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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. Trash
    Trash's creators never say anything thoughtful or useful about the extreme violence they liberally — and irresponsibly — use to characterize third-world adolescence.
  2. Therapy for a Vampire
    The strongest aspect of Therapy for a Vampire is its exquisite visual homage to the vamp films of old, and also the screwballs.
  3. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
    A misguided tribute to the woman his (Shainberg's) film identifies among "the greatest artists of the 20th century."
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Campaign
    Like past-his-peak Perot, The Campaign is basically a footnote, a goof on our broken political system that's good for a certain novelty, but as a challenge to the dominant order? It's ultimately impotent.
  5. Storytelling
    The leanest and meanest of Solondz's misanthropic comedies, feasts on the anguish of adolescence and confusion of college -- white suburban-style.
  6. Garage Days
    Spotting trains that left the station a few years back.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Letters to Juliet
    Gary Winick's flat direction does the material no favors: If Egan and Seyfried have any chemistry, it's framed out of their awkwardly staged climactic kisses.
  8. Hood to Coast
    Because the runners' standings in the race are never really established, and are largely beside the point, the film keeps cutting back to these increasingly sentimentalized accounts of hardship overcome.
  9. The Island
    This is pure essence of Bay--it's big, it's loud, it has no context, and if you show up tanked, I'm sure it's really quite poetic.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lottery Ticket
    The theme of this formulaic but vibrant ensemble comedy could best be described as a paraphrase of Biggie's well-worn credo: Mo' money, mo' problems-but mo' money, yeah, definitely.
  11. The Ten
    More often than not, you'll laugh, and that's all you can hope for in what might as well be a prolonged episode of "The State," from which several of the cast and creators sprang.
  12. Look
    Look isn't processing, critiquing, or even warning; in the end, it's just recording.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blast from the Past
    Most fun when it's locked up with daddy.
  14. Off-White Lies
    An intermittently engaging tale of father-and-daughter bonding (and non-bonding) set against the backdrop of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War.
  15. Child of God
    As it stands, Child of God is brazenly, outstandingly bad, as vague, pretentious, and pointless as its sorry title. But it's certainly memorable, full of inadvertent howlers and destined to create a whole new subgenre of burlesque, audience-torturing cinema.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Welcome to the Rileys
    Try as Stewart might, she can't turn this Manic Trixie Nightmare Girl into a real person.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shit Year
    Barkin is often fascinating in playing a character who, in both her heroic bitchery and hysterical sadness, is more of a concept than a person, in a film that ultimately seems to be "about" nothing more or less than the actress' magnetic face.
  18. As I Lay Dying
    Franco adapted a book that often reads like joyless homework into a film that feels the same way.
  19. Twelve Thirty
    A film more satisfying in occasional isolated moments than as a coherent dramatic entity.
  20. Lovely Molly
    It can't sustain interest in the endless unraveling of Molly's psyche, which, as handled by Sánchez, has all the interest of watching an inexplicably untreated wound fester.
  21. Deterrence
    Begins and ends with footage of FDR intoning "I hate war," something the film takes two interminable hours to say.
  22. Straight-Jacket
    Jacket's shrill, Necco-colored sets and distractingly awful CGI long shots almost mask the movie's real coup: Letscher's physique.
  23. Poseidon
    An utterly empty-skulled genre mechanism and nothing more.
  24. Now You See Me
    When functioning like a magic trick, this breathlessly entertaining picture delights in its showmanship, but the more entertaining the trickery, the tougher the explanation, and when the truth is revealed the answer can't help but fail to satisfy.
  25. The Education of Charlie Banks
    Durst and Elkoff deliver a nuanced scenario of class assimilation and resentment, then flub the ending.
  26. Operation Chromite
    The result is like something Michael Bay might produce at his least self-indulgent.
  27. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    Yet Newell, he of "Four Weddings and a Funeral," is ill-suited to steward such sword-and-sandals adventure, his direction--while slightly eschewing modern genre practitioners’ penchant for slicing-and-dicing skirmishes into visual incoherence--is too pedestrian and partial to clumsy slow-mo effects to truly energize the story.
  28. Bel Borba Aqui
    Now he's famous, and the production of the documentary Bel Borba Aqui, practically a montage of color, music, and Borba's constant laughter, coincides with his local acclaim.
  29. 28 Hotel Rooms
    Not showing us every aspect of their lives is a fine, even novel, approach, but merely telling us about them instead feels like a fruitless middle ground.
  30. How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change
    After speaking to several environmental experts, hiking for hours through the Amazon, and discovering just how momentous the threat of climate change is to humanity as we know it, documentarian Josh Fox made a film about himself.
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