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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. Casanova
    The movie treats trysting as comedy and yet is stingy with the laughs.
  2. Rumor Has It...
    An embarrassing romantic comedy from Rob Reiner.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The New World
    The New World is something I don't think I've ever seen before on a movie screen: an epic lyrical dialectic. Self-indulgent, gorgeous, maddening, grueling, ultimately transcendent, it's a Terrence Malick movie all the way, and possibly the director's most sustained work since 1972's "Badlands."
  4. The Matador
    Shepard's Matador demonstrates what an Almodovar picture would feel like without his gonzo sensibility. It's Almodovar for heterosexuals.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Munich
    The director can work wonders within his celluloid universe, but when the time comes to hand us back to reality, he stumbles. With this movie, that hurts.
  6. Caché (Hidden)
    Maurice Bénichou does the most heartbreaking work in the movie, playing a friend of Georges's. It's a character and a performance I'll have a tough time getting out of my dreams.
  7. The Ringer
    Come on. You want to know if it's funny. And the answer is: kind of.
  8. The Intruder
    Enigmatic as it is, The Intruder dares us to see movies as visual marvels tethered to humanity.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    Noisy, silly, gratingly upbeat, and piously sentimental, 'Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is what passes for wholesome family entertainment these days. It's the sort of movie to send small children and grandparents out of the theater hugging each other and strong men in search of bourbon.
  10. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Writers Nicholas Stoller and Judd Apatow remake is more devilish, hitting its targets with the reckless glee required for a round of Whac-A-Mole.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The White Countess
    A watchable disappointment. Sumptuous to look at, tastefully dull, and ultimately rather silly.
  12. The Family Stone
    The movie is a holiday romantic comedy that wants to put the holiday romantic comedy out of business.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    Tommy Lee Jones makes his feature directing debut here, and the film is as weathered, subtle, and sympathetic as the actor's own face.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Producers
    Susan Stroman directed the show on Broadway and what she has done here is photograph that show -- no more, no less. This is good news for anyone who couldn't afford a trip to New York and $100 tickets, but it's a fairly odd approach to cinema.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hoodwinked!
    One aches to think what the great "Looney Tunes" directors could have done with this material.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    King Kong
    It's not so much a remake as it is a loving re-creation of the 1933 original on extra-strength steroids, with a side order of Botox. You've seen it all before but most assuredly never like this.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brokeback Mountain
    Brokeback may be too polished for some people, too elegantly dispassionate in its study of choked passion.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    The film version of Memoirs of a Geisha is very like a geisha itself: a thing of exquisitely refined surfaces beneath which beats an ordinary heart.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mrs Henderson Presents
    Mrs. Henderson Presents is a very old hat, and Judi Dench wears it beautifully.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    A gracefully subtle metaphor about life's Deep Magic has become a war film; what was a one-chapter battle toward the end of the book is now a ripsnorting Armageddon that looks like something Hieronymus Bosch might dream up after a heavy meal.
  21. Marebito (The Stranger from Afar)
    It's actually a pretty lousy thriller.
  22. The World's Fastest Indian
    The film is at its best in Utah, both because in David Gribble's exhilarating cinematography we finally get to feel the full power and intoxication of the sport.
  23. Æon Flux
    Aeon Flux is the sophomore picture from Karyn Kusama, who's first movie was a modest boxing film called "Girlfight." Here she's in over her head. The movie's sexual and scientific ideas never come through, and the characters would be fun only if they came with a joystick.
  24. Transamerica
    It's debatable whether watching Huffman get dressed, take hormones, and learn to use a more feminine diction could sustain an entire movie, but the character is certainly a creation more original than a lot of the film itself.
  25. First Descent
    Less a documentary than a PR package with a chip on its shoulder.
  26. Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
    When the film ends, we're haunted. We've been driving with a ghost.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
    It's an altogether satisfying drama -- the sort of movie some people complain they don't make anymore. So here it is; what's your excuse?
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ice Harvest
    "Bad Santa" it's not. Bumptiously entertaining it is.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Friends
    Funnier than any low-rent rip-off of "There's Something About Mary" has a right to be. It's crass, it's unsophisticated, it aims right for the slapsticky pleasure center of the under-30 moviegoer's brain. So sue me, I laughed. A lot.
  30. Rent
    It's pedestrian.
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