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For 7,950 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 point 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: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Happens
    One of those sticky dramas.
  2. Extract
    All we have here are bits, so many, in fact, that Extract’ feels more like a collection of crumbs.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Terminator Salvation
    The latest installment in the venerable sci-fi action franchise turns out to be a straight-up war film, grim and muscular and thundering and joyless. It's the color of cement, and it weighs as much, too.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    Reilly gives it his all, and he’s both very enjoyable and about as scary as a stubbed toe.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Brothers Bloom
    Breezily enjoyable for about 10 minutes, until you realize the entire movie is going to be pitched at the same exuberantly manic pace. It's like being trapped in an elevator with a performing poodle that doesn't know when to quit.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Whatever Works
    Whatever Works is very minor Woody, querulous, fitfully funny, and removed from any shared reality.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    AVP: Alien vs. Predator
    This is one schlockfest that may be enjoyed more by casual viewers than by hard-core fans, since writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson breaks with the established mythology of both properties whenever he feels like it. Like it matters.
  8. Superbad
    As films about the young and the horny go, I preferred the smarter approach director Jeffrey Blitz takes in "Rocket Science."
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Burn After Reading
    Shallow and proud of it, an antic cartoon that lacks the comic inspiration to go the distance.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Sister's Keeper
    A pall of disaster, in fact, hangs over everyone in this shapeless, hankie-wringing adaptation of the best-selling Jodi Picoult novel.
  11. 300
    There's a stale, synthetic airlessness about the movie. Imagine a large cast trapped in a series of spectacular screensavers. It could be ancient Greece. It could be somebody's hard drive.
  12. Bruno
    Brüno is what "Borat’" was too well-done to be: a publicity stunt about publicity stunts.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ong Bak
    A sizable amount of national pride is on display in Ong-Bak.
  14. Bride & Prejudice
    In attempting to show us a love blind to class, culture, and color, she's (Chadha) also made it bland.
  15. The Chorus
    The crime of The Chorus isn't that it's corny. (I like corny.) It's that its corniness seems programmed.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    At its strongest cataloging the sheer sensory overkill of the festival -- the faces, the food, the many roads to bliss. Only the slightest historical information is offered and no spiritual background whatsoever.
  17. Assault on Precinct 13
    Disappointing for a number of reasons. For one thing, it's silly. For another, it's not always silly enough to be diverting.
  18. Inside Deep Throat
    It's an unfocused overview that intersperses choppy interviews and observations with clips from "Deep Throat," including some of its most notorious and explicit scenes.
  19. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Blows to the head are delivered with more subtlety than the message of Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
  20. Man of the House
    So light it should wind up on the ''diet" shelf of the video store.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Jacket
    The acting makes the difference, and in Jacket it rises above the needs of the material.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hostage
    It's a B-flick all the way, but it has no pretensions to the contrary, and that's some kind of refreshing.
  23. The Upside of Anger
    It's the men in ''Upside" who speak all the truth.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In My Country
    At its best when Anna confronts her tangled Afrikaaner legacy and when it brings the heretical notion of forgiveness up front, where a non-African audience can come to grips with it.
  25. The Boys & Girl from County Clare
    Highly unoriginal tale.
  26. Melinda and Melinda
    Doesn't entirely work.
  27. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The laughless outtakes for ''Armed and Fabulous" helpfully remind us that it could have been worse.
  28. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    If only Miller's writing had some human zest. Nearly everybody here is crunchy, salt-of-the-earth organic, and off in a dreamland.
  29. The Interpreter
    A righteous but wrongheaded thriller, chokes on its well-meant outrage and leaves a moth-eaten plot and handful of nonsense characters on its way to a dopey finish.
  30. Eating Out
    The explicit encounters and dirty talk in Eating Out suggest a new genre -- call it porncom -- that seeks to amuse and arouse at the same time.
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