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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    4
    Immense, mystical, and deranged beyond immediate comprehension, Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 4 is an apocalyptic allegory of Mother Russia and its current state of squalid exhaustion.
  2. Free Zone
    A minor movie on a major subject, a drama with an almost unbearable lightness.
  3. Sir! No Sir!
    Zeiger's movie is a timely salute to the risky and brave men and women who had the temerity not only to think for themselves but to speak their minds.
  4. I Am a Sex Addict
    Zahedi's search for fulfillment is depleting, like throwing good sex after bad. The more we learn about the hole in his soul, the more vivid his misogamy becomes.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Basic Instinct 2
    The accidental comedy sensation of the year to date.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    ATL
    Is ATL even a hip-hop movie? There's hip-hop in it, certainly, but unlike the recent vehicles for Eminem and 50 Cent -- respectively, ''8 Mile" and ''Get Rich or Die Tryin' " -- it does not have a rapper hero.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ice Age: The Meltdown
    Ice Age: The Meltdown is pure sequel product that should make children and undemanding grown-ups happy even as it lacks anything resembling storytelling inspiration.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Slither
    The acting is playful aces all around: Fillion gives good exhausted incredulity, Banks gives good virginal idiocy, and Rooker gives great conflicted monster arrogance even before the aliens get him.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
    It's raucous and loud as hell; the hyperactive editing could trigger grand mal seizures.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Adam & Steve
    Not the knee-slapper it wants to be, but it's endearing nonetheless.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    Jeff Feuerzeig's film is as good a portrait of the artist as a beloved basket case as you'll see, but it's kept from greatness by the questions it refuses to ask itself.
  13. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    I wish I could say there is something pleasurable in watching John Goodman reminisce about the good old days while impaled on a steering wheel in the Volvo he's crashed on a California freeway, but I can't find what it is.
  14. Iron Island
    Like the great Iranian filmmakers, Rasoulof has no use for the artificiality of heightened drama.
  15. Drawing Restraint 9
    Slow but rarely tedious.
  16. 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.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Stay Alive
    Always the way in horror flicks: These first scenes, when the characters are being tenderly established and the concept is still young, are the best.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    It's that gulf between earnest idealism and beaten-down realism that's the unexpected drama of Beauty Academy.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lonesome Jim
    Humor in 'Jim' is a little too dry.
  20. Mardi Gras: Made in China
    Redmon's film is a welcome reminder that everything comes from somewhere and responsible people should at least pause to examine the label. For one thing, that's how bigger and better documentaries get made.
  21. 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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stoned
    All the pieces are in place for an incisive tale of Brit-pop ego and madness, but filmmaker Stephen Woolley -- a celebrated UK producer ("The Crying Game") making his directing debut -- lets the story get away from him.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
    ''Health Inspector" hopes to do for Larry what ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" did for Jim Carrey, who in this context looks like Noel Coward.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    V for Vendetta
    The real villain is a cowed and lazy citizenry. Meaning all of us. Disappointingly, V for Vendetta makes this point early and moves on, at some point turning as shallow as what it protests against.
  25. Find Me Guilty
    The best I can say about his (Diesel)performance is that it's charmingly terrible.
  26. She's the Man
    A screwball comedy that made me wish I were 13 again, because this is precisely the kind of movie I would have gone nuts for in the ninth grade.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thank You for Smoking
    Like its protagonist, the movie is smart, soulless, glib, and utterly charming -- just the thing to warm up a movie season that's been late to bloom.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Don't Come Knocking
    The finest scene in Don't Come Knocking is its quietest...The movie could have used a lot more of it.
  29. Failure to Launch
    The movie brings to mind the more polite parts of "Wedding Crashers." Failure to Launch, while totally exuberant and appealingly made, is not nearly as randy.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Hills Have Eyes
    Hills is a far cry from its cheesy and predictable predecessor. "Gruesome" doesn't begin to describe the horrors that are revealed on-screen here.
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