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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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    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Best of Youth
    A slowly flowering miracle: an epic of normal life.
  2. Cursed
    Marks a return to a not-so-distant time when horror movies weren't soul-rotting atrocities but just enjoyably bad.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  10. Son of the Mask
    At its least intolerable, the movie is a fatherhood freak-out.
  11. 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.
  15. 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.
  17. 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Mother's Smile
    It's a bit of a mess but strong stuff nevertheless -- a mournful, often wickedly funny religious satire that suggests what Kafka might have come up with had he been raised Catholic.
  19. Uncle Nino
    An effortless heartwarmer that manages to be utterly corny but quite likable.
  20. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    Judy Irving's terrific documentary 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is ostensibly about birds, but only in the way that a game of Scrabble is about tiles.
  21. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    A fine afternoon at the megaplex. And it will make a welcome addition your home library when it's released on video.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nobody Knows
    Spare and elegant and harrowing, it's an ode to childhood trust being stretched until it snaps.
  23. Boogeyman
    A horror film whose only scare is that it was made at all... As with so many stupid horror movies in these post-''Scream" times, this one is at such a creative loss that all it can do is make its audience feel duped for having purchased a ticket.
  24. The Wedding Date
    Messing should know this is precisely the kind of movie Grace would ridicule Will for dragging her to see.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Nomi Song
    Succeeds at its main tasks. It re-creates new wave New York with Proustian force, from the Kiev (the diner) to Fiorucci (the clothing store).
  26. Assisted Living
    The whimsy Greenebaum wants to construct can't match the terminal sadness that naturally takes over the film. Perhaps in accidental tribute to Todd, the whole thing feels half-baked.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Daybreak
    Involving and sometimes comically bleak but never fully convincing as drama.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Travelers and Magicians
    Anyone interested in Buddhism and the chance to see the high-altitude, deep-spirited landscapes of Bhutan from a movie theater seat is herewith directed to Travellers and Magicians.
  29. Alone in the Dark
    Think of the lamest horror movie you've ever seen. Now think of Tara Reid in the lamest horror movie you've ever seen. See how much worse it could have been?
  30. Hide and Seek
    Ignore the hype. You won't find anything startling or memorable in the derivative Hide and Seek.
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