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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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  1. Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
    The even faintly informed will see only a cut-rate vision of flabby white men defending their own bloodthirsty opportunism.
  2. Sex Is Comedy
    Enjoyable if light, until it becomes apparent that Breillat is not simply waxing narcissistic but fashioning a simultaneous critique, explication, and demystification of the lengthy, near-single-take defloration that is Fat Girl's centerpiece.
  3. P.S.
    The question of whether this is a movie about reincarnation or fate or middle-aged delusion remains unaddressed far beyond our capacity to care. Many of the admirably long conversational scenes are pointless; some, like Harden and Linney's climactic bitch-fest in a hotel room, are flat-out absurd.
  4. The Final Cut
    Pressing on in grimly introverted "One Hour Photo" mode, Williams only stirs nostalgia for his slapstick days (ghastly '90s roles notwithstanding)--he's such a natural-born ham he manages to overdo understatement.
  5. Moolaadé
    This has to be the most richly entertaining movie anyone has ever made on the subject of female genital mutilation.
  6. Eulogy
    If the recurring gag about Grandma's suicide attempts doesn't have you rolling in the aisles, there's always the domineering aunt whose husband sits at the kiddie table.
  7. Being Julia
    Bening's comic gifts make the most of Ronald Harwood's witty screenplay, though she falls flat in her character's rare moments of sincerity.
  8. Saints and Soldiers
    The thin backstory hints at a conflict between the religious convictions of the hero (helpfully named Deacon) and the demands of combat, but it never fully materializes; as it is, we mainly know that he's a Mormon because he doesn't smoke or drink coffee.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shall We Dance
    While Suo's original was hardly a masterpiece, it featured a subtle performance from Koji Yakusho. Gere doesn't even compare, playing the part of a despondent lawyer with the empathy of a mannequin.
  10. Team America: World Police
    Team America is at once grandiose and tacky, elaborate and deflationary.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed
    Overreaching in many of its laudatory appraisals, the film is mostly GOP-boosting rhetoric in the guise of a dull History Channel special.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Scandal
    E J-Yong's transposition illuminates, with satisfying crispness, the hyper-Confucian high society of the time, as well as the underground Catholic movement.
  13. Vera Drake
    Vera Drake puts the passion in compassion. Building up to a shattering conclusion, Leigh's movie is both outrageously schematic and powerfully humanist.
  14. Around the Bend
    Veers deep into male-weepie territory.
  15. Vodka Lemon
    Saleem, a Paris-based Kurd, displays the visual confidence and subtle screwball rhythms of a master, exploiting offscreen space, deadpan compositions, and deft visual backbeats, as well as attaining a breathtaking fidelity to real light and landscape.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Yes Nurse! No Nurse!
    It's all an excuse for some daft production numbers, however, and a chance to relive the vanished Holland of your youth. Yes Nurse? No Nurse? Maybe Nurse!
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Go Further
    Go Further meanders--narratively as well as geographically--all over the map.
  18. Silent Water
    Sumar's debut feature could scarcely be more relevant to Pakistan's present, or, given this country's history of backing such repressive regimes, to ours.
  19. Stage Beauty
    Most frustrating, Stage Beauty fumbles XX/XY politics at every turn.
  20. Friday Night Lights
    Director Peter Berg, an actor himself, gets quietly excruciated performances from the team members.
  21. Primer
    Primer unites physics and metaphysics in an ingenious guerrilla reinvention of cinematic science fiction.
  22. Raise Your Voice
    The God-squad answer to Todd Graff's "Camp."
  23. The Child I Never Was
    Kai S. Pieck's debut feature finds a plaintive, compelling route to the pathology of 1960s German child-killer Jürgen Bartsch.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Arna's Children
    Refreshing and depressing.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Card Player
    Ingenious but relatively tame thriller.
  26. Tarnation
    A tale of sadness and hysteria so raw that it bleeds.
  27. Taxi
    Throughout this Americanization of the Luc Besson–scripted French hit, Latifah itches to check her watch, Fallon appears mortified, and only Ann-Margret mainlines any comic adrenalin.
  28. Tying the Knot
    We never get to see the dailiness of coupled life or learn what made these relationships tick--and why they are so worthy of legal validation.
  29. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    I got a charge out of Going Upriver, but as more than one person has noted, the movie's ideal spectator would be Kerry himself.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Woman Thou Art Loosed
    Feels part reality show, part mockumentary, part Jakes promo video.
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