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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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Endurance
    Still enigmatic is the figure of Shackleton himself. The film conveys his remarkable leadership without explaining (beyond a because-it's-there romanticism) what would compel such a journey in the first place.
  2. Go Tigers!
    This sly, sobering doc exposes the grievously fucked-up priorities surrounding the sport in a small town with little else on which to hang its hopes.
  3. Glitter
    A heart-wrenching debacle from the starting gun.
  4. Rocky Road
    This perky would-be consciousness-raiser dilutes a potentially interesting subject -- interracial marriage -- with half-baked platitudes, self-conscious acting, and a plot trite enough to be rejected by the PAX channel.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Children Underground
    A horror story, told with Dickensian compassion, permeating outrage, and little hope.
  6. Haiku Tunnel
    It's unpretentiously low-tech and humorously offbeat. And against all odds, the filmmaker emerges as a star.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Kill Me Later
    Her every gesture exaggerated, Blair acts as if she's performing in a silent film, but unfortunately, the film itself isn't silent -- the jam-packed alterna-rock soundtrack further emphasizes the obvious.
  8. A Trial in Prague
    Justman's A Trial in Prague acts as something of a corrective to the exuberant but oversimplified "Fighter."
  9. Tell Me Something
    Stylish, sullen, and a little predictable, Tell Me Something is the match of any American film in its quasi-genre, though you suspect that without a world market to target, it might've been even more anxious and intrepid.
  10. Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope
    Mindless, shoddy (lurching zooms, no color correction, an entire reel out of sync) depiction of some very big guys who work as bouncers.
  11. Two Can Play That Game
    It's the summer's most disingenuous movie -- a real achievement in a waning season that included Tim Burton's "Banana Splits" remake.
  12. A Matter of Taste
    A Matter of Taste's largest handicap is restraint: It's too tasteful. The climactic crisis is a broken leg, and the off-screen denouement is unimaginative.
  13. The Musketeer
    East/West fusion aside, The Musketeer is a stale Euro-pudding.
  14. L.I.E.
    Preposterous enough to entertain.
  15. Our Lady of the Assassins
    The performances can be stiff, but a kinetic mix of anxiety, dread, and numbed resignation is always palpable.
  16. Rock Star
    Raking over the same clichés as "Almost Famous," Rock Star is far less reverential -- it isn't burdened by generational nostalgia and doesn't take itself too seriously.
  17. The Iron Ladies
    We get a bunch of straight actors focusing on the "gayness" of their characters, mincing and lisping and melodramatically breaking nails, all in the besmirched name of tolerance.
  18. Vengo
    Gatlif's latest celebration of gypsy soul, sets a modest sliver of narrative in a fabulous widescreen landscape and surrounds it with a permanent party.
  19. The American Astronaut
    Rarely funny and straining to reach feature length, The American Astronaut achieves sweetness via its straight-faced take on utter gobbledygook.
  20. Djomeh
    Enriches a deceptively anecdotal plot with a combination of observational camerawork, strong narrative rhythms, and deft characterization.
  21. O
    Had Nelson and Kaaya been less concerned with following Othello to the letter and rather had pursued this love affair into uncharted cinematic waters, O might have been more than an unresolved mixture of gimmickry and good intentions.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Tortilla Soup
    Tortilla Soup feels instantly dated, distinguishable from EDMW only by some attractive close-ups of avocado.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Maybe Baby
    Proves infertile in more ways than one.
  24. Summer Catch
    Can only be enjoyed with a skullful of Old Bohemian and a faceful of high school crotch.
  25. Together
    The actors, mainly newcomers, have an improvisational freshness well matched to the freewheeling camera work.
  26. Ghosts of Mars
    Written, directed, and edited with the offhand shoddiness of a day worker thinking about his evening beer.
  27. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Although there's no evidence of sexual chemistry on the screen, the stars share a certain physical defensiveness that occasionally makes them seem simpatico; most of the time, however, they just look bored to death.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Happy Accidents
    The leads smooth over the plot holes endemic to all 4D fables, making the movie more than mere déjà vu.
  29. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Stunning in its guileless self-love, Smith's doodle-movie shows virtually no sign of being made for an audience. The 90-minute by-product of Smith's let's-shoot-a-movie pot party can be mystifying -- we've all stood soberly by as high friends guffaw at nothing in particular, but now we can pay for the privilege.
  30. Bubble Boy
    The coke-fried gibbons behind Bubble Boy came to a trailblazing conclusion: The ideal filmic oddity is white, male, and -- a mother's deception notwithstanding -- perfectly healthy.
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