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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rock School
    As a portrait of dysfunctional pedagogy, it's both refreshing and more than a little terrifying.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Apres Vous (After You)
    The movie is largely set in a busy Paris restaurant, and, not surprisingly, the food looks terrific. You may come out hungry for poached sea bass and a little starved for drama.
  3. Deep Blue
    A riveting and sobering way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
  4. Caterina va in città
    As much as the director andco-writer, Paolo Virzi, might try, he can't bring any of these people into focus. The movie is shapeless, too.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    As female-bonding comfort food goes, ''Sisterhood" is that rare meal both adolescent girls and their mothers will be able to agree on.
  6. The Longest Yard
    Everyone in this overstaffed showbiz sampler has been better somewhere else. An assortment of talented comedians, character actors, professional athletes, sports commentators, one rapper, and two former sitcom stars sit in this movie like too much food on a buffet cart.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Madagascar
    Antic, cute, scattershot, it's a remarkable-looking but terribly uncertain bit of CGI fluff, with its richest humor off to the sides of the action and a whole lot of average in the middle.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bomb the System
    Visually dazzling and dramatically trite -- it's virtuoso piffle.
  9. The Fearless Freaks
    An uncommonly intimate portrait, in large part because the filmmaker, Bradley Beesley, is a longtime neighbor, friend, and collaborator.
  10. Saving Face
    Actually the problem with Saving Face as a romantic comedy is that its central romance is a drag.
  11. Stolen Childhoods
    As moviemaking, it's monotonous. But its insistence on breaking our hearts proves a reliable weapon.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    The real deal, an often awkward but nonetheless terrifically compelling high-stakes human drama.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    It's an account of what helplessness does to a man whose philosophy of life has been founded on decisive action.
  14. Mindhunters
    It's hard to have sympathy for a movie that tosses in the old shower sneak-up sequence or allows its characters to speak as obviously as possible while standing in a pool of red liquid.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kicking & Screaming
    It would have been nice if someone had included a script, too.
  16. Monster-in-Law
    By Hollywood standards, a movie carried with such gusto by a 67-year-old woman has to be considered a miracle. And I'm not sorry to say I enjoyed watching her do it.
  17. Unleashed
    Doing nothing special, Freeman manages to make the picture seem wiser, funnier, and more eloquent than it is.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    Watching these pint-size Astaires and Rogerses practice the fox trot, tango, rumba, and swing is the immediate hook to Mad Hot Ballroom.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Mother
    Isn't for the kiddies. It probably isn't for anyone not interested in the darkest corners of the human psyche.
  20. Layer Cake
    A lot of the problem is that the picture's protagonist is both naive and foul.
  21. Kings & Queen
    The film is a tower of literary and cinematic references, tangential yet somehow essential characters, and one fantastic performance after another. It's a simple movie yet is anything but.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tell Them Who You Are
    In more ways than one, Mark Wexler gets the release he's seeking.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crash
    Its characters come straight from the assembly line of screenwriting archetypes, and too often they act in ways that archetypes, rather than human beings, do. You can feel its creator shuttling them here and there on the grid of greater LA, pausing portentously between each move.
  24. House of Wax
    For Hilton haters, the stupid and grotesque remake of House of Wax will only stoke their schadenfreude.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kingdom of Heaven
    A mostly lumbering, occasionally rousing epic that walks a bizarre line between historical fact and Hollywood wishful thinking.
  26. Mysterious Skin
    The film is actually a major artistic breakthrough for Araki, a onetime bad boy of independent filmmaking. Its psychological intelligence, attention to emotional currents, and humanity are surprises.
  27. Brothers
    Piercingly co-written and directed by Susanne Bier, the movie dramatizes one man's collapse and the other's surprising maturation.
  28. Up for Grabs
    A rarity for documentaries. The movie is a full-tilt farce, and were it not completely true, it'd be a piercing satire that Preston Sturges might have polished into a resonant screwball.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Writer of O
    This gulf between a woman's public and private faces is an intensely rich subject that Rapaport glosses over.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Visually playful and often good fun, it never settles on a convincing narrative shape.
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