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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. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Writers Nicholas Stoller and Judd Apatow remake is more devilish, hitting its targets with the reckless glee required for a round of Whac-A-Mole.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fateless
    Fateless looks man's inhumanity to man square in the eye and pronounces it standard operating procedure, and that may be the greater horror.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Why We Fight
    An agit-doc of unusual depth. It has a point -- that the primary business of America over the past half-century has been waging war -- and it supports that point with nuance, research, and a willingness to hear the other side of the argument.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    The movie's still a wickedly droll put-on. Better yet, beneath the fun lurks a dry and weary sigh at life's refusal to match the tidiness of art.
  5. The Spirit of the Beehive
    This is a modest marvel of grace and framing that unfolds with the patience of a cloud and is driven more by wonder than pure emotion. It doesn't have the exuberance of Francois Truffaut 's "Small Change." Instead, it's that movie's antonym, yet just as wondrous.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    That film remains an electrifying testament to pop music as a communal creative act.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fallen Idol (re-release)
    Formally, the movie's a lasting pleasure: Reed's incisive direction; Greene's easy yet weighted dialogue; the farseeing deep-focus photography of Georges Perinal; Vincent Korda's luxuriant sets.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Our Brand Is Crisis
    It’s a galling and provocative experience to viewers of any political persuasion, and a reminder to the left of how easily idealism can run amok.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Game 6
    It's an inside-the-park home run -- a small, lovingly overwritten comic drama about fate, failure, and primal longing. To put it in words a Sox fan would understand, the movie hurts good.
  10. Inside Man
    Washington hasn't been this relaxed in years. When he feels like it he can be the most charismatic star in the movies.
  11. L'Enfant (The Child)
    The arrival of closing credits feels like a trap door. The film is over, and, suddenly, we have to leave these people. The directors make no guarantee for their futures, but the strength of their filmmaking inspires you to hope for the best.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brick
    Brick is Bogart goes to high school, in other words, but that thumbnail description doesn't begin to convey the lasting pleasures of Rian Johnson's directorial debut.
  13. Akeelah and the Bee
    All the gears, in fact, are shamelessly visible, yet they lock smoothly and resonantly into place. If Akeelah and the Bee is a generic, well-oiled commercial contraption, it is the first to credibly dramatize the plight of a truly gifted, poor black child.
  14. Three Times
    Another triumph of modesty from a master who deserves real, paying audiences, not just the adoration of besotted film critics.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Proposition
    A near-masterpiece of mood and menace, and one that deserves to be seen on the largest screen possible.
  16. La Moustache
    Comes on as both a rebuke to male vanity and a chic metaphor for midlife panic.
  17. District B13
    Like its stunt work, the movie is both ridiculously hyperactive and a muscular feat of absolute confidence. I don't expect to have a more adrenalizing time at the movies this summer.
  18. The War Tapes
    Really the film is a deft first-person character study with a war zone for a background.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Heart of the Game
    It's a wrenching, ennobling essay on teamwork and the hard struggle to change one's life.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    Australian rocker Nick Cave talks of how discovering Cohen during his small-town youth "just changed things." Bono calls the singer "our Shelley, our Byron."
  21. The Hidden Blade
    Enormously enjoyable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Great New Wonderful
    A quieter, less melodramatic piece of work than last year's "Crash," and arguably a better one.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Who Killed the Electric Car?
    The only question his movie doesn't ask is "What do you want your next car to run on?" That's up to you.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snakes on a Plane
    A movie called Snakes on a Plane had better be one of two things: So bad it's good or so good it's great. Darned if it isn't a little bit of both.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Half Nelson
    Gosling may be the soul of Half Nelson, but Epps is the film's heart.
  26. Bubot Niyar
    Heymann's film was originally a six-part series for Israeli TV. The feature he and his crew have made smoothly truncates those three hours into a rich, discretely damning 85-minute portrait of intolerance.
  27. Old Joy
    Kurt and Mark's trip to those hot springs is a figurative return to Eden. Anyone who's had a disillusioning reunion with a moony old friend knows what Mark discovers: They're too old to stay that innocent. None of this hit me until after the movie ended. But it hit me hard: You can't go home again.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deliver Us from Evil
    It isn't often you get to meet the devil in all his glory, but here he is in Deliver Us From Evil, and his name is Father Oliver O'Grady.
  29. Shut Up & Sing
    Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck's film is a fascinating look at the intersection of commerce, celebrity, and controversy.
  30. Volver
    Volver brims with personal and cinematic allusions, but no one hungry for a well-told tale from a master storyteller is required to understand them.
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