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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 7.5 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. Family Law
    Like his equally father-fixated, and equally wonderful, 2003 film "Lost Embrace," Burman's beguiling tribute to his Jewish father -- or, for all I know, the one he wishes he had -- is warm and deep enough to give humanism a good name.
  2. Elegy
    Spanish director Isabel Coixet's hushed and understated Elegy is a flat, joyless affair.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shepard & Dark
    Despite its unusual beginnings, the friendship doesn't offer much narrative juice.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    October Country
    Best understood as a work of creative nonfiction. The directors employ art-film techniques to aestheticize a swamp of big issues--the military, poverty, madness, family planning, spousal and child abuse--and give a family's (and America's) angst a clear voice and seductive form without leveling judgment.
  5. In Fear
    In Fear traffics in suspicion, ratcheting tension, and shocks — including a few really effective ones — more than in satisfying explanations.
  6. Carancho
    Short on genuine suspense and long on righteous anger, the film is bolstered by a sturdy performance by Darín that brings emotional nuance to an underwritten role.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Hip Hop Project
    From domestic strife to studio triumph, the most impressive accomplishment of Project is not the student-made album, but that when Kazi says cheesy things like "This is healing through hip-hop," you actually believe him.
  8. SherryBaby
    Sherrybaby is by no means a terrible film...But we know exactly where the transparent action is going from word one.
  9. Landline
    Few period pieces get our dynamic relationship with the now so right, or chart so smartly how the present shifts even under the feet of the youngish.
  10. Stardust
    This is just a silly movie about silly things starring famous people acting all silly.
  11. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    Ferrell reminds the audience of why he matters: because he's the loudest, driest, and most fearless comic actor working.
  12. The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun
    Unlike far too many human-interest docs today, director Pernille Rose Grønkjær's fantastic little character portrait doesn't rest on the strength of its personality, with prudent attention paid to aesthetic nuances and the growing quasi-love that the titular bickerers have for one another.
  13. Two Women
    Its awkward mix of polemic and melodramatics probably won't travel very well.
  14. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
    Manages to have its cake and eat it too -- debunking the Berlin image even while reveling in it.
  15. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    Jones's documentary, named for the opening song on Foxtrot, is most effective as a poison-pen missive to Corporate Rock.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Tattoo
    This plodding serial-killer procedural grafts hand-me-down malevolence onto a standard rookie-veteran police yarn, the results of which yield nary a fright, let alone a goose pimple.
  17. Margarita Happy Hour
    Chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident -- she catches subtler interior strains, too.
  18. Trembling Before G-d
    Though angry and sorrowful, Trembling Before G-d, beginning with the title, is above all a work of reverence.
  19. Delhi Belly
    Delhi Belly's rare singing-and-dancing production numbers play classical Bollywood glitz for pure kitsch, the Ram Sampath–composed soundtrack otherwise tending toward up-tempo sing-along rock, including a hit song ("DK Bose") with a subliminally dirty chorus.
  20. Letters from the Big Man
    Its quiet plea for reconnection with the non-human world is persuasive, and the engaged, agile meditation on the limits of communication at its center aligns it with Munch's earlier work. Oregon's million-dollar scenery, a sweet cameo by Karen Black, and Rabe's tough/tender performance sweeten the pot.
  21. Stink!
    Though not as funny as Moore's earliest work, Jon Whelan's Stink! is way more emotionally affecting.
  22. Wedding Doll
    Gilady never treats her heroine as a prop in someone else's redemption arc, and Rosenblatt's performance will have you looking for her work in other films.
  23. The Reagan Show
    Rather than reveal a showman, The Reagan Show in the end imitates one.
  24. The Road Movie
    The mayhem is hypnotic, scabrous, scarifying, unpredictable, astonishing, dispiriting, repetitious, clearly both amoral and immoral, and by the end, a little dull. Even over the short running time, you can feel your humanity’s diminishment.
  25. Rolling Thunder
    Performances are made crystalline through a sixth sense for camera placement and curt cutting from director John Flynn, whose 2007 passing was little noted, though his no-BS way of laying down a story is a rare commodity in any era.
  26. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
    It’s basically the equivalent of a sensitively wrought read from the Young Adult shelf, and there’s naught wrong with that.
  27. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    Naomi Watts is a tremendous movie actress. She need only sidle on camera and glance over the terrain to claim the scene. What's her secret? Like the great Isabelle Huppert, Watts doesn't radiate feelings so much as she absorbs them.
  28. American Teen
    Even when it's ripping off "Juno" and "The Hills," American Teen is fascinating in the way of every good documentary--the more time you spend with anyone, the more they surprise you.
  29. Byzantium
    Byzantium isn't Jordan's first movie about bloodsuckers—that would be 1994's Interview with the Vampire—but it's the right vampire movie for today, poetic and elegant in an artfully tattered way.
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