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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Sin Alas
    Sin Alas matches the half-awake feeling evoked by Luis's ruminations — on love, on Cuba's history, and on himself — well enough to feel authentic even when it meanders too far from what makes it most compelling.
  2. Truth
    Vanderbilt, the screenwriter of Zodiac, here making his debut as a director, masters the heady pulse of high-end, high-stakes journalism.
  3. The Illinois Parables
    Stratman often juxtaposes static, serene landscape footage with an increasingly agitated soundtrack, arriving at an odd consonance amid so much dissonance.
  4. Madrid, 1987
    Miguel uses her beauty and placid demeanor as a screen against which to project his memories of past adventures and the ghost of his libido.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Hangover
    Phillips can't bring himself to push the material into truly outré territory, or to characterize his growth-impaired guys as degenerate creeps rather than lovable scamps.
  6. Heartless
    With erratic success, Heartless tries a number of different veins-urban fairy tale with "There was no magic, it was you all along" twist, supernatural family drama-but it's on firmest footing as a macabre comedy.
  7. The Day After
    The imaginative and compassionate leaps of Hong’s other recent films — which spin stories out of the wounded women in the filmmaker’s life — are nowhere to be found. Still, the candor is impressive, and the pain feels real. The Day After may not be a particularly great film, but it does feel like a necessary one.
  8. Out of the Blue (1980)
    For orchestrating lurid goonishness, Hopper can't be beat.
  9. Sunshine State
    The whole of Sunshine State is less than the sum of its parts, but the parts are often lovely, and always true.
  10. Freeze Me
    Ishii's rough-hewn film may be the nastiest entry in its dubious but resonant subgenre since "I Spit on Your Grave." It's a black pearl for anyone who likes a little existential psychosis with their semi-softcore exploitation.
  11. Magic Mike XXL
    He's selling nonsense fantasy in a movie that's nonsense fantasy, but boy is Tatum the real deal.
  12. Shot Caller
    Shot Caller is Coster-Waldau’s show, and he’s up to the task.
  13. The Dancer Upstairs
    Initially engrossing, The Dancer Upstairs slackens in its second half.
  14. The American Scream
    Though not must-see cinema, it is entertaining and affecting.
  15. Réquiem NN
    [A] quiet, somber film.
  16. Summer of Sam
    A film in which many things seem to happen twice and others not at all.
  17. Manito
    Unusually impassioned indie.
  18. My Amityville Horror
    Whether it was all a haunting or a hoax is left unanswered, but the film leaves little doubt that Amityville's greatest source of evil was, fundamentally, parental in nature.
  19. God of War
    The athleticism on display shames much of Western action cinema’s quick-cut hand-to-hand editing, and the final swordfight between Qi and Japanese general Kumasawa (Shaw Brothers mainstay Yasuaki Kurata) ranks as high as any in recent memory.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paternal Instinct
    As intimate as a home movie, Instinct has only one flaw: its length.
  21. The Ward
    Carpenter does what he's always done well here: individualizing shorthand personalities in a group under siege. This is Carpenter's first all-female ensemble, and the inmates are uniformly well-played.
  22. The Unknown Girl
    As we watch Haenel — whose piercing gaze is only one aspect of her luminosity — stride through these overdetermined scenes, clutching a medical bag to her side, we are reminded that even the most timeworn of conventions can be made electric and alive.
  23. The Yards
    Gray's brand of film-buffery manifests itself, simply and irresistibly, as ardent, uncynical movie love.
  24. Mongolian Ping Pong
    Much more so than any movie actually about spiritual discipline, the new Chinese film Mongolian Ping Pong could be a meditational object-- if, perhaps, it wasn't a sneaky comedy and, to boot, one of the most breathtaking cinematic records of landscape and sky ever filmed.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    Tremendously savvy in its stupid way, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is as eloquent as "Brokeback Mountain," and even more radical.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Outsourced
    Outsourced has all the charm and color of its made-in-India locations, yet it's crafted--well crafted--according to familiar Hollywood convention.
  27. The LEGO Batman Movie
    The LEGO Batman Movie is entertaining, but it also sometimes feels less like a spin-off of The LEGO Movie and more like one of its targets.
  28. Brick Lane
    Absorbing enough, moving enough, and visually attractive enough to provide a perfectly acceptable night out at the movies.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shanghai Blues
    For the most part, the film is charming in its insouciance, the comedy by turns easy, funny, and slapstick. [23 May 2018]
    • Village Voice
      • Posted Jun 18, 2025
  30. Carnage
    Dead flesh is a ruling motif, but Gleize's airy, observant personality makes even the graphic dismemberment of the bull, scored with flamenco stomps, buoyant and fascinating.
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