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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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    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    G
    If the movie's not as bad as it sounds, it's not all that great, either.
  2. Separate Lies
    Fellowes is so desperate for us to like these people that, despite how guilty everyone seems, there's scarcely any pleasure in the film for us.
  3. Roll Bounce
    This nostalgic licorice whip of a movie assumes there's still an audience for a straight-faced, family-friendly salute to the 1970s heyday of competitive roller disco.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dear Wendy
    Taking wobbly aim at our country's complicated love affair with guns, the movie's the very definition of a cheap shot.
  5. Dorian Blues
    Even if the story is hackneyed, it's hackneyed in a warm and universal way.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Gospel
    A heartfelt but muddled melodrama.
  7. Two for the Money
    It's as if a version of Oliver Stone's movie has been frozen in some fraternity house beer cooler since 1987 and thawed for the age of plasma screen TVs.
  8. Elizabethtown
    Audiences of a certain hipster disposition, in fact, will see Elizabethtown and pine for Zach Braff's ''Garden State," the movie to which Elizabethtown bears an unfortunate and inferior resemblance.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fog
    This new Fog floats in on the fumes of the 1980 John Carpenter original, but the surprise is that it's arguably better.
  10. Doom
    Dreary-looking and painfully slow, but it's not terrible.
  11. The Roost
    Keep your big-budget horror movie expectations locked away in a separate crawl space, because this grainy feature debut from writer-director Ti West demands that you buy into the silliness, and the cheese.
  12. The Weather Man
    Dave is one of the most ineffectual characters ever to have an entire movie built around him.
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 50 Critic Score
    Zizek!
    Zizek is a revolutionary playing a comedian playing a revolutionary. Which makes him worth watching, even in this movie.
  16. Rent
    It's pedestrian.
    • 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.
  18. First Descent
    Less a documentary than a PR package with a chip on its shoulder.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The White Countess
    A watchable disappointment. Sumptuous to look at, tastefully dull, and ultimately rather silly.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Promise
    Has a daft sweep, and if you're in the mood for empty swordplay in baroque settings, purple dialogue delivered with straight faces, and romantic yearnings that never, ever resolve, The Promise may be your cup of oolong.
  21. Hostel
    Not horrifying enough.
  22. Glory Road
    This is a movie you could watch in your sleep.
  23. End of the Spear
    It's not remotely as luscious or half as bold as Malick's movie, but it is shorter and more educational.
  24. Underworld: Evolution
    They're still fighting in this sequel. But this is a more visually inspired, muscularly made movie than its predecessor.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Big Momma's House 2
    Completely unnecessary but painless, like dentistry performed by mimes.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Good Woman
    A Good Woman is pretty to look at and fakes witty elegance passably, so consider it a diversion -- a movie that might have been in the Oscar race if the elements had jelled but has instead been properly hung out to dry in February.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Curious George
    Genuine, artful simplicity may be an impossible quality in a modern children's movie, so Curious George opts instead for mayhem under a blanket of sweetness. The little ones understand.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Firewall
    A movie like this needs a suave, amoral villain, so here's Paul Bettany.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pink Panther
    Suffice to say that Shawn Levy, director of the "Cheaper by the Dozen" movies, is no Blake Edwards; for every finely tuned slapstick fillip, there's a ton of messy, family-friendly buffoonery.
  30. Madea's Family Reunion
    Perry is a playwright, and his dialogue here is usually entertaining.
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