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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. Mister Foe
    The whole thing's poised uneasily somewhere between urban fairy tale and actual human psychodrama, never really landing in one place or the other.
  2. Save Me
    Though Save Me never quite surmounts its schematic scenario, scene by scene, beat by beat, it's pretty damn good.
  3. Flow: For Love of Water
    One of those charming little documentaries that make you question whether the human race is really worth preserving.
  4. Phoebe in Wonderland
    Writer-director Daniel Barnz's film is profoundly stirring, if also occasionally maddening.
  5. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    There's nothing earth-shattering going on here, but it's a film you'll want to befriend.
  6. Appaloosa
    Harris and his collaborators are playing it straight with a timeless male fantasy--horse, hat, six-shooter--a traditional approach that will please moviegoers like my dad and yours.
  7. Breakfast with Scot
    Cavanagh, best known for the TV show "Ed," is terrific--as is young Bernett, who steals the show without hogging it.
  8. Happy-Go-Lucky
    At the very least, the spectacle of Poppy's devotion and desire, not to mention her all-around sunny disposish, left this viewer feeling unaccountably happy--at least for the moment.
  9. Fear(s) of the Dark
    Though multi-director projects are patchy by definition, Fear(s) of the Dark hits with an all-star batting average.
  10. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    Funniest movie of '08? Close enough, for those who don't mind monkeying around.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pray the Devil Back to Hell
    Reticker offers perhaps a too-narrow focus on this historical moment, but Pray the Devil remembers the golden rule of moviemaking--rather than tell, it shows, and what it shows is quietly affecting.
  12. Soul Men
    Mac and Jackson carry the show--particularly Mac, who's at his crackly, cranky best here. As swan songs go, Soul Men is pretty sweet.
  13. Nothing But the Truth
    In the spirit of its title, Nothing but the Truth pivots on a plot twist that's both good and fair. And kudos to the ever-earnest Beckinsale for surviving a prison brawl as splatterific as anything Mickey Rourke had to endure in "The Wrestler."
  14. Katyn
    While never less than fascinating, Katyn alternates between scenes of tremendous power and sequences most kindly described as dutiful. It's as if the artist is never certain whether he is making this movie for himself, his father, or the entire nation.
  15. Eleven Minutes
    Charming and unexpectedly perceptive portrait cum procedural proves the DIY-authentic corrective to Unzipped, a warts-and-all chronicle of McCarroll’s yearlong preparation for his inaugural show at New York Fashion Week.
  16. Examined Life
    Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor's engaging new philoso-doc Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays.
  17. Tokyo!
    Mutants abound as each episode trips the light fantastic.
  18. The Song of Sparrows
    The film is pleasingly meandering, till the more typically Majidian soulful and teary-eyed climax.
  19. Dragonball: Evolution
    Far more entertaining than it deserves to be, unless you're a 10-year-old boy, in which case it's only the greatest movie ever made.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Every Little Step
    For Chorus Line fans, though, the documentary--is a singular sensation.
  21. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    Though it's a little slow to start and some of the humor clunks, the film features a wholesome charm, some truly dazzling effects (the Lincoln Memorial alone is worth it), and enough mild, parent-nip in-jokes to keep all but the stone-hearted happy.
  22. Pressure Cooker
    The intersection of food and identity is briefly explored, and the prep/exam sequences have a tension and charm that keeps the film moving toward its literally rewarding climax.
  23. Tetro
    For writer-director Coppola, Tetro is a cri de coeur, one more from the heart.
  24. The End of the Line
    A free-form splash of jaw-dropping graphs, impressively accredited talking heads, and sumptuously shot portraits of natural beauty and decay, overdramatically scored to symphonic and other intense musical attacks.
  25. Afghan Star
    Marking follows the finalists around on the last leg of their PR campaigns and captures something sweetly goofy, with an edge of creepy, about their aping of smarmy American self-promotion (kissing babies, etc).
  26. Soul Power
    Takes too long to get to the meat of its matter, but captivates once it does.
  27. Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
    Celebratory but clear-eyed portrait of Gertrude Berg.
  28. Somers Town
    Without ever trivializing his characters' meager circumstances or resorting to the rags-to-riches fantasy of "Slumdog Millionaire," Meadows has made a lovely film about the ability of the imagination to offset the harshness of reality.
  29. Lake Tahoe
    Eimbcke's droll rhythms are reminiscent of early Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismäki--here stylistically appropriate for a film about social and emotional inertia.
  30. Lorna's Silence
    The Dardennes retain a company of returning players: Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, and Olivier Gourmet. Such loyalty is rare and touching.
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