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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. Lunacy
    Lunacy is dark, scary, and yucky--even by the Czech animator's own standards.
  2. 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.
  3. David Hockney: The Colors of Music
    This delightfully sensual documentary gets inside the artist's creative process while also treating viewers to glorious music by the likes of Wagner and Satie.
  4. The Congress
    Like its actress, it's an ambitious knockout that doesn't quite live up to its potential. But its argument is worth hearing: Instead of crying for the collapse of one actress, Folman is crying for the collapse of civilization, the triumph of the synthetic over the real.
  5. Tallulah
    The film's premise rests on one contrivance too many as it is...and Heder keeps raising the stakes instead of settling into the groove established so well by her two leads.
  6. All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
    All Governments Lie is worthy testimony that many journalists are in it for the truth.
  7. Biggie and Tupac
    This is Oliver Stone country, but Broomfield's self-effacing affect is more Woody Allen,
  8. The Grace Lee Project
    A breezy first-person video essay that goes in search of the average Asian American woman, all the while wondering if there is in fact such a thing.
  9. Before the Flood
    It's far more convincing — and enraging — when focused on the lives of real people. In these heartbreaking moments, Before the Flood grows more aggressive in its imagery and argumentation, becoming the climate-change documentary Americans need to see.
  10. Green Zone
    A master of smash-mash montage and choreographed chaos, Greengrass is the best action director working today, adroit at producing the sense of everyone converging and everything happening simultaneously.
  11. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    Moody, pretentious, but potent.
  12. King of California
    Hard to tell what’s more annoying in this empty character study of eccentrics and the suckers who love them: the braying, blurting soundtrack or Douglas himself, who can’t find his way into a man tortured by dull demons.
  13. Damsel
    Pattinson and Wasikowska deserve better material than the Zellners’ head-scratchingly lazy jokes.
  14. Thomas in Love
    It's squeamish about sex but not, unfortunately, sentiment.
  15. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    A humorously death-haunted psychodrama.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Chamber's charm lies in the sheer visualization of Rowling's weirder inventions: pots of shrivel-phizzed screaming treelets, Harry's arm gone boneless from a bungled spell, a scolding letter from home that leaps to life as a yapping paper mouth.
  17. Eden
    A few moments harp on the sentimental, but overall, this is a powerful addition to the small collection of films dedicated to spreading awareness of this horrific crime.
  18. Weekend of a Champion
    The result is a pleasure, perhaps as much for audiences as for Polanski; it's a chance to luxuriate in the atmosphere of world-class Formula One, here a lavish free-love party interrupted now and again by a few laps on the track.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Limehouse Golem
    Director Juan Carlos Medina depicts a grim city perpetually shrouded in fog the color and consistency of pea soup. He makes the murders appropriately gory, but not over the top. Yet a storyline involving anti-Semitism threatens to upend the compelling detective tale.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Friend
    Shot on DV, the film looks awful, but this homemade quality fosters an authenticity that allows for startling suspense as Yunes's secret life comes to light.
  21. Borg vs. McEnroe
    The film — which is nowhere near as interesting as LaBeouf’s performance — is hopelessly reductive about its subjects’ psychology even as it mocks the press of 1980 for being reductive about its subjects’ psychology.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The 11th Hour
    A cautionary eco-doc so earnest and moth-eaten it should properly be seen on filmstrip during fourth-period social studies.
  23. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
    Leyser's collation of interviews and stock footage is polished enough to effectively perpetuate the Burroughs legend.
  24. Israel: A Home Movie
    Lilti tells a fine story, but he doesn't always look closely enough at what he's saying.
  25. Unsane
    Simple and well acted, Unsane has tension enough to knot the stomach.
  26. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
    What makes Watson's novel a delight is its guilelessly homoerotic subtext. By downplaying that, the movie argues the case for Watson's innocent sensuality--and against its own worldly update.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
    Despite cloying narration, Fitzgerald's footage and interviews are fantastic.
  28. Undertow
    However cloying, the movie creates a powerful vortex. It's surprisingly visceral-at times almost thrilling.
  29. North Sea Texas
    Director Bavo Defurne fills the frame with warm, bright color and the lovely austerity of the Belgian seaside, angling for a soulful, slightly hyperreal comedy rather than the pursuit of a political agenda or a boring awareness-raising endeavor.
  30. Spring Breakers
    Spring Breakers seems to be holding a funhouse mirror up to the face of youth-driven pop culture, leaving us uncertain whether to laugh, recoil in horror, or marvel at its strange beauty. All I knew is I couldn't wait to see it a second time.
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