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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 7.6 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. Neighbour No. 13
    Because the metaphysics driving it are so fuzzy, this is the rare horror film where even sludgy viscera elicit only yawns.
  2. Pearl Harbor
    The chaos is convincing, but, less ruthless than Steven Spielberg, Bay eschews D-day panic and mutilation.
  3. One More Time
    The characters are overburdened by backstories that constrict rather than inform their behavior.
  4. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Not without its moments of elemental dread, Apocalypse is also obviously padded, too long on action, and painfully short on irony. The satirical element still packs a minor jolt.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Reel Paradise
    Unfortunately, what could have been a superficially amusing IFC reality series was stretched into a thin, overlong feature that follows the rocky integration of this very New York clan into a somewhat ruffled island society.
  6. Mystery, Alaska
    Slack, saccharine script.
  7. Christmas on Mars
    As a Lips completist, it's at least worth enduring for its homegrown resourcefulness, all General Electric stoves and found industrial objects, but that's the thing about experimentation: Sometimes it's destined to fail.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Bright Young Things
    Aside from cameos by Jim Broadbent (as the drunken major) and Peter O'Toole (as Nina's reclusive, eccentric father), much of the acting strains for a sophistication that quickly becomes annoying.
  9. The Machinist
    The Machinist has no meat on its bones, and we've seen it all before.
  10. Eye of the Beholder
    High-buffed, low-rack pulp.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mandabi
    Honest but stupid. [19 Mar 1970, p.54]
    • Village Voice
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Home of the Brave
    As sincere as a three-legged puppy.
  13. Pushing Tin
    Pushing Tin pivots on our dubious fascination with professional erection duels, which are a sad substitute for dramatic conflict.
  14. Chicken Little
    The usual pop-culture jokes, disco tunes, and sarcastic narrator are on hand to prevent atrophy, but by the time the sky really does start "falling"--courtesy of an alien invasion-- Chicken Little's frantic efforts to stay farm fresh have started to wear on the nerves.
  15. Klown Forever
    So long as they're only stupidly endangering themselves along the way, it's easy to watch this with a sort of libertarian detachment. It's also annoyingly predictable this time around, though the leads at first maintain their strong chemistry and essential likability.
  16. Edtv
    It's a lot of plot but none of it is particularly funny or compelling. What keeps the film chugging along and also gives it a depressive aftertaste is a middle-aged male sexual anxiety subtext that intermittently sputters to the surface.
  17. Elegy
    Spanish director Isabel Coixet's hushed and understated Elegy is a flat, joyless affair.
  18. Brief Reunion
    Beautifully filmed but written without the psychological depth or sleight of hand of the best thrillers.
  19. Gloomy Sunday
    Dissolving four characters' lives into the dank smoke of the bitterest of torch songs, Gloomy Sunday fashions an apocryphal, pretty, and somewhat pat biography of the title ballad.
  20. Casino Jack
    In the grand finale, Abramoff fantasizes about using a Senate hearing to blow the whistle on the entire corrupt establishment. His rant offers a clue to how this otherwise pointlessly manic movie might have honed its political edge.
  21. Lebanon, Pa.
    Lebanon, Pa. begins as a tale about male, middle-aged self-discovery, but soon becomes something quite different: a clear-eyed if crassly manipulative take on the culture wars.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Bones
    Bones splits the difference between horror and social commentary, with pallid returns.
  23. Party Monster
    Party never gets rolling.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Last Sin Eater
    The miscasting of Fletcher--still a forbidding screen presence--as a kindly grandmother is only one of many missteps that director Michael Landon Jr. (yes, it's his son) makes in The Last Sin Eater.
  25. Road Hard
    Carolla's stilted screen presence and groan-worthy zingers neuter any humor from Bruce's needy quest to return to the spotlight.
  26. Heneral Luna
    At a minimum, the film might inspire some people to hit up Google for a crash course on this historical narrative.
  27. Titus
    A nonstop carnival of murder, rape, and mutilation .
  28. The Bourne Identity
    Banal big-budget adaptation of Robert Ludlum's 1980 espionage thriller.
  29. The Fourth Kind
    A couple of modestly effective shocks lie in store.
  30. Implanted
    Writer-director Thomas Verrette's thriller grapples with the foundational relationship between memory and self-identity. It's a well-trod path of exploration, and Verrette-- largely competent, often pedestrian-- doesn't bring much new to the investigative process.
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