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For 7,947 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 1.1 points 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. The Secret Agent
    All in all, “The Secret Agent” feels like a memory play filtered not only through its director’s reminiscences but through the cinema’s past as well.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Breathless
    Breathless is not an antique or a classic. It is still a new film, because it makes you feel cinema is still new. [18 Nov 2007, p.N9]
    • Boston Globe
  3. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    Wake Up Dead Man is one of the year’s best movies. I’ve enjoyed all three movies, but this one is the best of the “Knives Out” mysteries so far.
  4. Frankenstein
    By giving his actors a three-dimensional world, del Toro sparks their imaginations — and ours. The result is a beautiful, bittersweet, and occasionally horrific look at what it means to be human.
  5. Blue Heron
    Not since Charlotte Wells’s 2022 film “Aftersun,” about a woman remembering a pivotal trip she took with her father as a child, have I seen this level of personal filmmaking presented in such superb and original fashion. “Blue Heron” is one of the best films of the year.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Avatar
    An entertainment to be not just seen but absorbed on a molecular level; it's as close to a full-body experience as we'll get until they invent the holo-suits. Cameron aims for sheer wonderment, and he delivers.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crazy Heart
    The music is terrific, as it should be in a movie where T Bone Burnett wrote the songs with Stephen Bruton.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Frozen River
    Does what too many independent American movies only pretend to do: Takes you to an unnoticed corner of our country and shows what it's like to actually live there.
  9. The Hurt Locker
    In The Hurt Locker, the thrill is unexpectedly contagious. You don't realize how riveted you are until you're back on American soil observing James in civilian life.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fantastic Mr. Fox
    By forgoing actual human beings, the director has made his most charming, least annoyingly fey film - a thing of lovely comic wisdom.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Single Man
    There’s a lot, in fact, that keeps this film from greatness. One performance alone recommends it. That’s enough.
  12. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Frankly, the story isn’t remotely as interesting as Cage. Nothing is. In Ferrara’s movie, Keitel emptied himself out. But there’s a hellion’s joy in Cage’s cop.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sita Sings the Blues
    The film, dazzling and poignant and five years in the making, retells the ancient Indian epic "The Ramayana" from a gentle but insistent feminist perspective.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Station
    The movie’s a chocolate box of nougaty performances, from Christopher Plummer’s delightful depiction of Tolstoy as a ribald old naïf to Paul Giamatti twirling his waxed mustache and playing to the gallery as Vladimir Chertkov.
  15. Killer of Sheep
    Killer of Sheep is a drama that’s hardly at all dramatic, which makes it all the more moving. It’s quiet, unhurried, understated, unblinking. Mood matters more than style, dailiness more than incident. All movies are about other movies. A few are also about life. “Killer of Sheep” is one of them.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Antichrist
    Like a nightmare you recall during waking hours, and then only in its vast outlines, Antichrist has the power to haunt beyond words. For better and for worse, it is exactly the movie von Trier wanted to make and a piece of staggeringly pure cinema.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Loop
    As a ranking cabinet minister in the brutally funny political satire In the Loop, actor Peter Capaldi unfurls dazzling verbal ribbons of the foulest language imaginable, thunderbolts of vulgarity that carry the force of precision carpet-bombing.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bright Star
    Bright Star is a thing of beauty and a joy for a movie season that needs it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Town Called Panic
    A proudly Calvinist work - I mean the comic strip character, not the philosopher - that understands the delights of deep play.
  20. Let the Right One In
    The beauty of Let the Right One In resides in the way the horror remains grounded in a tragic kind of love.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Departed
    When The Departed roars to life, as it does in so many of its scenes, you feel like nobody understands movies -- the delirious highs, the unforgiving moral depths -- as well as this man does. Welcome back, Marty.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Séraphine
    What Moreau does with this role is as inscrutably moving as anything Séraphine Louis painted.
  23. Goodbye Solo
    It sounds like the old unstoppable-force-meets-immovable-object trick. Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo has the trappings of such a story, but, mercifully, none of the follow-through.
  24. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    He even calls the majestic view from one of the hospital landings his Cinecittà, after the legendary Italian film studio. The movie is a Cinecittà of the mind.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nobody Knows
    Spare and elegant and harrowing, it's an ode to childhood trust being stretched until it snaps.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Best of Youth
    A slowly flowering miracle: an epic of normal life.
  27. 9
    Any optimism in 9, which is bound to try the fortitude of meeker children, feels hard-won. It actually ends in a bittersweet mystery.
  28. Synecdoche, New York
    I can't pretend to know fully what Charlie Kaufman is up to in Synecdoche, New York, with all the doubled characters, dreamy reenactments, comical minutiae, and personal unhappiness. But I got a great deal of pleasure out of watching him mount his fantasia about an artist suffering not simply for his art, but because of it.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lives of Others
    The Lives of Others has similarities to Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 classic "The Conversation" but with undercurrents that resound across an entire century of European political history.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Waltz with Bashir
    Waltz With Bashir not only breathes but it howls - and sobs and curses and croons and, in the end, when sound proves useless in the face of calamity, falls into awful silence.
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