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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. Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
    When isn't it a good time to show a movie tracing the development of a kind, charismatic yellow Labrador retriever from frolicsome puppy to devoted seeing-eye companion to weary senior?
  2. Eisenstein in Guanajuato
    Rigorous and outrageous, Greenaway's defiant approach to narrative only offers insight into his character, not Eisenstein's.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Our Idiot Brother
    Its roundelay of shallow types (played by beautiful movie stars) treating one another badly, and having whiny conversations about said treatment, is such a whisper-soft version of social critique that it makes the autobiographical films of Nicole Holofcener (Please Give, Friends With Money) look as cutting as the films of Jean Eustache.
  4. +1
    Director Dennis Iliadis doesn't overdwell on the existentialism of the concept; he lets emotional beats strobe against the WTF experience of the temporal doubles, peppering the action with distinct images and events to make the repetition stand out.
  5. 9
    The result is never as gripping in narrative terms--a well-worn litany of dystopian-future chestnuts--as it is visually.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Where Do We Go Now?
    Like the hashish-laced pastries the ladies make to sedate the male population, the film feels like it has been dosed with sugar to mask its distressingly bitter taste.
  7. The Guys
    Watching the film is like reading a Times Portrait of Grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it.
  8. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Carrera's filmmaking is more workmanlike than stylish, but Padre Amaro is richly character driven and, for all its insolent, grotesque humor, straightforwardly humanist in its psychology.
  9. Overnight
    Grim going.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Eat This New York
    Though the filmmakers had a great time following the Manhattan restaurateurs around, they abandoned the untidy Brooklyn story before the inevitable downward spiral that might have been our payoff as filmgoers.
  11. The Cake Eaters
    There's no kind of wonderful in Mary Stuart Masterson's directorial debut, yet however slight her ensemble drama--about two distressed families in the Rockwellian framings of time-forgotten rural America--maybe, it's at least convincing in its genuine sweetness.
  12. Kill the Messenger
    It doesn't entirely engage, in part because it's so determined to correct the story that it can't let us explore it ourselves.
  13. Good Ol' Freda
    Director Ryan White has crafted a deceptively simple film that should almost immediately win viewers over with its low-key charm.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jeff Who Lives at Home
    Jeff is a surprisingly mutable, ultimately poignant day-in-the-life drama about a slacker who genuinely wants to stand tall.
  15. Breathe In
    Drake Doremus's Breathe In is a star-crossed romance where your enjoyment level will depend on your tolerance for what feels an awful lot like potential statutory rape.
  16. Actor Martinez
    Whether the real-life Martinez is this hotheaded and quick-tempered is left a mystery, but it matters not a whit, because even five minutes in the company of this Martinez is excruciating.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Young Rebels
    At least as sharp as "Buena Vista Social Club."
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
    Settles for a stilted design and mode of performance that suggests a bloodless screen adaptation of Edward Gorey illustrations.
  19. Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story
    An illuminating history lesson about the Kentucky metropolis's artistic vision and philharmonic orchestra.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Big Bad Mama
    Big Bad Mama is essentially a soft-core porno movie without the courage of Russ Meyer. [02 Dec 1974, p.90]
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  21. The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
    Uncompromising in its way, the film's portrait of codependent compulsion is so organically conceived, you start to smell the sulfur of traumatized childhood, no exposition needed.
  22. Daybreak
    A studied, overwrought look into Personal Crisis and Redemption.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    American Casino
    This authoritative, far-reaching documentary by veteran investigative journalists Leslie and Andrew Cockburn comes off as curiously bloodless.
  24. Sweet Bean
    At first the stakes are as light yet rich as Sentaro's pancakes; then come marvelous cine-essays on bean-soaking and paste-prepping, plus — in the film's tragedy-tinged final third — a change-of-seasons montage for the ages.
  25. Burn Country
    The movie — at first scrappy and strange but an increasingly tough sit as it goes — never fixes its gaze on any singularly compelling idea.
  26. Trumbo
    The film fails as a portrait, and it's not much better at drama.
  27. Everybody's Famous!
    Too brisk and plucky to dislike.
  28. The Importance of Being Earnest
    Tonally, however, Earnest boasts perfect pitch, thanks mainly to the blithe, nimble actors.
  29. Together
    Mawkishly clichéd as it is, Together is an odder hybrid than it first appears -- at once populist and deeply cynical about the price of popularity.
  30. Reconstruction
    That Reconstruction is even remotely involving is due to the quality of its acting.
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