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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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    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Shoah (re-release)
    It has come to serve as a solemn metaphor for remembrance, as well as for butt-numbing endurance.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
    Perhaps the fly-on-the-wall approach of Esrick's mentor (and this film's executive producer) D.A. Pennebaker would have been more revealing. Instead, we get just a mystery man in white.
  3. Rabbit à la Berlin
    Nominated last year for a short-doc Oscar, the featurette is a lovely modern mini-myth, sarcastic and Beatrix Potter–y in turn.
  4. Mundane History (Jao nok krajok)
    The ultimate break comes with a glorious full-screen CGI zoom into blazing heavenly bodies, a refutation of the title's modesty.
  5. Beijing Taxi
    The highlight is the crop-cut woman of the group, Wei Caixia, resoundingly vivid in her mix of ambivalence and confidence and worth her own film. Why not this one?
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    And Everything Is Going Fine
    Seen as his final monologue, the film is both an invaluable portfolio of his talent, and a tribute rendered in the style of its subject.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tangled
    The movie's real accomplishments are in its look, which was generated inside a computer but is as warm and rich as a painting.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Burlesque
    What you remember when it's over is the impact of Aguilera's voice, but not what she's singing; montages of body parts, but not the choreography; and Aguilera's face, music-video-trained to hold a close-up so emotionally exaggerated, you might even call it a burlesque.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    The best bits of Deathly Hallows are the moments that play with the tensions of late adolescence.
  10. Hemingway's Garden of Eden
    Director John Irvin, whose hapless 40-plus-year résumé runs from early Schwarzenegger to late Harold Pinter, never gets in the way, but the resulting sangria cocktail is mild, unchallenging, and kinda dull.
  11. You Won't Miss Me
    Ry Russo-Young's character study of a gal passing the worst years of her life in cool North Brooklyn, leads off with a scene that lets you know right away that you're in the good hands of a young director sensitive to the idiosyncratic details that breathe life into a movie.
  12. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    Apted seems too often to think like an old-hand action director and not enough like the 12-year-old boy who probably read Lewis's book. To enter Narnia, to really go giddy with the bright, laughing promise of a quest, a young viewer with no convenient magic portal of his own needs characters to bring him along. This is, I believe, the difference between a classic and a successful franchise reboot.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Company Men
    The Company Men is maybe best understood as a chick flick about dicks: Before its too-easy conclusion, the movie offers a multifaceted glimpse at what can happen when the connective tissue between a man and his source of income is cut, and rarely suggests that it could be anything less than excruciating to stop the bleeding.
  14. The Tempest
    The film lacks a pulse. There's sound and fury, but the result is more drizzle than tempest.
  15. The Fighter
    It plays as a "Rocky"-fied fairy tale for our time: Consigned to Palookaville, a sweet, unassuming boxer with more heart than brains steps up-all the way to the top of the world.
  16. Mars
    Using a combination of hand-drawn, 3-D, and rotoscope animation to tell his story of an unlikely trio's voyage to Mars in 2015, Marslett struck upon a unique look and tone, spacey, soothing, and strange.
  17. Come Undone
    This self-consciously modern movie contains classical pleasures.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Queen of the Lot
    Queen of the Lot is sort of sweet in its earnestness, sort of frustratingly delusional, and ultimately unsubstantial-but there are moments of meta-provocation that almost justify the lopsided enterprise.
  19. Night Catches Us
    Writer-director Tanya Hamilton's striking debut is the rare recent American-independent film that goes beyond the private dramas of its protagonists, imagining them as players in broader historical moments.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
    It's likely the best anti-Christmas Christmas movie since "Bad Santa."
  21. Bhutto
    Contextualizing the prime minister's rise to power within a larger portrait of a nation under constant internal and external siege, Bhutto conveys a forceful sense of tectonic social and geopolitical shifts, as well as the courageous, heartbreaking personal sacrifices its subject made in service to both her homeland and ideals.
  22. All Good Things
    All Good Things patina of fictionalization has not prevented the cagey Durst Organization from threatening a lawsuit. They need not worry, though. The film succeeds only in indicting its authors.
  23. I Love You Phillip Morris
    Nothing tops ILYPM's Jim Carrey ... in the most gloriously raunchy, unrepentant moment in the an(n)als of Hollywood A-listers doing gay-for-pay.
  24. Black Swan
    A near-irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of heterosexual camp-at the very least, it's the most risible and riotous backstage movie since "Showgirls."
  25. Willets Point
    A jarring fusion of blue-collar lament and the-more-you-know medical drama.
  26. The Legend of Pale Male
    Despite spending nearly 15 years documenting this phenomenon, Lilien proves wholly uninterested in investigating his human subjects' habit of vigorously anthropomorphizing, and projecting their personal hopes, dreams, fears, and Daddy issues onto the striking hawk.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kawasaki's Rose
    Performed and directed with assured elegance, Kawasaki's Rose is a film that recognizes life as a tumultuous mess of both noble and base intensions and actions, as well as one that understands the thorny tragedies such chaos often leaves in its wake.
  28. Undertow
    Undertow, is sublime. Set in a small, picturesque Peruvian fishing village, it's less a coming-out tale than a magic realism–infused coming-of-consciousness love story.
  29. The Nutcracker
    The wildest thing about this movie is its faith that what kids (and parents) really want for Christmas is a Nutcracker version of the Final Solution.
  30. Family Affair
    While Colvard's film is always queasily watchable, as with other voyeuristic entertainments that insist on making the private public, there's the sense that such matters may be better dealt with in-house-or in a courtroom-than writ large on a movie screen.
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