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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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    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    15: The Movie
    The collision of neorealist casting with in-your-face visual pyrotechnics is jarring to say the least, and 15 quickly wears down the viewer with its barrage of strobe effects and attention-deficit editing.
  2. Raging Dove
    Raging Dove can't avoid the biodoc pitfall of fixating on its subject's personal saga to the virtual exclusion of all else; by the end it's essentially blaming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Abu Lashin's professional demise.
  3. Sahara
    Sahara is many things, but it is not a movie. It is the skull-splitting cacophony of 21 producers and four screenwriters (that we know about, anyway) standing in the same room shouting into their cell phones.
  4. Fever Pitch
    But the ickiest thing about Fever Pitch is its reverential Field of Dreams music.
  5. Kung Fu Hustle
    Chow manages to have his cake and eat it too: Kung Fu Hustle is a kung fu parody that's also a terrific kung fu movie.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Eating Out
    The best straight-plays-gay, straight-goes-gay flick since "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
  7. Winter Solstice
    What makes Winter Solstice, a nice little Jersey vignette about a widower and his two teenage sons, so striking is writer-director Josh Sternfeld's respect for the verbal shorthand of family interaction.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    This would-be comedy about a thirtysomething family man (Attal) and his foray into infidelity is probably the worst in the putrid bushel of recent Gallic imports.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Friend
    Shot on DV, the film looks awful, but this homemade quality fosters an authenticity that allows for startling suspense as Yunes's secret life comes to light.
  10. Major Dundee (re-release)
    What rescues Major Dundee in the end from its many conflicts and unresolved passions is Heston.
  11. Eros
    The omnibus film usually saves its home run for the climax, but Eros begins with the best third, Wong Kar-wai's "The Hand."
  12. A Hole in My Heart
    An unrelentingly crass and confrontational barf bomb that makes Lars von Trier's "The Idiots" look like the philosophical experiment that it is.
  13. Voices in Wartime
    Poorly organized mishmash of archival war films, scholarly chatter, and literary quotations.
  14. First Love
    Probing the trust-based power games of a sadomasochistic dynamic, the movie is a reasonably thoughtful study of obsessive love.
  15. David Hockney: The Colors of Music
    This delightfully sensual documentary gets inside the artist's creative process while also treating viewers to glorious music by the likes of Wagner and Satie.
  16. In Satmar Custody
    Chilling and thoroughly engrossing documentary.
  17. Sin City
    Sin City lacks the human interest, not to be confused with humanism, that "Pulp Fiction" had in abundance. As if to underscore the fact, Tarantino guest-directed a scene. It's readily recognizable as the only one in which the dialogue has the slightest conviction.
  18. Dust to Glory
    The movie is monotonous, storyless, and at under 100 minutes, interminable.
  19. Girl Play
    Greenspan and Harmon's paltry song of themselves concludes with five minutes of outtakes, capping the self-love.
  20. Control
    Bulcsú never surfaces from the underworld. Neither does the movie-literally or figuratively.
  21. Look at Me
    Little in a Jaoui film is particularly original, but it's all perfectly convincing.
  22. Beauty Shop
    Breezy, sporadically funny.
  23. Odessa... Odessa!
    A modernist travelogue, at once impressionistic and precise.
  24. Oldboy
    Whatever its oversteps and excesses (I do think Park ran a little amok with the computer gimcrackery), Oldboy has the bulldozing nerve and full-blooded passion of a classic.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Guess Who
    The script's lack of nerve fails to challenge him (Mac) or its audience with enough dangerous humor.
  26. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    Day-Lewis is as rooted as an oak in his character and milieu, yet easefully disengaged from the film's pensive histrionics.
  27. D.E.B.S.
    Aims for a mix of "Heathers" wit and "Batman" TV-show camp.
  28. Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
    Leitman's interviews are lax and inconclusive.
  29. Nina's Tragedies
    With improbable charm, Gabizon knits it all together, his characters' sexual obsessions and earthiness tempered by a soulful melancholy.
  30. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    Bullock manages medium charm, but you gotta feel for King, forced to play dat-bitch-crazy butch to Bullock's untrammeled femme.
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