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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 7.5 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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    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    2009: Lost Memories
    Why not travel back in time and not make this movie?
  2. 6ixtynin9
    Though overlong at two hours, 6ixtynin9—only the director's second outing (after 1997's spoofy" Fun Bar Karaoke')—is impressive for the tonal control Ratanaruang applies to his swerving scenario.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Sex, Politics & Cocktails
    Overwhelmingly poor camerawork helps obscure the deficiencies in the dialogue but can't conceal a sparse plot stretched to feature length by an endless parade of lame sketches.
  4. Stolen Childhoods
    So well-intentioned it almost renders critical examination frivolous.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    Even setting aside the clumsy inconsistency of its interior logic, Sith is an underachievement of escapist entertainment.
  6. Mojados: Through the Night
    Davis strives to keep himself out of the film, favoring a harrowing yet compassionate you-are-there aesthetic that underscores the hardship of the migrant workers' struggles.
  7. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Its title an acknowledgment of the reality of evil, Shake Hands With the Devil touches on the unanswerable hows and whys, but its ultimate subject is the terrible burden of command.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Mindhunters
    In an era of wall-to-wall "CSI," Mindhunters' ghoulish forensic hubbub not only feels tiring but hopelessly redundant.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kicking & Screaming
    Even the intermittent laughs undermine Kicking and its winning-isn't-everything message.
  10. Monster-in-Law
    "Legally Blonde" director Robert Luketic bumbles along with typically clumsy blocking and framing, and the misogyny inherent in the three-ring spectacle of bitch slaps, barbiturate covert ops, and wedding plan hysteria does rankle.
  11. Unleashed
    Cloying dreck.
  12. Mad Hot Ballroom
    Like "Spellbound's" glimpse of the darker side of childhood competition, Mad Hot Ballroom--a look at New York City schools' fifth-grade ballroom dance program--is best when exploring issues of class and gender and definitions of success.
  13. My Mother
    Can't transcend its own suffocating milieu.
  14. Layer Cake
    What's abundantly clear is how far this kind of moviemaking has come from any knowledge of real criminal life; it's a geek's ineffectual daydream of mayhem.
  15. Kings & Queen
    This extravagant family melodrama, one of the highlights of last year's New York Film Festival, runs two and a half hours and never lags, so moment-to-moment enthralling are Desplechin's narrative gambits, as well as his reckless eccentricity.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Modigliani
    Sadly, instead of situating the l'amour fou in the artistic ferment of the period (1917-1920), Davis twists the period to fit the story.
  17. Tell Them Who You Are
    Busting with clips from films Haskell Wexler shot and directed, the doc is a rare thing: an ingenuous portrait of a thoroughly Four-Square Artist, Assembled With Love And Rockets Inside A Family's Spite-Tainted Gates.
  18. Crash
    Full of well-observed supporting riffs, Crash might've accumulated more frisson had it cast a clearer eye on how social tension actually plays.
  19. House of Wax
    Only a nominal remake...Nevertheless, for gore aficionados (and probably no one else) the murders are worth the wait.
  20. Kingdom of Heaven
    The movie does what any self-respecting politician would do: sidestep the issues, soft-pedal mortal costs, talk a fat game, and divert your attention away from history with exercises in spectacle and power.
  21. Fighting Tommy Riley
    Outrageously sentimental and retrograde.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    Give 'em a handicap for making a 20-minute man go 90--still, it's not enough.
  23. Mysterious Skin
    With remarkable directness and composure, it shatters the myth of childhood innocence and the deathless taboo of prepubescent sexuality.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Great Role
    Chuckle-worthy jabs at American cultural imperialism aside, Le Grand Rôle has little to offer except a maudlin love story that ironically feels like a Tinseltown tearjerker facsimile.
  25. Brothers
    Brothers emerges as no less or more than Bier's claustrophobic compositions and unimaginative choices.
  26. A Hole in One
    First-time writer-director Richard Ledes's mystical tone and pervasive swipes from David Lynch tend to suffocate his satire, and stunt casting doesn't help.
  27. Up for Grabs
    Wranovics's entertaining documentary feels appropriately detached.
  28. Writer of O
    Pola Rapaport's slender documentary-cum-reconstruction Writer of O disappoints in its workmanlike approach to such fragrant material.
  29. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Studiously harmless, Disney's long-in-development film rendition pasteurizes the book's renegade verve with typical means.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    xXx: State of the Union
    The winking title X Cubed somehow eluded the makers of this sequel, along with plot coherency, character development, or clever explosions of genre convention.
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