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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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    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shadow: Dead Riot
    The conceptual underpinnings are sketchy to say the least, and with its quantity-over-quality approach to violence and nudity, S:DR wears out its welcome faster than you can say "group shower."
  2. American Gun
    All of the stories are conceived as ongoing plights, and have no third act. Which would be an improvement on Haggis's hyperbolic civics lesson if Avelino had the chops to master realism and embrace ambivalence. The acting is pro enough to keep your blood up, but the reverb is minimal.
  3. V for Vendetta
    Absorbing even in its incoherence,V for Vendetta manages to make an old popular mythology new. Impossible not to break into a grin: It's the thought that counts.
  4. Find Me Guilty
    Find Me Guilty is overlong and often sitcomy, but it's also pleasantly old-school, with a tone, soundtrack, and even a title-card font that suggest a mellow but not senile Woody Allen.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    She's the Man
    Doesn't have an unpredictable moment in it, borrowing heavily from just about every sports movie or teen comedy ever and, oh yeah, "Twelfth Night."
  6. Thank You for Smoking
    Instead of hitting the gas and allowing the scenario to rock 'n' roll with g-forces, Reitman keeps his movie small, unvaried, slack, and deliberately and oddly, completely smoke-free.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Take My Eyes
    A disturbing take on domestic violence.
  8. Don't Tell
    As is typical of contemporary Italian movies, every one of Comencini's women seems on the verge of a hysterical collapse.
  9. Don't Come Knocking
    It's "Broken Flowers" with bourbon and ten-gallons and meta-country soundtrack warbles.
  10. The Devil's Miner
    Perhaps little more than an object lesson in the end, the movie's nevertheless a sobering day trip, more for its hints of a forgotten history of culture collision than its sensible but rote socioeconomic sympathies.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Iluzija
    Marko's story is far from novel, but its wicked evocation of hopelessness transcends any familiarities.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Don't Trip ... He Ain't Through with Me Yet
    Despite more audience cutaways than the State of the Union Address, the movie's largely a you-had-to-be-there affair--except when the star does an uncanny imitation of a double-wide churchgoer scooting through a narrow pew.
  13. The Big Question
    While the questions may be universal, they're not particularly original, and the responses largely run the expected range, rendering the whole project less enlightening than your average collegiate coffee-and-cigarettes bull session.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beyond Honor
    This mélange of softcore porn, overheated melodrama, and harrumphing moralizing transcends taste--its lurid insanity goes beyond good and bad, right and wrong.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hate Crime
    When Hate Crime confounds expectations, it transcends the whodunit-of-the-week template. On the other hand, when the plot gets lost in irrational revenge fantasies, you'll wish you had stayed home watching reruns.
  16. The Beautiful City
    At times resembling an Iranian "Dead Man Walking," Beautiful City goes out of its way to give each character a fair shake-a few patriarchal rages notwithstanding, even the vengeful father is treated sympathetically. But the script, overly laden with red herrings, forces its characters into some improbable dilemmas.
  17. Failure to Launch
    Failure to Launch has all the gravitas of a midseason-replacement sitcom.
  18. The Hills Have Eyes
    The net effect would be doze-inducing if in fact the Dolby didn't attempt to wake the dead.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Shaggy Dog
    My eight-year-old nephew sat nearly silent throughout, so when he says he had fun, he must be talking about the treats.
  20. Ask the Dust
    Alternately grandiose and abject, Bandini is a sort of underground man, and if no more miscast than usual, heartthrob Colin Farrell miserably fails to convincingly render Bandini's neurosis.
  21. Duck Season
    Shot in silvery black-and-white, Duck Season is not charmless, just insubstantial.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    Whatever her limitations, Argento the actor makes certain that Argento the director doesn't lack for "action"--and that the audience doesn't lack for pain.
  23. Evil
    Is this an allegory against blind deference to fascism? It might be, but the root-for-the-Aryan-jock dramatics seem mildly fascist themselves.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Game 6
    Despite a late-inning swoon of pat emotional generosity, Game Six is a gratifying playground of high-wire language.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shakespeare Behind Bars
    Rogerson's structure is ingenious: He dilutes our initial skepticism by showcasing the prisoners' thoughtfulness and intelligence, and as soon as we've come to care for the men he shocks us with the details of their crimes.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Fallen
    Thankfully, The Fallen is neither dour nor sentimental, but while the scope is ambitious and the tone refreshingly light on moralism, few of the innumerable characters and subplots elicit much sympathy.
  27. Neighbour No. 13
    Because the metaphysics driving it are so fuzzy, this is the rare horror film where even sludgy viscera elicit only yawns.
  28. 16 Blocks
    It's a small movie trying to seem epic, or a bloated monster trying to seem lean (real B movies don't have 14 producers), but it's clear that at 99 minutes, 16 Blocks should've been at least 20 minutes shorter still.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Aquamarine
    The film's true focus is the friendship between the two girls, although this tends to get lost between Elizabeth Allen's jittery direction and the screenplay's contrivances.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    This picture remains faithful to the underlying affability of both Chappelle and Gondry, orchestrating a feel-good homestyle vibe that, while peppered with moments of sly political commentary, never harshes its own, slightly bittersweet mellow.
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