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For 7,946 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: 5,228 out of 7946
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7946
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7946
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  1. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    If anyone is capable of pulling off a deviled screwball with cheeky panache, it's de la Iglesia, who's one of the world's great nutty directors yet to find the American following he so richly deserves.
  2. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    The violence in the final 45 minutes of Mr. Vengeance is tough to watch.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reel Paradise
    An amusingly damning portrait of a man trying to impose his will on a world that, really, has better things to do.
  4. The Skeleton Key
    It has the wild, rancid atmosphere of a garbage bag that a raccoon has ripped open.
  5. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    If all the first "Deuce" had going for it was a regular-guy approach to over-the-top humor, that's completely absent in this follow-up.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Four Brothers
    A faux-low-budget revenge thriller, pure and simple. There's nothing special about it, and that's what's refreshing.
  7. The Great Raid
    The Great Raid amounts to a noble failure. This is sad news for those of us who remain hopelessly partial to Dahl's mean streak. The failure we can live with. It's the noble part that will never do.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Asylum
    A classy unintentional hoot.
  9. The Goebbles Experiment
    Weirdly enthralling film.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Grizzly Man
    Timothy Treadwell was killed, along with his girlfriend, by a rogue bear in October 2003.
  11. Pretty Persuasion
    Isn't so much awful as it is self-conscious, overdone, shallow, and just not up to the level of its star.
  12. Pulse
    Where the average Japanese horror flick is petulant and nasty, Pulse is dolorous, shivery, and surreal.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Clean
    Clean has the same mixture of human tenderness and borderline-silly Eurochic that marks Wenders films like "Until the End of the World."
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A State of Mind
    It's a quietly wrenching eye-opener.
  15. The Dukes of Hazzard
    A cheap, greasy time at the multiplex. You leave annoyed at having been hungry enough to have ever wanted it in the first place.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Broken Flowers
    Exhilaratingly slow, which for many will simply mean SLOW... Those who can downshift appropriately, however, stand to be enraptured.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    2046
    The new film lives up to expectations and, indeed, pushes past them into virtually unmapped territory.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Date with Drew
    In this TV reality show masquerading as a movie documentary, Brian Herzlinger is a creepy voyeur, a run-of-the-mill loser who obsesses about living the celebrity high life but lacks the talent to pull it off.
  19. Saint Ralph
    As predictably uplifting movies go, Saint Ralph isn't completely charmless.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Duma
    An exquisitely filmed, emotionally transfixing epic about a white South African boy's journey to return his pet cheetah to the wild.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Junebug
    A textbook case of filmmakers who can't make up their minds about their characters; it's a failure of nerve disguised as dramatic ambiguity.
  22. Must Love Dogs
    While Lane is her typical winning self, the film is mawkish. The more we're cajoled to root for Sarah Nolan, the divorced preschool teacher she plays, the more Must Love Dogs stops resembling a movie and starts feeling like a greeting card.
  23. Sky High
    A squeaky clean, family-friendly comedy that merely sounds like an unreleased Cheech and Chong romp.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stealth
    For a movie to pretend, in the face of the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children directly or indirectly caused by our presence there, that we can wage war without anyone really getting hurt isn't naive, or wishful thinking, or a jim-dandy way to spend a Saturday night at the movies. It's an obscenity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Aristocrats
    The Aristocrats -- the movie, not the joke -- is a working demonstration of the pleasures of the profane.
  26. Tony Takitani
    The film itself is also a beautiful work of art, exquisitely framed and precisely envisioned.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    In the end, it's a lovely little movie about very big things, and the smallness both illuminates it and keeps it from greatness.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Devil's Rejects
    A blood-smeared and almost completely scurrilous love letter to anyone who ever appeared in the junk movies of the '60s through '80s.
  29. Hustle & Flow
    Some will find it chicly inspired, recalling blaxploitation's heyday with its grimy urban realism. Some will rightly find it corny, absurd, and an insultingly limited presentation of options for the most disenfranchised African-Americans: I'm still waiting for the movie fantasy about the pimp who wants to get his GED.
  30. The Island
    Bay's strength as a filmmaker, the reason his superficial yet entertaining productions can never be completely ignored, is that he appears to lack shame. He'll blow anything up and run anybody over. The moral complexities don't matter to him. He just wants to stage spectacles, appreciate very good-looking people, and assert his cowboy aesthetic.
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