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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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    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Everything's Gone Green
    It's a charming disappointment that retains the elements that make the writer's novels so good without ever bending them into cinematic shape.
  2. Year of the Dog
    Shannon gives the movie its inner life. Maybe the movie will give her back her comedy career.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Slow Burn
    A veritable rip-off of 1995's "The Usual Suspects," Beach's crime caper not-so-subtly apes Bryan Singer's use of multiple red herrings and flashback-heavy interrogation scenes, but lacks the stylistic flair and sophisticated narrative skills to pull off a similar feat of cinematic intrigue.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Private Fears in Public Places
    Private Fears says that life is a smoldering holding pattern, but Resnais is gracious enough to blanket the embers with eternal snow.
  5. Disturbia
    "Rear Window" never comes up in the Disturbia press notes, which is probably just as well since it steals that movie's premise but none of Alfred Hitchcock's wit, finesse, or seduction.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Grindhouse
    Tarantino and Rodriguez want you to cover your eyes in disbelief and get the unholy giggles at the same time. You do, but in two very different ways, and that's the movie's strength.
  7. The Hoax
    The only thing missing from The Hoax might be a couple of songs. It's that breezy and fleet a movie.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The TV Set
    A tart, smart, closely observed satire of the television industry.
  9. The Reaping
    Long-delayed, pitiful excuse for a horror film.
  10. Are We Done Yet?
    The movie needs Richard Dreyfuss .
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Firehouse Dog
    And that dog -- or, rather, that digitally enhanced replicant -- is just plain creepy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Black Book
    Black Book takes the conventions of the WWII epic -- the prison breaks, the interrogation scenes -- and undermines them with craft and muscle and the ripe lack of restraint we've come to expect from this director.
  13. 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.
  14. Blades of Glory
    The film is quick, painless, and more than a little brave: not since John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, and the aerobicizers in "Perfect" has so much Lycra been so abused for our pleasure.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lookout
    Promises minor pleasures and delivers them. In the process, it's gracious enough to kick in a few extras: a nifty central gimmick, a self-effacing lead performance, and a big slice of ham from supporting actor Jeff Daniels .
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Meet the Robinsons
    Almost as funny as it is hyperactive, the new computer-animated family comedy is luscious to look at and as fizzy as a can of soda popped open in your face.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After the Wedding
    In After the Wedding Susanne Bier pushes the envelope further, toward operatic passion and the visual symbolism of Ingmar Bergman.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Live Free or Die
    This isn't a great movie -- it's barely good, really -- but it gets something about New Hampshire I've rarely seen onscreen: a defiant pride in the way things don't work out. Live Free is a comedy of vastly diminished criminal expectations. That's the fun of it, and the frustration, too.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shooter
    A stylish but essentially businesslike smash-and-crasher.
  20. The Hills Have Eyes II
    The director, Martin Weisz , doesn't lean on a lot of noise and editing tricks. He can relax, since all the scares are built into the Cravens' script, which invokes both "Goonies" and last year's instant-classic, chicks-versus-cave-dwelling-vampires flick "The Descent."
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Mimzy
    For smart kids between the ages of 8 and 12, the movie hits the sweet spot with a satisfying cosmic bang. It's a cross between "A Wrinkle in Time" and a middle-school version of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
  22. Pride
    It's called Pride, and, while it's neither as socially urgent as "Freedom Writers" nor as danceable and soapy as "Stomp the Yard," it's better acted and tougher to resist
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reign Over Me
    In its best moments, Reign Over Me quietly says that we're our problem friends' keepers. At its worst, the movie IS a problem friend.
  24. TMNT
    The movie is a serviceable way to pass the time: Kids will cheer the bright colors and funny new words ("Kowabunga!").
  25. Air Guitar Nation
    A semiserious documentary about a cult of performance art that until recently was never meant to be taken seriously.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Boy Culture
    It doesn't know if it wants to wallow in its characters' pity or to flesh them out with their own personalities. So it does both, with half-hearted results.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Color Me Kubrick
    Color Me Kubrick digs all sorts of devilish ironies out of this "true...ish story," and it's a fine dark farce before turning sad and, worse, monotonous. The con wears off before the movie does, but while it's in the air, "Kubrick" spins with bogus cheer.
  28. First Snow
    It's a slow, moderately involving descent into the inevitable, with Pearce gamely trying to figure what's going on. Better him than me.
  29. Journey from the Fall
    Even when its wires are showing, the movie's soul is always evident.
  30. Offside
    As funny as it is sharp.
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