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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. Ratatouille
    All the voice work here is excellent, especially Oswalt's. He sounds like Paul Giamatti but with a greater capacity for confidence.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hunger
    So what is Hunger? Unexpectedly, a visually ravishing tour of hell and a meditation on freedom that at best is wordlessly profound and at worst interestingly obscure.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tulpan
    In the tradition of ethnographic dramas from "Nanook of the North" to "The Fast Runner," Tulpan drops us in the middle of a godforsaken nowhere and marvels at the people who live there.
  4. The Headless Woman
    This is also the first of Martel’s films to build in a direction other than up. The film’s lateral movement continues a kind of class commentary.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brokeback Mountain
    Brokeback may be too polished for some people, too elegantly dispassionate in its study of choked passion.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Persepolis
    They're both tales of growing up in the shadow of Islamic fundamentalism, but Persepolis is everything "The Kite Runner" is not. It's a personal memoir rather than fiction, coolly observant instead of melodramatic, female rather than male in sensibility and sense of humor - it has a sense of humor.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Juno
    That smart, hip, human comedy you've been waiting for all year.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Yet what I felt when the lights came up at the end of this visionary, titanic, relentless experience was something different: a strange relief that it was, at last, over.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Little Miss Sunshine
    It looks at the all-American obsession with winning and chortles darkly. You still come out of the movie wanting to give your family a hug.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Savages
    Smartly written and beautifully played, The Savages is about that point in life where you look around and realize that where you are is probably as far as you're going to get. In spite of this, the movie's a comedy, dry and humane.
  11. Revanche
    Revanche was a foreign-language Oscar nominee this year, and it's a better movie than most of the films in the main race. The word "revanche" means "revenge" in German, but "waiting" would have been just as good.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    United 93
    The movie is hard going, not least in the sense of powerlessness it leaves in an audience that knows exactly what will happen. And yet you come out feeling that the filmmakers have done the right thing by these people, and by this day.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anvil! The Story of Anvil
    Anvil! is one of the sweetest, funniest films I've seen this year. Also the loudest and most foulmouthed.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    28 Weeks Later
    The script is biting and timely.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Away from Her
    With a tranquil fearlessness, it goes beyond the death of memory, to see what might be found in the unexplored country beyond. The answer is both frightening and comforting: More love. Unspecified love. Universal love.
  16. The Bourne Ultimatum
    The movies are smart -- smarter than you, but not in an off-putting way. Their basic appeal, especially this new one, is that Matt Damon’s killing machine, Jason Bourne, is the cleverest man on earth. And we thrill to his sense of superiority.
  17. Che
    The labor applied to Che is apparent, but it would be wrong to characterize the movie as laborious the way it was in, say, 2006's "The Good German," where Soderbergh took great pains to re-create 1940s Hollywood wartime glamour.
  18. A History of Violence
    The film has the perverse intelligence of Cronenberg's other movies. It's not his best, but it is certainly his most accessible, least stagy work, obeying the laws of chronology and serving up characters whom we recognize as people.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Host
    Mostly, though, it's "Godzilla" with a severe case of Murphy's Law, and it is never less than bizarrely delightful.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girlfriend Experience
    Fair warning: I had to see The Girlfriend Experience twice before its pieces settled into coherent shape.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inland Empire
    Inland Empire may be the most aggressively surreal feature film ever released to movie theaters in this country, and it's possibly close to the movie David Lynch carries around in his head.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Capote
    Richly provocative entertainment, as heady as a cocktail party with the Manhattan literati and as vaguely troubling as the morning after.
  23. Watermarks
    In the absolutely moving new documentary Watermarks, seven women in their 80s return to the Vienna swimming pool of their youth.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Masculine Feminine
    Remains worth seeing as an achingly nostalgic farewell to youthful idealism, tinged with a kind of loving contempt.
  25. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    Judy Irving's terrific documentary 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is ostensibly about birds, but only in the way that a game of Scrabble is about tiles.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Schultze Gets the Blues
    A delightfully deadpan comedy from Germany, is one of those movies where nothing whatsoever seems to happen until you look closely, at which point everything happens.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Off the Map
    Rambles without apparent purpose, and yet it blooms in emotional impact as it goes.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sin City
    Tarantino may have nicked the title first, but this is the real ''Pulp Fiction," with all the drama and the dead ends that implies.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    Stylish and only superficially superficial, Happily Ever After plunks us down with three male friends as they dance on the edge of their 40s.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    Entertaining and enraging.
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