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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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    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Shaggy Dog
    What The Shaggy Dog feels like, more than anything, is an old-fashioned Disney movie.
  2. Ask the Dust
    After an hour or so, Ask the Dust seems to have said everything, and the air starts to seep out of its hermetic atmosphere.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Duck Season
    It's one of the small, pitch-perfect treasures of the movie year.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    The Heart Is Deceitful wants to cauterize us into feeling something -- anything -- but it's far too heartless to know what.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Evil
    Extremely watchable, even if it never goes as deep as it should.
    • 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.
  7. 16 Blocks
    It's unbelievably bland.
  8. Aquamarine
    Unique because it's the rare movie that fiercely respects the altruistic loyalty that bonds girls to one another.
  9. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    The movie they've assembled is in the vein of 1973's "Wattstax," but it's much more than a concert documentary. It's a jubilant, civic-minded lollapalooza.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Ultraviolet
    Jovovich is bad, and not in a good way. She turns in an epically expressionless performance (maybe she thought it was one of her modeling gigs?) but she sure looks great.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deep Sea
    Travels around the world via the oceans' floors to show us symbiosis at work in a variety of ecosystems.
  12. Merry Christmas
    It's a heart-warmer, a well-meaning movie that sets out to wring a modern message (and preferably some tears) from a famous but largely forgotten moment in history.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tsotsi
    It's a solid, earnest drama of moral redemption that places old cliches in an unfamiliar setting.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Doogal
    Charm-free, incoherent, and heartlessly sentimental, this woodenly animated co-production by American, British, and French companies offers boredom and irritation for parents, needlessly scary images for tots, and, for the pubescent boys who apparently run mass culture, a flatulent blue moose. It's ugly to look at, too.
  16. Madea's Family Reunion
    Perry is a playwright, and his dialogue here is usually entertaining.
  17. Running Scared
    A depressing piece of gun-crazy Hollywood scuzz that, with its gassy style and runaway immorality, makes a Tony Scott movie look like a Robert Bresson picture.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unknown White Male
    The Unknown White Male that Murray has made asks profound questions. They're just not necessarily the right ones.
  19. Black Orpheus
    This is a movie about the marriage between sound and image, and the sound is wearing the pants in the relationship.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Trudell
    A thought-provoking and graceful portrait of a tenacious peace warrior whose frankness is his greatest weapon.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Street Fight
    Properly told, political underdog stories are as compelling as pratfalls from banana peels are funny. Each is timeless and carries an integrity impervious to cynicism.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Date Movie
    Date Movie has enough laughs to make rambunctious dudes hoot and holler, but not nearly enough to ensure the happy ending it promises.
  23. Eight Below
    It's the most touching love story about tragically separated sexy beasts since "Cold Mountain."
  24. Freedomland
    An overblown urban crime drama that should be a lot better than it is.
  25. Battle in Heaven
    With relentless and ruminative deliberateness, Reygadas shows us a Mexico City that seems to be decaying from the inside out.
  26. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    It's also the first apocalypse-minded franchise that's earned its downbeat mood. The action, for starters, is post-Cold War, post-Chernobyl, post-perestroika. Darkness is so much a part of the Russian psyche it must be nice to see a local movie try to put its hand toward the Light.
  27. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Rothemund gives us his sophisticated filmmaking only in the finale, which is devastating in its briskness and fury.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter Passing
    Winter Passing plays like two indie movies trapped in one film, and Zooey Deschanel is in the better of them. Will Ferrell is in the other one.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
    As a coherent, well-judged alternative history, the movie's a mess. As a thought-provoking and frequently hilarious jeremiad, it scores again and again.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Curious George
    Genuine, artful simplicity may be an impossible quality in a modern children's movie, so Curious George opts instead for mayhem under a blanket of sweetness. The little ones understand.
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