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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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    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    Havana Nights es mucho frío -- the only titter of excitement comes in a cameo from a strangely reptilian Patrick Swayze.
  2. Goodbye Lenin!
    Overlong and a bit tiresome but it's actually about something.
  3. Risk/Reward
    Holder and Parker tread lightly on issues of sexism, and sex in general, and leave us wishing more questions were asked.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Confessions of a Burning Man
    Less sentiment and more peculiarity would have limned a richer, though probably less audition-tape-worthy, reflection of Burning Man's 25,000-strong community of the absurd.
  5. Alila
    Israel's one-man new wave, Amos Gitai, surveys his nation's hardscrabble quotidian in Alila, which dallies with both Kiarostamian spirit and Altman-esque fabric, examining the intersecting lives of a dozen or so Tel Aviv residents.
  6. The Passion of the Christ
    X-ploitative though it may be, the spectacle of a man beaten and tortured to death seeks to be an object of contemplation. Serious questions are raised.
  7. Our Father
    By way of a tragic left hook, Haroun's relaxed movie climaxes back where it began, on the devastated home ground. The journey, however pessimistic, is like a gentle handshake.
  8. Teknolust
    A quiet tour de force for Tilda Swinton, who plays researcher Rosetta Stone and her feisty but fragile alter egos.
  9. Big Animal
    The tale's faux-fable simplicity is cunningly eloquent.
  10. Against the Ropes
    As a gloves-off Erin Brockovich, Ryan never makes it into the ring.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    EuroTrip
    Eurotrip's constant anxiety that women might turn out to be men and vice versa makes this command especially fraught.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
    Smug, sanitized fantasy.
  13. Kitchen Stories
    Slight but sardonic, Norwegian director Bent Hamer's deadpan Kitchen Stories makes a taciturn comedy of nothingness out of color-coordinated '50s coziness and Scandinavian social planning.
  14. Welcome to Mooseport
    Closer to Sturges than Capra, the movie means to satirize the TV-fueled carnivalesque nature of American electoral politics but only demonstrates the TV-fueled debasement of American commercial comedy.
  15. Lost Boys of Sudan
    Without the intrusion of voice-overs or interviews, Mylan and Shenk attained a remarkable intimacy with the strapping, earnest, startlingly beautiful teenagers.
  16. After the Life
    At its most contemplative, The Trilogy is a stirring and shrewd portrait of lives lived in oblivious parallel. [Note: From a review of the entire trilogy.]
  17. Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
    The hyperbole can be predictable and the clichés earnest, but by and large, Charlie is a serious, often illuminating, and unavoidably entertaining account of the creature Downey calls "the most endearing superhero you might ever want to watch."
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Code
    While Melville's films strike a pose of ironic bloodlessness, The Code attends to a thick stew of (soap-) operatic emotion, turning each internecine skirmish into an occasion for melodramatic brooding. Melville once described his films as comedies; The Code, unfortunately, knows no such wit.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Seagull's Laughter
    Provides some swell roles for actresses and intriguing local detail.
  20. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (re-released)
    The wonderful-terrible dervish of Umbrellas reaches peak abandon, worthy of Vincente Minnelli, when Geneviève sobs out a plaint for Guy as a carnival whirls outside the shop.
  21. Love Object
    Utilizes horror movie jolts to plumb male control-freakishness.
  22. 50 First Dates
    The barf stream of gay jokes, pussy jokes, fat wife jokes, more gay jokes, and walrus penis jokes ends up making you pine for Lucy's gift of forgetting.
  23. Robot Stories
    A quietly impassioned, genuinely stirring indie rarity.
  24. An Amazing Couple
    At its most contemplative, The Trilogy is a stirring and shrewd portrait of lives lived in oblivious parallel. [Note: From a review of the entire trilogy.]
  25. Osama
    Its sluggish, amateur-Kiarostami character would be off-putting if the material weren't so powerful.
  26. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    Skeleton may be 100 percent cult-in-a-can, but aficionados should feel sated. All others are advised to bring copious amounts of controlled substances.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Miracle
    Kurt Russell is terrific as coach Herb Brooks, psychological tactician out to redeem his being cut from the 1960 U.S. squad, the last one to beat the CCCP.
  28. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Cube is still adorable, but the potentially poppin' battle between the shop and big-box competitor Nappy Cuts gets obscured by sloppy chronology and flat, cartoonish politicos.
  29. Catch That Kid
    A stale, overbudgeted, child-empowerment fantasy that's every bit as excruciating as the director's previous work.
  30. The Return
    Primordial and laconic, this remarkably assured debut feature has the elegant simplicity of its title.
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