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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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  1. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    Holdridge's film oscillates wildly between low-key romantic comedy and antic slapstick and doesn't always hit the mark, but it has charm to burn.
  2. America the Beautiful
    The scattershot America the Beautiful recapitulates vintage "Beauty Myth" trumpery.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Man on Wire
    While largely lighthearted, Petit's walk and Marsh's film take on new meaning post-9/11. Man on Wire never mentions the events of that day, but the Trade Center's collapse continues to weigh on Petit, as if its destruction was every bit as tragic as the human lives lost that day.
  4. Step Brothers
    Not to wax too serious here (since this is, after all, a movie in which two nearly middle-aged men beat each other over the heads with blunt instruments on their front lawn), but ticking away just beneath Step Brothers' freely associative surface is a fairly astute commentary on how we define such abstract concepts as "growing up" and "making something of yourself."
  5. Baghead
    It's an indie about indies--meta, right?
  6. Brideshead Revisited
    Though I can imagine Waugh rolling his eyes at the very idea of Brideshead Revisited as "a heartbreaking romantic epic," this remake is, often inadvertently, closer to the novel's spirit than the sepulchral television series, albeit still not half as waggishly Waugh-ish as "Bright Young Things," Stephen Fry's delightfully naughty interpretation of "Vile Bodies."
  7. Bustin' Down the Door
    Engaging, elegantly made surf documentary.
  8. No Regret
    A tiny, specific film admirable in its focus, competent digital cinematography, and lack of sentimentality. Too bad it turns into Extreme Korean Romance.
  9. The Order of Myths
    Quietly shocking, The Order of Myths is a deft, engrossing cross-section of Mobile life, heavy on local color and insight.
  10. American Teen
    Even when it's ripping off "Juno" and "The Hills," American Teen is fascinating in the way of every good documentary--the more time you spend with anyone, the more they surprise you.
  11. Canary
    Writer-director Akihiko Shiota's dramatic strategies are limited to the point of monotony.
  12. CSNY/Déjà Vu
    The film's mishmash of news footage and concert reviews threatens to devolve into a CSNY wank-fest.
  13. Boy A
    The film's both smart and devastating as it unthreads interwoven questions about redemption, justice, and the pivotal role of history in shaping an individual and his actions.
  14. The Dark Knight
    The Dark Knight will give your adrenal glands their desired workout, but it will occupy your mind, too, and even lead it down some dim alleyways where most Hollywood movies fear to tread.
  15. Mamma Mia!
    It's little more than droopy ditties draped around a threadbare plot.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Very British Gangster
    MacIntyre's control over his material is assured at times, particularly when he focuses on Dom's young son, Bugsy, and the other troubled boys who float around the periphery of the Noonan gang.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Felon
    Harold Perrineau gives unintentionally comic expression in Felon to the delineation between his character's public and private scruples.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Berlin
    A concert film by technicality, a cinematic trance in practicality.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Take
    Take has the audacity to excuse its bad cinematic habits as figments of both Saul and Ana's imaginations.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Transsiberian
    Just as nasty as the titular mode of transport is the script's wanton declaration of theme and a cynical and fashionable belief in moral grayness that may complement the frosty setting but nonetheless feels easy.
  21. Before I Forget
    Exquisitely sad, idiosyncratic film à clef about an aging gay gigolo grasping at the embers of memory before they--and he--turn to ash.
  22. The Doorman
    Not until the goofy closing credits does the film hit its tonal stride and nail what could have been its saving, salient theme: the absurd lines that fancy people draw (and obey) to make themselves feel special on a Saturday night.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mad Detective
    Apart from its inventive depiction of the weaknesses that tough guys try to hide, Mad Detective is a slight work from the wildly prolific To.
  24. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    Despite the rosary beads Red wraps around his wrist, Hellboy II doesn't have much on its mind, but few will care since del Toro and his stellar "Pan's Labyrinth" team, including Oscar-winning cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, stage one virtuoso set-piece after another.
  25. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    If the 3D here is better than average, SLIGHTLY, the rest of the movie brings it way, way down--not quite to the center of the earth, but at least a good six feet under.
  26. A Man Named Pearl
    Feature-length elaborations on quirky, inspiring human-interest stories are generally to be avoided, but I'll make an exception for A Man Named Pearl.
  27. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
    Lively, exasperating documentary.
  28. August
    August seems to be missing something essential--a prologue? Or maybe it's not what's missing that's the problem, but what's here.
  29. Das wilde Leben
    Stoned on the story's '60s-sex-bomb potential, Bornhak piles on the sex and forgets the bomb; the result is unaffecting filmmaking, as slack-jawed and superficial as its subject.
  30. Garden Party
    Trivial, commercially calculated ensemble drama (porn! pot! rock music!), which plays like a non-musical "Rent," or a faux-edgy "Shortbus" for kids raised on "American Pie."
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