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For 7,964 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 0.9 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. Lucky You
    Playing the character with this much girlish innocence is risky. Barrymore can seem dumb, but as Lucky You unfolds, we realize that the character is just a device to bring viewers into the parallel universe of poker.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Civic Duty
    Faced with a limited location and concept, Renfroe points his camera everywhere: The movie's seriously overshot, never settling for one angle when five would do.
  3. Paris, je t'aime
    As an ad for the city's charms, Paris couldn't have asked for a more sweetly jaundiced love letter.
  4. The Treatment
    The Treatment fails to do anything interesting with Jake.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Waitress
    Waitress isn't a great film, but it is great, deep-dish fun, with a generosity of spirit that extends first to the sisters on the screen and in the audience, then to the rest of humanity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jindabyne
    Where it works best is in the domestic dance of death between a husband and a wife. Linney flutters with increasingly panicky intelligence throughout the film, while Byrne sinks further into his own bulk.
  7. The Condemned
    Just watch Austin on "WrestleMania" instead, avoiding the shower this movie leaves you wanting.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Invisible
    A fully felt, decently crafted teen B-movie melodrama, plenty preposterous in places but alive to the vibrant miseries of being young and misunderstood.
  9. Kickin It Old Skool
    Probably as tolerable as it can be for a comedy with no obvious creative aim. You can imagine the crew cracking up on some outtake reel, which honestly is what this movie feels like.
  10. Next
    A watchably absurd popcorn flick about a man who can see two minutes into the future.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snow Cake
    Snow Cake is dazlious, too: overly forced, a shade too whimsical, but filling a void other words and other movies haven't the nerve or errant taste to confront.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Election
    Mostly Election tracks the shifting of power among men for whom power is all that matters, no matter how much lip service they pay to loyalty. The final sequence is a shocker but it's also completely logical.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wedding Weekend
    The dialogue is brightly self-conscious, and sometimes it clicks. Just as often it curdles into an entitled whining.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Diggers
    The movie is strong and holding as long as it's shambling about in the Montauk dusk; when Dieckmann has to bring things to a resolution, Diggers turns ordinary -- sweet, but you've seen it many times before.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ta Ra Rum Pum
    A tasty diversion from the usual Hollywood fare.
  16. Zoo
    Devor's sympathy for both the men and the animals is humane, yet his movie is palpably sad. A sense of shame cuts through all the ambiguity. You know less about what you've watched when Zoo is over than you did when it started. And that's what makes the movie so hard to shake.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Triad Election
    Set two years later, the sequel's the better film.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hot Fuzz
    It's to the "Lethal Weapon" movies what left-hand driving on a country lane is to a freeway chase: pokey, more than a little daft, but with a bloody surprise around every hedge.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vacancy
    At its worst, Vacancy is merely the kind of taut B-chiller they don't make any more, other than to riff on them in "Grindhouse."
  20. Fracture
    You needn’t actually see Fracture to know that if the charge is acting that winks, these two are guilty.
  21. In the Land of Women
    In the Land of Women sounds like a piece of cheap science fiction about the last man on earth. If you're the lovelorn mother and daughter in Jonathan Kasdan's first movie, a grating romantic drama, that's painfully close to the truth.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Alice Neel
    For all the juicy storytelling, Alice Neel remains, in this film, a cipher: brash, grandmotherly, and beyond understanding.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Valet
    The new movie is tart and weightless, and it entertains without leaving a mark. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but at 85 minutes, The Valet at times feels like a blueprint for a farce rather than the farce itself.
  24. Stephanie Daley
    Tamblyn's surprisingly measured performance commands attention.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Road
    The movie trades the paranoia of modern omni-cam culture for a tighter, more personal drama, and while it sticks with you, you feel the missed opportunity like a phantom leg.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    Essentially, an act of terrorism against entertainment. It's inconsequential, potty - mouthed, extremely silly, and -- the worst sin of all -- dead boring.
  27. Pathfinder
    Urban and Bloodgood make the most of their parts, locking eyes and arms, and occasionally using American English as if the snowy 10th century were another way of saying, "Where the après ski?"
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Perfect Stranger
    After "Gothika " and "Catwoman ," a viewer has to wonder: Why does this woman keep making thrillers if she can't bring herself to be thrilled?
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Redline
    An action flick loaded with cars, chrome, and silicone, is everything you'd expect it to be, and yet so much less: less character development, less believability, and most unforgivably, less escapist entertainment.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dreaming Lhasa
    It's a Tibetan film -- a rare thing -- made by Tibetans, starring Tibetans, and set in the increasingly desperate exile community of Dharamsala .
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