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For 7,946 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: 5,228 out of 7946
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7946
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7946
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  1. 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."
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  10. Gunner Palace
    Works purely as a series of complex snapshots of the conflict in Iraq.
  11. 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.
  13. Whisky
    A fine film of few words and very little motion.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Best of Youth
    A slowly flowering miracle: an epic of normal life.
  15. Cursed
    Marks a return to a not-so-distant time when horror movies weren't soul-rotting atrocities but just enjoyably bad.
  16. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Blows to the head are delivered with more subtlety than the message of Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
  17. Man of the House
    So light it should wind up on the ''diet" shelf of the video store.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Up and Down
    The film bears a resemblance to such multicharacter dramas as Robert Altman's ''Short Cuts" and Paul Thomas Anderson's ''Magnolia" -- like them, it's a portrait of a society straining at the seams -- but it manages the neat trick of being both charming and bilious.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Other Side of the Street
    Don't see the movie if you can't handle two rather sexy senior citizens threatening to meet in body and mind.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Turtles Can Fly
    Ghobadi shows us a world where a village pond can hold both rare goldfish and unforgivable evil, and where every step is onto booby-trapped terrain.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Because of Winn-Dixie
    In pace, sensibility, and big, beating heart, this is a child's first indie film, and it's the better for it.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Constantine
    One thing's clear: R.J. Reynolds won't be showing Constantine at the company picnic any time soon.
  23. Son of the Mask
    At its least intolerable, the movie is a fatherhood freak-out.
  24. Downfall
    A bizarre film.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Schultze Gets the Blues
    A delightfully deadpan comedy from Germany, is one of those movies where nothing whatsoever seems to happen until you look closely, at which point everything happens.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Animation Show 2005
    It's a mixed bag almost by definition. Yet the good is good indeed, making this show worth a look for devotees of the form.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ong Bak
    A sizable amount of national pride is on display in Ong-Bak.
  28. Bride & Prejudice
    In attempting to show us a love blind to class, culture, and color, she's (Chadha) also made it bland.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hitch
    James has the forward drive of a trash-compacted Ralph Kramden with some of Ed Norton's random gentility and, here at least, he has a knack for fine-tuned physical comedy that gets you laughing even when the script's not there.
  30. Inside Deep Throat
    It's an unfocused overview that intersperses choppy interviews and observations with clips from "Deep Throat," including some of its most notorious and explicit scenes.
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