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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. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    A terrifyingly cheap-looking B-movie comedy mocking terrifyingly cheap-looking science-fiction B-movies. As such things go, this one has its moments.
  2. The Clan
    It’s a mordant if unwieldy thriller examining how evil not only becomes the norm, but a virtue.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Old
    Old is a fiendish idea only partially realized.
  4. Assisted Living
    The whimsy Greenebaum wants to construct can't match the terminal sadness that naturally takes over the film. Perhaps in accidental tribute to Todd, the whole thing feels half-baked.
  5. Bedazzled
    The important thing is that Hurley looks smashing in her succession of red outfits.
    • Boston Globe
  6. The Flash
    The action gets increasingly overblown, even by superhero-movie standards. Bad as smash-crash-bash can be, portentous smash-crash-bash is far worse.
  7. The Comebacks
    As dumb spoofs go, The Comebacks isn't bad. It takes almost every sports movie of the last five years ("Field of Dreams," too) and blends them into a single slapdash comedy.
  8. Bubba Ho-tep
    The film's good humor is often betrayed by its low-budget roots, however, as though it couldn't afford to be more original or ambitious than its premise.
  9. Mr 3000
    Mac's TV show seems to have trained him to settle for feel-good tack-ons that cut against the prickly nature of Mr. 3000. The actor has such a serious and wise bearing that it's hard to believe Stan as a shallow jackass, which is why several of his scenes with Boca seem phony.
  10. The Year of the Everlasting Storm
    Poitras includes screenshots, Zoom sessions, surveillance footage, even voice mails. The overall effect is both hypnotic and deeply unsettling, like watching a real-life William Gibson novel.
  11. Any Given Sunday
    Far too long, but its rambunctiousness is engaging, propelled by Stone's virtuosic quick-cutting.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inferno
    Inferno is the exact cinematic equivalent of an airport paperback, which is what’s fine and forgettable about it.
  13. Wonder
    Much as there is right with Wonder, there’s just as much that isn’t. Emotionally, the movie rarely feels false.
  14. Basic Instinct
    Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct is a slick, trashy, blatantly manipulative thriller that you won't stop watching once you start. [20 Mar 1992, p.25]
    • Boston Globe
  15. Jesus' Son
    It's often a downer, with a sweet but largely passive protagonist.
  16. The Upside
    What makes The Upside work as well as it often does is how the actors are able to convey the unlikely affinity these unlikely people share.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    50 First Dates
    The plot -- it's inspired and ridiculous at the same time -- is best described as "Groundhog Day" meets "Memento."
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter Passing
    Winter Passing plays like two indie movies trapped in one film, and Zooey Deschanel is in the better of them. Will Ferrell is in the other one.
  19. My Penguin Friend
    Only a true grinch would grumble loudly at a film that delivers its pro-environment message with a light touch that avoids preachiness.
  20. Silverado
    Silverado plays like a big-budget regurgitation of old Westerns. Whatkeeps it going is the generosity that flows between Kasdan and his actors. It's got benevolent energies, but not the more primal kind needed to renew the standard Western images and archetypes. [10 Jul 1985, p.26]
    • Boston Globe
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Interview
    One comes away from Interview exhausted and a little unclean, entertained by the acting equivalent of a pit bull fight but needing a hose-down. The movie confirms that in every relationship "there are winners and losers." True enough, but for the audience this one's a draw.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    Rudely silly rather than transgressively shocking, Zack and Miri is the sort of bawdy but fundamentally decent farce you could take Grandma to, provided Grandma were familiar with the oeuvre of Traci Lords.
  23. Snitch
    Snitch gets a decent amount of drama (and action, of course) out of the argument that there’s paying for a crime, and then there’s overpaying.
  24. Worth
    This is not the most promising dramatic material — legal and actuarial material, yes, dramatic, no. Yet Worth manages to combine process and emotion in a way that works.
  25. Gunner Palace
    Works purely as a series of complex snapshots of the conflict in Iraq.
  26. Solomon & Gaenor
    It takes us nowhere we haven't been before, except geographically.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Third Person
    Third Person staggers well over the two-hour mark only to self-destruct in a burst of overwrought cleverness.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lucky Number Slevin
    The most original thing about Lucky Number Slevin is that it lets Lucy Liu play a screwball heroine.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    John Dies at the End
    This loopy slacker horror farce is so intent on playing with your head — and time, and space, and paranoid conspiracy theories — that it doesn’t care about making sense. Which doesn’t stop the film from being a pretty good bad time.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Babel
    Babel is a ziggurat of brilliant pieces built on sand. It's also this season's "Crash," a movie you know is Important because it never stops telling you so.
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