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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 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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    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Human Error
    On a spare stage set, Dresser's clever script is allowed breadth for contemplation; here it's sodden with animated sludge. Watch it with your eyes closed.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Finding Eleazar
    Only true opera diehards will appreciate the backstage psychodrama, a catalog aria of the singer's multiple neuroses.
  3. I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
    It's all fascinating, but must Kalatozov's careening angel of cinema be laid bare?
  4. Piggie
    A movie refreshingly lacking in social graces, Piggie uses the transparency of video to x-ray the psyches of characters obsessed with the essence of things.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Future of Food
    Wisely eschews standard anti-corporate bombast for measured tones.
  6. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
    The Weeping Meadow shares the awed sense of solemn apocalypse with his (Angelopoulos) signature films, but it's lighter, more musical and folktale-ish.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Chain
    A dreamlike travelogue that transforms a mundane world into something strange and new.
  8. The Man
    Fuu . . . cryin' out loud, this movie's dumb.
  9. An Unfinished Life
    As with the director's other films, all that keeps Unfinished from being a complete, treacly bore is its robust performances.
  10. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    Derrickson's flick can sour your stomach with piety, which is a shame -- its moments of jolt wattage rate with many J-horrors.
  11. Keane
    Keane is a painfully specific figure but at the same time a totem, lean and frightening, for a morass of modern anxieties. That might be this phenomenal film's emergent achievement: Its raw hopelessness is its universality.
  12. Steal Me
    Whether it's the guitar-strum soundtrack, "lyrical" cornfield shots, or arrhythmic performances, Steal Me has at least one indie-film cliché too many.
  13. Campfire
    The timelier elements of Campfire, which cleared house at Israel's Academy Awards this year, are too salient to dismiss.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Green Street Hooligans
    Hunnam, whose cockney ranges from dodgy to downright Caine-ian, mutes Gary Oldman's bestial mouth-froth (in Clarke's 1988 The Firm), becoming the prettiest, most articulate, bloodthirsty thug ever to put lip to lager.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Kamikaze Girls
    If you value plausibility in movies, skip Kamikaze Girls; this is the sort of picture where getting run over by a truck gives a character gorgeous hair instead of a broken hip.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Music from the Inside Out
    A revealing portrait of painfully withdrawn artists navigating the tug between the divine harmony of an orchestral synthesis and the sweaty glow of individual experimentation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Make It Funky!
    A love letter to New Orleans, Make It Funky! reminds us of what has been lost in the flood, and of an artistic spirit that will never dissipate.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Walking on the Sky
    "School Ties" heartthrob Randall Batinkoff and the rest of the cast make do with wooden lines and a plot that fails to jell.
  19. Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
    Lively, intelligent look at the art of film editing.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Usher
    Flush with evidence of Harrington's trademark blend of the strange and the sublime.
  21. Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
    It's rare that a documentary conveys an artist's worldview so compellingly, but then Glennie is no ordinary musician.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Transporter 2
    Choreographer Corey Yuen's use of a fire hose is far more creative than anything in the stale kidnapper plot.
  23. A Sound of Thunder
    The movie recovers from a sluggish opening act to pack some real suspense in its second half.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Underclassman
    British bliss czars, the doughnut-loving LAPD, and bitchin'-hot Spanish profs, no matter how many, how fat, or how bitchin' hot, can't make up for easy double entendres and zero character development.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Assassin is the listless signature on her career-long comedic suicide note.
  26. 3 Dancing Slaves
    For those so inclined, this lulling, banal, and rather pleasant film cultivates a mood of zone-out voyeurism. In the absence of a larger purpose, Morel is content to ogle, perhaps rightly assuming that his viewers will be too.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mind Game
    All scrunched together into a dense marathon of optical-cranial overload, this mental puzzle-box arrives three decades too late for what would have been an inevitable midnight movie run, but undoubtedly there are American otakus popping this one into multi-region DVD players right now amid the glorbeling of bong hits.
  28. The Constant Gardener
    Although le Carré's story may seem predictable and unduly focused on the plight of a pale, wealthy Old Worlder adrift in a sea of needy East Africans, the movie's human material is masterfully manipulated.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Games of Love and Chance
    Unlike American counterparts "Kids" or "Dangerous Minds," this highly intelligent comedy (which cleaned up at this year's Césars) doesn't seek to shock or inspire, but merely documents teen moodiness in all its tedious unpredictability.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    William Eggleston in the Real World
    Subtle, elegant documentary.
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