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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. Domain
    Dalle, with a mouth that could devour the world, unravels inexorably but with decadent dignity, and Chiha's singular film never relies on cliché in its examination of illness, disappointment, and abandonment.
  2. I Will Follow
    Its elegantly simple structure filled in with startling, understated force, I Will Follow is a modestly framed portrait of grief in its first season.
  3. El Velador
    El Velador still sharply conveys what life is like in a traumatized nation.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Buena Vista Social Club
    Feels like a timeless blast from the past.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Little Fish
    While Little Fish takes a turn for the generic in its final act, solid acting, an atmospheric soundtrack, and flare-filled cinematography more beautiful than an Apple screensaver are enough to keep the film afloat.
  6. Staying Vertical
    As always with Guiraudie’s films, Staying Vertical shrewdly (and often hilariously) captures both the seriousness and the absurdity of sex.
  7. Touching the Void
    Unexpectedly bridges genres -- it's a buddy movie, a horror story, a boy's-own adventure, and a near metaphysical meditation on the limits of human endurance.
  8. The Embalmer
    Skillfully directed and adroitly acted.
  9. Pariah
    The first 10 minutes of Dee Rees's funny, moving, nuanced, and impeccably acted first feature, in which coming of age and coming out are inseparable, sharply reveal the conflicts that 17-year-old Alike (Adepero Oduye) faces.
  10. 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.
  11. Napoleon Dynamite
    Thrusts us into a high school senior year like no other.
  12. Turtle Hill, Brooklyn
    Nothing is forced in Ryan Gielen's deceptively simple story, with the pressures bubbling forth as naturally as the good cheer that defines so much of the film.
  13. Caterina va in città
    Pitch-perfect performances and a light-handed but razor-sharp script keep this satire brisk and biting.
  14. The Trip
    The verbal jousts are droll and the countryside is splendid, although the food - an endless succession of fussy little presentations - may be an acquired taste.
  15. Little Voice
    The show that Horrocks puts on when she finally takes to the stage is more than worth the wait.
  16. 5 Broken Cameras
    What makes 5 Broken Cameras stand out is its insistence on nuance and its refusal to get caught up in the self-defeating war of words over who is the bigger victim.
  17. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
    A superbly crafted science-fiction fairy tale that's both Grimm and grim.
  18. Le tombeau d'Alexandre
    The Last Bolshevik, considered by some to be Marker's masterpiece.
  19. Train of Life
    It's entertainment that never lets us off the hook.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dragonslayer
    Nothing like a traditional social-issue doc, Patterson's one-of-a-kind hybrid captures a socio-historical moment with the kind of charged authenticity that only comes from a willingness to embrace contradictions: It's discursive and hypnotic, laconic and urgent.
  21. Oslo, August 31st
    Matching the precision of the film's title, remembrances of things past-whether destructive or salutary, quickly mentioned or dilated upon-are shaped by just enough exacting detail.
  22. The Matchmaker
    An old-fashioned Mediterranean coming-of-age story set in the young heart of the Levant, The Matchmaker combines the tender tone of a film like "Cinema Paradiso" with a clear-eyed, street-level vantage on Israel's summer of the Six-Day War.
  23. Ted 2
    MacFarlane's comedy may not be sophisticated on its face, but the mechanisms behind it are delicately calibrated.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Serves up a gripping look at skate history through an investigation of one of its darker moments.
  25. Mafioso [re-release]
    Alberto Lattuada's tricky-to-parse Mafioso dates from 1962 but, with its abrupt tonal shifts and disturbing existential premise, this nearly forgotten dark comedy could be the most modern (or at least modernist) movie in town.
  26. El Mar La Mar
    Nothing here is hurried, but it does fascinate.
  27. Hearts and Minds (re-release)
    Built to outrage, appall, and indict.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    12 Angry Men
    The great merits and great defects of the age-old Anglo-American jury system are examined with conscientiousness and considerable drama. [22 May 1957, p.6]
    • Village Voice
  29. eXistenZ
    Almost buoyant in its creepiness and positively bejeweled in its disgust -- the movie can be enjoyably considered as a self-conscious fiction in the convoluted tradition of Raul Ruiz or Brian De Palma's "Raising Cain."
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gigi
    Gigi has more imaginative use of cinema than all our recent pseudo-realist movies put together.
    • Village Voice
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