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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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    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Yours, Mine and Ours
    The movie equivalent of a box of generic macaroni and cheese: bland, easily digested, comforting, forgettable.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Libertine
    A glorious disaster.
  3. Syriana
    In its seriousness, Syriana has an absorbing, ominous roundness that plays even better with a second viewing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    39 Pounds of Love
    '39 Pounds of Love is a heartwarmer that looks away from darker, deeper, and more troubling matters.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Goblet of Fire is the entry in which Rowling finally took off the gloves.
  6. Walk the Line
    The film sends you home moved and in a tuneful mood.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Zizek!
    Zizek is a revolutionary playing a comedian playing a revolutionary. Which makes him worth watching, even in this movie.
  8. Aristide and the Endless Revolution
    An absorbing piece of investigative journalism.
  9. Breakfast on Pluto
    Ambles along nicely, but feels as if it's never going to end.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Syrian Bride
    The Syrian Bride could be one of those big, teeming matrimony comedies like "Monsoon Wedding" or "Father of the Bride" but for the barbed wire running right down the middle of the aisle.
  11. Pride & Prejudice
    Jane Austen's novel has been rejiggered into a jaunty romantic comedy that leaves us as incandescently happy as its characters.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Derailed
    A tawdry, predictable hunk of movie headcheese, and I still had a pretty good time with it.
  13. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Rarely is a movie audience asked to put up with so much noise for such a thankless payoff.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bee Season
    Here the foundation has been miscast. That's M-I-S-C-A-S-T.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ellie Parker
    Eventually the energy of the original short runs out and the movie coasts on fumes, but it remains surprisingly enjoyable for all that.
  16. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    On most levels his performance is as flat as his abs: very early Wahlberg.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chicken Little
    Shiny and peppy, with some solid laughs and dandy vocal performances, but even a small child may sense how forced this movie is -- how hard it tries to be all things to all audiences.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jarhead
    All writers are entitled to tell the story of their own war, whether it's on the battlefield, in their head, or -- as is usually the case -- somewhere in between. Like it or not, Anthony Swofford did just that. Mendes, by contrast, tells the story of a Hollywood war, and it's simply not the news we can use.
  19. The Dying Gaul
    The film builds into a lurid and suspenseful thriller.
  20. Gay Sex in the 70s
    Yet despite the retrospective sensationalism, Lovett's 70-minute documentary is a sobering anti-erotic cautionary tale.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
    The movie's masterstroke is to avoid interviewing the usual anti-globalist suspects and let solid, hard-working middle Americans speak.
  22. Prime
    Yes, Younger has made an update of the ''shiksa who changed my life" story in ''Annie Hall." But Prime is missing the psychological acuity and scabrous cultural wit of Woody Allen at his best. These lovers meet standing in line to see Antonioni's ''Blow-Up" and never mention the movie.
  23. Saw II
    The product of immaturity. It approaches suffering with a meaninglessness that must be a luxury for anyone who has never lost anyone, or is incapable of empathizing with someone who has.
  24. The Weather Man
    Dave is one of the most ineffectual characters ever to have an entire movie built around him.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    New York Doll
    You're left with the bewilderment and joy on Kane's face as he plays the old songs, and the sense of ghosts just behind his back.
  26. Paradise Now
    It doesn't take its ideas or its audience far enough. The result is a humanist potboiler.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Passenger (re-release)
    What's most shocking about The Passenger 30 years later? Seeing Jack Nicholson at the lean, sardonic height of his youthful powers? Finding a Michelangelo Antonioni movie with an actual plot?
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Three... Extremes
    Gore fans will want to bump the two-and-a-half-star rating up a star, whereas those who can't handle on-screen violence will want to stay the hell away.
  29. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
    This is a movie from the past that's also eerily of a piece with the film culture of now and tomorrow.
  30. Doom
    Dreary-looking and painfully slow, but it's not terrible.
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