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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 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. W.
    A painful movie to endure.
  2. The Elephant King
    Equivalent to a crummy band with a monster of a drummer who convinces you to stay for the whole show anyways.
  3. Filth and Wisdom
    There's an undeniably funky charm and abiding can-do spirit to this loose-knit portrait of three London flatmates trying to make their way in the world.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Morning Light
    Two unnerving phenomena--the popularity of reality-TV competitions and the Walt Disney Company's ability to churn out entertainment starring the most squeaky-clean humans on earth--come together in Morning Light, a nightmarishly upbeat documentary.
  5. The Secret Life of Bees
    Only near the end does this likable but saccharine movie fleetingly complicate the "Gone With the Wind"–fed delusion that the love of poor, black nannies for their white charges was undiluted by bitterness.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sex Drive
    Remains faithful to a portrait of teens as they see themselves.
  7. Mary
    Tightly framed and tightly wound, Mary is a claustrophobic, incandescent, nutty 83 minutes with everyone in the cast teetering on the ledge of madness.
  8. Frontrunners
    Suh shows herself ever-happy to settle for the shallow rewards of pop documentary. Depending on your level of fatigue with The Other Campaign, this may be good enough.
  9. Body of Lies
    Its generic attributes (and title) notwithstanding, Scott's film may be the sharpest of all the post-9/11 thrillers--and also the most purely entertaining--in the way it maps the vectors and currents of the modern intelligence-gathering game without losing us in its dense narrative thicket.
  10. Breakfast with Scot
    Cavanagh, best known for the TV show "Ed," is terrific--as is young Bernett, who steals the show without hogging it.
  11. The Express
    Like all formulaic biopics, The Express sacrifices the details for the Big Picture--hagiography without the humanity.
  12. 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.
  13. Dung che sai duk
    Wittily, earnestly, gorgeously sets up the paradox he has returned to throughout his career--that of romantic memory as both scourge and succor.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Choose Connor
    For all the potential of this coming-of-age/political-awakening tale, Choose Connor undoes itself with an egregiously sordid turn.
  15. Nights and Weekends
    Very often, the "rawness" here seems like an inability to distinguish the essential from the banal (or elevate the banal to the essential). A good eye might help, but Swanberg and Gerwig's filmmaking is stubbornly disheveled.
  16. RocknRolla
    Sum total of scenes that deserved to stay in the final cut: Thandie Newton doing a little shimmying frug.
  17. Rachel Getting Married
    A middlebrow domestic drama beating its wings against an experimental frame.
  18. Religulous
    Bill Maher's one-man stand-up attack on religious fundamentalism is a dog that has more bark than bite--a skeptical, secular-humanist hounding of the hypocrites, amusingly annotated with sarcastic subtitles and clips from cheesy biblical spectacles.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Blindness
    Unflinching at best and treacly at worst, the film unveils its apocalyptic scenario with visceral intensity, but lacks the emotional sophistication to rise above schadenfreude kicks.
  20. Flash of Genius
    Greg Kinnear, usually kinetic, is unusually (and unbearably) dull.
  21. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    Weide's big-screen version is sitcom-drab.
  22. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    Plays like something crafted in a lab by 54-year-old hucksters trying to sell shit to the kids under the cheerless guise of "alternative." The only thing it's an alternative to? Good.
  23. Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert
    It's obvious that Amer and Usman labor under the burden of making humor at once insider-cool and outsider-friendly. And it's hard to finesse "offensive" from a defensive crouch.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Just Buried
    The movie serves up gory killings and kinky peripheral shenanigans without any satirical thrust, blunting its death-equals-profit subtext with a snickering tone better suited to an afternoon of Clue.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ballast
    The conflicts, truths, and, ultimately, grace and dignity that bind these three together are brought to authentic life, without Hollywood-style exaggeration, through the quiet little miracles of performance that Hammer coaxes from his non-actors, especially the heartrending Riggs.
  26. The Lucky Ones
    Its hopelessly schematic road-trip arc (bond-fight-reconcile-repeat) grows increasingly tedious.
  27. Forever Strong
    Though director Ryan Little puts together a clean, professional package, at bottom this is a nearly-two-hour scrum of therapeutic direct encounters.
  28. Miracle at St. Anna
    You may begin to wonder if Lee really initiated this project or if it only fell into his hands after Roberto Benigni proved unavailable.
  29. Choke
    They explain and explain again the genesis of Victor's demons, to the point where the novel and movie play almost like parodies of novels and movies in which a character has to get in touch with his feelings in order to become a better man.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Nights in Rodanthe
    Exhibits a certain amount of integrity in its dedication to being uncomplicated, unashamed romantic goo.
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