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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cold Fish
    Cold Fish is wild, head-turning, stomach-churning stuff, and it makes a bracing addition to the overstuffed canon of serial-killer cinema.
  2. The One I Love
    Some of the surprise works, but the final gotcha won't getcha.
  3. The Flight Fantastic
    The Flight Fantastic is both a lively biography of the Mexican circus family and a primer on trapeze as both art form and joyous expression.
  4. Kangaroo
    Kangaroo is a sobering depiction of how deep cultural divides affect the future of a species, even one so seemingly ubiquitous and resilient.
  5. Husbands
    Husbands confirms, if indeed any confirmation were needed, that John Cassavetes is one of the major American film-makers of the past decade, and one of the most tortured and turgid as well. [10 Dec 1970, p.69]
    • Village Voice
  6. Guidance
    The crime-spree-driven final third feels more like a sordid movie of the week than the sprightly comedy that preceded it.
  7. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    Fantastic Beasts is often lovely to look at, at times even stirring, but there's very little to hold on to, story- or character-wise.
  8. Nénette
    Watching Nénette watch those who gape at her is an intriguing, multi-layered exercise of voyeurism, but one that wanes after our gaze is demanded for too long.
  9. Black Butterflies
    Art, politics, and craziness conspire to form a rather mechanical melodrama in Black Butterflies.
  10. The Seventh Fire
    The movie is less about making a grand social statement and more about conveying the ground-level desolation of this world. Riccobono films it all with intelligence, sensitivity, and a feel for offhand poetry; his camera captures moments of intimacy and tension without ever quite intruding.
  11. Beloved Sisters
    Although there's nothing sensationalistic about his approach, [Graf] treats the characters' tentative, often problematic bohemianism as a wild, brave, and precious thing, and the lead actors — restrained where it counts and bold where it matters — are a pleasure to watch.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes
    The story--is only important in that it gives the Quays a foundation for their fabulous animated tableaux.
  13. Waiting for Armageddon
    Line up this terrific documentary about end-times evangelical Christians against Bill Maher's sneering "Religulous," and you'll see an excellent argument for restraint and a fair fight.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bandslam
    Todd Graff's film is written with a desperate cleverness that clamors for attention over the brainless against-the-odds music-competition plot.
  15. Occupation: Dreamland
    A fair-minded (but hardly apolitical) grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq that trusts the audience to draw its own conclusions.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mystery Men
    Mystery Men is wryly sentimental stuff, but it's also pretty sharp.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shelter
    As far as coming-out dramas go, Shelter is a puppy dog, well-acted but rife with cliché received wisdom and at least one ingeniously arbitrary bit of mid-scene dialogue: "That's why you never tell a woman how to cook a chicken."
  18. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
    Our glimpses of what's already occurred and what will soon come are vivid and impressionistic, prophetic warnings about which everyone seems powerless to do anything other than silently observe.
  19. The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
    This is not the can't-we-get-along Arab-Persian world we see in most liberal nonfiction films, but a broader and helplessly apocalyptic view of an entire region crazed with anger, frustration, and bloodlust into objectifying death as a weapon, a cause for cosmic glory, and little else.
  20. Puzzle
    The self-esteem booster shot provided by the sudden discovery of a prodigious talent is conveyed in a shy, self-surprised amusement by Onetto, accompanied by the slightest loosening of the joints.
  21. La bûche
    By turns hilarious and wounding.
  22. Robot Stories
    A quietly impassioned, genuinely stirring indie rarity.
  23. Delicatessen
    Delicatessen may be junk food, but it's served with the discretion of nouvelle cuisine. [07 Apr 1992]
    • Village Voice
  24. Breathing
    A film of unreconciled impulses, Breathing is by turns vaguely sentimental and cooly detached in a manner that's ultimately more off-putting than it is complementary.
  25. What's in a Name?
    The French chamber dramedy What's in a Name is frequently delightful, full of ribald humor and compelling, intelligent debate.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Reivers
    A slight, sentimental movie that is clearly to be enjoyed rather than respected. [29 Jan 1970, p.54]
    • Village Voice
  27. Deadpool 2
    Rather than face its own moral incoherence, Deadpool 2 blinks.
  28. Puzzle
    Since it’s hard to buy the character, it’s hard to buy the story, no matter how good Macdonald is.
  29. The Infiltrator
    Unfortunately, as he performs the acting equivalent of triple backflips, Cranston isn't given much of a safety net from the script or direction.
  30. The Idol
    Unfortunately, as Mohammed approaches his goal, Abu-Assad goes all in on archival footage.... That backfires.
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