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For 7,949 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: 5,230 out of 7949
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7949
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7949
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  1. Idlewild
    The camerawork is steady, the editing patient, the choreography playful. It's a zippy and inspired piece of moviemaking. But there's one problem. It's playing under the closing credits.
  2. Gun Hill Road
    This is the first movie to make me equate coming home from prison with coming home from war.
  3. Surviving Picasso
    Surviving Picasso is always intelligent and often entertaining, even when it perhaps inevitably takes on the character of an upmarket wax museum. [4 Oct 1996]
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  4. The 33
    Only in the epilogue does the film mention that none of the miners was compensated and no one was held responsible.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Great Gatsby
    It has in Leonardo DiCaprio — magnificent is the only word to describe this performance — the best movie Gatsby by far, superhuman in his charm and connections, the host of revels beyond imagining, and at his heart an insecure fraud whose hopes are pinned to a woman.
  6. The Package
    Staggeringly preposterous, yet not without a certain entertainment value. Except for the glasnost angle, there's nothing original about The Package, yet there's something amusing in its reminder of how the political assassination genre has come full circle since "The Manchurian Candidate."
    • Boston Globe
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pathology
    Even squeamish viewers are apt to be captivated by the tight, credible scripting; these 20-somethings talk and behave like today's irony-clad young sophisticates. And whatever your opinion of the subject matter, you can't fault the filmmaking.
  8. The Bride!
    Individual parts of “The Bride!” work, but as a whole, the critic in me found it confusing and irritating.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bank
    Handsomely shot and edited, The Bank benefits greatly from the brutal ministrations of LaPaglia,
  10. Old School
    It's also a message movie, about as weighty as Lara Flynn Boyle and twice as absurd. But I'd like to report that I had an excellent time.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Men Who Stare at Goats
    You can’t make this stuff up, but you can botch the telling of it, and that’s what sinks this satiric drama.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Magic in the Moonlight
    Above all, it is predictable.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hulk
    To answer your first question: like a cross between Shrek, the Frankenstein monster, and a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist
    It’s a simple story, really, but Nair mucks it up with the hot-button suspense of the framing scenes: surging crowds and rooftop standoffs, panicky cellphone calls and crackling walkie-talkies.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    To Rome with Love
    A charming but terribly self-indulgent trifle that's less than the sum of its many parts.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Is Anybody There?
    Writer Peter Harness has based his screenplay on his own childhood experiences, but personal doesn't necessarily translate to fresh.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    V/H/S
    Viewed en masse, V/H/S can't generate the necessary suspense, and buy-in, to truly get under your skin.
  18. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    Like a Bond picture with no spies or villains or car chases or gadgets or explosions.
  19. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    A lot of striking pictures in this would-be feminist "Braveheart," but a film that's pretty flat and earthbound because of the limitations of the figure at its center.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snow Cake
    Snow Cake is dazlious, too: overly forced, a shade too whimsical, but filling a void other words and other movies haven't the nerve or errant taste to confront.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Green Butchers
    Neither rare nor particularly well done. If you're looking for Danish meatballs served on dark wry, though, you could do worse.
  22. Imagine That
    Eddie Murphy in another mediocre family comedy? Imagine that.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Puncture
    This story of how corporate interests collude against the common good is surely worthy. But you might ask if the facts of the case might have made a better documentary, not a drama.
  24. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    The quest ends in a surprise Capra-esque resolution, which both satisfies and cloys.
  25. Charlie Bartlett
    What the movie lacks in technical polish (it's not very handsome-looking) and dramatic perfection, it makes up for in unusual social sophistication.
  26. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    Nothing has brought me more cheap pleasure at a movie this year than the sight of shampoo and conditioner bottles falling off a rocking wall while comedian Alec Mapa, as a fellow stylist, tries to keep a straight face. He does a much better job than I did.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunting Party
    Genocide is hard to decorate with the trimmings of dark farce. The Hunting Party wants to get at political truths through audaciousness, but it keeps bumping into that problem of taste, only to back down.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bee Season
    Here the foundation has been miscast. That's M-I-S-C-A-S-T.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mood Indigo
    If ever a movie were lost in translation, it’s Mood Indigo, the latest from the scattershot genius Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “The Science of Sleep”). With his penchant for sad-sack dreamers and gonzo visual gags, Gondry can make a director like Wes Anderson look like a prig, and “Mood” allows him freer access to his fancy than usual.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Life
    Like Life itself, this alien is nasty, brutish, and short.
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