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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Oldboy
    More than anything else, Oldboy recalls Alfred Hitchcock with all restraint tossed to the wind, or Hitchcock's most obsessed devotee, Brian De Palma, at his most nastily inspired.
  2. Guess Who
    The movie will please those looking for easy physical comedy.
  3. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    If only Miller's writing had some human zest. Nearly everybody here is crunchy, salt-of-the-earth organic, and off in a dreamland.
  4. Nina's Tragedies
    Gabizon never establishes a consistent tone or point of view. Instead, we hop from one episode to the next, with no momentum and no reason to care about these people.
  5. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The laughless outtakes for ''Armed and Fabulous" helpfully remind us that it could have been worse.
  6. Mondovino
    The movie feels incomplete and uncentered. It's like a grand magazine profile that's all reportage and absolutely no prose.
  7. Ice Princess
    A feel-good but inane Disney production.
  8. The Ring Two
    Scares up few chills.
  9. Melinda and Melinda
    Doesn't entirely work.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fifty-Fifty
    True to its title, Schizo is both gripped by the past and pulled toward an unknown future.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steamboy
    Boys of all ages, by contrast, will be mesmerized by the relentless, breathtakingly visualized action.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rider Named Death
    Shakhnazarov's film effortlessly captures the times and the author's conflicted yet unyielding attitude, yet it never draws any conclusions -- the film remains under glass.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hostage
    It's a B-flick all the way, but it has no pretensions to the contrary, and that's some kind of refreshing.
  14. Robots
    Isn't as trippy, scary, handmade-looking, or environmentally aware as some of Miyazaki's pictures. But it shares their dreaminess. Even at its most ingenious, not even Pixar does that.
  15. The Upside of Anger
    It's the men in ''Upside" who speak all the truth.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Millions
    You really don't need to borrow someone else's kids to ponder and enjoy what Millions has to offer.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In My Country
    At its best when Anna confronts her tangled Afrikaaner legacy and when it brings the heretical notion of forgiveness up front, where a non-African audience can come to grips with it.
  18. Black Cloud
    But this film, with its many cliches and borrowed substitutes for creativity, suggests his (Schroder) career in the boxing arena might have peaked with ''The Champ."
  19. The Boys & Girl from County Clare
    Highly unoriginal tale.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Don't Move
    A paranoid male fantasy about cheating, with surface similarities to Hollywood movies like ''Fatal Attraction" and ''Unfaithful." This one's Italian, though, and its attitude toward adultery is more European.
  21. Dot the I
    A deplorable piece of cynicism whose only point of interest is Gael Garcia Bernal's accent
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Off the Map
    Rambles without apparent purpose, and yet it blooms in emotional impact as it goes.
  23. Be Cool
    Barely any of it is funny, and if a minute of it is meant in mockery, few of the darts ever find the board.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Jacket
    The acting makes the difference, and in Jacket it rises above the needs of the material.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pacifier
    JUST worth your children's time, and hardly worth yours.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dear Frankie
    The movie's still shameless; the difference is you don't mind.
  27. Gunner Palace
    Works purely as a series of complex snapshots of the conflict in Iraq.
  28. Intimate Stories
    A delightful road movie.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Walk on Water
    There’s something happening here and it isn’t exactly clear. What is clear is that Eytan Fox may yet make a great film for the 21st century.
  30. Whisky
    A fine film of few words and very little motion.
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