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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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    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Going Under
    Just because Rees can play a masochist doesn't mean viewers have to.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A/k/a Tommy Chong
    Following Chong to the clink by way of a few well-timed stand-up gigs, this genial doc sprinkles Reagan and Nixon soundbites over its vintage stash of C&C clips for a suitably fuzzy squint at America from '69 to the buzzkill present.
  3. Cars
    What ultimately redeems Cars from turning out a total lemon is its soul. Lasseter loves these animated inanimate objects as though they were kin, and it shows in every beautifully rendered frame.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Prairie Home Companion
    Keillor's modest subservience to Altman's group dynamic feels downright gallant, and in the context of the veteran director's most humanistic movie by a wide margin, it certainly has its rewards.
  5. Agnes and His Brothers
    The title's pointedly incorrect pronoun is typical of the film's obtuse childishness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
    In briskly edited sequences peppered with fascinating found footage, each genre is tightly linked to a neighborhood.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bombón: El Perro
    Sorin's spare style belies a rich wisdom, as well as impressive performances from a cast of debuting nonpros.
  8. The Heart of the Game
    A sweet, engaging journey with the Roosevelt Roughriders, whose kindly coach encourages the girls to snarl like wolves and devour like lions.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Autumn
    Enamored of all things French and noir, American director Ra'up McGee has written a love letter to both.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Slow Jam King
    More fun to listen to than watch -- though this still leaves the problem of dialogue.
  11. Psychopathia Sexualis
    Drearily pretentious, Sexualis has even less softcore appeal than an American Apparel ad.
  12. Animals and More Animals
    An international cast of curious creatures in their native habitats stars in this charming Gallic duo (Animals and Ice/Sea) of featurettes.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Omen
    If the movie didn't take itself so seriously, it could have been a great popcorn muncher. As is, it'll still work fine for those willing to forgive its trespasses.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Break-Up
    Faced with a long and miserable road on which they make each other sorry or crazy, both Brooke (Aniston) and Gary (Vaughn) dig in hard on the least appealing parts of their stock characters.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    District B13
    Spread the word: This delirious import is the most (maybe the only) fun action movie of the summer.
  16. The War Tapes
    On a strictly experiential level, Deborah Scranton's The War Tapes is remarkable, tactile, and affecting; as a piece of sociopolitical culture with context and ramifications of its own, it's a worthless ration of war propaganda--ethnocentric, redneck, and enabling.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Puffy Chair
    Like "Funny Ha Ha," Andrew Bujalski's casually raw 2002 faux–cinema vérité indie about a bunch of shiftless twentysomethings, The Puffy Chair uses simple, unadorned dialogue and intimate, off-the-cuff performances to get at the underlying issues.
  18. Typhoon
    A cheap-looking action movie that sabotages itself at almost every turn.
  19. The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
    This is not the can't-we-get-along Arab-Persian world we see in most liberal nonfiction films, but a broader and helplessly apocalyptic view of an entire region crazed with anger, frustration, and bloodlust into objectifying death as a weapon, a cause for cosmic glory, and little else.
  20. Favela Rising
    All in all, the movement turned out to be a godsend for Rio natives, but the film is merely a pep rally.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    La tropical
    When Turnley ventures into broader political or sociological commentary, one wishes that he'd step back and let the music, uniformly and ass-shakingly irresistible, take center stage.
  22. Coastlines
    For some fans, the taste of on-location color matters most, but Nuñez's idea of the characters' ordinariness translates to flavorlessness.
  23. X-Men: The Last Stand
    If little else, the third and supposedly final entry in the X-Men mega-franchise suggests that some movies -- or at any rate some formulas -- are not just critic-proof, they might even be director-proof.
  24. Cavite
    Cavite is such a shrewd melding of form and content that any seeming contradictions and shortcomings end up working to the film's advantage.
  25. The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress
    The filmmakers capture a battle for the soul of a state and country; we're all damned, no matter our choice of red or blue, unless things change sooner than later, says a movie that will divide like nothing since Michael Moore took the nation's temperature.
  26. Sto je muskarac bez brkova?
    Hribar's film is not remarkable or ingenious in its creation of ethnic gusto and peripheral naturalism, but it's adept enough for a pass on M:i:III.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    An Inconvenient Truth
    An Inconvenient Truth does restore one's faith in the value of documentary-as-lecture, not least by extolling the virtues (rare as clean water these days) of politician-as-teacher.
  28. La Moustache
    A successful novelist and restrained actor's director, Carrére makes the transformation of a silly marital argument into a cosmic upheaval look easy, and profound as well.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stagedoor
    Shiva has a sensitive eye for rarefied outcasts.
  30. The Da Vinci Code
    Overshadowed by its own marketing hurricane and popular rage, Code struggles for significance as a movie experience and flies a weak flag as a provocation.
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