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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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  1. The Skyjacker's Tale
    Canadian documentarian Jamie Kastner (The Secret Disco Revolution) has crafted an entertainingly kitschy version of an Errol Morris film.
  2. A Little Help
    The film is as average and forgettable.
  3. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    Narrative's beside the point in a movie created by two guys who gorge on pop culture's high-fat diet and regurgitate it into something approaching . . . art? Close enough.
  4. Draft Day
    This isn't so much a movie about sports as it is a riff on politics in the broad sense of the word, and the ways in which smart, insightful people play along to get along -- and then change the game for the better by following their gut.
  5. Camp X-Ray
    For much of its running time, Camp X-Ray stands as the fullest on-screen imaginative treatment of two of the defining developments of the last 15 years of American life: the deployment of women in our volunteer army, and the indefinite detention of men we think, but can't quite prove, deserve it.
  6. Downtown 81
    Doesn't dawdle and, despite some eye-rolling dialogue, is a generally amiable time-trip.
  7. American Made Movie
    The film's experts and entrepreneurs have a lot to say worth listening to, but little that illuminates any clear path.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dance Party, USA
    Writer-director Aaron Katz has a gift for naturalistic dialogue--that alone allows his film to transcend the micro-budget indie gabfest genre. On the other hand, there's a fine line between naturalistic and dull, and Dance Party occasionally crosses it as its young actors talk about life, or don't talk about life.
  9. Michael Moore in TrumpLand
    The biggest surprise: Older, un-messianic, and mostly eschewing cute stunts, Moore somehow makes his one-man show seem almost humble. It plays less like "I'm still here!" attention-seeking than it does a concerned citizen's act of hope.
  10. You've Been Trumped Too
    If you don't know who to vote for by now, whatever you do, don't see this movie. It's only going to tell you bad things. We're having fun here, right?
  11. Music of the Heart
    Solid raw material, but the execution is overcooked.
  12. Gerry
    Exercise in existential tedium that it is, Gerry isn't without devotees.
  13. Freak Show
    [A] bitterly funny and warmly empathetic first feature.
  14. Observe and Report
    Broad but thin and more bleak than uproarious--a humorously downsized homage to foundational '70s classics like "Dirty Harry" and, especially, "Taxi Driver."
  15. Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
    This is primarily a film for fans of all involved.
  16. Until the Light Takes Us
    One artist favorably compares the homemade metal scene to state-supported "mediocre cultural activity"--as good a designation as any for Until the Light Takes Us.
  17. Wah Do Dem
    Methinks we're meant to actually feel sorry for this overprivileged twerp in neon sunglasses.
  18. The Freebie
    None of the dialogue, presumably arrived at through improvisation, is either funny or memorable.
  19. The Magnificent Seven
    You get enough of a sense of this place and these men — and that widow! — that it's a disappointment when, in the end, we just have to watch it all blow to hell.
  20. The Taste of Money
    Is there such a thing as "tastefully smutty"? Director Im Sang-soo's moody and semi-Shakespearian The Taste of Money walks that line with some artfully lit humping and cross-generational seduction.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    With Friends Like These...
    Messina's characters gripe at being typecast as goombah hit men, yet the director seems blissfully unaware that he dooms them to the very fate they protest by painting them with such prosaic, uninspired strokes. (review of re-release)
  22. Elizabeth Harvest
    Gutierrez works some twists on the familiar premise, and one standout thrill of a chase scene employs Brian De Palma’s signature split screens. But as it nears the two-hour mark, the film becomes exhausting, shedding very little light on the futuristic implications of the story.
  23. Small Time
    The film isn't without mirth and charm... But as Surnow steers into serious waters, the direction of the storytelling becomes increasingly misguided.
  24. Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story
    A mockumentary that exhausts its best joke with its premise.
  25. Rock Star
    Raking over the same clichés as "Almost Famous," Rock Star is far less reverential -- it isn't burdened by generational nostalgia and doesn't take itself too seriously.
  26. What We Do Is Secret
    The worst kind of bastard adaptation, Secret subtracts without adding.
  27. Illegal
    Blunt, loud, and showboaty, Illegal suffers even more when compared with another recent Liège-set film about the horrors faced by paperless immigrants: the Dardennes' "Lorna's Silence."
  28. Spork
    Writer-director J.B. Ghuman Jr. shoehorns the character into a witlessly stitched homage to other films - notably "Heathers."
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
    It's silly and excessive, but Fullmetal Alchemist occasionally strikes a note of adolescent truth, as when Ed wishes for "some way to get our bodies back."
  30. Mulberry Child
    A documentary -- based in part on Jian Ping's autobiographical book of the same name -- whose poignancy is lessened by its awkward formal devices.
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