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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. The History Boys
    A shrewdly acted, bittersweet comedy.
  2. Days of Glory
    A movingly acted, terrifically old-fashioned World War II picture rethought as a post-colonial rebuke.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pursuit of Happyness
    I don't think I've seen a mainstream movie get fatherhood so right since "Kramer vs . Kramer": the fear, the indulgence, the snappishness, the pre-occupied "uh-huhs" as a child natters about his day, the steamrolling waves of love.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Venus
    Venus is rollickingly funny at times -- but there's an undercurrent of extraordinarily clear-eyed sadness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Notes on a Scandal
    Notes on a Scandal is a nice mug of poisoned eggnog for the holiday season -- a movie so smart and entertaining you almost don't feel its chill sicken your bones.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    God Grew Tired of Us
    Seesawing between despair and soul-affirming inspiration, God Grew Tired of Us is a documentary to make you proud of what America offers to the rest of the world and worried that it can't keep its promises.
  7. Tears of the Black Tiger
    A parody of and winking homage to the history of Thai melodrama, Wisit Sasanatieng's uproarious filmmaking debut exuberantly combines pop and kitsch with a wholesome belief in the thrills of bad art.
  8. Mafioso [re-release]
    Mafioso is the missing link in the mob movie arc.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Breach
    A compelling and eerily effective little drama.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Namesake
    The Namesake has a deep, alluvial poetry to it, like a mighty river reaching the sea. It's mysterious and ordinary, insightful and banal, rambling and precise, and it is altogether unexpected.
  11. Journey from the Fall
    Even when its wires are showing, the movie's soul is always evident.
  12. Offside
    As funny as it is sharp.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Black Book
    Black Book takes the conventions of the WWII epic -- the prison breaks, the interrogation scenes -- and undermines them with craft and muscle and the ripe lack of restraint we've come to expect from this director.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Grindhouse
    Tarantino and Rodriguez want you to cover your eyes in disbelief and get the unholy giggles at the same time. You do, but in two very different ways, and that's the movie's strength.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The TV Set
    A tart, smart, closely observed satire of the television industry.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Triad Election
    Set two years later, the sequel's the better film.
  17. Bug
    Engrossingly manic version of Tracy Letts's great stage play.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paprika
    Someone walking cold into a movie theater showing Paprika might be excused for thinking the screen was having a Technicolor seizure. Fans of Japanese anime and filmmaker Satoshi Kon will simply feel dazzlingly at home.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crazy Love
    Crazy Love doesn't downplay the awfulness of what happened , but it also knows a good media circus when it sees one.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    12:08 East of Bucharest
    For all its pessimism, the movie prompts a viewer to search his or her own memories for actions rather than reactions, and to mull over the differences between the two. It's a dark little ride, but at the end the lights hesitantly flicker back on.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    This is music to gorge on, raw ethnic survival in the form of sound.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lady Chatterley
    Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley is sensual in escalating degrees of heat, but the film's eroticism, which is substantial, is laid on with a caress. The movie's a slow-motion swoon back into Eden -- a nature documentary about humans -- and it's hypnotic.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sicko
    Sicko is Moore's best, most focused movie to date -- much more persuasive than the enraged and self-righteous "Fahrenheit 9/11."
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rescue Dawn
    The question remains: Why would Herzog want to dramatize what he has already captured as nonfiction? To better control the material, I think, and to bring it in line with his own obsessions.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hairspray
    If you look fast, you'll see Waters himself in a cameo (as a flasher; what else?), proof the new film is in touch with its dyed roots.
  26. Sunshine
    If their movie doesn't float your boat as a work of science-fiction, action, philosophy, heliocentrism, or staggering visual spectacle (although, it really should), then it certainly succeeds as a parable for cinematic ambition.
  27. La faute à Fidel!
    Brilliantly, the movie becomes a double coming-of-age story. The parents' political awakening parallels their daughter's.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Devil Came on Horseback
    Too often the movies view the problems of Africa through Western eyes, but "Devil" turns that weakness to a literal strength, because Steidle could do nothing in his position except take photographs.
  29. The 11th Hour
    The word bears repeating, so everyone from Andrew Weil to Stephen Hawking to Mikhail Gorbachev is here to speak the still-inconvenient truth. The filmmaking, however, is far more relentless than in that Oscar-winning Al Gore slide show.
  30. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    A portrait of two different men whose compulsion for Donkey Kong is hilarious.
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