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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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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    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Die, Mommie, Die!
    Though Natasha Lyonne as bratty daughter and Philip Baker Hall as the disposable spouse impress, it's Busch's heartfelt Joan Crawford homage that enthralls. Busch can transcend even the smog, making hazy camp seem fresh.
  2. Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
    Many filmmakers have tried in recent years, but few have nailed the elusive formula of the two-hander romantic comedy quite like Emily Ting with Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong.
  3. Too Late
    Like the hardboiled detectives of yore, Too Late ultimately gets the job done — even if it's in its own off-the-books way.
  4. The Treatment
    Short, sweet, and hardly ever cloying, The Treatment is largely dependent for its success on the quality of its performances--most surprisingly, Eigeman's.
  5. All the Wilderness
    In spite of the tatty "coming of age" familiarity, Johnson's vision seems fresh and vibrant.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Love Etc.
    As cutely contrived as any scripted Hollywood romance.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Everything's Cool
    Gratingly condescending toward its audience and sorely lacking in any substantive information about the problem or the solution.
  8. Down the Shore
    The saddest part of this movie that oh-so-wants you to know it is sad is that Jennings sets up a pretty interesting dynamic, then bails on telling a story.
  9. Toad Road
    Though far from perfect, Toad Road is also the first unique horror film to come along in years.
  10. Kid Cannabis
    Kid Cannabis presents its material not as cautionary tale but as celebratory fantasy — which, like Nate's mom turning a blind eye to her son's illegal operation, seems to be the by-product of either inanity or excessive THC.
  11. Hamlet 2
    Not nearly as uproarious as it should be.
  12. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
    It's the latest installment in what now forms a lightly likable trilogy of films based on Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid books.
  13. Bruno
    Funny as it is, Brüno could not be as shockingly uproarious as "Borat." No matter how well retold, a joke necessarily loses explosive force the second time around. But a great gag is a thing of beauty forever--so, too, a comic performance.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Amu
    Too bad first-time writer-director Shonali Bose's juxtaposition of the personal and the political often feels forced, and like many didactic history lessons, this one's about 20 minutes too long.
  15. The Tracey Fragments
    Beyond its overarching aesthetic, The Tracey Fragments co-stars Toronto rockabilly punk Slim Twig as a Tim Burton caricature of Pretty in Pink’s Duckie and boasts a score by Broken Social Scene; it would all swagger dangerously close into hipster-trash territory if not for Page's pathos and wit, honest to blog.
  16. The Big Uneasy
    Shearer builds an airtight case to prove his thesis, and one of his most chilling arguments is a roll call of brave souls whose lives and careers have been systematically wrecked in pursuit of the truth.
  17. When Animals Dream
    Avoiding the genre's typical werewolfism-as-puberty metaphors, director Jonas Alexander Arnby instead casts his material as a drawn-out character study — the problem being that his characters are all one-note dullards, which turns his slow, portent-heavy drama into a giant slog.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Uncle Kent 2
    Uncle Kent 2 is an even more rambling ball of nonsense than the original, which at least had its feet planted in reality.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Puccini for Beginners
    Maggenti suffocates her story with dated references to every buzzword from Laura Mulvey's feminist catalog except for "the male gaze." In short, a nightmare worse than "Trust the Man."
  20. Get Smart
    This redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms.
  21. Dear Mr. Watterson
    [A] heartfelt but largely inarticulate documentary.
  22. CSNY/Déjà Vu
    The film's mishmash of news footage and concert reviews threatens to devolve into a CSNY wank-fest.
  23. The Château
    The raw art of the malapropism has rarely been so extensively honored, but the increasingly strident, slapstick-smacked movie runs out of steam once the culture shock wears off.
  24. Reno: Rebel Without a Pause
    What seems like a nut-on-a-bar-stool rant morphs into a triumphal evocation of the emotional-political bluster of that time.
  25. Julien Donkey-Boy
    A handheld and grainy exercise in cine-stupefaction...too spastic to connect...the movie just flails the air.
  26. Return to Me
    First-time director Bonnie Hunt pays slavish adherence to the Nora Ephron rules of assembly for the prefab rom-com.
  27. Chuen jik sat sau
    There's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to Lau.
  28. From Hell
    Superbly shot around Prague -- From Hell is even more stylish than gruesome -- it has the lush decrepitude of an autumn compost heap or an old Hammer werewolf flick.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Let's Get Frank
    Let's Get Frank is hardly frank enough.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Bread, My Sweet
    There's little meaty -- and nothing glandular -- in the slight weepie The Bread, My Sweet.
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