to a festering sense of inferiority.
  22. Valley of Tears
    Most of the best moments in Hart Perry's latest documentary can be found in its opening half-hour, a vivid record of a 1979 strike by Mexican American migrant farmworkers in the onion fields of Raymondville, Texas.
  23. Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
    Lively, intelligent look at the art of film editing.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Missing Victor Pellerin
    The result is a satire that somehow doesn't feel satirical: comic yet humane.
  25. Ghost Bird
    It's the sort of film that builds up familiar frenzy--newspaper notoriety, tourism uptick, government attention--only to dissolve in a what-just-happened daze.
  26. Brotherhood
    Sounds trashy, sounds silly, but first-time director Nicolo Donato, who wrote the screenplay with Rasmus Birch, and a superb ensemble refuse to wink, resulting in a film that constantly subverts expectation.
  27. The King (2012)
    Beautifully shot, the film is unapologetically a crowd-pleaser whose gentleness of tone flows from its subject.
  28. Ping Pong
    Ping Pong shows us people piquantly aware of the deterioration of their bodies and that they don't have much time left.
  29. Fire in the Blood
    While it's hardly a joy to watch, Fire in the Blood is artful in nearly every frame, perhaps so we don't avert our eyes.
  30. Go Grandriders
    Grandriders mostly, but by no means always, avoids the more cloying or heartwarming aspects of its tale in favor of a frank account of the implications of aging in Taiwan.
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