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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sukiyaki Western Django
    This delirious spaghetti eastern could only have come from the boiling brain of Takashi Miike, the prolific Japanese auteur whose spectacularly uneven films account for the lion's share of the past decade's most utterly batshit movie moments.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    My Mexican Shivah
    Kvetches its way through an insipid vision of cross-cultural conflict.
  3. Year of the Fish
    Year of the Fish is the kind of really bad movie it takes a lot of misplaced conviction to make.
  4. Traitor
    The movie's first hour is well-done, but realism and insight go out the window as soon as Samir crosses the U.S. border.
  5. The Longshots
    The Longshots strains so hard to inspire, every moment underlined with a by-the-numbers score, that it ends up totally innocuous.
  6. Hamlet 2
    Not nearly as uproarious as it should be.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trouble the Water
    The resilience of the movie's subjects--survivors of street crime and drugs and HIV--irradiates Trouble the Water like sunshine.
  8. I.O.U.S.A.
    Both a handy election primer and a bowel-rattling cry of fiscal doom.
  9. Momma's Man
    One of the sweetest, saddest stories Franz Kafka never wrote.
  10. The Rocker
    This is sugary-sweet stuff--pop instead of rock.
  11. 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."
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    This sketchily conceived and executed space yarn is one missed opportunity after another.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Henry Poole Is Here
    A film that could have used some of the genuine intrigue of Pellington's thrillers to help offset the increasingly doe-eyed narrative.
  14. The Girl Cut in Two
    A Girl Cut in Two is a spry piece of work. Chabrol uses this sinister clown show as a means to puncture the media world's hot-air balloons--as well as to highlight the hypocrisies of his favorite target, the haute bourgeoisie.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
    A good deal livelier than the usual music-doc embalming.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bachna Ae Haseeno
    Two and a half hours of this will try anyone's patience.
  17. Tropic Thunder
    That's the thing about satire: It doesn't play past its expiration date. And everything about Tropic Thunder already feels antiquated.
  18. Elegy
    Spanish director Isabel Coixet's hushed and understated Elegy is a flat, joyless affair.
  19. Beautiful Losers
    Regardless of Rose's intentions, his underachieving airiness is both entertaining and perfectly fitting for the slacker ennui of his clique's rising years.
  20. Hell Ride
    Bishop's jumbled, wholly unexciting throwback has very little on its mind beyond mythologizing its maker as a bad-ass biker named Pistolero.
  21. Red
    The movie's escalating series of tit-for-tat revenge ploys becomes a bit tedious even at 95 minutes, but Cox and a rich (if not always well-served) supporting cast that includes Tom Sizemore, Amanda Plummer, and Robert Englund keep it more than watchable throughout.
  22. What We Do Is Secret
    The worst kind of bastard adaptation, Secret subtracts without adding.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Last Stop for Paul
    Crisply shot on a lightweight camcorder, Last Stop for Paul leaves the prevailing impression of an amiable, homespun travelogue done in the style of Bruce Brown's "Endless Summer."
  24. Pineapple Express
    A savvy nod to 1980s action comedies, down to the Huey Lewis original that plays over the end credits. But its greatest achievements lie in the tossed-off non sequiturs, the pop-culture (and Scott Baio) allusions, and the unexpected respites in the midst of all the bang-bang-boom.
  25. Bottle Shock
    The movie should have been more like Rickman: sparkling and light, with just a hint of acid. Instead, it's a huge gulp of vinegar.
  26. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    Blandly engaging sequel.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Patti Smith: Dream of Life
    109 mostly black-and-white minutes of punk's wet nurse floating through the modern world while endlessly ruminating on mortality, art, and the occasional bodily function. Problem is, there's nary a hint of context, even with biographic essentials.
  28. Frozen River
    If there's one thing this movie gets dead right, it's the desperation of impoverished single mothers trying to fend for their children.
  29. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    Strange how dreary it all is, and how tired Fraser seems.
  30. Sixty Six
    You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate its genuine fondness for the claustrophobic warmth of family life among working-class people apprehensively inching their way toward upward mobility.
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