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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. Daughter from Danang
    Operation Babylift itself was an attempt to provide some semblance of an American happy ending to the Vietnam debacle. But as Daughter From Danang demonstrates, the war's scars may take another generation to heal.
  2. Demonlover
    However glitzy, clever, and luridly philosophical, Demonlover is still mainly an old-fashioned thriller.
  3. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    How enlightening you find Damian Pettigrew's obsessive film depends on whether you're as adoring of Fellini as he was of himself; for the devoted, it's a gold mine.
  4. Petits frères
    Doillon's ease with young performers is again seamlessly evident.
  5. The War Zone
    We may not want another film about incest, but there's a necessity about this one that won't be denied.
  6. One Hour Photo
    Romanek's movie is a bit too pat and pleased with its undeniable ambitions, but the setup resonates with quiet desperation. There's not a single vicarious glorch.
  7. The Flower of Evil
    Not to imply that our Claude's gone native, but here his unabiding fascination with bourgie-style repetition compulsion bears some resemblance to sympathy.
  8. The Thomas Crown Affair
    A sealskin-slick, cat-and-mouse romance-caper trifle with a hard-on for wealth that feels downright Trumpian.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Inspector Gadget
    Shot mostly in close-up, with nearly every action accompanied by a sound effect, the film itself is slightly hysterical.
  10. Zero Day
    The simulation of shaky camera amateur DV is a narrative ploy that often taxes the filmmakers' ingenuity. Still, the movie has a creepy authenticity.
  11. Calendar Girls
    Remains a genial lesson in how to both honor and subvert womanly expectations.
  12. Hamlet
    Stylish, funny, and smart...but only up to a point.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Clay Bird
    The film's critique of Islam is offered without rancor, and it's evident that Masud loves all his characters, whatever their viewpoints.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
    Pitched for a sympathetic American audience, the documentary goes for shock with the filmmakers' first trip to "the altar of the world" in 1987, when they happened to be caught in an uprising of monks that was violently crushed by the Chinese army.
  15. Saving Grace
    Constipated English whimsy for the easily tickled.
  16. A Hard Day's Night
    No previous rocksploitation film had ever done so splendid a job of selling its performers.
  17. Together
    The actors, mainly newcomers, have an improvisational freshness well matched to the freewheeling camera work.
  18. Kiss of the Spider Woman
    Appears strangely dated, and its unspecified location seems existentially hokey.
  19. Alice et Martin
    Thrives on vivid incidentals and telling details.
  20. Frida
    Swank and splashy as it is, Frida leaves the lurking suspicion that Taymor might have preferred to stage her pageant as a puppet show.
  21. Trembling Before G-d
    Though angry and sorrowful, Trembling Before G-d, beginning with the title, is above all a work of reverence.
  22. Our Lady of the Assassins
    The performances can be stiff, but a kinetic mix of anxiety, dread, and numbed resignation is always palpable.
  23. Venus Boyz
    Baur's doc earnestly -- if not altogether adroitly -- examines masculinity as a performance, demonstrating that biology is not destiny.
  24. Enigma
    Doesn't coddle the audience. But neither does it play fair. The narrative takes several fast turns and stops short with the sudden introduction of new material; the exposition is hurried and lazily predicated on characters' thinking aloud.
  25. Spy Kids
    Has an intemperate vitality that's hard to resist.
  26. Kandahar
    The movie feels truncated, but it communicates a certain urgency and at times a powerful sense of the absurd.
  27. Solaris (1972)
    The most pop film the great Russian filmmaker ever made.
  28. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (re-released)
    The wonderful-terrible dervish of Umbrellas reaches peak abandon, worthy of Vincente Minnelli, when Geneviève sobs out a plaint for Guy as a carnival whirls outside the shop.
  29. Club Dread
    The group has a distinctive deadpan style; after you get on their wavelength, it's impossible to quit chuckling.
  30. The Ignorant Fairies
    It's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives Secret Life its intermittent unease, reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality, and that erasing them recasts the self. And it's this existential gerrymandering that's most compelling.
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