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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. Open Hearts
    However schematic, the movie percolates with immediacy and genuine warmth.
  2. 8 Mile
    Extremely clever in its use of self-deprecation, it's guaranteed to bring down the house at any remotely sympathetic venue.
  3. A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake
    Skin is less life story than luxuriant mood bath.
  4. Neighboring Sounds
    A tightening of the two-hour-plus running time might have enhanced the balance between Filho's epic, evocative style and his smaller story about a certain mode of modern life, its lonely confrontations, and the stubborn legacies of the past.
  5. The Ghost Writer
    Saved by often delightfully bitchy British dialogue.
  6. Alive and Kicking
    The dancers in Alive and Kicking all share a rapturous expression, and Glatzer makes the case for this Depression-era diversion as a modern tonic for isolation.
  7. The Teacher
    The setup may be as unsubtle as a metaphoric morality lesson about Europe’s not-too-distant past, or perhaps it’s politically timeless; it’s not a far leap to also think about a certain someone’s insane need for backscratching loyalty within the White House.
  8. The Jungle Book
    If only all blockbusters could be this exciting, engrossing, and beautiful.
  9. Monterey Pop
    Though there's considerable footage of hippie activity (crafting kites, sleeping) and moments of prelapsarian frisson (a cop warns that "there's talk of the Hell's Angels coming down"), the film is resolutely performance-driven.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Guys and Dolls
    Guys and Dolls is a rare example of a filmed musical being as sprightly in its own way as the original stage production. [28 Mar 1956, p.6]
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  11. The Hunting Ground
    A film about individuals who refuse to be silenced could stand to take a few more chances itself.
  12. While We're Young
    Baumbach has made some fine pictures (Frances Ha) and some deadening, hermetic ones (Margot at the Wedding), but it's While We're Young that really fulfills the promise of his brash but fine-grained debut.
  13. 12:08 East of Bucharest
    A casually bleak and neatly structured ensemble comedy--at once deadpan and bemused.
  14. Shut Up & Sing
    The movie's not quite the Bush bashfest its publicity might lead you to believe; it's closer to the Metallica doc "Some Kind of Monster" than to "Fahrenheit 9/11."
  15. The Taste of Tea
    Warm and fantastical family portrait.
  16. Mediterranea
    The film proves a piercing character study whose narrow view frustrates complete empathy.
  17. Miss Sharon Jones!
    Kopple's film is intimate and rousing.
  18. Dallas Buyers Club
    What's remarkable about Dallas Buyers Club is its lack of sentimentality. The movie, like its star, is all angles and elbows, earning its emotion through sheer pragmatism.
  19. Prophet's Prey
    Grim but riveting viewing, a layered commentary on this country's moral and spiritual underbelly.
  20. Notre musique
    Too touchy-feely for some hardcore Godardians, Notre Musique is the most lucid of the master's recent films.
  21. Duck, You Sucker
    As ambitious as it is anachronistic, Duck, You Sucker demands to be read through the prism of World War II as well as 1968. Could this be the last movie in the great Italian tradition that began in 1945?
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
    Fight footage is kept to a minimum; in this film, the boxer's best one-two's don't hit inside the ring. Clay's ingenious hype-baiting moxie drives the first half, cut to a nouvelle pop beat.
  23. The Cockettes
    Fond, funny documentary.
  24. The Imposter
    Thick with reenactments and cute cutaways, the movie evolves into a cultural inquisition, following this stranger through the strange land of bad-news America, where the truth is still waiting to be exhumed.
  25. Güeros
    What makes Güeros fascinating, besides the joyous invention of Ruizpalacios's craft, is how the director emphasizes rather than hides his own authorial engagement.
  26. London - The Modern Babylon
    Temple and editor Caroline Richards demonstrate that the London mob (it can seem like there's been only one mob through the ages) time and again rescues the city from its complacency—and safeguards it from the suffocation of class-bound England.
  27. Winter Nomads
    Von Stürler offers raw footage of the four-month trek itself, which is often mesmerizing in its austere beauty; there's no narration, intertitles, or any other authorial hand-holding to trump up the message the images already convey on their own.
  28. Fort Buchanan
    It's squirrelly, surprising, and elusive, but this beaut of a debut is no curio.
  29. A Single Man
    A Single Man, with one significant exception, gives us only a series of immaculate poses. The exception is Firth, who, in spite of Ford's best efforts to turn him, too, into another piece of movable scenery, manages to convey a real human soul stirring beneath George's petrified façade
  30. The Harder They Come
    The definitive postcolonial cult-movie musical.
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