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For 7,950 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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  1. Examined Life
    Over the course of the film's 88-minutes, Taylor cuts away to what's happening around her subjects (the unexamined life, I suppose). Perhaps she's attempting to make connections the thinkers don't.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tokyo!
    If you've seen "Paris, je t'aime" or "New York Stories," you know the rate of return on these urban omnibuses is variable, and so it is here. Go in expecting minor pleasures and you'll be fine.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsters vs Aliens
    If you have to see Monsters vs. Aliens - and if you're a parent, you will have to - make sure it's the 3-D version.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Frost/Nixon
    Despite a moving, canny incarnation of the man by Frank Langella, despite a slickly entertaining coffee-table production as only Ron Howard knows how, the movie feels cooked up.
  5. The Song of Sparrows
    The images in The Song of Sparrows have a poetic grace that's to be desired in storytelling. You feel Majidi's hand much more than you do God's.
  6. Observe and Report
    This new movie is crazier, scarier, funnier, and more bewildering. It's the strangest movie I expect to see from a Hollywood studio for the rest of the year.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Throw Down Your Heart
    Through it all, Fleck seems at a loss for words, stumbling through small talk and staring feebly as a Ugandan musician weeps during a song about his dead father.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Adoration
    Watching Adoration is like juggling three tennis balls, a porcupine, and a graduate thesis, but eventually it finds a unifying theme, that of tolerance melting away racial and intergenerational hatreds.
  9. Jerichow
    As ridiculous German suspense dramas go, you could do worse than Jerichow.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    By itself, the new "Pelham" is a solid, suspenseful tale all over again, so long as it stays in the subway tunnels and airless offices of the transit department.
  11. Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
    The documentary, like the series, is haimish in the extreme - cozy, warm, homey.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Lake Tahoe
    In the end, the sparse dialogue and lengthy scenes make the film feel as leaden and listless as Juan's sputtering engine.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paper Heart
    The movie’s a platypus: cute as the dickens but what the heck is it?
  14. It Might Get Loud
    As documentary, it’s low concept. But it’s never dull.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Five Minutes of Heaven
    Five Minutes of Heaven’reduces Northern Ireland’s troubles to a gimmick, but it’s an interesting gimmick, and the two men hoisted on its petard work at vivid cross-purposes. If nothing else, the film’s worth seeing as a demonstration of opposing acting techniques.
  16. Taking Woodstock
    This is as safe and sweet a movie as you could make about America’s sex-drugs-and-rock ’n’ roll-est event.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mystery Team
    Mystery Team is a guilty pleasure - a deeply dumb movie made by pretty smart people.
  18. St. Trinian's
    Sadly, the movie is a zoo.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paris
    The best armchair holiday going - the cast is lovely to behold and the plot dips in and out of the arrondissements with panache. You almost don’t mind that none of it adds up to terribly much.
  20. The Burning Plain
    The best performance here comes from a Mexican child actress, Tessa Ia, as half of one of the fraught mother-daughter relationships.
  21. Capitalism: A Love Story
    Redundant for a filmmaker whose work has always dealt with the dismaying consequences of this country’s profit motive. Isn’t every Michael Moore film ultimately about capitalism? This one just has a more facetious title.
  22. More Than a Game
    A missed opportunity is the effect of the school on the boys, and vice versa. Instead of sociology, More Than a Game focuses on personality.
  23. Green Zone
    Green Zone is somewhere between a blockbuster and a tract -- a traction movie. It whizzes and bangs and sizzles as it chases the truth like a dog off its leash.
  24. Our Family Wedding
    The movie is made livelier by its bit players -- King, Murphy, Lupe Ontiveros as Lucia’s bigoted grandma, Anna Maria Horseford as Marcus’s grandmother, Shannyn Sossamon as one of Whitaker’s airhead girlfriends, and, best of all, Anjelah Johnson as Lucia’s car-mechanic sister.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hot Tub Time Machine
    Depressingly, and in keeping with the stringent rules of bad-boy shock-comedies, all the women here are bimbos, shrews, and slutburgers except for one cool chick -- Cusack’s love interest, played by Lizzy Caplan -- who acts like a guy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Eclipse
    Above all, the film is lucky to have one of the better character actors in recent movies in a lead role: Ciarán Hinds as Michael Farr.
  27. Invincible
    Is a mellowed Herzog to be believed?
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bad Company
    As a tale of adolescent sexuality warped by passion, though, Bad Company is less compelling and more exploitative than its makers think.
  29. The Brothers
    What saves the film is the charm and earthy humor the actors wring from the spectacle of these four guys getting an early jump on their midlife crises.
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  30. Die Another Day
    Die Another Day is still as professionally mediocre as its predecessors.
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