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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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    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    xXx: State of the Union
    There are really only two kinds of big-budget action movies: stupid, and good and stupid. Surprisingly, XXX: State of the Union is good and stupid, which makes it an immediate improvement over 2002's meatheaded "XXX."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    3-Iron
    Dreamlike and the slightest bit precious, the film is a beautiful, over-cultivated hothouse flower.
  3. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    Like all of Jacquot's movies, it's not crazy enough.
  4. Funny Ha Ha
    A smartly observed, unpretentious, and unconventional comedy of manners -- or more properly, it's a comedy of mannerisms.
  5. The Holy Girl
    A collection of beautifully acted encounters, conversations, symbols, and vignettes woven into an evocative and unforgettably surreal garment.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ladies in Lavender.
    Likably played by Bruhl, the castaway remains more dramatic device than living, breathing character. And without him truly being there, Dench and Smith are just volleying an imaginary ping-pong ball between them. That's not acting -- that's exercise.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Another Road Home
    With pained gentleness, her film insists we make our homelands within us and take them wherever we go.
  8. 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.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Lot Like Love
    ''Love" doesn't have a plot so much as it has a concept, scribbled in crayon.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Double Dare
    Focuses on a parallel universe that moviegoers rarely consider: that of the invisible, hard-working craftspeople who put the illusion together.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    Entertaining and enraging.
  12. The Game of Their Lives
    What the cast members lack in sharpened skill they more than make up for in raw gusto and athletic scrappiness (most of the actors have logged a lot of soccer in their pasts). These guys give a sport that is virtually nameless in the movies a good name in this one.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Man Who Copied
    What could have been an effervescent 90-minute experience is so in love with the sound of its own voice that it develops genre trouble and piddles on for two-plus hours.
  14. The Amityville Horror
    The latest cannibalization of a popular older horror film.
  15. House of D
    House of D, is like the kind of sticky greeting card you'd find on CBS some Sunday nights.
  16. It's All Gone Pete Tong
    Isn't all wrong. But even at its very best, it's just all right.
  17. The Girl from Monday
    Numbing story.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Palindromes
    What makes Palindromes bearable is that Solondz has yet to come up with an answer.
  19. Sahara
    In the end, the thing that Cussler's fans will probably object to most is the nonsensical way Sahara manhandles his story.
  20. Fever Pitch
    Effortlessly entertaining romantic comedy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kung Fu Hustle
    Like a meal prepared by an extreme chef, ''Hustle" is more than a bit of a mess. It still tastes like nothing you've ever had before.
  22. 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.
  23. Winter Solstice
    Ultimately undercut by its fictional elements and its flat characters.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    Stylish and only superficially superficial, Happily Ever After plunks us down with three male friends as they dance on the edge of their 40s.
  25. Major Dundee (re-release)
    Expanded, Major Dundee is still a mess of great scenes sprinkled among some fairly monotonous action.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sin City
    Tarantino may have nicked the title first, but this is the real ''Pulp Fiction," with all the drama and the dead ends that implies.
  27. Dust to Glory
    Brown lays out his guiding philosophy up front when he says of the Baja, ''This isn't about a race, it's about the human race."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Control
    Takes your angriest thoughts about urban public transportation and magnifies them into a grubby and rousingly antisocial fantasia on post-communist breakdown and bureaucracy.
  29. Look at Me
    A marvelous, uncommonly observant, and unexpectedly rousing group portrait.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beauty Shop
    Formulaic but extremely good-natured comedy.
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