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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. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    The only faint upside to this excruciating dud is that, in its movie clips of Charlie Chaplin - who the mesmerized birds view as a kindred waddling spirit - the film might hopefully function for some kids as a gateway to superior comedy cinema.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Trust You to Kill Me
    Perhaps you are wondering why a little-known band called Rocco DeLuca and the Burden merits a glossy feature-length documentary of its whirlwind European tour. After watching Manu Boyer's film, you may still wonder.
  3. A Good Woman
    Pleasant and undemanding, all the more so whenever Tom Wilkinson's on-screen as a possible Erlynne suitor, the movie miscasts Hunt as the pragmatic seductress.
  4. The Big Question
    While the questions may be universal, they're not particularly original, and the responses largely run the expected range, rendering the whole project less enlightening than your average collegiate coffee-and-cigarettes bull session.
  5. Another Evil
    Mell stages a climax that's thrilling and ridiculous in equal measure.
  6. The Killer Inside Me
    This withholding actor's (Affleck) impish smile and mild, pale-eyed stare--not to mention the Clintonesque hoarseness with which he spins his convoluted lies--are sufficiently convincing to keep The Killer Inside Me from being just a steamy, stylish, punishing bloodbath.
  7. The Rocker
    This is sugary-sweet stuff--pop instead of rock.
  8. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
    Without characters whose fates we care about, nor fully comprehend, even the most visceral shocks are just that: impressive moments with no lingering terror.
  9. Mother India
    The performances are broad; the comedy is mainly slapstick. The politics are nationalist and vaguely left-wing.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Remember Me, My Love
    This sentimental movie is the simulacrum of an existential family drama. But the 48-year-old Morante is the real thing.
  11. Bachelorette
    The trajectory for all four characters is toward acknowledgment of the emptiness their indulgences can't fill. It's kind of heartening that Becky has that all worked out, pretty much, even if the film doesn't quite get there.
  12. On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
    If anything unites On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter's cyclists, it's Brown and Rousseau's inability to highlight their subjects' most singular qualities.
  13. Gnomeo and Juliet
    The script feels workshopped to death yet still hits only a single broad note of irony-drenched whimsy, but the voice-work sparkles and the action-heavy animation clips along fluidly. There's charm in the backyard, but it's still of a garden variety.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Café de Flore
    Café de Flore - the title comes from a song heard in both halves - is like a story constructed from the perfume ads in Vanity Fair: the emotional problems of shallow, sexy jet-setters.
  15. Wanderlust
    Though Wanderlust finally laughs off the real discomforting conclusion that it's edging toward, it's gut-busting funny when mocking their hopeless options.
  16. Surrogate Valentine
    A rambling valentine to San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura, Surrogate Valentine is a stylish pseudo-portrait that refracts Nakamura's gently impassive persona and lilting indie pop ballads through several lenses.
  17. The Pretty One
    Kazan holds together a decent coming-of-age script that's emotionally sincere if tonally unfocused.
  18. Ejecta
    The whole never makes much sense, and there's entirely too much screaming, but the directors stage the shocks with wicked aplomb.
  19. Khadak
    Khadak recedes deeper and deeper into esoterica as it progresses.
  20. Hula Girls
    It's all warm, well-shot, instantly forgettable, and familiar to a fault.
  21. High Tech, Low Life
    Whatever their orientation, both men are intrepid in pursuing the truth, the consequences of which are made clear in a series of terrifying late-film crackdowns.
  22. Rid of Me
    Rid of Me is a bad movie, but at least it's a flailing, innocent badness.
  23. The Lucky Ones
    Its hopelessly schematic road-trip arc (bond-fight-reconcile-repeat) grows increasingly tedious.
  24. The Book of Eli
    The Book of Eli's plastic parable isn't much more advanced than "Insane Clown Posse" theology.
  25. Australia
    The result is mostly a woodenly derivative melding of '40s maternal melodramas, oaters, and World War II actioners.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
    Succeeds in visual splendor (it was shot on location in Kyoto) but falls flat on characterization.
  27. O
    Had Nelson and Kaaya been less concerned with following Othello to the letter and rather had pursued this love affair into uncharted cinematic waters, O might have been more than an unresolved mixture of gimmickry and good intentions.
  28. Boys Life 4: Four Play
    While Strand's gay-shorts series took a tentative step toward maturity with 2000's “Boys Life 3,” this fourth anthology represents a full-blown regression.
  29. Wasabi
    The real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star, Jean Reno, who resembles Sly Stallone in a hot sake half-sleep.
  30. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    Roughly splits the difference between "Six Days, Seven Nights" and "9 1/2 Weeks." Which is something like the nth-order derivative of an infinite regression.
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