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For 11,163 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 11163
  2. Mixed: 4,554 out of 11163
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11163
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  1. Standoff
    Standoff holds up as a welcome alternative to its more strident brethren.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Holding Trevor
    There's nothing to fill up the 88 minutes of the film except for the idle bitchery spewed by nearly every character.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Human Error
    On a spare stage set, Dresser's clever script is allowed breadth for contemplation; here it's sodden with animated sludge. Watch it with your eyes closed.
  4. Commitment
    When Commitment isn't a perfectly forgettable action film, it's either an oil-thin melodrama or a charbroiled treat for meatheads.
  5. Red Lights
    Much as I want to believe in Cortés, who is clearly talented and ambitious, there is just too much in Red Lights that encourages agnosticism.
  6. Forever My Girl
    Wolf establishes only a half-formed idea of the decisions, fights, and silences that have shaped these characters’ lives, so the cast often seems to be shouting into a vacuum.
  7. Fast Food Fast Women
    In his film's better moments, Kollek makes us laugh at these visions while also revealing their grace and frailty.
  8. Phantom
    Easily the artiest queer stroke movie of the year.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    Obtuse and creepy.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Poster Boy
    Rather than creating believable characters engaged in nuanced conflict, Boy proffers a pair of obvious symbols and hopes that they'll make a statement about the personal and the political.
  11. Fired!
    While "maybe it's for the best" proved happily prophetic for her actor pals, those words of comfort sound more like a clueless bromide when you consider the 30,000 people laid off in Lansing after the film wrapped.
  12. Swing
    Repeatedly assuring us that its titular subject is really "a metaphor for life," Swing attempts unsuccessfully to liven up a tired scenario with a touch of Twilight Zone fantasy.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Turistas
    Turistas eventually bogs down in an underlit mess.
  14. Serious Moonlight
    Serious Moonlight has a backstory much more intriguingly dramatic than what's onscreen.
  15. The Captive
    When it isn't TV-movie familiar, Egoyan's film is bughouse crazy, mixing in campy pulp elements that bleed pressure away from the story.
  16. Big Sky
    Jorge Michel Grau's Big Sky masquerades as a psychological thriller, but underneath it's a meditation on the worthlessness of men.
  17. Stardom
    With a few exceptions, most of the laughs in Stardom are cheap...and worse, the ideas beyond platitudinous.
  18. The Thirteenth Floor
    It'll make you cyberlaugh, it'll make you cybercry, just like cyberlife -- One thing is certain: your boredom
  19. The Reaping
    Those two age-old foes--science and blind faith--tango yet again in this noxious slice of Biblical horror about a series of Old Testament plagues being visited upon a Louisiana bayou backwater.
  20. Dumb and Dumber To
    The misfires, including a strange menstruation gag, far outnumber the hits. Dumb and Dumber To is mostly just a kick in the nuts, and not the good kind -- provided there is a good kind.
  21. I Am Number Four
    Nothing but a million little pieces from prior superhero series and the "Twilight" saga.
  22. The Pink Panther 2
    It's Garcia, Molina, and Tomlin who give you momentary hope that the film might settle into a witty, irreverent romp. Unfortunately, their efforts are ultimately defeated.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Tony N' Tina's Wedding
    The not-exactly-long-awaited movie version is here, trading in stereotypes just as ineptly as the original.
  24. Something Borrowed
    It's clear that Something Borrowed finds it easier to tell us about relationships than to show us them under way.
  25. Archaeology of a Woman
    Sharon Greytak's Archaeology of a Woman is a decidedly well-made, unnerving film.
  26. Ithaca
    It's the rare film to miss its every mark.
  27. This Revolution
    A clever but aesthetically murky remake of Haskell Wexler's scorching McLuhan pastiche "Medium Cool" (1969).
  28. Art History
    Swanberg has discovered lighting and mood-to occasionally stunning effect. Perhaps in some future memo from the front lines of indie-sploitation, he will unite them with story and more than a superficial nod to character.
  29. A Promise
    No bodices were harmed in veteran French filmmaker Patrice Leconte's chaste and bloodless English-language debut.
  30. Father of Invention
    The rather unappealing character of Axel is indulged with every opportunity for redemption, as Spacey is indulged with every opportunity to showboat.
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