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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. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
    A largely mind-numbing experience.
  2. City of Ghosts
    Musters gobs of atmosphere and touristy menace without attending much to story or character.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Life Without Me
    What's annoying and eventually absurd is writer-director Isabel Coixet's decision to have her heroine keep the diagnosis a secret.
  4. The Grandfather
    Not only is the dialogue endless...it's like driving behind a 15 mph geezer on a one-way street.
  5. Titus
    A nonstop carnival of murder, rape, and mutilation .
  6. Saints and Sinners
    There's an enforced squareness afoot as the directors contrast the couple with Pride-float revelers, as if testifying in front of a Massachusetts court that these two are as fuddy-duddy as the wholesomest het duo.
  7. Amen.
    Costa-Gavras provides a post-war postscript to make clear that honesty is punished; cynicism survives.
  8. Hannibal
    Less monster than monstrosity—albeit, as superfluous sequels go, not on par with the memorably idiotic "Godfather III."
  9. Code 46
    Late in the day, Code 46 bursts its chemical chains to become a convincingly irrational love story.
  10. Chalk
    What gives the film extra weight is the sense that these are not just actors trying to enhance their careers but real people seizing a chance for immortality.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Catching Out
    Ultimately everything feels one-sided and sanitized.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Cloud of Unknowing
    Stilted lines alternate with ominous pauses and an annoying Pure Moods score tinkling around an oppressive sound design.
  13. Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
    The result may be better suited for classroom viewing than for theatrical exhibition, but that's a tribute to the movie's instructive value.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control
    Best appreciated for Ruben Santiago-Hudson's convincing performance as a man possessed by a quartet of supernatural beings.
  15. Yat luk che
    Dishwater-dull period melodrama.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Derailroaded
    Wild Man Fischer's music is disarmingly honest and heartfelt, but even its charms can't save Derailroaded from ending up a train wreck.
  17. Light from the East
    Grappell implicitly uses the juxtaposition with the martyred Kurbas to gauge her commitment to her own art. Light From the East drinks freely from the triumphalist cup of the glasnost era.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Laura Smiles
    Stylish, low-budget indies thrive on redeeming the clichés of everyday life. But that takes smart writing and sharp humor, of which Laura Smiles has none.
  19. War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
    The doc is sobering, straightforward, and a bit drab, but to the participants' credit, it's also an entirely nonpartisan endeavor. Good luck telling that to the right once they hear the film is narrated by Sean Penn.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Stone Angel
    Despite its cutesy comic-relief digressions and overdone solemnity, The Stone Angel finds its way past tonal inconsistencies to a moving conclusion that doesn't romanticize death.
  21. Sixty Six
    You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate its genuine fondness for the claustrophobic warmth of family life among working-class people apprehensively inching their way toward upward mobility.
  22. The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom
    Clouds teases out the contradiction between the Lama's power as a symbol to the fiercely loyal Tibetan people, and that of his diplomatic voice, which he is using to push what they see as an impotent agenda.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Here and There
    There's pleasure in watching the conceit unfold, which is sweetened by an unexpectedly poignant payoff.
  24. The Anchorage
    The Anchorage uses a narrative structure introduced to more powerful effect 35 years ago in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman.
  25. Shake Hands with the Devil
    Though the film, based on Dallaire's memoir, can veer toward deification of the general, it's hugely effective.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Gift to Stalin
    Alternating between impressive and pedestrian shot-making, professional and amateurish acting, the film aims for gravitas and entertainment but only occasionally achieves either.
  27. Daydream Nation
    Daydream is decently acted, overwritten, slickly shot, decked out with the requisite indie soundtrack, and propped up with angst-ridden poses and pouting lips. It's also another film in which on-screen teens, especially the nubile femme fatale at the center, are but vessels to showcase the screenwriter's irony-drenched, self-satisfied intellect.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Barbershop Punk
    Dovetails with the current Occupy message but still feels rather stale.
  29. Painted Skin: The Resurrection
    The whole thing can be hard to follow, but the energy (and pulchritude) of the cast make it a perfectly fine bit of popcorn escapism.
  30. The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
    Flying Swords might not live up to the promise of Detective Dee, Hark's recent comeback, but it does deliver frequently and always when it counts most.
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