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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. 5x2
    Deceptively placid and subtly unpredictable drama.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paternal Instinct
    As intimate as a home movie, Instinct has only one flaw: its length.
  3. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    July's witty ode to only-connecting sustains a delicate tone of pensive whimsy.
  4. My Summer of Love
    Slowly evolves into an oddly affecting mood piece.
  5. The Talent Given Us
    Raw, fascinating, often unpleasant film.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rize
    Highly entertaining but underdeveloped documentary.
  7. War of the Worlds
    Although it's thoroughly retooled, H.G. Wells's scenario doesn't allow for many soft landings, and the extreme respect for havoc on view quite properly keeps the Spielbergian cutesies to a minimum.
  8. Twist of Faith
    Director Kirby Dick (Derrida) shapes the movie in such a way as to leave everyone flummoxed.
  9. Saraband
    Saraband doesn't ask to be considered prime-cut Bergman, and it isn't, although its slightness may not matter to the art-film starving class.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Fun and nourishing, Charlie's the topsy-turvy equivalent of a three-course dinner in a single stick of gum.
  11. The Reception
    A fresh and uncompromising account of emotional self-immolation and romantic flux. And it has a happy ending to boot.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
    Instead of the affectless soundtrack of mopey indie rock, a trip through the Anthology of American Folk Music would have better served the landscape.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sky High
    Clunky and shamelessly transparent, but it's also charmingly earnest, and well designed for kids.
  14. Tony Takitani
    Oneiric as it is, though, Tony Takitani conveys a powerfully tangible sense of loss and loneliness. In both concrete and existential terms, it's a film that dwells on what the dead leave behind and how the living carry on.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    Though the film lacks some of the paper incarnation's subtlety, Dai's infidelity to his own text keeps things interesting. He busts the book's brief time frame, tweaks countless plot points, and tops it all off with a titanic metaphor not found in his own pages.
  16. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    The Virgin script occasionally resets a gold standard for refined crudery.
  17. Red Eye
    Craven's terror-alert white-knuckler is zippy, unpretentious.
  18. 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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    A revenge tragedy as brutal and Byzantine as "Titus Andronicus," Park Chanwook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance accomplishes a miraculous feat by being harrowing and humane in equal measure.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Baxter
    A sign of The Baxter's charm is that it's essentially spoiler-proof: We know from the get-go which couples will pair off, and the pleasures lie in the spring-stepped vibe, the natty throwback wardrobe, and the intricate goofball patter.
  21. The Memory of a Killer
    Van Looy has created a fast-paced and stylish thriller. Declair's Ledda, marvelously suave and vulnerable, provides most of the pathos.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
    The charm of Tim Irwin's documentary, which charts via archival footage and talking-head reminiscences the arc of the band bassist Watt shared with guitarist D. Boon and drummer George Hurley in the early '80s, is that emphasis on the personal.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Music from the Inside Out
    A revealing portrait of painfully withdrawn artists navigating the tug between the divine harmony of an orchestral synthesis and the sweaty glow of individual experimentation.
  24. Thumbsucker
    Endearing and well-acted.
  25. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
    The Weeping Meadow shares the awed sense of solemn apocalypse with his (Angelopoulos) signature films, but it's lighter, more musical and folktale-ish.
  26. Occupation: Dreamland
    A fair-minded (but hardly apolitical) grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq that trusts the audience to draw its own conclusions.
  27. Oliver Twist
    Accomplished if lacking in urgency, this Oliver Twist (scripted by Ronald Harwood, who also wrote "The Pianist") showcases Polanski's proven gift for Dickensian caricature.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Serenity
    Though richly allegorical, Serenity also works as a rousing and unabashedly manipulative adventure that never takes itself too seriously.
  29. In Her Shoes
    The best moments belong to Shirley MacLaine, who makes the clipped script sing as Ella.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Summer Storm
    One of the film's major assets is Stadlober's winningly natural performance-his moody charisma is irresistible.
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