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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. Go Go Tales
    A highly personal movie, Go Go Tales finds Ferrara in a frenzied yet pensive mode.
  2. Welcome
    Heavy ironies like that drop regularly, undermining both the film's intentions and the drama.
  3. In Search of Israeli Cuisine
    History and politics are present in this film, but over at the kids table.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    Terence Rattigan has jazzed up the screenplay with a laborious melodrama but unfortunately he has not distorted it beyond recognition. That there remain strains of the understated wit of the original dialogue is a dubious blessing--like patches of lace in a sweatsuit. [06 Nov 1969, p.52]
    • Village Voice
  5. Fighting
    The movie never works up a pulpy head of steam. It's like an exploitation movie that thinks it's an art movie, only there's no art to be found.
  6. Adult World
    Adult World captures beautifully, and with a great deal of self-deprecating humor, what it's like to feel trapped in a place you think is too small to hold you.
  7. The Quest of Alain Ducasse
    In his astute look at the artistry and business of food, de Maistre makes the case that haute cuisine serves the same function as haute couture, creating an indelible experience while encouraging new ideas to filter through the industry.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Metallica: Through the Never
    This is a movie made for people who mash themselves up against those steel crowd-control barriers at concerts and still don't think they're close enough.
  9. Arakimentari
    Admittedly compulsive in both sex and shutterbuggery, Araki has long lived on the art-porn border, though this doc aims to show him as conversant in flowers, kitties, skies, and neorealist kids' faces as he is with bondage.
  10. Waga jinsei saiaku no toki
    At heart, a work of infectious, unironic affection.
  11. Est - Ouest
    Wargnier has assembled a stellar French and Russian cast, but all that talent can't overcome his heavy-handed screenplay.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Enduring Love
    Craig keeps Joe Rose on a hair trigger, but Morton is wasted as Claire; Ifans simply looks stoned.
  13. Close, Closed, Closure
    Loevy, who made this documentary with an Israeli and Palestinian crew, supplies a self-conscious voice-over.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Carnage
    In the final stage of the film's programmatic chaos, Alan announces that he believes in the god of carnage and cops to the pleasure he gets from watching people deviate from social convention and tear one another apart. You'd have to agree with him in order to embrace this film - there's nothing else to see here.
  15. Trance
    Trance packs many reveals, and the guessing game of who's who and what's what continues throughout. But with its terribly campy setup (hypnotherapy and gangsters? One's inner child and murderous showdowns?), Trance could have gotten some mileage out of comedy
  16. These Final Hours
    Hilditch's approach to this end-of-days scenario can be heavy-handed... But Hilditch gets good mileage out of his cast.
  17. Lust, Caution
    Ang Lee's latest foray into forbidden love is as monotonous and disaffecting as "Brokeback Mountain" was gripping and immediate.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Transformers
    Transformers is mercilessly inhuman and completely hysterical from frame one.
  19. Where God Left His Shoes
    Leguizamo, working at a scramble, gets more on-screen traction than in recent memory.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beyond the Sea
    This is hardly the most in-depth doc on Cuban refugees (see the epic Balseros). Still, Beyond the Sea grants a quiet dignity to its subjects without sanctifying them.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox
    Although the segments featuring Bronner's son Ralph veer uncomfortably toward hagiography, first-time director Sara Lamm balances out the love-fest by exploring the dark side of being a soap-hawking prophet and the toll that ALL-ONE-FAITH took on Bronner's family.
  22. Oka!
    Oka!, a loose-limbed tapestry of cultural nuances, atmosphere, and song, is a tuneful tribute to the Bayakan spirit.
  23. Notes on an Appearance
    D’Ambrose proves uncannily adept at conjuring zero-budget paranoia through the sheer accumulation of documents.
  24. Lower City
    A bone-tired tale underneath.
  25. Tricked: The Documentary
    The film is wisely sparing of melodramatic flair, allowing the inherent drama of the situation to horrify and harrow on its own.
    • Village Voice
      • Posted Dec 10, 2013
  26. The Best Man
    Everything about the film is familiar except that the twentysomethings are all African American.
  27. Dead Snow
    For more than half of this 90-minute film, director Tommy Wirkola plays things pretty straight--a mistake, perhaps, since the first half is pretty boring--but once the Nazi zombies start arriving en masse, he abruptly shifts to an "Evil Dead"–style zaniness, including the sight of a potential victim hanging off the side of a mountain while using a zombie's entrails as rope.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Notes on Marie Menken
    While it opens a rare window into an unconventional life, this portrait of an artist as an old woman is prone to strange distractions.
  29. Antarctica: Ice and Sky
    The film itself is more a record than a narrative: proof to the future that, yeah, we knew.
  30. Dogville
    For passion, originality, and sustained chutzpah, this austere allegory of failed Christian charity and Old Testament payback is von Trier's strongest movie--a masterpiece, in fact.
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