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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
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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  1. Les amants criminels
    May be as gimmicky as Ozon's other features, but it's also more resonant and even haunting.
  2. London River
    Director Rachid Bouchareb brings a measured hand to this intimate, occasionally overdetermined sketch of the aloneness at the center of our global confluence.
  3. Hors Satan (Outside Satan)
    Ultimately less an arty provocation than a secular invocation, Outside Satan seems almost helplessly exploratory, an honest account of groping for grace.
  4. Rachel
    Bitton, best known for her 2004 nonfiction film "Wall," about the barrier Israel is building along its border with the occupied territories of the West Bank, questions her interviewees calmly and dispassionately (though her voice is heard, she is never seen). It's a strategy that yields damning revelations.
  5. Lightning in a Bottle
    Offers a bumper crop of tasty bits.
  6. Breaking a Monster
    They're still thirteen-year-olds, which leads to Breaking a Monster's funniest moments.
  7. Fresh Dressed
    Fashion is about that clash between commercialism and individuality — how can I stand out while fitting in? — and Sacha Jenkins's streetwear doc Fresh Dressed nods its Kangol hat to that irony.
  8. Three Times
    My first impression of Three Times was that it was high middling Hou--conceptually bold but unevenly executed. The movie's implicit themes of time travel, eternal recurrence, and the transmigration of souls seemed as muddied by the director's devotion to Shu as they were dissipated in the confusion of the final present-day section. But Three Times improves on a second viewing.
  9. Inequality for All
    The testimonials from a few of these people, with the realization they speak for tens of thousands, reinforces Inequality for All's sobering message while at the same time undercutting Reich's optimism.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    2 Days in Paris
    Delpy shows Linklater's influence in her willingness to let actors work and walk at length, and she has an unusually playful style for an actor turned filmmaker.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spring Fever
    For long stretches of this tantalizing, romantic, aggravating film-until just before its extremely satisfying ending, in fact-I wished Lou had caught a little spring fever himself, cranked up the volume, and turned on the lights.
  12. Late Phases
    The narrative ends up working in a smaller scope than one might expect given the premise of a beast plaguing a community, but the journey getting to the finish is exhilarating all the same.
  13. A Man Named Pearl
    Feature-length elaborations on quirky, inspiring human-interest stories are generally to be avoided, but I'll make an exception for A Man Named Pearl.
  14. 10 Cloverfield Lane
    As a gamelike, simulationist PG-13 horror chamber piece, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a success: well shot and -staged, arrestingly acted, edited with a crisp unpredictability. It's less compelling in terms of character and meaning.
  15. Deadline
    What Deadline lacks in heft it makes up for in common sense.
  16. The Wedding Plan
    What makes the film work is Koler's magnetic performance as Michal, who has screwball energy and a mind of her own.
  17. Central Intelligence
    Central Intelligence won’t blow you out of the theater, but you might be surprised at how well it works — how genuinely funny it is — given the familiarity of this concept.
  18. Barely Lethal
    Barely Lethal's combination of bawdy humor and earnest affection for its high-school-aged protagonists is surprisingly well-balanced.
  19. Girls Can't Swim
    Falters when it takes a final, violent turn into melodrama.
  20. Rat Film
    What exactly does it all mean? I’m not sure, but it does make for a disturbing and occasionally absorbing watch.
  21. Gods and Monsters
    The relationship is touching, painful, revealing, and often funny, which is true of the film as a whole as well.
  22. The Ex
    The movie is Bateman's to steal, however, which he does early and often.
  23. The Crash Reel
    Walker never has Pearce explain why he wants to return the lifts, and he never has to. The heights speak for themselves.
  24. Stalingrad
    Lush with feeling that could easily be mistaken for sentimentality, Stalingrad is more like a 19th-century novel than a 21st-century blockbuster. It's theatrical and intense, sometimes in an overbearing way, but it's never boring.
  25. Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
    Though hewing to a too-conventional structure, Bowser's film is densely researched enough to yield insights not just into its overlooked subject, but also into his overly analyzed era.
  26. Flex Is Kings
    The film is more an on-the-fly glimpse of the scene than a deep-dive exploration, but that doesn't make it any less electric.
  27. Pride & Prejudice
    Director Joe Wright coordinates a delightfully cohesive acting ensemble.
  28. The Phantom of Liberty (re-release)
    Albeit scattershot, Phantom does cohere as a satire of keeping up appearances in which everything is as it appears.
  29. Zero Day
    The simulation of shaky camera amateur DV is a narrative ploy that often taxes the filmmakers' ingenuity. Still, the movie has a creepy authenticity.
  30. Last Train Home
    Everything is edged with desperation. However arduous Last Train Home may have been to shoot, it was infinitely more arduous to live.
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