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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. The Artist and the Model
    Treating one's audience like ignorant children in need of lecturing is hardly a way to win fans, or display one's own artistry.
  2. The Guardian
    The Guardian is neither serious enough to take seriously nor flashy enough to get by on thrills alone. Jerry Bruckheimer, where art thou?
  3. In Time
    A pleasing, often rousing movie for the 99 percent, In Time is not without flaws.
  4. Our Brand Is Crisis
    David Gordon Green's Our Brand Is Crisis is a horror film wrapped in fast-talking political comedy.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Seamless
    Though the film is a sober account, the subject alone ensures numerous moments of inspired hilarity.
  6. Kill the Poor
    Shot on a modest DV budget, Kill the Poor isn't pretty, but it's a balanced look at the dirty politics of gentrification.
  7. Redacted
    The most authentic thing about Redacted is the rage with which it was made.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Grace
    A muddled, logic-starved provocation, Grace avoids smugness by refusing to play its body horror for sh**s and giggles, but its resonance is purely atmospheric.
  9. A Love Divided
    Brady and Cunningham share a volatile, symbiotic chemistry, sketching in elegant shorthand the rhythms of a lusty, combative marriage.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Tokyo Eyes
    Doesn't so much titillate as irritate.
  11. Bounce
    It's been smoothed over plenty, but this is one creaky, rigged contraption.
  12. Charlie's Angels
    The cheesy disco action scenes are topped only by the movie's ripe double entendres and continual cheesecake.
  13. Barenaked in America
    A pleasant if overlong road show starring five witty, sweet, humble guys.
  14. The First Basket
    The First Basket is more than a triumphalist screw-you to those who think Jews don't play sports.
  15. One Day on Earth
    Ultimately, a collage film is only as good as its constituent parts, and, with a few exceptions, the brief snippets from this particular day on earth are far too prosaic to be illuminating.
  16. The Manzanar Fishing Club
    The historical road less traveled - shot in re-enactments that are obviously familiar with the terrain - is beguiling enough.
  17. Six Million and One
    All the while, Fisher and his kin's incessant, contentious bickering exposes the ongoing difficulty of reconciling with inherited trauma, though such squabbling's protracted prominence also, ultimately, suggests the need for a bit more editorial trimming.
  18. In the Name Of
    A nuanced, character-driven critique of the Catholic Church and its regressive stance on homosexuality.
  19. 5 to 7
    There's no credibility to Arielle and Brian's romance. We get why he likes her — who wouldn't? But what does she see in this nine-years-younger naif she treats like a slow child?
  20. Snowtime!
    Co-directors Jean-François Pouliot and François Brisson progressively heighten the scale of the battles, but the emotional tenor is pitched at innocence and fun. The filmmakers attempt a transition toward a more bitter rivalry, but they just don't have the heart to make this children's war ugly.
  21. Kaleidoscope
    Jones and Reid are hemmed in by the screenplay’s schematic nature.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
    Although it's unlikely that Englishman Hough has connected with the auto culture that has made his latest film the darling of the drive-ins, Hough at the same time has connected with the perfect vehicle for his mechanized, dehumanized concerns. [01 Aug 1974, p.70]
    • Village Voice
  23. Submission
    You know that moment about fifteen minutes before the end of most American narrative features, when the protagonist is brought to his or her low point, and it looks as if there’s no possible way things could get better? Something has probably gone wrong if viewers are cheering that.
  24. White House Down
    Often, the hilarity is indisputably intentional. If you think you'll laugh and clap, try it; if you know you'll hate it, you're right.
  25. Man of Tai Chi
    The film is stale Chinese popcorn from the get-go, with only Chen's wiry guilelessness and wicked athletic skills to keep it remotely edible.
  26. The Nativity Story
    There are a few quietly affecting scenes here, in which we see Mary and Joseph as the terribly frightened newlyweds they probably were, unsure of what to make of their extraordinary circumstances. But too often, the actors register as little more than set dressing and, despite Hardwicke's resolve to give us the realNativity as we've never seen it before, much of the movie smacks of convention.
  27. Anger Management
    Consistently wacky and sometimes nearly surreal.
  28. Stonehearst Asylum
    With Stonehearst Asylum, director Brad Anderson doles out a vintage Halloween treat — a straightforward Poe adaptation of the sort that Vincent Price used to star in — and gives it a freshness and complexity that make it a delight.
  29. Formosa Betrayed
    Neither the investigation nor the suspense (hobbled by editorializing) have much impact; the movie, necessarily shot in Thailand, plays like secret-history tourism, complete with archival footage haunting the screen.
  30. Front Cover
    Come for the breezy chemistry, stay for the thoughtful exploration of racism, homophobia, and xenophobia via a cross-cultural love affair.
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