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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. Why We Fight
    Jarecki's film forcefully argues that the much abused word FREEDOM cannot paper over the conflicts between capitalism and democracy.
  2. End of the Spear
    Spear has all the earmarks of a middling Indiewood product, from its competent second-tier cast (including "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" hunklet Chad Allen in a dual role as a slain missionary and his grown son) to its earnest plotting and leaden pacing.
  3. Underworld: Evolution
    There's no guiding power at work here; it's Evolution without a shred of intelligent design.
  4. Pizza
    An ugly-duckling fable populated with grotesques out of John Waters, Pizza attempts an unlikely mode: earnest camp.
  5. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
    Largely content to bask in the great man's glow, Angio provides generous clips and soundbites alongside fond reminiscences, but the celebratory tone leaves room for darker reflections.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blossoms of Fire
    Backed by folk songs and swirling shots of fiestas and markets, Blossoms is feel-good tourism but by its own bounds only woolly anthropology.
    • 8 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Perception
    This should be funny or sad, but it's neither, in this incoherent cross between "Riding the Bus With My Sister" and a Christina Ricci vehicle.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Real Dirt on Farmer John
    At times, the film plays like an extended infomercial for John's new company, Angelic Organics, but the agrarian fantasy is so compelling here that the revitalization of the American family farm begins to seem not just possible, but probable.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    24 Hours on Craigslist
    A diverting infomercial.
  10. The Fall of Fujimori
    The Fall of Fujimori is more-or less-than the flip side to last week's Film Forum Peru primer "State of Fear": It's a prismatic shudder, a maddening manifestation of historical ambivalence.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Glory Road
    As Coach Haskins would have put it, "It's activity without accomplishment."
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Last Holiday
    The most surprisingly satisfying Hollywood comedy in ages.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Tristan and Isolde
    Myles deserves better, but acquits herself as admirably as one can mired in medieval muck.
  14. April's Shower
    Tepid lesbian comedy.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    That Man: Peter Berlin
    Tushinski must spin Berlin's self-portrait photography and well-documented peacocking as more than predictable narcissism.
  16. When the Sea Rises
    If the movie stops short of exploring its own baggage, the actors still make for unforgettable company.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
    Such informality leads to numerous lulls, but when the photographer perks up the results are delightful.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Film Geek
    Westby never provides a reason you should pay to spend 70 minutes with Scotty, but he offers at least a dozen compelling ones not to.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Following Sean
    Arlyck's compulsion is to our great fortune. Patient and elegant, his film is a quietly devastating meditation on family, work, and the unrelenting passage of time.
  20. State of Fear
    An informative if shrill primer on the last 35 years of Peruvian plight, the new doc State of Fear may only be effective as an educational tool for Americans, whose media have told them next to nothing about one of the Western Hemisphere's most horrifying killing fields.
  21. Fateless
    Fateless has a remarkable absence of sentimentality. The movie is obviously artistic, but there are no cheap or superfluous effects. It's almost mystically translucent.
  22. Hostel
    Falling somewhere between fratboy porno wish fulfillment and Europhobic sex-tourism scare flick, Eli Roth's taut, wily, but ultimately pointless shocker Hostel is neither as transgressive nor as grueling as it aims to be.
  23. Kill the Poor
    Shot on a modest DV budget, Kill the Poor isn't pretty, but it's a balanced look at the dirty politics of gentrification.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    BloodRayne
    Our blood-smacking antiheroine, Rayne (Kristanna Loken), isn't a vampire; she's a dhampir, a half-human, half-vampire cross-fiend who's as anguished, strange, and sloppy as mercenaries, or movies, get.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Am Taraneh, I Am Fifteen Years Old
    Can nobly stand behind its more celebrated forebears.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    El carro
    Part fluff, part social farce, and all foregone conclusion.
  27. Stryker
    The dead-end social points Gonick is making are so blunt they're hardly points at all anymore, but the galleon anchor that's weighing down this well-intentioned homey is the amateur acting.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tau man ji D
    Another oil-slick ode to man-on-auto lust, Initial D offers enough full-speed money shots to eke out a victory over its barrage of clichés.
  29. The Promise
    You can't help wondering how the same Fifth Gen filmmaker who made "Yellow Earth" and "Life on a String" could've fallen on such hard times, or justified such goofiness to himself.
  30. Match Point
    A modest and mildly pretentious mediocrity in the Woodman canon.
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