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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. One Cut, One Life
    It's a fault of feminism, of artistry, of generosity, for the older woman to envy one younger. And yet. How do we escape the myths into which we are born? We tell them, and show the hard work of telling.
  2. Muscle Shoals
    Greg "Freddy" Camalier's engaging new doc Muscle Shoals stands as a winning tribute to the coastal Alabama studio, musicians, and engineers who laid down some of the greatest pop tracks of the late '60s and early '70s.
  3. Honey
    With striking compositions and cuts that reveal a deep appreciation of cinema's possibilities, Valeria Golino's Honey could be about anything at all and still demand and hold your attention; that the narrative is as moving as the film is aesthetically precise is an added delight.
  4. Mala Mala
    This film does not pander. Rather, it demands that the viewer rise to the occasion.
  5. The Landlord
    One of the funniest social comedies of its period.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Between Days
    Instantly compelling.
  7. Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
    A film that's in perfect sync with its subject.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Win Win
    A "quirky" dramedy in the "Juno"/"Little Miss Sunshine" mode, but lacking the latter's vibrant ensemble and the former's snappy patter, Win Win is indie with the edges sanded down completely.
  9. Clean
    Hitting the ground in his ultra-naturalistic mode, Assayas only uncages his star's formidable smile once or twice and never demands our empathy, making Clean a uniquely pungent portrait of dependent personalities and the strain they put on the social weave.
  10. Heaven Knows What
    In the thinly veiled version of her life that appears onscreen, the actress unforgettably shows the deadening toll of always being on the move, only to return to the exact same place.
  11. The Son of Joseph
    Amalric enlivens episodes of limp satire by wholly embracing his unrepentantly self-serving libertine character.
  12. Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
    It's rare that a documentary conveys an artist's worldview so compellingly, but then Glennie is no ordinary musician.
  13. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    Solid middlebrow entertainment, a vast period epic with an almost DeMillean taste for excess.
  14. The Cider House Rules
    This adaptation of John Irving's novel--- is as paternalistic, puffed-up, and dull as a congressional debate about abortion rights.
  15. Tumbleweeds
    One of the refreshing aspects of the slight, flawed Tumbleweeds is that it creates a world inhabited by recognizable people.
  16. Croupier
    Polished and adroit ado about next to nothing, Hodges's film owes everything to Owen, who nails the vaguely unsavory, unreadable, half-lidded hunks that inhabit every profitable entertainment-industry outpost.
  17. Girl on the Bridge
    Painless -- not particularly funny and not even remotely moving.
  18. Félicité
    Gomis’s handheld cameras work to keep up with the actors, who seem to move with rare freedom, but he also stages some exquisite and complex flourishes.
  19. Goodbye to Language 3D
    To muddle through confusion, boredom, vaguely formed interest, brief elation, and confusion again is to experience the work as its creator intended.
  20. Time to Choose
    If An Inconvenient Truth served to scare us, then Time to Choose offers hope, presenting what amounts to an hour-and-45-minute commercial for renewable technology that might inspire confidence in scientific progress even as it reminds us that it isn't cheap being green.
  21. Lost in La Mancha
    The movie neither inspires us to pine for what might've been nor makes Gilliam-style filmmaking seem like a noble pursuit.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Blue Velvet
    The last real earthquake to hit cinema was David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" -- I'm sure directors throughout the film world felt the earth move beneath their feet and couldn't sleep the night of their first encounter with it back in 1986. (Review of 20th Anniversary Re-Release)
  23. Infernal Affairs
    Spins in place with aplomb, generating exponentially more vertiginous doublings with each sweaty-palmed set piece.
  24. Bernie
    Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the murder of an 81-year-old woman in a fashion that is not exactly tragic.
  25. Chasing Ice
    Still and live-action footage captures the ice sliding into the sea with exquisite grace, which makes it all the more wrenching. Are such images enough to convince the naysayers that something unnatural is occurring? Doubtful.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bridesmaids
    Many of the chaotic set pieces cataloging Annie's self-destruction have a kind of dumb crassness that works against Bridesmaids' often smart, highly class-conscious deconstruction of female friendship and competition.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
    Pitched for a sympathetic American audience, the documentary goes for shock with the filmmakers' first trip to "the altar of the world" in 1987, when they happened to be caught in an uprising of monks that was violently crushed by the Chinese army.
  28. The Invisible Woman
    The Invisible Woman finds Ralph Fiennes proving as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it.
  29. Tully
    Tully encapsulates the psychological process of maturity with pithy humor and vertiginous insight. Tully’s appearance may have seemed like a magical interlude, but she solidifies Marlo’s reality by exposing the path that led her there.
  30. Elizabeth
    Elizabeth's most triumphant aspect is Blanchett's transformation from saucy, spirited toe-tapper to iconic Virgin Queen.
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