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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. Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
    There was no happy ending, but if Burma VJ's account of the efficacy of dictatorship threatens to crush you, the sight of a sturdy young back disappearing into the mountains, returning from a Thailand hideout for another round of bearing witness, should make your heart burst.
  2. It Might Get Loud
    It's Page, a joyful instructor and natural storyteller, who steals the spotlight (Robert who? More, please.) Only real complaint: The movie's not loud enough. They should have turned that f***er up to 11.
  3. Crude
    Remarkable documentary.
  4. The Sun
    Though he successfully humanizes Hirohito, who is shown happily shedding his divinity, Sokurov doesn't entirely exonerate him. He contrives a shock ending that, as measured as everything else in this engrossing, supremely assured movie, acknowledges one last blood sacrifice on the emperor's altar.
  5. The Secret of Kells
    Gorgeously mounted tale of enlightenment through art and courage.
  6. Close-Up
    Like nearly every other Kiarostami film, Close-Up takes questions about movies and makes them feel like questions of life and death.
  7. All About Lily Chou-Chou
    It's a uniquely lonely film, and one of the year's most memorable.
  8. Marooned in Iraq
    This lusty, heartfelt movie has a near Brueghelian visual energy and a humanist passion as contagious as its music.
  9. Murderous Maids
    Genuinely unnerving movie.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Painted Fire
    Succeeds as the rehumanizing of a near mythical figure.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Life and Debt
    Devastating, artful, and intelligent documentary.
  12. The Slaughter Rule
    The lead performances could hardly be better: Gosling, having stolen and propped up entire movies last year ("Murder by Numbers" and "The Believer"), crackles with the economical intensity of a young Tim Roth. Morse, who has racked up decades worth of idiosyncratic character parts, is monumental in this career-peak turn.
  13. The Cup
    The lovability quotient is as high as the altitude.
  14. Before Night Falls
    The film's ephemeral, semi-evasive lyricism ultimately works as a modest frame for Bardem's tender, deft portrait, which is in turn suitably expansive and rooted in the most concrete details -- Arenas's pride and anger, his unsentimental wit and defiant vitality.
  15. Shadow Boxers
    As smooth and powerfully packed as its protagonist.
  16. 42: Forty Two Up
    The 7Up series is thus one of the rare documentaries to have had a positive practical effect on the life of at least one of its subjects.
  17. The Opportunists
    Filled with vivid and likable characters, The Opportunists could be the basis for a TV series as captivating as "The Sopranos."
  18. Beautiful People
    It seems like a more witty, wise, and succinct "Magnolia."
  19. Benjamin Smoke
    As ethereal, moving, and uncompromising as its subject.
  20. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    A movie of cutting humor, near-constant talk, and one show-stopping dance routine.
  21. The Turandot Project
    A must-see for opera lovers and a snappy diversion for cinephiles.
  22. The Back of the World
    What saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is Corcuera's attention to detail.
  23. Pistol Opera
    Suzuki has made the ultimate meta-movie, a self-parodying, surrealist gangster daydream as intoxicating and insubstantial as an absinthe swoon.
  24. Les Destinées
    An impressively coordinated enterprise that lasts three hours, manages a large cast, and covers a period of 30-odd years while successfully unfolding as a series of scenes from the life of a single character.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    Hirsch edits segments together to merge disparate voices, showing how for this movement, music was no universal language -- it was specific, pointed, and almost paranormal in its power.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
    Among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Quai des Orfèvres [re-release]
    The visual style has an expressionistic undertow, rich in shadowy chiaroscuro compositions.
  28. Metropolis (re-release)
    The greatest of all pulp fantasies.
  29. Rififi (re-release)
    A vivid exercise in hokum that more or less invented the idea of French film noir...and not just for Americans.
  30. The House of Mirth
    Leisurely yet streamlined film, brilliantly adapted by British filmmaker Terence Davies from Edith Wharton's most powerful novel.
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