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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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A State of Mind
    It's a quietly wrenching eye-opener.
  2. 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.
  6. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  13. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bad News Bears
    The remake is stranded between pushing the scatological envelope and caving in to the formulas the 1976 movie established, and until the well-nigh foolproof ending, it comes up gasping for air.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    9 Songs
    It's a smart, provocative idea for a movie. I wish 9 Songs was that movie.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Edukators
    There's an evenhanded humanism flowing through The Edukators that may strike doctrinaire viewers on either side of the divide as mushy, but it's tough enough for the rest of us to chew on for a long time.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Days
    In its unstated cynicism, beauty, and self-pity, Last Days fits the myth of Cobain like a torn pair of jeans.
  22. November
    Offers cliches instead of chills.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    The movie's overlong and there are lumps in the batter, but this is a ''Charlie" that the author would recognize as upholding his playfully dyspeptic tradition.
  24. Wedding Crashers
    Tom Cruise might have saved his family from apocalypse. But Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have just saved our summer.
  25. Happy Endings
    The cast is strong. Kudrow and Gyllenhaal provide the movie's emotional center.
  26. The Warrior
    What really makes 'The Warrior worthwhile is its indomitable soul.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Murderball
    Murderball is a paradox: a movie about quadriplegics that insists we look beyond their disability.
  28. Dark Water
    As the movie is in step with Connelly's aching heroine and not trying to scare our socks off, Dark Water is of a piece with Salles's sensitive filmmaking. Obviously, from a genre standpoint, that presents a tremendous problem. Nobody goes to a horror movie for a good cry.
  29. Fantastic Four
    What the movie lacks most is a real sense of adventure.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beautiful Country
    The filmmakers bank against their impulse toward melodrama and deliver a reconciliation that is heartbreakingly understated.
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