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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. The Price of Air
    Culminates in a second bing-bang-boom triple shoot-out that effectively cancels out the shreds of remaining plot but is shot and cut like a sixth grader's Super-8 struggle for Woo-ness.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Paragraph 175
    The tales told are bitter, horrific in detail...yet often leavened with irony and humor. Rupert Everett's low-key narration serves the film well.
  3. Almost Famous
    Panoramic yet cozy, enthusiastically glib.
  4. Pola X
    This moody, rapturous adaptation of Pierre, Herman Melville's gothic follow-up to "Moby Dick," is never less than seriously romantic.
  5. The Watcher
    Sidesteps any juicy subtext in favor of routine chase-movie thrills.
  6. Backstage
    High-concept cinema this ain't.
  7. Solas
    The fierce rigor of María Galiana's performance keeps this film from ever falling into sentimentality.
  8. Nurse Betty
    Betty sustains her character, the movie fails to maintain its own.
  9. Ça commence aujourd'hui
    Dynamic but preachy.
  10. The Way of the Gun
    Way of the Gun is a self-consciously American odyssey.
  11. The Bulls' Night Out
    A likable, earnest character study with a rare sense of purpose.
  12. Clouds
    Has nice, pearly, black-and-white cinematography, but it also has the shocking temerity to run over 100 minutes. Sweet air is required.
  13. Turn It Up
    The staging and performances are awkward, the frequent shoot-outs a snore.
  14. Wildflowers
    Wildflowers is the only brand of requiem the '60s get anymore -- worshipful and ass-backward.
  15. Madadayo
    Unabashedly personal and uncool...but between you and me, dear reader, I love it to death.
  16. Whipped
    If all-out headache-nausea-braindeath is what you crave, Whipped's available.
  17. Titanic Town
    Isn't convincing on every front, but as a political conversation piece, it's potentially effective.
  18. Dark Days
    Singer achieves remarkable intimacy with his subjects.
  19. The Art of War
    Far more preposterous in its details than the average blam-quip-kerplow, The Art of War isn't helped by the performances.
  20. God's Army
    Tries to show the oh-so-human side of Gospel-hawking, His Word, the Path, and so on.
  21. Orfeu
    Hovers between mythic poetry and earthbound grit; the result is an inert, drably florid spectacle.
  22. Waga jinsei saiaku no toki
    At heart, a work of infectious, unironic affection.
  23. Fastpitch
    Spear's portrait of unpaid, passionate fastpitchers could give filmmakers of all budgets a notion of how real Americans speak.
  24. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    In this visually malnourished film, quirks substitute for character.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Crew
    The humor is even more geriatric than the cast.
  26. Bittersweet Motel
    As homey as old sweats.
  27. Solomon & Gaenor
    Paul Morrison's relentlessly unsurprising staging of a "Romeo and Juliet" story fetishizes its accelerating tragedies with morbid solemnity.
  28. Love & Sex
    All solipsistic jaded-Cosmo patter.
  29. Bring It On
    She (Dunst) provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness.
  30. Chalk
    What gives the film extra weight is the sense that these are not just actors trying to enhance their careers but real people seizing a chance for immortality.
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