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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is half silliness, half swagger, but Branagh's arms-akimbo impudence as a director makes it work. He takes it all seriously, but with a wink.
  2. Sherlock Holmes
    As over-emphatic as one might expect from the ham-fisted Guy Ritchie, this resurrection of the world's most famous detective is a dank, noisy affair.
  3. Skins
    Good intentions or not, ineptitude and cloying sentimentality don't do anybody any favors.
  4. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    It's easily the most disarming and inventive movie made for genre geeks in years.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Art of Amália
    De Almeida's latest hagiographic effort diminishes Amália's legend by purifying it.
  6. Cecil B. DeMented
    Has the grace to send the audience out with a piece of Waters-written rap.
  7. Salvation Army
    Despite stilted camerawork often locked in the medium shot, Salvation Army is a touching ode to the freedom to finally be who we want to be — if we can ever find where we belong.
  8. The First Grader
    Chadwick veers frequently into flashbacks to Maruge's past as a Mau Mau resistance fighter-mostly prolonged scenes of torture and violence that do little to inform or propel the present-day story. Poorly defined tribal lines flare up, and Jane's life is threatened, the point at which the script's Hollywood contrivances open up and swallow this often charming film whole.
  9. Opal Dream
    Rush screaming from anything that announces itself as "a movie for children and grown-ups of all ages." Slight and shamelessly saccharine, Opal Dream is devoted to the proposition that it takes an Australian-outback village to validate the imaginary friends of a blond child who is too sensitive for this world but not, alas, for this sappy movie.
  10. Best and Most Beautiful Things
    The doc is gorgeously filmed, well edited, and works in close-up, but the result is more voyeuristic than revealing, except to show that desolation is among those things that cannot be seen or touched.
  11. Ezra
    Unsparing, pedagogic, and genuinely compelling.
  12. Collaborator
    On one level, it's a dark, funny tragedy, but it's also Donovan's thesis on his own craft.
  13. Date and Switch
    Date and Switch isn't a gay movie. It's a zippy, happy, buddy flick.
  14. The Kingdom
    A timely--if tepid--fantasy of American vengeance on the Qutbian extremists of Saudi Arabia.
  15. Good for Nothing
    Good for Nothing has a nice comic sense of the brushfire eruptions of Western violence.
  16. Uncle John
    Thanks to Ashton's brilliant, career-defining performance, we're made to see that the only thing worse than doing evil deeds is being nice enough to feel guilty about them.
  17. May in the Summer
    May in the Summer's biggest obstacle is Dabis, who isn't a strong enough actress to sell the subtle humor.
  18. 3 Hearts
    The film is so unabashed in showing the place of passion in a bourgeois world, how a missed connection can screw up a life forever, that plot implausibilities are forgiven.
  19. Save Me
    Though Save Me never quite surmounts its schematic scenario, scene by scene, beat by beat, it's pretty damn good.
  20. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here
    No longer silent but still the lesser talker between them, Ilya is marvelously fluent in spatial forms.
  21. Buffalo Soldiers
    In its post-Vietnam cynicism, Buffalo Soldiers feels almost avant-garde.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    It's a noble experiment in pushing the limits of cinema, but Tykwer never achieves true profundity.
  23. The Commuter
    The director’s stylistic obsessions (harried close-ups of cell-service signal bars) and thematic integrity (witness the overworked 9-to-5 crowd banding together in solidarity) elevate the cheap-paperback plot without tipping the movie over into pomposity.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Escapist
    A taut thriller that ends on a note of unexpected grace.
  25. Non-Stop
    Exceedingly slow setup and even more tediously static sequence that effectively terminates the movie well before its official running time.
  26. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    Disney's big-screen expansion of their hit TV show is nirvana for the pubescent crowd.
  27. Hidden in Plain Sight
    John H. Smihula's compelling video documentary aims for both hearts and minds.
  28. Leaving
    In any language, the actress (Kristin Scott Thomas) does what she can to best serve her scripts, even when they're hopelessly beneath her.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Journals of Musan
    Group scenes, meanwhile, often suffer from a peculiar handheld drift, as if in troubling over which insult to add to which injury, the filmmakers neglected to attend to rudimentary blocking.
  30. G.B.F.
    Here's to hoping lax multiplex security allows teenagers to sneak in to this very funny and thoughtful take on how straights often objectify queers — and how increased visibility in the media can result in an expectation to conform to stereotypes.
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