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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. I'm Not Scared
    The upshot is a general fog of two-dimensional characterization, slowly churning plot gearwork, and an ineffective air of forced lyricism.
  2. Super Size Me
    Sometimes exerts the gross-out fascination of reality TV's muckier specimens--its arc suggests a slow-motion "Fear Factor," or "Extreme Makeover" in reverse.
  3. Divorce Iranian Style
    A small, direct, tantalizing documentary.
  4. Woman on the Beach
    Albeit not as textured as Hong's past few films, Woman on the Beach is no less engrossing--a rueful tale of karmic irony, self-deceived desire, squandered second chances, and unforeseen abandonment.
  5. Heading South
    An intelligent movie, not so much salacious as affecting but ultimately less analytical than overwrought, Heading South makes its points in the first 20 minutes.
  6. Le Week-End
    The great insight in director Roger Michell's fourth collaboration with writer Hanif Kureishi is its vision of Paris as an arena equally amenable to romantic comedy and sulking tragedy.
  7. Exiled
    By Hong Kong standards, To's policiers have been fairly down-to-earth, but Exiled--which begins with a tribute to Sergio Leone and ends by acknowledging Sam Peckinpah--exists solely in the world of the movies.
  8. United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
    Crucially, the variety of interviewees in Hubbard's doc - men and women of different races and classes - underscores just how diverse ACT UP was in its heyday.
  9. Gilbert
    In Neil Berkeley’s documentary Gilbert, we’re gifted with intimate moments from the comedian’s life.
  10. Love & Bananas
    Noi Na’s subsequent acclimation to her new home in the refuge is hopeful, but Chailert’s bravery, sacrifice, and manifest love are the only redemption the film holds out for humans.
  11. Cold Mountain
    A big fat war movie and a tender love story. Indeed, Cold Mountain is something of an uneasy struggle between the two modes.
  12. I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive
    Despite the clumsy script and a shaky acting partner, Cattani, at least, is fascinating to watch, never demanding audience sympathy.
  13. Something, Anything
    This is a sure-handed, complex portrait of one woman's attempts to feel alive.
  14. Train to Busan
    Yeon's patient direction and clever plot twists make Seok-woo's transformation from selfish antihero into brave caregiver consistently compelling.
  15. Me and Orson Welles
    Deft, affectionate, and unexpectedly enjoyable.
  16. For the Bible Tells Me So
    Daniel Karslake's movie is more human interest than agitprop.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rocket Science
    Once Rocket Science enters the realm of the debate competition, the director's eye for detail never deserts him.
  18. American Sniper
    The humble Kyle onscreen is Kyle with his flaws written out. We're not watching a biopic. We're watching a drama about an idealized soldier, a patriot beyond reproach, which bolsters Kyle's legend while gutting the man.
  19. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    A script that consistently finds fresh outlets for its running gags makes for a sufficiently rollicking pleasure cruise.
  20. The Price of Sugar
    Out of this sorry tale of human trafficking emerges a fascinating portrait of this handsome, pugnacious, one-man NGO, who left a cushy life with his patrician Anglo-Spanish family to work with Mother Theresa and devote himself to the oppressed.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess
    Stuffed with talking heads, Harlan is overlong and redundant, but its core questions are worthy.
  22. China Blue
    Shot at the peril of Peled and his crew, China Blue feels stage-managed at times.
  23. Family Portrait in Black and White
    The film's emotional and psychological textures suffer for those losses, but Family is still riveting viewing.
  24. Uncle Howard
    A bit disjointed but also vibrant and loving.
  25. Milford Graves Full Mantis
    Form and content collide in inspiring ways in this documentary about Milford Graves — avant-garde jazz percussionist, educator, gardener, martial artist, and cardiovascular researcher. Milford Graves Full Mantis is a jazz movie in every sense of the word.
  26. The Forgiveness of Blood
    Marston nails the claustrophobia of small-town life and the turbulent emotionalism of teenagers, but what pushes the film toward sublimity is the way he delicately captures all of the characters' inner lives as their world slowly crumbles.
  27. Obscene
    Very fine documentary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Indie Game: The Movie
    An insightful new geek documentary, well directed by first-timers Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Declaration of War
    Shot in the actual hospital where Donzelli and Elkaïm's actual son was treated for cancer, Declaration of War turns autobiography into thrilling expressionist art.
  30. All Things Must Pass
    The director's native warmth and sympathy are extended here to the store and the personalities that made it a billion-dollar, globe-bestriding colossus.
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