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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. Angels Sing
    There's a lot of onscreen music-making, some of it amazing, the rest Santa-related.
  2. Frozen
    Frozen is a fun ride with some catchy tunes.
  3. Homefront
    Director Gary Fleder seems to sometimes suspect Homefront could pass as comedy.
  4. Oldboy
    Colorless and soulless in the extreme, it bears no one's fingerprints at all. There's no reason for this Oldboy to exist. It's so DOA, you stumble out of it wanting to eat something alive.
  5. Die Narbe (The Scar)
    Von Harder ought to have placed his bold mission on the ground; seeing the actual streets where this prolonged oppression unfolded would help generate his intended dread.
  6. This Is Where We Live
    Often threatening sentimentality yet never quite sinking into it, Josh Barrett and Marc Menchaca's This Is Where We Live benefits from the good taste of the filmmakers, whose appetite for understatement ensures that the picture maintains dramatic effectiveness and only rarely lurches into histrionics.
  7. JFK: A President Betrayed
    The film offers a solid précis, but it's a curious fact that a well-made doc like this is still only about half as informative or detailed as a long magazine article on the same subject might be.
  8. Home
    Akinnagbe's embodiment of Jack is the most wholly realized accomplishment in the film. His speech, hesitant and stammering, is matched by defensive body language, his walk and posture as guarded and wary as a bird's. It's a truly physical performance in a film that didn't demand it.
  9. Weekend of a Champion
    The result is a pleasure, perhaps as much for audiences as for Polanski; it's a chance to luxuriate in the atmosphere of world-class Formula One, here a lavish free-love party interrupted now and again by a few laps on the track.
  10. Contracted
    There's no payoff to the paranoia.
  11. Cold Turkey
    As a whole, Cold Turkey is too busy and offers no fresh insight on the inner hysteria of seemingly upright WASPs. The actors work hard, but their roles are mostly one-note. It's Witt who generates the laughs and the pathos.
  12. Delivery Man
    Let's not blame Vince Vaughn for this stale cupcake. He's halfway through his Alec Baldwin-like transition from underbaked hunk to charismatic character actor.
  13. Bettie Page Reveals All
    Mori — director of the 1991 documentary Building Bombs — assembles the information here with clarity and sensitivity.
  14. Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
    Writer-director Luiz Bolognesi's film doesn't push the envelope in terms of technique or style, but its fast-moving story roils with a righteous anger that is mesmerizing as Bolognesi whips up a Zelig-like overview of Brazil's tortured history.
  15. Sex, Love & Salsa
    This character study in rom-com's clothes is ambitiously formula-averse, but too shaggy and unfocused to be satisfying.
  16. Sake-Bomb
    A dismal road trip saga.
  17. Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird
    In this entertaining documentary, the coolest kids in town sing the praises of cartoonist Gahan Wilson, whose work is a brilliant fusion of the personal and the political.
  18. The Insomniac
    For most of its run, the film is a tribute to unimaginative competence, confidently venturing where so many movies have ventured before. But in the last few scenes, the script offers a solid twist and a cynical social critique, the latter coming out of nowhere but still somehow managing to work.
  19. Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey
    Wendy J.N. Lee's Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey powerfully connects the dots between the enormity of global warming as a phenomenon and the havoc it wreaks in ordinary lives.
  20. Narco Cultura
    Schwarz's juxtaposition of the human cost of the drug war alongside the glamorization of its henchmen and their brutality is sobering, even depressing.
  21. Junction
    Bledsoe leads an impressive cast, but there's only so much the actors can do with writer-director Tony Glazer's underdeveloped script.
  22. It's Better to Jump
    Without comments from Akka's Jewish residents or any conflicting voices, the film plays like a propagandistic attempt to reshape historical and contemporary narratives.
  23. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
    This is a film to see and then see again, to soak in and marvel at and -- like its director -- try to keep up with.
  24. Philomena
    The grande dame's performance, alternately goofy and grave, is an absolute tour de force.
  25. The Falls: Testament of Love
    Its soap-opera plot is old hat, and the largely amateurish acting of the ensemble makes it hard to connect with many of the characters.
  26. The Fall of 1980
    Refusing to think small, Lonergan cannot help but fail big.
  27. Everyday
    Michael Winterbottom's wise and involving Everyday specializes in unscripted-feeling moments that ache of life.
  28. Detroit Unleaded
    Director Rola Nashef's visuals can be clunky, and her script's conversational dialogue is occasionally stilted. Nonetheless, she draws her characters in sharp lines, so that the gaggle of customers who frequent Sami's workplace...feel not like types but, rather, like diverse individuals.
  29. CinemAbility
    Sometimes academically clinical, and including infomercial-like narration by Jane Seymour, the film has a bright core of real emotion.
  30. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    Catching Fire suffers from the movie equivalent of middle-book syndrome: The story is wayward and rangy, on its way to being something, maybe, but not adding up to much by itself. Still, it’s entertaining as civics lessons go, and it’s a more polished, assured picture than its predecessor.
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