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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. Donne-moi la main
    The movie is most compelling when demonstrating the gorgeousness of the South of France—a truth that is always worth emphasizing, but was never really in dispute.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Fuel
    Those outside the bio-church aren't likely to drive--even on regular and currently cheap gasoline--to see Fuel at their local theater.
  3. Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
    For a film whose central motif is dance, there's remarkably little dancing done onscreen, and though Rowland and her co-star share moments of tender, revealing conversation, the movie is ultimately underwhelming, its emotional range as limited as that of its characters.
  4. Lolo
    Lolo is a fun, airy movie, but it's also unafraid of complexity.
  5. Septien
    Never the same movie for five minutes straight, Septien can't sit still.
  6. Ali and Nino
    It's all very tasteful, if not terribly exciting.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Zus & zo
    As a study in sororal emasculation, Zus & Zo ("This and That") is neither funny nor particularly punch-drunk.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Duplex
    A bitter little fable of rent control and its discontents, Duplex moves rapidly into darkness and claustrophobia.
  9. Face
    Never really finds a fresh groove.
  10. Marebito (The Stranger from Afar)
    This all-digital indie is, by genre standards, either a misfired doodle or an attempt to Lovecraft-ize the popular movement. Or both.
  11. Prom
    Katie Wech's script is a carousel of reassuringly familiar plot lines, kept smoothly revolving.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Last Night
    First-time director Massy Tadjedin conjures some essence of constrained desire, but mostly from the architecture.
  13. The Zero Theorem
    Too bad the story tucked around all that production design is such a futuristic drag.
  14. The Guilt Trip
    Pairing Rogen and Streisand turns out to be inspired.
  15. American Ultra
    Nima Nourizadeh’s American Ultra is a bloody valentine attached to a bomb. It’s violent, brash, inventive and horrific, and perhaps the most romantic film of the year.
  16. Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America
    All his film can do to make its case for Sosa's significance is trot out subjects who compare her to Joan Baez, Ella Fitzgerald, and, most puzzlingly, "Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney in one," without elaboration.
  17. Two for the Money
    In keeping with his apparent ambition to play each character more berserk than the last, Pacino can't discuss wine choice without sounding on the brink of aneurysm.
  18. The Boss Baby
    Aside from the slightly fresh take on a familiar concept, The Boss Baby is barely a moderate success as a kid's flick. Perhaps it will come as good news to studio and audience alike that it works much better as an existential horror movie.
  19. Nothing Like the Holidays
    The cast is appealing enough, though, and those looking for seasonal warm fuzzies can find them, as predictably touching as a muddled-through "Auld Lang Syne."
  20. Murder by Numbers
    But owing no doubt to the requirements of Sandra Bullock, the movie's above-the-line star, executive producer, and worst enemy, this potboiling procedural never stands a chance of disproving its title.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
    The actors appear game, yet director Aparna Sen, who conceived the film in the wake of September 11, resorts often to hokey pseudo-lyricism and prefers sound-bite ballyhoo to sociological depth.
  22. Switch
    A methodical, occasionally remedial survey of the energy crisis and its possible solutions, Switch fits a subject often treated polemically into a more benign, continuing education mold.
  23. Breakup at a Wedding
    Those who believe weddings to be exorbitant, empty spectacles have a fair-weather friend in writer-director Victor Quinaz, whose inventive debut, Breakup at a Wedding, attempts an aloof, smirking pose but surrenders to sentimentality in the end.
  24. Time Lapse
    That Bradley King's debut Time Lapse half-succeeds is a small miracle.
  25. Northmen: A Viking Saga
    The battles, occurring every fifteen minutes or so, are brisk and bloody, but in them Northmen leaps too quickly from image to image, sometimes not giving us time to make sense of the mayhem. But the chases, and the Jacksonian sense of an epic journey across a time-lost landscape, will please devotees of the genre, and the flourishes are grand.
  26. The Night Eats the World
    Unfortunately, the best and worst thing about director Dominique Rocher and his two co-writers’ scenario is its familiarity.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    Long before the third, fourth, or fifth climax in this endless, obligatory summer diversion, I slunk into my seat in a passive, inattentive stupor, fully submitting to the fact that I hadn't the slightest idea what the hell was going on.
  28. How About You ...
    The only crowds this stodgy little movie is likely to please tend to be home on a Saturday night, watching PBS.
  29. Boundaries
    Where Feste best succeeds in Boundaries isn’t in the father-daughter relationship, which finds her straining for a tight resolution, but in the mother-son one, where the two actors vibe easily and persuasively off each other.
  30. The Stoning of Soraya M.
    This is basically self-congratulatory fare for people who feel more "politically conscious" when reminded that women in the Islamic world can have it rough. Right now, you're better off just watching the news.
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