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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. Ushpizin
    As directed by Gidi Dar, Ushpizin has a disarming folk quality.
  2. The Walk
    The Walk, in its last half at least, is a dazzling piece of work, particularly in 3-D; even so, its most luminous effect is an actor.
  3. The Barbarian Invasions
    Shear away the film's pretensions, and it's a soap opera of assholes.
  4. Dior and I
    Dior and I is a great fashion movie, but it's also a superb picture about the art of management, applicable to any field.
  5. Long Way North
    Where most post-Shrek animated films are manic and all too eager to please, Rémi Chayé's deliberately paced Long Way North tells its story with clarity and an urgent calm.
  6. Maidentrip
    Schlesinger seems in such a rush to guide us to the end unscathed that she sometimes loses sight of the small details that make this journey unique.
  7. Friday Night Lights
    Director Peter Berg, an actor himself, gets quietly excruciated performances from the team members.
  8. Wait for Your Laugh
    Rose Marie was — and is — a fabulous talent, but this off-kilter documentary doesn’t completely make the case.
  9. The Cup
    The lovability quotient is as high as the altitude.
  10. Shadow Boxers
    As smooth and powerfully packed as its protagonist.
  11. Swimming Pool
    Less a thriller than a comedy, and a formulaic one at that, predicated on an amusing but bizarrely simplistic clash of personalities and cultures.
  12. Sweet and Lowdown
    It's the prettiest movie of the year, maybe of Allen's career.
  13. Narc
    Hardly a scene goes by without a digitally fractured flashback or spasm of editing punctuation, rupturing the movie's otherwise carefully wrought sense of authenticity.
  14. Galaxy Quest
    The many eight-to-11-year-olds in the audience seemed completely enthralled.
  15. A Moment of Innocence
    A meditation-brilliant, humorous, and moving-on history and memory.
  16. The Broken Circle Breakdown
    The Broken Circle Breakdown crashes as frequently as it soars, but the ache at its center feels real.
  17. Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
    Expertly measured, emotional look at the life of a guitar prodigy cut down by ALS.
  18. Passione
    Works best when its director tamps down his impulse to enhance the performances with florid narratives, focusing on just the singer and the song.
  19. Portrait of Wally
    Shea's documentary is a well-arranged if rather drawn-out parade of talking heads telling Wally's story, including a trenchant and funny Morley Safer, never missing a chance to knock the art world.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bound for Glory
    Ashby--working through a magnificent performance by Carradine--has converted technical virtuosity to his own ends, creating a richly ambiguous character study that sings and provokes and celebrates. [13 Dec 1976, p.45]
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  21. Art Bastard
    Victor Kanefsky's documentary nonetheless manages to be as cursory as it is intimate, skimming over so much of Cenedella's life and career that it imparts only a hazy impression of who he is and what he believes.
  22. King Corn
    King Corn will put you off corn for a long, long time, but this is as much a thoughtful meditation on the plight of the American farmer as it is a rant against our expanding waistlines.
  23. All These Sleepless Nights
    Marczak has captured the specifics of these young folks as they reel through a city that’s been born again, but the film should stir something true in the chest of anyone who ever was lucky enough to run free in their youth, even if only for a night.
  24. East of Havana
    A vital look at Cuba's tenaciously grassroots hip-hop scene.
  25. Gabrielle
    Archambault is fluent in small, self-contained moments. Even as their guardians are forced into difficult conversations, Gabrielle and Martin's private exchanges ring true.
  26. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Allen has crafted a wry and thoughtful film about the peculiar stirrings of the heart that is certainly his most accomplished piece of work since 2005's "Match Point" and arguably his funniest in the eight years since "Small Time Crooks."
  27. Public Enemies
    Mann's exhilarating movie exists in a state of perpetual forward motion.
  28. Tsotsi
    A widescreen wallow in socially enforced slum nihilism brought to you by Miramax, Tsotsi could be pegged as "City of God" relocated to the Soweto shanties, but it eschews the ironic swagger and strobe-speed action of Fernando Meirelles's lurid jigsaw for a more conventional arc.
  29. Lost Embrace
    Despite an absurdly melodramatic premise, Lost Embrace is an essentially plotless series of riffs and jokes. It's 20 minutes too long--forgivable in view of Burman's affection for his material.
  30. Countdown to Zero
    This is another well-intentioned but preaching-to-the-choir doc, and boring as well.
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