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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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  1. Face
    Never really finds a fresh groove.
  2. Gunner Palace
    Floating on the surface of confusion, Gunner Palace has a raw home video quality that's often quite beautiful. Much of the movie is hardly more than an immersion in sights and sounds. Vivid as it is, Gunner Palace is dominated by what isn't shown. It's the human face of Abu Ghraib.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Intimate Stories
    It's a perfectly realized grace note whose lack of any obvious message only reinforces the movie's abundant wisdom and patient humanism.
  4. Walk on Water
    The complex questions Walk on Water raises receive only confused answers.
  5. Whisky
    The film is a model of precision and economy, from the scrupulous framing and editing to the dryly note-perfect performances.
  6. The Best of Youth
    The movie has the addictive episodic intimacy of great TV.
  7. Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating
    Lighthearted foray into the world of competitive eating.
  8. The Red Orchestra
    Worth sticking around for: the triumphant end credit sequence of each Red Orchestra mug shot morphing into the next one.
  9. Cursed
    The scariest thing in the movie is a cameo by Scott Baio.
  10. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Rote melodrama.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Man of the House
    The movie's not so much bad as it is chillingly uninventive.
  12. Up and Down
    Up and Down is not exactly the toughest movie on the block, but especially compared to most American comedies, it conveys a sense of scrofulous rue.
  13. 10 on Ten
    10 on Ten is less illuminating than pedantic, as well as tediously self-absorbed.
  14. The Other Side of the Street
    Co-writer and first-time director Marcos Bernstein (who also co-scripted the Montenegro-starring Central Station) drowns the film in anesthetizing atmospherics and hot Brazilian bodies, blunting the energy of his septuagenarian star's performance.
  15. Sexual Dependency
    As theory, Sexual Dependency is no worse than a tinny artist's statement, but as moviemaking, it's brutally embarrassing, inexcusable.
  16. Turtles Can Fly
    Amid the muddy scrubbery of the camp and its hinterland surroundings, Ghobadi catches some striking compositions.
  17. Because of Winn-Dixie
    The story seems awkwardly positioned between coming-of-age realism and whimsical fantasy.
  18. Constantine
    Fans of Hellblazer are bound to be disappointed.
  19. Son of the Mask
    At its heart is a deep, unresolved ambivalence about child rearing.
  20. Nabbeun namja
    Bad Guy, one of the seven films in Kim's fascinating back catalog, is another kind of cocktail--simple, bitter, served straight and in an unwashed glass.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Bigger Than the Sky
    At least Sean Astin, as a scene-chewing prima donna, seems to be having a good time--and mom Patty Duke gets to call him a "turd."
  22. Downfall
    Downfall may be grimly self-important and inescapably trivializing. But we should be grateful that German cinema is more inclined to normalize the nation's history than rewrite it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Naked Fame
    There are many dreadful elements in this chronicle of aging gay male porn star Colton Ford's quest for crossover success in the music industry: sub-amateurish camera work, a maddeningly repetitive score, and a listless narrative.
  24. Schultze Gets the Blues
    Ends up an intricate, becalmed take on a soul adrift.
  25. The Animation Show 2005
    Expertly programmed by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt, the second go-round of The Animation Show features 12 films from five countries.
  26. Cinévardaphoto
    A work of great charm and bold aesthetic impurity, Agnès Varda's Cinévardaphoto is a suite of documentary shorts.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ong Bak
    The ferocious fighting moves (adapted from ancient Muay Thai manuals by veteran Thai martial arts director Phanna Rithikrai) that constitute Ong-Bak's money shots are often truly astonishing.
  28. Bride & Prejudice
    Money can't buy happiness, but as Bride and Prejudice teaches us, it can get patience in bulk from a smart young woman of a practical mind-set.
  29. Hitch
    While far from perfect, Hitch is a rare studio product that earns the goodwill it smugly demands.
  30. Inside Deep Throat
    In a Kafkaesque turn of events, Reems was the fall guy--facing prison, he became a Hollywood cause célèbre. Inside Deep Throat includes footage of him partying with Jack and Warren and debating Roy Cohn on TV.
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