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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 7.7 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. Divided We Fall
    In its compassionate absurdism and underlying dark humor, the movie seeks to reestablish contact with the Czech new wave.
  2. La grande strada azzurra
    The neophyte director has a tendency to pose his actors and musically overscore each new dramatic development. The combination can border on the ludicrous.
  3. A Love Divided
    Brady and Cunningham share a volatile, symbiotic chemistry, sketching in elegant shorthand the rhythms of a lusty, combative marriage.
  4. Big Eden
    Stupefyingly benign.
  5. Rape Me
    Wit is in short supply -- although this journey to the end of the night derives a certain amount of punkish energy from its crude editing, cruddy-looking close-ups, strident soundtrack, and overall volatility.
  6. A Real Young Girl
    A philosophical gross-out comedy rudely presented from the perspective of a sullen, sexually curious 14-year-old.
  7. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    I'd rather watch a forgotten houseplant dehydrate and die.
  8. Farewell, Home Sweet Home
    The movie exudes a cheerful energy--laying out a deck of narrative cards, then reshuffling them in the final 10 minutes.
  9. Himalaya
    Himalaya lacks such lightness, humor, and grace, offering instead the surface beauty of an ancient and inviolate culture.
  10. The Man Who Cried
    The Man Who Cried is like a Yiddish generational tearjerker told from the perspective of the lost child rather than that of the bereaved parent.
  11. The Road Home
    The Road Home is foremost enthralled, however, with its lead actress -- wide-eyed and pigtailed, revered in close-up after stunned close-up.
  12. Pearl Harbor
    The chaos is convincing, but, less ruthless than Steven Spielberg, Bay eschews D-day panic and mutilation.
  13. Our Song
    The patient camera leans in closely on the three lead actresses -- extraordinary first-timers all.
  14. Fast Food Fast Women
    In his film's better moments, Kollek makes us laugh at these visions while also revealing their grace and frailty.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strange Fits of Passion
    Flawlessly acted, Strange Fits of Passion could be a female equivalent of "The Year My Voice Broke," only in contemporary gear.
  16. Petits frères
    Doillon's ease with young performers is again seamlessly evident.
  17. Angel Eyes
    A tearjerking romantic confection that, thanks to a reliance on unrestrained psychobabble and melodramatic one-upmanship, is only partially digestible.
  18. Moulin Rouge!
    A voracious vacuum cleaner of a movie --hoovering up a hundred years' worth of junk with the same monotonously unmodulated hum.
  19. Shrek
    Desperately avoiding the risk of even a half-second of boredom, the movie is wall-to-window-to-door noise, babbling, and jokes.
  20. Striporama
    An entrancing glimpse of true underground Americana.
  21. Performance
    Performance seems more like eye candy than castor oil in the brave new world of "Freddy Got Fingered."
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Under Hellgate Bridge
    "Sopranos" vet Dominic Chianese is squandered as a banal father confessor.
  23. Startup.com
    Has all the hallmarks of a Pennebaker production. The editing is seamless, the drama builds throughout, and the arc of the central character is as shapely as in a Hollywood fiction.
  24. The King Is Alive
    Endearingly pretentious -- as if it swallowed a thick brick of Beckett and can't pass the uncooperative Beckettian stool.
  25. Bread and Roses
    A genuine consciousness-raiser, but it's less a social-realist narrative than a high-volume rally.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    A Knight's Tale
    At best harmless, if not quite fun.
  27. About Adam
    Hudson is ebullient, never cutesy, and her accent stays in tune.
  28. The Man Who Bought Mustique
    Tennant had hoped the documentary would serve as an "instrument of revenge" on Mustique's new owners. It's the filmmakers who end up exacting revenge on Tennant, gleefully recording his every splenetic outburst and infantile hissy fit.
  29. Pavilion of Women
    Yim's film is kneecapped by its soundtrack twice over.
  30. Ice from the Sun
    It's barely a movie.
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