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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. The New Girlfriend
    Ozon sacrifices his sharp portrayal of grief and rebirth to clumsy convention.
  2. The Dish
    Harmless and affectionate, The Dish gives its clichés breathing room, and so a few are pleasantly surprising.
  3. Looking for Cheyenne
    A beguiling comedy from a Marxist-inflected thesis that is filled with characters who rage against the machine with pessimism, optimism, and naïveté--sometimes in rotation.
  4. Mauvais Sang
    Bittersweet, haunting, and as original and eccentric as homage movies get.
  5. The Hurricane
    Far too tepid.
  6. Billy Elliot
    By setting this intimate conflict against a wider social drama, Daldry makes his portrait of a dancer all the more compelling.
  7. The Keys to the House
    If the film's redemptive ending is a fairy tale, it's one we willingly embrace.
  8. Ahead of Time
    The unspooling of her life is a truly fascinating yarn of proto-feminist achievement and humbling empathy.
  9. How I Ended This Summer
    Playing an ignoble protagonist, Dobrygin keeps his motives always quietly evident; later, lost in a fog painted red by an emergency flare, he's an abject vision of man in a hell of his own making.
  10. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
    What saves the film—and grandly—is Nance’s wildly ambitious visual imagination. Teetering somewhere between film school precocity and impressively assured audaciousness...It’s almost hypnotic in its style and genre promiscuity.
  11. Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde
    Through photos and family lore, but mostly through Dayton's own eloquence, Mitchell assembles a biographical portrait that's inspiring in the best possible way.
  12. Far From Men
    Its plotting is often a tad too plodding, but with the charismatic Mortensen exuding understated internal crisis (in a French- and Arabic-speaking role), Oelhoffen's film proves a compelling portrait of individuals striving to cope with, and at least somewhat overcome, cultural dislocation.
  13. Of Horses and Men
    Of Horses and Men is often sprightly, and almost every shot is an eyeful.
  14. Something Better to Come
    Perhaps even more disturbing than the Dickensian in extremis ordeal of Svalka life — including her rational yet heartbreaking decision to give up her baby rather than raise it in the dump — is Yula's straightforward acceptance of her situation.
  15. Famous Nathan
    Terrific documentaries are a dime a dozen; ones this multifaceted are to be cherished.
  16. The Creation of Meaning
    Rapisarda Casanova's film shows just how much natural splendor dominates the region, here caught at the height of estival glory.
  17. Harry & Snowman
    The engaging Harry & Snowman shows the impact of a rescue animal on the man who saw his neglected qualities. It's also a succinct demonstration of the difference between a livelihood and a life's work.
  18. Blood on the Mountain
    As consistently depressing as this movie is, it thankfully shows you that before you dismiss the denizens of an entire region as poor white trash, you should listen to their story.
  19. Everybody Loves Somebody
    Everybody Loves Somebody won’t reinvent the (third) wheel, but the knowing dialogue and convincingly human characters are a refreshing break from the norm and worthy of your attention.
  20. Raising Bertie
    Raising Bertie charts nothing less than what it’s like to try to grow up free in the prison capital of the world.
  21. Kung Fu Panda
    Perfectly pleasant, very good-looking, modestly funny, dispiritingly unoriginal variant on the nerd-with-a-dream recipe that's been clobbered to death in animated films for at least a decade now.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Crazy Rich Asians
    For all its carnival-like antics, Crazy Rich Asians is all too aware of its own spectacle.
  23. The History Boys
    The film version of The History Boys is a lesser thing, more fixed in space and time and rendered almost unbearably "cinematic" in patches by Hytner's gymnastic camerawork. Yet the ideas and feelings of the piece remain so rich that it almost doesn't matter.
  24. A Mighty Heart
    Angelina Jolie is the major alienation effect in A Mighty Heart, although she's not the only one. The hectic pizzazz with which hired gun Michael Winterbottom directs this tale of terrifying terrorism is another distraction.
  25. Becoming Traviata
    A spare and ravishing doc.
  26. Fastball
    You wouldn't lose anything watching Fastball on ESPN rather than in the movie theater, but it does stand as further testament to baseball's status as our most chess-like sport, and one that, even when broken down to its tiniest component parts, never loses its magic.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sir! No Sir!
    As it is, this one is compelling enough, a potent mix of outrage, residual anger, and sorrow that speaks not just to the legacy of our misadventures in Vietnam, but to the entire uncertain future of a nation at war.
  28. Place Vendôme
    Inept as a thriller, Place Vendôme nevertheless intrigues.
  29. Invictus
    Like every Eastwood production, Invictus is stately, handsomely mounted, attentive to detail right down to the Marmite adorning the team's breakfast buffet, and relentlessly conventional. As a portrait of a hero, the movie effortlessly brings a lump to the throat (Freeman gives a subtly crafted performance that blends Mandela's physical frailty with his easy charm and cerebral wit); as history, it is borderline daft and selective to the point of distortion.
  30. Herb & Dorothy
    Watching the Vogels mull over art that they don't need to understand only makes their delight more infectious.
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