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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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    Elles
    It's entirely too much for co-writer/director Malgoska Szumowska to coherently flesh out in an hour and a half, especially with so much time dedicated just to the state of arousal.
  2. Cowboys & Aliens
    Director Jon Favreau's experiment in genre crossbreeding - a Western-sci-fi mashup pumped full of inspirational all-in-this-together spirit - is a cute, crowd-pleasing idea, though more decadent than a revitalization of either genre.
  3. The Purge: Anarchy
    It's better than the first.
  4. Mickey Blue Eyes
    The last half hour bogs down badly, with a cynical fake-out ending and a final scene that borders on non-sensical.
  5. Where the Money Is
    A caper film hardly worthy of his (Newman's) presence.
  6. The Four Feathers
    Feels both tiresomely old-fashioned and disturbingly topical.
  7. The Crimson Rivers
    Never lacks for energy, and the director and his stars stride with focused confidence through the hooey.
  8. B. Monkey
    B. Monkey is crawling with smart actors saying things they don't quite mean.
  9. The Ballad of Bering Strait
    Echoes the trajectory of the post-Communist-bloc region itself, unmoored and at the mercy of pitiless capitalist forces.
  10. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (re-release)
    Too priggish to earn a place alongside its better-known contemporaries "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Last House on the Left," Lemora is nevertheless surprisingly well made.
  11. Alfie
    Indeed, remake hack Charles Shyer (who processed the Parent Trap and Father of the Bride updates) plays coy with most matters sexual -- an odd and puritanical approach to a character who molds his entire existence around the procurement and enjoyment of sex.
  12. Behind Enemy Lines
    Though Wilson gives a customarily sympathetic, engaged, and unpredictable performance, his work is drowned out by pyrotechnics and orchestral paroxysms of patriotism.
  13. The Tribes of Palos Verdes
    Garner erupts and expectorates with winning zeal.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dreaming Lhasa
    Primped for easy American consumption, this clunkily performed and staged drama concerns a filmmaker's agenda to document Tibetan oppression under Chinese occupation. This becomes spurious pretext for a rather flat Nancy Drew adventure.
  15. The Mighty Macs
    Appears to have been made on a budget equivalent to the cost of a WNBA fleece hoodie. But even at that price, the first feature by Tim Chambers is profligate with sports-movie clichés.
  16. Space Station 76
    Sympathetic audiences may be diverted by Space Station 76's period design and skilled performances, and by the mystery of what exactly the filmmakers are going for. (The less sympathetic may just ask what the point is.)
  17. Cassandra's Dream
    Feels like one of Allen's laziest pieces of writing and direction, leaden with heavy metaphor and characters who rarely make it beyond the archetype--marionettes in a miserablist puppet theater.
  18. Chloe
    Thanks to Egoyan's trademark mix of detachment and prurience, the fun is more cheesy than queasy.
  19. Wilson
    Inevitably, his generic disgruntlement will soften: Amerindie dyspeptic-comedy formula dictates that the man who rants two times too many against the addiction to phones and the internet will, by film’s end, have a heart-stirring video chat.
  20. The Killing of John Lennon
    Director Andrew Piddington's fastidiously researched, dubiously suspenseful character portrait is unable to salvage a lick of hindsight from the tragedy beyond "Murderous narcissists are people, too." (He's a victim of our celebrity-fixated culture? Oh, shut up.)
  21. Escape Plan
    With its fun script and cheap visuals, Escape Plan evokes the halfwit cheesiness of 1980s-era Cannon films, but it also recalls the deft pacing and legibility of their action sequences.
  22. Kidnapped
    The long takes and lack of theatrical affect are presumably meant to heighten the realism by dispensing with film - fiction artifice, but in the process, everything that might lure a viewer - the seduction of style and plot or an engagement with characters - is forgotten.
  23. Nabbeun namja
    Bad Guy, one of the seven films in Kim's fascinating back catalog, is another kind of cocktail--simple, bitter, served straight and in an unwashed glass.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Guess Who
    The script's lack of nerve fails to challenge him (Mac) or its audience with enough dangerous humor.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sex Drive
    Remains faithful to a portrait of teens as they see themselves.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Daddy's Little Girls
    Perry's indifferent direction flattens everything out: You might fall asleep if his heavy-mitted music cues didn't keep cattle-prodding your ass.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Meeting Resistance
    Ultimately, Meeting Resistance is just one more doc about the monumental screw-up that is the U.S. campaign in Iraq.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Orwell Rolls in His Grave
    In its attempt to diagnose a problem, it ends up serving more as a symptom of the left's current, and sadly warranted, anxieties.
  29. S1m0ne
    Niccol has no gift for comedy. His ongoing exploration of modern celebrity results in an industry satire that's less funny than half-empty and hyper-designed.
  30. Special Treatment
    That's why Special Treatment is so disheartening. The film, starring Huppert, quickly telegraphs that its ideas are too shallow for a talent as deep as hers.
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