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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. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Dante's masterstroke is to make the movie as visually and narratively unhinged as its source material.
  2. Vengo
    Gatlif's latest celebration of gypsy soul, sets a modest sliver of narrative in a fabulous widescreen landscape and surrounds it with a permanent party.
  3. Blood Work
    A bracingly no-nonsense, highly professional policier—as proudly old-fashioned as its curmudgeon hero.
  4. Tales of Halloween
    There's much to like here, and ample scares for your brains.
  5. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    Holdridge's film oscillates wildly between low-key romantic comedy and antic slapstick and doesn't always hit the mark, but it has charm to burn.
  6. Lymelife
    Given how steeped it is in symbolic portent, Lymelife proves surprisingly watchable from moment to moment, thanks to the uniformly fine playing (particularly of the Culkin frères), evocative production design (by Kelly McGehee), and handsome widescreen photography (by Frank Godwin).
  7. Cupcakes
    This musical comedy is sugary and sincere.
  8. Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
    If Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna's exhilarating documentary, Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, were merely a testament to McQueen's stubbornness and irascibility, it would still be a damned entertaining portrait.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shortbus
    There's something refreshingly frisky and celebratory about Shortbus that offsets its flaws. It's a triple-X midnight movie with a heart of squarest gold.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Grey
    There's too much Jack London, and, as they systematically pick off the stragglers, too many CGI wolves go unpunched.
  11. Mifune: The Last Samurai
    Okazaki gets close to, but never sheds enough light on, Mifune's elusive personality.
  12. Fast Food Nation
    A more materialist (and successful) ensemble film than the mystical "Babel," in that everyone is connected through the same economic system, Fast Food Nation is exotic for being a movie about work.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    District 13: Ultimatum
    Works only when at full sprint.
  14. Michael
    Not everything that is human is naturally interesting, and Schleinzer approaches his subject not as an investigator, but as though covering up a crime scene and scrubbing it of anything that might provide insight or empathy or psychological traction.
  15. The Salvation
    Emphasizing action over the spoken word, The Salvation doesn't break new ground, yet its murderous twists of fate are consistently compelling.
  16. Film Socialisme
    Film Socialisme deflects interpretation but, so long as one subscribes to the William Carlos Williams injunction "No ideas but in things," it's filled with sensuous pleasures.
  17. Tokyo!
    Mutants abound as each episode trips the light fantastic.
  18. Woman Is the Future of Man
    We're accustomed to an omniscient understanding of what movie characters, particularly in dramas about love and loss, are thinking, but Hong distributes information with a saline drip. Often, of course, his two lonely fools don't quite know what they're thinking, either--Woman can sometimes come off like an introverted "Carnal Knowledge" with two Jack Nicholsons.
  19. Dancer in the Dark
    This deliriously downbeat vehicle for the postpunk diva Björk has generated the controversy the Danish dogmatist has relentlessly court.
  20. Seoul Searching
    Every character gets to learn a lesson, and while the humor is nothing new, the situations are.
  21. 16 Blocks
    It's a small movie trying to seem epic, or a bloated monster trying to seem lean (real B movies don't have 14 producers), but it's clear that at 99 minutes, 16 Blocks should've been at least 20 minutes shorter still.
  22. Caterina va in città
    Pitch-perfect performances and a light-handed but razor-sharp script keep this satire brisk and biting.
  23. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Schneebaum is a great subject; the film doesn't quite make the most of him.
  24. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    This is a tender and engaging portrait of a marvelously elusive personality, whose style remains timeless.
  25. One True Thing
    Quindlen's book is wry and deeply sad in its prose, but watching actors run this very simple maze is significantly less entertaining, or convincing.
  26. Songcatcher
    The commonest sort of cultural pasteurization.
  27. Sex Is Comedy
    Enjoyable if light, until it becomes apparent that Breillat is not simply waxing narcissistic but fashioning a simultaneous critique, explication, and demystification of the lengthy, near-single-take defloration that is Fat Girl's centerpiece.
  28. Unfaithful
    Casual familiarity with Lyne's oeuvre is all you need to predict the major plot contortion.
  29. The Summer of Sangaile
    Lesbian coming-of-age tales can be sensationalistic and leering, but this film (directed by a woman, Alanté Kavaïté) casts a sensitive eye on the understated story of Sangaile (Julija Steponaityté), a shy, troubled girl who begins a relationship with the more ebullient Auste (Aisté Dirziuté).
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Monsters
    Director Gareth Edwards, a CGI artist by trade, has created a dystopian landscape that's so naturalistic, it's uncanny.
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