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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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    • 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Accepted
    Low of brow and pure of heart, the movie plays like "Animal House" extra-lite, and as such it's decent indecent fun.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Illusionist
    Illusionist is like an overupholstered wing chair in the corner of a men's club -- you settle in only to be startled by how ridiculously comfy you are.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Material Girls
    Isn't as witty, stylish, or sophisticated as the similarly themed "The Devil Wears Prada." Material Girls is pitched to the Seventeen crowd, and it succeeds on its own terms. These days, even pre teens live in a material world.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Factotum
    Looks steam-cleaned, and that can't be right.
  6. Trust the Man
    This is a movie that's built around characters the audience is bound to find more insufferable than anyone does in the movie itself.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Conversations with Other Women
    The charm of Conversations With Other Women, a gimmicky but oddly moving two-character drama that flies in from who knows where, is its intelligentknowingness.
  8. Pulse
    If Pulse is unsurprising as a horror movie (come on: chalky, soul-sucking freaks again?), as a campaign against the Internet, digital piracy, cellphones, and anything that computes anything (like laptops or brains), it's a riot.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Step Up
    Alive with infectious rhythm, likable characters, and slick dance moves, Step Up gives clichés a good name.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zoom
    Pure Saturday matinee kiddie fodder and this close to going straight to DVD.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Half Nelson
    Gosling may be the soul of Half Nelson, but Epps is the film's heart.
  12. Poster Boy
    An overwrought story of American politics and image-making that really only gets interesting in the final act.
  13. House of Sand
    It's a grand outdoor spectacle (the only real interiors are within tents, and those are hard to come by) and a perfectly juicy melodrama.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    World Trade Center
    One reason World Trade Center is such a good, healing cry is that it absolves us of the discomfort of thinking about everything that has happened since.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lunacy
    At nearly two hours Lunacy becomes repetitive, at first ingeniously and then with a slowly dulling edge. The meat parade ceases to shock.
  16. The Descent
    A cult classic is born.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Barnyard
    Speaking as both a parent and a critic, I do believe I'd rather drive rusty railroad spikes through my eyes than have to sit through one more computer generated family film about talking animals. The bad news for Hollywood is that after seeing Barnyard my kids feel the same way.
  18. The Night Listener
    What makes the film such a guilty pleasure is how Williams's righteous self-pity is perfectly matched to Collette's nuttiness and despair.
  19. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    We are treated to the riotous, almost David Lynchian moment in which Ferrell runs around a motorway in his undies screaming that he's on fire. He's not. Actually, come to think of it: He is.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bridesmaid
    The film reveals its secrets slowly, and Chabrol tightens the screws not according to the rules of Hollywood suspense but with a cool, level gaze.
  21. Quinceañera
    At its core, Quinceañera, a modest but remarkably poignant comedy, is the story of a neighborhood.
  22. Boynton Beach Club
    Cannon actually is funny -- not to mention funny-looking. Plastic surgery has left her physically absurd, like a vaguely glamorous R. Crumb cartoon.
  23. Miami Vice
    The movie is seriously sexy and seriously entertaining.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Scoop
    Scoop is distinctly minor Allen, with less weight to it than one of his old humor doodles in The New Yorker.
  25. John Tucker Must Die
    The movie is as inconsequentially pleasant as its star, and far nicer than the title lets on, too.
  26. The Ant Bully
    The movie has a great time playing with ideas of scope and perspective, shifting between microscopic and macroscopic.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    13 Tzameti
    13 (Tzameti) is an existential horror film, a violent prank, a metaphor for modern Europe, and a first-time director's startling calling card.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Another Gay Movie
    You get the impression that the cast and crew of Another Gay Movie could have made a genuinely funny film if they weren't obsessed with out-grossing the already gross "American Pie."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brothers of the Head
    The film is something to see, and when it addresses the mysterious bond connecting creative people, it has an urgent, ugly splendor.
    • 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.
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