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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. 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.
  2. The War Tapes
    Really the film is a deft first-person character study with a war zone for a background.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Puffy Chair
    Ostensibly a road-trip farce, Chair really depicts the highway to man-child hell: The laughs come from the gulf between how mature the characters think they're being and what emotional toddlers they are.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Peaceful Warrior
    The film's biggest miracle is the straight face Nick Nolte maintains in his role as Socrates.
  5. X-Men: The Last Stand
    The happiest news about the third (and final?) X-Men movie is actually quite sad: headstones. Yes, The Last Stand brings the lamentable deaths of several major characters.
  6. An Inconvenient Truth
    In an eco-horror show that politely masquerades as a documentary, the former vice president effectively warns of man-made cataclysm.
  7. La Moustache
    Comes on as both a rebuke to male vanity and a chic metaphor for midlife panic.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Da Vinci Code
    An acceptable but uninspired simulacrum: an overly faithful multiplex translation of a very, very popular airport novel.
  9. Over the Hedge
    There is actually an occasional moment of inspiration, but as an experience, the movie doesn't hog much shelf space in the memory.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    See No Evil
    Generic teen dice-and-slice with interior design by way of ''Saw." The movie's tight and reasonably well shot, though, and there are flashes of nasty invention between the ritual guttings.
  11. The King
    In James Marsh's The King, the usually wonderful Gael Garcia Bernal is all wrong for the role of Elvis Valderez.
  12. Lemming
    The score is the most effective thing about the film. Sometimes it's a suspicious, mischie-vous distraction from the reality that not enough of this makes sense.
  13. Twelve and Holding
    Cuesta prizes curiosity and perception over conflict resolution. He likes the way kids take their cues from adults and the ways they revolt against them. Even as the kids do the ugliest things, the film stays cool without ever being cold.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Poseidon
    Maybe it's the era we're living in, but the new film is as much fun as a shroud.
  15. Just My Luck
    This mangy comedy only demonstrates that Lohan's star power is too bright for falling into mounds of mud, rooting around in cat litter for a contact lens, and getting punched out by a roughneck jailbird, as she does here.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goal! The Dream Begins
    Handsomely shot and with a likable lead in Kuno Becker, it also suffers from a script so outrageously generic you could buy it at Costco.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Giuliani Time
    Giuliani Time has an ax to grind and wields it with dull-edged force.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Keeping Up with the Steins
    To paraphrase the old ad for Levy's rye bread, you don't have to be Jewish to love "Keeping Up With the Steins," but it helps.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Russian Dolls
    The film isn't especially deep, but it's mostly delightful.
  20. Mission: Impossible III
    Only theoretically, though, is this exciting. Mostly, it all feels like a lateral move that keeps alive a franchise without breaking new ground.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Art School Confidential
    Zwigoff's overdue for a turkey, in other words. Art School Confidential is it.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    An American Haunting
    An American Haunting sets the bar at a new low: It makes ''The Blair Witch Project" look like a masterpiece of world cinema.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hoot
    The movie balances cardboard comic bad-guys with believable teenagers, has the courage to avoid romance, and unlike most Hollywood films suggests parents can be helpful and loving as well as clueless.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Down in the Valley
    The performances are deep and rich -- Wood is coming to seem like a smarter Chloe Sevigny, Rory looks to be the Culkin with talent, and Norton's portrayal of Harlan aches with ambiguity.
    • 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.
  26. One Last Thing...
    Dylan and Nikki are an awkward match at best, and their combined story is about as creative/convincing as a Hallmark card.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    United 93
    The movie is hard going, not least in the sense of powerlessness it leaves in an audience that knows exactly what will happen. And yet you come out feeling that the filmmakers have done the right thing by these people, and by this day.
  28. Stick It
    Peregrym is like a secondhand Hilary Swank. She has a looser presence and might be a better actor, but since we already have Swank, finding out is not a priority.
  29. 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.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    RV
    RV has teeth -- more teeth than the last few Steve Martin films, anyway -- but it's terrified to bite down, knowing that the paying audience would feel it more than anyone.
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