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For 7,949 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: 5,230 out of 7949
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7949
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7949
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  1. 3 Needles
    If good intentions were all it took to create a decent movie, Thom Fitzgerald's 3 Needles would be some kind of masterpiece.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    10 Items or Less
    10 Items or Less is nearly an acting class exercise, except for the fact that these two have long since graduated.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Architect
    Perhaps urban-planning solutions are too much to expect from a Friday night at the movies, but in a film this ambitious, the evident lack of thought put into the problem is disappointing. As any architect knows, it's easier to tear down than to build up.
  4. Turistas
    Turistas is not a slasher film -- not conventionally. Released by Fox's new teen division, it's the latest aquatic titillation from John Stockwell, the man who also brought us "Blue Crush" and the shockingly good "Into the Blue."
  5. Two Weeks
    Creaky, earnest melodrama.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dreamland
    If you're young, the film may intoxicate you. If you're older, it may make you relieved you're no longer young.
  7. Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
    This sequel, with the return of the first movie's insatiably slutty Los Angeles collegians, is as vulgar as its predecessor and just as almost-smart.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fountain
    A noble, shipwrecked folly.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deck the Halls
    The saddest part is that "Deck" wastes four comic talents ranging from the near-genius (Matthew Broderick, Danny DeVito) to the inspired (Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth ) to the charming (Kristin Davis of "Sex and the City").
  10. Deja Vu
    You aren't likely to see a more ludicrous movie for the rest of the year. But rarely has such ludicrousness been used to pay tribute to a town in need of love. Déjà Vu is generic enough to have been filmed anywhere. But it happens to be set in post-Katrina New Orleans.
  11. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
    As a movie, it’s a mess — and lazy, too.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Opal Dream
    The film squeezes out its feel-good messages like toothpaste from a tube.
  13. The History Boys
    A shrewdly acted, bittersweet comedy.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casino Royale
    If you miss the old cliches, consider whether, after 21 Bond films and countless parodies, your response is simply Pavlovian.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Happy Feet
    The movie's an uncategorizable mixture of the tacky and profound, and on some weird level, you have to respect it.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Let's Go to Prison
    It's a remarkably laugh-free comedy that takes on a dark subject and skitters along its surface.
  17. Candy
    Told in a serenely observational fashion.
  18. Fast Food Nation
    Fast Food Nation has the dramatic flatness and willful lack of personality of some documentaries -- or at least how Linklater thinks a documentary should be. The movie nonetheless feels like both a work of investigative journalism and an immense human-interest story, veering into muckraking, horror, teen comedy, and what passes for "Twilight Zone" science fiction.
  19. For Your Consideration
    As amusing as it is, the comedy here consists mostly of predictable potshots.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes
    Their film is a fiendishly detailed toy -- the sort found at the back of a forgotten museum -- and while the shadow play it presents is an old and eternal one, you never cease to hear the whirr of the gears.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Aura
    The Aura is richer and less showy than "Nine Queens," and it lifts off from the gangster genre to contemplate deeper mysteries.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Good Year
    A shamelessly enjoyable retread, an ode to la belle vie that has been well turned on a factory spindle.
  23. Harsh Times
    The real problem with Harsh Times is Jim himself. Bale goes at the part with his usual intensity, but the character still seems like a psycho without psychology or a soul.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Return
    As B-level suspensers go, though, The Return isn't actively awful -- just slow and cursed with a lead who acts with her t-shirt.
  25. Stranger Than Fiction
    Watching the movie made me long for the big , risky ideas and entertainingly fearless filmmaking in David O. Russell's "I Heart Huckabees " and Spike Jonze's "Adaptation ," which Kaufman wrote. Both were similarly conceptual escapades, but they let it all hang out.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Iraq in Fragments
    Longley takes us through that country without a map; he's an artful, optimistic empiricist who believes what we see matters infinitely more than what we're told.
  27. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
    In theory, there's nothing wrong with this unorthodox approach to Arbus -- attempting to explain her from the inside out. (In its way, Harmony Korine's freakfest "Gummo" is a better Arbus movie.) The trouble is that Shainberg and Wilson don't connect their conceit to anything artistically enlightening, erotic, or truly deviant.
  28. Copying Beethoven
    Like an old college wrestler, Harris saunters through this toasty little piece of biographical fiction in love with the part's fixins'.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Captive
    Part detective story, part coming of political age saga, and all teenage identity crisis, Captive is the first film written and directed by Gaston Biraben , who has worked steadily as a Hollywood sound editor since the early '90s. That professionalism shows in the polished filmmaking as well as an occasional tendency toward shallower melodrama than the situation deserves.
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