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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. Swiri
    High-powered and gory.
  2. Birthday Girl
    It may not be particularly innovative, but the film's crisp, unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Rumor of Angels
    The pat reconciliations among family members start to pile up like so much driftwood along the beach.
  4. Slackers
    The most that can be said for Slackers -- aside from the unqualified pleasure of Schwartzman's unfaked, puppyish weirdness -- is that it doesn't abandon its putrid ideals for the sake of a neat finish.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Loners
    Contains exactly three decent jokes, all stuffed in the last 15 minutes.
  6. Domestic Violence
    The most compelling Wiseman epic of recent years -- reminiscent of his hellish 1975 masterpiece, "Welfare," in its open-ended articulation of chaotic, violent, luckless lives.
  7. Waydowntown
    With wit and empathy to spare, waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters' striving solipsism.
  8. Maelstrom
    Wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically, and borrows heavily from Lynch, Jeunet, and von Trier while failing to find a spark of its own.
  9. The Son's Room
    A movie more to be prescribed than recommended.
  10. The Mothman Prophecies
    A diverting pulp time-waster.
  11. Hey, Happy!
    Gonick's visceral impulses have drawn comparisons with John Waters, but the starry-eyed collision of gross-out gags and candy-sweet sentiment owes as much of a debt to the Farrellys as Bruce LaBruce.
  12. Metropolis
    Metropolis is "A.I." without tears.
  13. Storytelling
    The leanest and meanest of Solondz's misanthropic comedies, feasts on the anguish of adolescence and confusion of college -- white suburban-style.
  14. The Count of Monte Cristo
    The week's guilty pleasure is The Count of Monte Cristo, a gorgeously photographed, sumptuously designed adaptation of the Dumas swashbuckler boasting the most ludicrous dialogue since director Kevin Reynolds's "Waterworld."
  15. Beijing Bicycle
    Wang mistakes affectless storytelling and character conception for rigor, and as a result huge portions of Beijing Bicycle are dull and repetitive.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    American Adobo
    Adobo doesn't exoticize the culture so much as leaven it with a sense of ordinariness.
  17. Ha-Hesder
    Flawed but engrossing thriller. Highly atmospheric, it gets its charge by dramatizing religious millennialism in a region that is the world epicenter of irrationality.
  18. Italian for Beginners
    A funny, relationship-driven ensemble piece that takes the chill out of the Danish winter with a snuggly blanket of humanism.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe
    For the non-Czech audience, the overview may be patchy. Viewers who know heroes aren't saints deserve more information about the band's internal rifts, the main thing that kept them nonfunctional after 1988. With history this juicy, the music gets upstaged -- it's a limitation of the medium.
  20. Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer
    Marvelously grizzled and tender, Josef Bierbichler's Brecht wheezes and grumbles through it all.
  21. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    It's easily the most disarming and inventive movie made for genre geeks in years.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    E-Dreams
    That the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that Chin's film serves up with style and empathy.
  23. Orange County
    Hardly the idiosyncratic Mickey Finn you'd expect from the men behind 1998's underrated "Zero Effect" and 2000's discomfort-splooge "Chuck & Buck."
  24. What Time Is It Over There?
    Filled with purposeful, if absurd, activity rendered gravely hilarious through Tsai's deadpan, distanced representation of extreme behavior.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
    The only rationale for the production seems to be that the pair were gay, and therein lies the main problem with this uninspired example of queer-film-festival filler.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    Appropriately, Riedelsheimer shoots Goldsworthy's mini-megaliths with a landscape painter's eye; set to Fred Firth's modernist score, some images verge on Kubrick territory.
  27. Charlotte Gray
    The narrative is unexpectedly sleepy, excepting the occasional flashy set piece.
  28. I Am Sam
    Actual concussive cranial abuse would be preferable to Jessie Nelson's I Am Sam.
  29. Dark Blue World
    Dark Blue World and Sverak's previous "Kolya" were each written by the director's father, Zdenek, and both films betray a weakness for the symmetrical and sentimental.
  30. Black Hawk Down
    It's a Jerry Bruckheimer art film, perhaps the most extravagantly aestheticized combat movie ever made.
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