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For 11,163 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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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    • 20 Critic Score
    They're Just My Friends
    For such a poorly made autobiopic to earn a theatrical release, Nwamu must have some friends in high places.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    As the Call, So the Echo
    In the end, though, Keir can't resist glorifying his dad, with a final shot seeped in a tone of self-congratulation that the rest of the film so nimbly evades.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    Deeper Than Y
    The interviews are lively, though not all documentary subjects are created equal.
  4. Reminiscing in Tempo
    Keys's tribute to a tribute is a charming riff on an epic figure.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Sacrifice
    The effect is not unlike a Terrence Malick "Real Sex" episode -- only Bruno thwarts any viewer who craves titillation in a plain brown wrapper of moral outrage.
  6. Urbanscapes
    The panoramas of vacant lots and boarded-up buildings, cheesily scored to lugubrious music, get monotonous, until you realize that repetition is precisely the point.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    The Color of Olives
    The Color of Olives attempts to reach the political through the mundane, documenting blocks of lost time as the family lazes in front of wire fences, but director Carolina Rivas aestheticizes the Amers' plight, using them as actors for her tone poem on displacement.
  8. Modern Man
    Swibel can't keep his HD camera still enough to find poetry in this profound hunk of nothingness, his observational in-and-out zooms as meandering as co-writer Becker's on-screen attention span.
  9. Canary
    Writer-director Akihiko Shiota's dramatic strategies are limited to the point of monotony.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Bachna Ae Haseeno
    Two and a half hours of this will try anyone's patience.
  11. All of Us
    Brooklyn filmmaker Emily Abt's well-meaning, pro-feminist doc offers little new insight in seeking to raise awareness that black women are disproportionately at high risk for HIV infection.
  12. Mary
    Tightly framed and tightly wound, Mary is a claustrophobic, incandescent, nutty 83 minutes with everyone in the cast teetering on the ledge of madness.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Just Buried
    The movie serves up gory killings and kinky peripheral shenanigans without any satirical thrust, blunting its death-equals-profit subtext with a snickering tone better suited to an afternoon of Clue.
  14. Cargo 200
    Regardless of intent, Cargo 200 is beautifully filmed and completely disturbing for its entire running time.
  15. Mutant Chronicles
    A film this monotonous will make you zone out.
  16. Home
    Using cinema as self-therapy might be a selfish way to treat audiences, but Harden and Scheel's chemistry makes the mother-daughter dynamic universal.
  17. Offshore
    Cheklich's insipid, cheapjack dramedy--about a flagging company's decision to outsource--isn't potent enough to even be called a lukewarm-button movie.
  18. Sikandar
    Despite the cliché-riddled translation and super-corny sound design, writer-director Piyush Jha presents an affecting account of the Kashmir conflict through the struggles of its children.
  19. The Painter Sam Francis
    For aficionados, the evidently rare footage of Francis squatting on hairy thighs, scampering ahead to stay intuitive before intellectual, will justify the film.
  20. Skiptracers
    The primary source of comedy is tiresome pottymouthing.
  21. Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
    The resulting experience could very easily be described as off-putting -- which well suits the uneasiness of the subject.
  22. Fatal Promises
    Outlines a culture of cross-border corruption that preys on poverty and has become so widespread that it can now be mentioned in the same breath as the drug trade. The film also critiques the willful ignorance of law-making bodies that turn a blind eye to these atrocities.
  23. Paradise
    Steadily maintaining momentum and a meditative mood without narration or editorialization is itself a feat, but more vitally, Paradise appreciates and shares the curious mysteries in the seemingly banal.
  24. Do Knot Disturb
    Contemporary B'wood movies are not for all tastes, and rarely do they show potential to appeal to mainstream American sensibilities, but Do Knot Disturb is so boorish and shrill that it's easy to mourn all of the great, unfinished films that could be made for just the cost of its item-number budget.
  25. The Heretics
    For a movement that was "fundamentally leaderless," Braderman's film gives its participants an opportunity to rightfully claim: "We thought we could change things--and, in fact, we did."
  26. Eulogy for a Vampire
    This is one gay vampire film that's surprisingly anemic.
  27. How to Seduce Difficult Women
    It is, perhaps, best not to expect too much from the directorial debut of Grace Kelly's ex-hairdresser; still, How to Seduce Difficult Women is woefully incompetent and ugly.
  28. Word Is Out
    Extraordinary, groundbreaking documentary.
  29. Promised Lands
    Promised Lands is the only western documentary made about the war, but today, the movie seems more remarkable as a Sontag artifact than as political filmmaking.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights
    For his part, Jack works it out onstage, in some of the most subtly shot and well-recorded concert footage ever from a band not named the Rolling Stones.
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