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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. McFarland USA
    It works, kind of, despite its broadness, its obviousness, and its howlingly awful opening.
  2. Bride Flight
    The flashbacks dominate, playing like wet-inked storyboards: pioneer women forced into patriarch games; a baby born in secrecy and raised in deceit; Jewish legacy lost and found. When the men are all dead, the women speak freely, wrapping up two florid hours with a pickled sentence or two.
  3. Gloomy Sunday
    Dissolving four characters' lives into the dank smoke of the bitterest of torch songs, Gloomy Sunday fashions an apocryphal, pretty, and somewhat pat biography of the title ballad.
  4. Magical Universe
    This story is about tenderness and empathy, including Carbee's for his plastic proxies.
  5. A Perfect Day
    A Perfect Day is a wry salute to the hard-drinking, eye-rolling aid workers of the world, men and women whose high ideals get crushed by global bureaucracy and local recalcitrance.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mr. Nice
    Though told here with appealing drollness, Marks's story makes an odd vessel for the filmmakers' casually advanced legalization arguments, what with its mischief making on the grandest scale possible.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Guys and Balls
    Both totally predictable and unerringly charming, with all of the quirky players, training montages, and father-son drama you'd expect.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Paris
    Christophe Honoré's Dans Paris is both a floppy, joyful tribute to the French New Wave and an inspired retelling of "Franny and Zooey."
  9. Christopher Robin
    Christopher Robin preaches a return to childhood exuberance and frivolity, but its quiet, focused restraint often feels like it’s coming from a very different impulse — an old-world professionalism and humility. It’s a grown-up sensibility applied to a child’s tale, which makes for an occasionally endearing mixture. In today’s world, I’ll take it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Rooms for Tourists
    The scenario is absurd enough to play as satire, but no, the film warns us, "If you think that we are just a bunch of mental cases you didn't understand anything." Clearly, I didn't understand anything.
  11. The Concert
    Beyond fans of Mélanie Laurent--who furiously fingers a fiddle and wears flashback wigs--The Concert may appeal to those who delight in stereotypes.
  12. Battle in Heaven
    Promiscuously inhabiting several planes at once, Reygadas's restless inquisition may already be this year's movie to beat.
  13. Body of War
    Neither the most cinematic nor the most elegantly crafted of recent Iraq War documentaries, but that doesn't stop it from being one of the most deeply affecting. Where Spiro and Donahue triumph is in putting a human face on the war.
  14. The Heat
    The movie -- too much of it -- is spent testing the boundaries of how loud and obnoxious McCarthy can be. Feig doesn't hand this able comic actress the gift of freedom; he simply gives her enough rope, which isn't nearly the same thing.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Red Doors
    Everything you'd expect from a frosh-indie effort: stilted dialogue, oversimplified relationships, sitcommy goofiness, and cringe-inducing romances. And yet Red Doors is so well-meaning, with such obvious affection for its characters, that it pleases nonetheless.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Machete
    Because there's no real character drama or consistent critique grounding the spoof, when Machete isn't laugh-out-loud funny, it's deadly boring.
  17. In Her Shoes
    The best moments belong to Shirley MacLaine, who makes the clipped script sing as Ella.
  18. The Visit
    The last scenes contain so many moral and spiritual turnarounds that Alex (Harper) -- and the film -- are all but buried in the uplift. Harper, in a fierce, nuanced performance, deserves better.
  19. Under solen
    The kind of quotidian pastoral -- about a simple, honest peasant who finds the greatest love of all -- that the Academy invariably finds irresistible.
  20. All I Wanna Do
    A smart, sweet, and altogether smashing evocation of teenage girlhood.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Illuminata
    For all its ambitions, Illuminata sheds only murky light on what separates theater from life.
  22. The Governess
    The Governess is too dirty-minded to fit the Merchant Ivory mold but not salacious enough to qualify as bodice-ripping laff riot. [04 Aug 1998]
    • Village Voice
  23. Tomorrowland
    Bird layers on plenty of dazzle... But his heart is what keeps the story motoring and the ending is perfectly engineered, including a coda that encourages all of us to try harder.
  24. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
    There’s no hint of irony in this film (I don’t think it would work if there were); in fact, Jeannette succeeds in its earnestness, adapting its words from Charles Peguy’s works, but countering it with the pure, joyous silliness of its presentation.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What Would Jesus Buy?
    Much like Spurlock's hit "Super Size Me," this production is slick, well-paced, and tremendously entertaining.
  26. Tumbledown
    Neither comedy nor melodrama (though bearing traces of both), Tumbledown ends up a modest study of two fairly unremarkable, prickly characters.
  27. Love Is All You Need
    Formulaic despite its trespasses, Love Is All You Need leaves the lingering sensation that more fun could have been had if the film cut loose and lived a little.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    L'iceberg
    The result packs all the hilarity of a museum installation on The Semiotics of Silent Comedy.
  29. On My Way
    Its realism is patient and inclusive.
  30. Darling
    There are distinctive touches to give this passing interest.
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