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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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. Dogville
    For passion, originality, and sustained chutzpah, this austere allegory of failed Christian charity and Old Testament payback is von Trier's strongest movie--a masterpiece, in fact.
  2. Raja
    It plays out as an unsettling solipsistic love story--an account of erotic obsession with a family relation to "Of Human Bondage."
  3. The Gatekeeper
    The DIY approach entails significant limitations, including barely TV-quality visuals and the Seagal-like stiffness of Frey's performance, but the truly hellish portrayal of the workers' post-crossing indentured servitude in a meth lab makes up for a sluggish opening act.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bon voyage
    Relies on its considerable star power to conceal its even more considerable lack of substance.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Taking Lives
    If the Naqoyqatsi-lite score by Philip Glass doesn't exactly make sense of the film's sketchy identity politics, it does complement its utter ridiculousness.
  6. Intermission
    Like a loud and intermittently charismatic drunk at a dreary dive bar, Intermission grabs your attention, but in no time you're looking for the nearest exit.
  7. Dawn of the Dead
    It is, like most, an unnecessary remake, but the new, digitally boosted Dawn of the Dead brings it on with a 10-minute overture that might be the most upsetting tin-can apocalypse modern movies have ever seen.
  8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    It's a baroque and intermittently brilliant brain twister so convoluted that it inevitably deposits the viewer in an alternate universe.
  9. Divan
    Warmhearted but unsentimental, touching but not mawkish, clever but never cute, Divan is almost miraculously modest.
  10. Noi the Albino
    A lightly comic slacker drama that takes the desperation of teenage tedium seriously.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Maestro
    Would be all but unbearable without the excited testimony of the young men and women of color who'd spent their happiest nights at the Loft or the Gallery or Paradise Garage.
  12. Spartan
    David Mamet takes on the digi-tech, hard-Clancy-core intel thriller most often inflated by Tony Scott and like-minded plodders, and typically he elevates it, botches it, and exploits it for searing political comment.
  13. Knafayim Shvurot
    This poignant, acutely observed movie is eloquent and suggestive in dramatizing a particular trauma in the context of an ordinary Haifa family.
  14. Secret Window
    "The only thing that matters is the ending," Mort declares in the closing seconds, just as the director is serving up a colossal (and literally corny) stinker. But for Depp, it's yet another daunting mission accomplished with wit and ingenuity.
  15. Distant
    Thoughtfully orchestrated and filled with visual wit.
  16. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    It's hard to despise a movie with the balls to posit that its Blair-look-alike PM has been brainwashed by a corrupt CIA operative, but Banks 2 is really pretty hateful.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    NASCAR: The IMAX Experience
    The film's flashy you-are-there qualities only underscore the bittersweet gulf between NASCAR's seemingly self-actualized, life-risking gladiators and their softly padded, toddler-toting, ticket-buying fans.
  18. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    A kindred exercise in ensemble cheer and cozy humanism -- not as sentimental as it might be but cheerfully affirmative in dispelling the darkness of its premise.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Games People Play: New York
    Think Fear Factor: Soft Porn anchored by a third-act twist that results in confused meta-mayhem.
  20. This Ain't No Heartland
    One might expect some insight into nationalist propaganda from This Ain't No Heartland, which opens with a Goering quotation, but Austrian director Andreas Horvath's scattershot film is more interested in advancing the thesis that Midwesterners are all dumb hicks.
  21. Ghost River
    The only conceivable reason to immerse oneself in this inexplicable release is, of course, Huppert. Gravely, she accepts the challenge of delivering a coherent performance in a wildly incoherent role.
  22. Hidalgo
    The screwball antics recall "Cannonball Run" more than David Lean.
  23. Starsky & Hutch
    S&H's chief pleasure is the spontaneous, sometimes quite touching rapport between the two stars.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Reckoning
    Emphatically acted, ponderous, and ultimately a little silly.
  25. James' Journey to Jerusalem
    A deceptively modest fable of innocence abroad that resonates with the situation within Israel and without.
  26. WTC the First 24 Hours
    Actually manages a fresh perspective. The director, camera in tow, had unimpeded access to the devastation for a full day before being shooed away by officials, and the footage he captured (sans commentary) is both gut-wrenchingly familiar and disconcertingly foreign.
  27. Collateral Damages
    The film's real flaw is its limited focus.
  28. Club Dread
    The group has a distinctive deadpan style; after you get on their wavelength, it's impossible to quit chuckling.
  29. Greendale
    A bargain-basement musical extravaganza.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Twisted
    No mystery here: Twisted is D.O.A.
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