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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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  1. She's One of Us
    Quickly nose-dives into the ridiculous.
  2. Arakimentari
    Admittedly compulsive in both sex and shutterbuggery, Araki has long lived on the art-porn border, though this doc aims to show him as conversant in flowers, kitties, skies, and neorealist kids' faces as he is with bondage.
  3. Assault on Precinct 13
    A surprisingly credible action flick.
  4. Machuca
    Machuca is still a half-measure. Wood is fastidious about period set design, but not much else; rather than burning with experience, the film feels opportunistic.
  5. With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America
    Certainly not as incredulous or mocking as it might have been. If anything, the mood is apprehensive. But it's depressing that--Carter aside--the filmmakers failed to find even one liberal believer.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Coach Carter
    Proudly wearing its self-righteousness like a letterman jacket, Coach Carter's just an exasperatingly long "The More You Know" commercial starring one first-stringer and the junior varsity.
  7. Elektra
    The pedestrian Elektra offers no surprises, and whether or not you'll appreciate its modest charms depends entirely on whether you too have been anticipating Garner's new outfit.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Racing Stripes
    The film shares a problem with its hero: identity crisis.
  9. The Chorus
    The cinematic equivalent of filtered water, The Chorus is all smooth, nutrient-free clichés. This shamelessly globalized French Oscar submission even opens with a shot of an American flag--perhaps an unconscious declaration of defeat for importable Gallic cinema.
  10. Appleseed
    Much of the movie is dull, and as it has been dubbed into English, the blah-blah is impossible to ignore.
  11. Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    A free-for-all doc that, like its subject, seems on several planes at once.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    White Noise
    White Noise vigorously pushes the supernatural line throughout, but unfortunately its final movement is so incoherent that the whole thing collapses.
  13. Murder-Set-Pieces
    Depraved, disgusting, misogynistic, ugly, and interminable, Murder-Set-Pieces is the lowest form of cinematic life, a movie so utterly degenerate it makes you wish that indie filmmakers had to prove a basic standard of decency in order to buy a camera.
  14. Wall Street: A Wondering Trip
    Surprisingly lacking in depth and overall political perspective.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Sky Blue
    Most of the action is tedious, and the less you pay attention to the dialogue, the less you'll feel your hand inadvertently twitching as if with joystick.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    A Love Song for Bobby Long
    At least Macht emerges relatively unscathed from the mess, content to brood and mutter self-loathing observations while Johansson and (most painfully) Travolta spoon their Southern accents out of a jar and spread it all over the humid scenery.
  17. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    Moody, pretentious, but potent.
  18. The Merchant of Venice
    Pacino simply wipes the cobblestones with the rest of the cast: His beautifully calibrated performance is lucid, commanding, and genuinely tragic.
  19. In Good Company
    The scenario is stale but the actors are faultless.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Fat Albert
    The animated scenes conjure aromas of the stilted "Clifford," and the overall approach is to throw preordained movie sequences (rap number, shopping spree) together and hope for the best.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Darkness
    Rarely has a film's tagline been more fitting: "Some secrets should never come to light."
  22. Donkey Skin (re-release)
    Seasonally it's more appropriate as a May Day bacchanal, but in any month Demy's movie makes for an evocative globe-paperweight tableau of its place and time, and a concise demonstration of the disquietude inherent in classic fairy tales.
  23. The Woodsman
    An engrossing study of a protagonist who variously inspires pity, clinical interest, fondness, and revulsion-sometimes all at once.
  24. The Keys to the House
    If the film's redemptive ending is a fairy tale, it's one we willingly embrace.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    In the Realms of the Unreal
    Jessica Yu's elegant new doc In the Realms of the Unreal is a spry, creative response to his (Darger's) oceanic talent and claustrophobic life.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Phantom of the Opera
    This Phantom's an overblown mess of ostentatious razzmatazz. Sure, all the ingredients of camp are there (oh, the hubris!), but this isn't a so-bad-it's-good classic. It's worse.
  27. Meet the Fockers
    For a Ben Stiller rom-com, there's remarkably little pain and humiliation. Which, for the most part, is not a good thing.
  28. Hotel Rwanda
    It's a gut-twisting story handled, largely and predictably, with asbestos mitts.
  29. Imaginary Heroes
    Despite Weaver's wise instincts for the thoughtful pause, we're stuck with yet another ass-kicking female actor struggling to shade in the contours of a wispy sketch.
  30. Open My Heart
    Those looking for a smarter précis on sex and shame with one-thirtieth the running time are encouraged to seek out the other Madonna's "Open Your Heart" video on VH1.
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