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For 7,950 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 1 point 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: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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  1. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    Fiennes has an excellent rapport with Lewis-Parry, making their scenes as compelling and moving as anything “28 Years Later” had to offer. It’s too bad that every time the Samson-Kelson plotline gets good, we’re yanked back to dopey Jimmy’s goofy gang and its religious mumbo jumbo.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wild Mountain Thyme
    Wild Mountain Thyme is not a good movie. Rather, it’s one that believes so deeply and joyously in its potted romantic Oirishness that the audience doesn’t have to.
  3. The Keeping Room
    Barber, who directed the neglected, unabashedly satisfying vigilante thriller “Harry Brown” knows how to get the blood pumping and stoke an audience’s craving for righteousness, vengeance, and vicarious sadism. What he lacks is the woman’s touch, if by that one means nuance, ambiguity, and empathy.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Riddick
    This is back-to-basics stuff, which turns out to be not such a bad idea.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paul Goodman Changed My Life
    As documentaries go, it's an able introduction that doesn't make its subject nearly as relevant to our current discontents as it could.
  6. Gone
    Hand it to Amanda Seyfried - she seems to have a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunter
    The Hunter becomes turgid with corporate conspiracies, hired assassins, and offscreen tragedies, and the appealing leanness of the early scenes gets lost.
  8. Halloween II (2009)
    The copious violence, as always, is an assault - even aurally, as every thudding knife strike is made to sound like a boulder dropping on the theater.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Book Thief
    The film is unobjectionable, sentimental, and not a little dull.
  10. Priest
    Priest is based on a series of Korean graphic novels. What it's really based on, though, is other movies - a whole lot of other movies.
  11. The Weather Man
    Dave is one of the most ineffectual characters ever to have an entire movie built around him.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Midnight Sky
    The Midnight Sky is handsome to look at and, in its early scenes, quite engrossing. But it’s an oddly structured affair and, in the end, the director can’t keep it on course.
  13. Sleepy Hollow
    A gorgeous screenful of period eye candy.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Land of Blood and Honey
    Like Jolie's public persona, Blood and Honey is both strong and headstrong, equally invested in grit and glamour with a hazy understanding of the line separating the two.
  15. Last Night in Rozzie
    When the film keeps things simple, it’s at its best: uncluttered and assured.
  16. The Chorus
    The crime of The Chorus isn't that it's corny. (I like corny.) It's that its corniness seems programmed.
  17. Is This Thing On?
    Dern is excellent, as usual, and her scenes with Arnett feel realistic. The screenplay by Cooper, Arnett, and Mark Chappell is really thin, however, and I didn’t find any of these people compelling.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All the King's Men
    I'm not the first observer, or even the second, to liken the star's (Penn) portrayal of fictional Louisiana governor Willie Stark to the late John Belushi's impersonation of Joe Cocker.
  19. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
    Despite the artful, passionate performances by the cast, his experiment comes across more as contrivance than a work of thoughtful, aesthetic detachment.
  20. White Hunter Black Heart
    The sad thing about Clint Eastwood's White Hunter, Black Heart is that it fails in every important respect, yet is in no way cheap or exploitative. [20 Sep 1990, p.81p]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Creation
    There are good performances and fleeting moments of exquisite moviemaking, but the experience as a whole is an evolutionary dead end.
  22. 8: The Mormon Proposition
    A deeply felt, and numbingly partisan, documentary about how the Mormon Church both bankrolled and masterminded passage of the initiative.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Catch and Release
    There's a funkier and more interesting movie in Maureen, a character played by Juliette Lewis. Maureen is a single mom, a massage therapist, and a dimwit California follower of every new-age theory out there. She's a nasal, needy wreck, and Catch and Release is torn between adoring her and making ruthless fun of her.
  24. I Think I Love My Wife
    The movie, instead, is a work of giddy self-sabotage that seems determined to matter and not matter at the same time.
  25. Maze Runner: The Death Cure
    Where we hoped for a narrative rebound, we get instead another pedestrian, overlong post-apocalyptic entry that fails to capitalize on some decent character dynamics.
  26. Seventh Son
    To its credit, despite a rough start (witch burning and all that), Seventh Son does not succumb to misogyny.
  27. The Last House on the Left
    Like the current hit "Taken," Last House 2009 packs a vicarious jolt that might feel cathartic to certain moviegoers.
  28. Shrek Forever After
    To see this final installment is to know: It’s time.
  29. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
    Seeing the Ghostbusters in the Big Apple where they belong put a smile on my face, at least until I realized I was watching a sitcom about wiseass teens and their dopey parents.
  30. Stick It
    Peregrym is like a secondhand Hilary Swank. She has a looser presence and might be a better actor, but since we already have Swank, finding out is not a priority.
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