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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. Tattoo Nation
    The images of the style as it evolves, and especially those that fill the last 15 minutes of "Tattoo", are so beautiful and often majestic that they overshadow the film's small shortcomings.
  2. Thale
    Any initial, intriguing otherworldly atmosphere is negated by answers that are more pedestrian than terrifying.
  3. Chashme Baddoor
    Chashme Baddoor's modest charms dissipate quickly, but they're certainly real.
  4. Nautanki Saala!
    Nautanki Saala's creators spend so much time disinterestedly transitioning from one plot point to the next that they only effectively establish the haphazard nature of RP and Nandini's romance.
  5. The Happy House
    It's hard to be certain whether the film's placidity is an ironic gag, but the modesty at work turns out to be pretty likable, as strange as that sounds.
  6. Triumph of the Wall
    Triumph of the Wall is often painfully boring and rather shapeless, not so much a crafted film as a compendium of one guy's musings. Regardless, in an era when seemingly every documentary is tied to a hot-button issue, making one about a guy building a wall is endearing.
  7. It Takes a Man and a Woman
    The final leg of director Cathy Garcia-Molina's exceptionally broad, partly English-dubbed cockles-warmer of a trilogy outright apes Hollywood rom-com formulas with a personality so affably lobotomized it wouldn't dare frighten delicate tastes.
  8. Holla II
    Dumb as they're written, even Holla II's characters are smart enough to want to exit this clunker as fast as they can.
  9. G-Dog
    Once the stakes are raised in the final third, Mock allows her camera to roam over its subjects’ faces and let their story tell itself—a wise choice, made not a moment too soon.
  10. Occupy Love
    The photography is beautiful, the scenes of crowds and their signs arresting, and the interviews with individual protesters...are often inspiring.
  11. Aroused
    Aspires to be a consciousness-raising documentary but is only as deep as a tube of lipstick.
  12. How Sweet It Is
    An extraordinarily undistinguished comedy from director Brian Herzlinger.
  13. Shootout at Wadala
    No amount of hyper-stylized, Guy Ritchie–inspired posturing can save a film whose lead antihero is so unrepentantly vile.
  14. The Fruit Hunters
    The filmmakers' focus is fleeting. Factoids about the origins of names like Haas avocados, Macintosh apples, Clementines and Bing cherries feel like patches of solid ground, while interludes of terrible acting to illustrate fruit-related historical moments leave a bitter taste.
  15. Charge
    There's no dearth of adrenaline as engineering teams face challenges every bit as bumpy, winding, perilous and exhilarating as the famous course itself.
  16. Go Goa Gone
    Most jokes don't translate very well in Go Goa Gone, a Bollywood horror comedy influenced by Shaun of the Dead.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Finding Joy
    Carlo De Rosa's comedy bears some resemblance to Garden State, although it's a little less depressing and more random in its oddities.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Free China: The Courage to Believe
    Free China, with its aggressive narration, haunting music, and disturbing photographic evidence of crimes against humanity, wants you to walk away outraged at the injustice of it all, and most likely, you will.
  19. I Send You This Place
    Even at a lean 68 minutes, it's a vanity project that's the very definition of insufferable.
  20. Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire
    A surprisingly thoughtful, well-researched attempt to give both sides of the argument respect while illuminating the long history of tensions surrounding gun ownership in America.
  21. Compulsion
    The game of wills that ensues between the two women isn't terribly interesting, much less suspenseful, and in fact, it's not clear that director Egidio Coccimiglio and screenwriter Floyd Byars ever settled on whether they were making a thriller or a satire about food and celebrity.
  22. L.A. Superheroes
    It's a movie by people who lifted almost all their ideas from much better movies, and lean too heavily on "based on a true story" to pave over their film's weaknesses.
  23. Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
    This picture may not have the structure of a more practiced documentary, but what it lacks in delivery it compensates for with fervency.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Magic Camp
    Real drama, from a storytelling perspective, is scarce, but that's as it should be.
  25. Under the Bed
    The real bogeyman is incomprehensible plotting in director Steven C. Miller's Under the Bed, which matches narrative incoherence with one of the most over-the-top portentous scores in horror-cinema history.
  26. Centro Histórico
    A rich, artful quartet of shorts mirroring the diverse idiosyncrasies of four significant auteurs.
  27. Cavedigger
    The line between creative ambition and risky obsession is sharply drawn—or rather, carved out of New Mexico sandstone—in the life and work of wholly motivated artist Ra Paulette.
  28. Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man
    Director-producer Florian Steinbiss's German-set, largely German-cast comedy mixes genres with all the quality control of a fourth-grader dispensing every soda flavor into one cup.
  29. Jajouka, Something Good Comes to You
    The artists prove a motif rather than a resting point, with the film circling around them, then breaking away for further visions.
  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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