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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. Final Destination 3
    Week in and week out, horror movies cheat us, so it's wonderfully cathartic to watch a bunch of kids cheat death in what turns out to be the best installment yet in the "Final Destination" franchise.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Firewall
    A movie like this needs a suave, amoral villain, so here's Paul Bettany.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pink Panther
    Suffice to say that Shawn Levy, director of the "Cheaper by the Dozen" movies, is no Blake Edwards; for every finely tuned slapstick fillip, there's a ton of messy, family-friendly buffoonery.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    That film remains an electrifying testament to pop music as a communal creative act.
  5. Through the Fire
    It's hard to blame Telfair for letting his celebrity go to his head. If I were on the cover of Sports Illustrated in the 12th grade, there'd be no living with me either.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fallen Idol (re-release)
    Formally, the movie's a lasting pleasure: Reed's incisive direction; Greene's easy yet weighted dialogue; the farseeing deep-focus photography of Georges Perinal; Vincent Korda's luxuriant sets.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Good Woman
    A Good Woman is pretty to look at and fakes witty elegance passably, so consider it a diversion -- a movie that might have been in the Oscar race if the elements had jelled but has instead been properly hung out to dry in February.
  8. When a Stranger Calls
    Even by the lowest standards, this is a frightless, cynically made movie.
  9. Something New
    This is an inept and unsubtle romantic fantasy about how black people and white people don't mix.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bubble
    Bubble is a stunt in search of a movie, and it almost finds one.
  11. Annapolis
    Directing Annapolis is Justin Lin, whose previous feature was the irresponsible high-school comedy thriller "Better Luck Tomorrow." This second movie is more his speed.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Big Momma's House 2
    Completely unnecessary but painless, like dentistry performed by mimes.
  13. Nanny McPhee
    Thompson adapted the screenplay from Christianna Brand's "Nurse Matilda" books, and she and director Kirk Jones balance the slapstick and levity with darker enchantments. At its most enjoyable the film feels like Roald Dahl's idea of "Mary Poppins."
  14. Manderlay
    Spike Lee has been treading similar terrain with both greater cogency and fewer similarities to Bertolt Brecht. Manderlay, though, is mad and perplexed in its own inscrutable, schematic way. The trouble is the angrier it gets, the more infuriatingly banal it becomes.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    The movie's still a wickedly droll put-on. Better yet, beneath the fun lurks a dry and weary sigh at life's refusal to match the tidiness of art.
  16. The Spirit of the Beehive
    This is a modest marvel of grace and framing that unfolds with the patience of a cloud and is driven more by wonder than pure emotion. It doesn't have the exuberance of Francois Truffaut 's "Small Change." Instead, it's that movie's antonym, yet just as wondrous.
  17. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    This is by far the most embarrassing of his seven movies.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Why We Fight
    An agit-doc of unusual depth. It has a point -- that the primary business of America over the past half-century has been waging war -- and it supports that point with nuance, research, and a willingness to hear the other side of the argument.
  19. End of the Spear
    It's not remotely as luscious or half as bold as Malick's movie, but it is shorter and more educational.
  20. Underworld: Evolution
    They're still fighting in this sequel. But this is a more visually inspired, muscularly made movie than its predecessor.
  21. Glory Road
    This is a movie you could watch in your sleep.
  22. Last Holiday
    Director Wayne Wang and his screenwriters sometimes ape ''Pretty Woman." But Latifah's obvious forebear is Pearl Bailey, who was just as regal and straight-up.
  23. Tristan and Isolde
    Franco can be exhilarating in movies -- tremulous, unhinged, a little wild. Here his jaw never stops quivering and his eyes stay welled up, advertising a breakdown that never comes. Not that Myles has a presence a man would fall apart over. She's too professional to drive anybody crazy.
  24. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
    Pays high-toned tribute to its subject. How high-toned? Bach and Ravel play on the soundtrack as a honeyed light streams through the windows of Cartier-Bresson's Paris apartment.
  25. Following Sean
    If ''Sean" was about conviction and revolution, Following Sean is about ambivalence and resignation. In either case it's pretty easy for a funny-provocative kid to stand out.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fateless
    Fateless looks man's inhumanity to man square in the eye and pronounces it standard operating procedure, and that may be the greater horror.
  27. Hostel
    Not horrifying enough.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Promise
    Has a daft sweep, and if you're in the mood for empty swordplay in baroque settings, purple dialogue delivered with straight faces, and romantic yearnings that never, ever resolve, The Promise may be your cup of oolong.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Match Point
    The question that should be asked is whether Woody Allen has made a good movie this time out, and the honest answer is "almost."
  30. Wolf Creek
    Wolf Creek is ultimately all about the torture and the trauma. Happy holidays.
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