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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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    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Flakes
    Despite a few good one-liners, the dialogue is overwritten, and director Michael Lehmann (Heathers, The Truth About Cats & Dogs) is in thrall with the hipness he tries to chronicle.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Broken Sky
    That's the movie--desperate grasps, huffy affronts, gulping kisses, and one juicy (if silent) sex scene, early in the film, before our senses have been deadened by boredom. Without dialogue, we don't know who the characters are, so we can't care about what they do.
  3. Watching TV with the Red Chinese
    Nearly every scene is clunky, and the film's commentary about TV as the unifying glue of American culture is embellished through lame incidents of sex and violence that eventually validate the Chinese tourists' anti-U.S. critiques.
  4. The Hurricane Heist
    The Hurricane Heist delivers what it promises on some basic level; it’s got plenty of hurricane, and it’s got plenty of heist. But those looking for Sharknado-style idiocy will probably be disappointed, as will those looking for anything that makes sense. That might be the film’s fundamental problem.
  5. The Blue Tooth Virgin
    In case we don't get that this is pretentious bullshit, David mentions how much he likes Bergman's "Persona." Later, to hammer it home, he admits that he's been trying to be a cooler person by succumbing to peer pressure by seeing "art films" and listening "to certain bands that actually suck."
  6. Ordinary Sinner
    As technically amateurish as it is narratively ludicrous.
  7. The Big Blue
    The results are predictably lachrymose, especially with the reinstated "unhappy" ending from the original French version.
  8. Dreamcatcher
    If hopeless literalist Kasdan could have decided on a tone this could have been a gynophobe's "Independence Day."
  9. Night of Henna
    Hobbles a likable cast with dialogue flatter than Bollywood's cheesiest.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    New York
    Quite apart from the fact that none of these performers is capable of smoldering with conviction, there's no terror or sensuality in director Khan's images.
  11. Eichmann
    Young's well-intentioned dramatic re-enactment of their encounters is burdened by sepia-period accessorizing, laborious flashbacks, spurious comparisons between the two men's domestic lives, and the downright bizarre casting of Franka Potente as Less's ailing wife and Stephen Fry as an Israeli pol who wants the case wrapped up in five minutes or less.
  12. When Harry Tries to Marry
    A substandard romantic comedy gussied up in Indian drag.
  13. Laredoans Speak: Voices on Immigration
    The movie's argument only occasionally transcends its oozy nonspecificity and feel-good bleeding-heart vibe.
  14. Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child
    While the opera nonetheless soars with its acrobatic choreography of refugee displacement, this documentary about it suffers some dramatic slackness from the inevitable drawing board tedium of performance preparation.
  15. Adventures of the Penguin King
    The dull Adventures of the Penguin King is definitely the laziest of the waddle-coms to win theatrical release.
  16. Arise
    The mother-daughter filmmaking team's doc reads more as a feature-length infomercial for the many organizations it highlights—all of which are more than deserving of the attention—than a probing look at what it means to be at one with our planet in the 21st century.
  17. Radio Free Albemuth
    In an alternate universe, this might be a cult hit; as it is, Albemuth will only be fun for diehards.
  18. Everly
    Everly has the heaving, bloody bosoms of an exploitation flick, yet Hayek gives the character powerful dignity. She's no victim, nor an off-the-shelf "strong woman."
  19. Manny
    Throughout, the complexities of the charismatic fighter's life are only cursorily referenced so that the celebratory tone may not be marred, with Manny ultimately content to treat its subject with kid gloves.
  20. Listening
    Rather than pioneering into the frontiers of the mind, Listening slogs through the most well-traveled pits of screenwriting.
  21. Landmine Goes Click
    It's an exploitation film that never gets its audience off, even with cheap thrills — what a dud.
  22. 31
    Rob Zombie can do better than 31. For proof, just watch any other Rob Zombie movie.
  23. Spaceman
    Throughout the film, the wrong characters are in focus, inexplicable close-ups abound, and Rapkin’s got the camera on rails, moving and panning for seemingly no reason.
  24. A Billion Lives
    Demonstrating an egregious contempt for science, Biebert and his subjects attack the call for research into the effects of electronic cigarettes as nothing more than shilling for tax collectors and Big Pharma.
  25. 200 Cigarettes
    Nothing much happens, and that's the point, but all this wheel spinning could have used more grease.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    20 Dates
    The movie's best observations come from its sinister, unseen producer, who sneers at Berkowitz, "You're making a cartoon piece of shit . . . that ends with you jerking off by yourself."
  27. 7 Minutes
    Unlike guilty-pleasure Guy Ritchie crime films, in which vivid characters and unlikely subplots converge in lush visual mayhem, 7 Minutes is humorless and perfunctory, its heavies and protagonists never so much as aspiring to transcend or challenge the stereotypes they represent.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    102 Dalmatians
    Cruella is once again bent on collecting enough puppy skins to fashion the frock of her dreams. And once again, yawn.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Perfect Score
    "X is to Y, as this shit is to boring."
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Stateside
    Stateside's real-life frame allows the complexities of mental illness and military service to lose dramatic tension, resulting in a desultory home stretch of group therapy, tears, and reconciliation.
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