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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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    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Aviator
    As luscious as the filmmaking craft here is, it lacks the rude vitality, the unpredictability, the pure American craziness of the films that should have won him (Scorsese) the Oscar: "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," and "GoodFellas."
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    The film's no masterpiece, but at least you're in the hands of people who know what they're doing.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Million Dollar Baby
    More than "Unforgiven," more than "Mystic River," it is Clint Eastwood's autumnal masterpiece.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dolls
    Dolls is an art film, and a languid, inexplicably haunting one at that.
  5. Ocean's Twelve
    The film Soderbergh's made is about promiscuous stargazing. And you don't need a brain for that, just two eyes and a mammoth appetite for heavenly bodies.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Tale of Two Sisters
    A Tale of Two Sisters reminds that few things are as terrifying as our own imaginations.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    The film's meta-fey title alone is an example of why some people adore Anderson and why he drives others absolutely crazy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    This is the kind of film that reminds you of what movies, at their best, are capable of.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blade: Trinity
    One of the prime laws of the multiplex states that any action or horror movie series will devolve into ritualized violence, self-mocking camp, and egregious silliness by part three. Blade: Trinity is right on schedule.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    House of Flying Daggers
    It's a perfect example of how far production design and editing WON'T take you when the story's not there.
  11. After Midnight
    Can be quite amusing and enjoyable to watch.
  12. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    No one in the film offers a shred of real proof that IBM cheated.
  13. Jesus, You Know
    Whatever blend of fact and fiction is really at work in this latest offering from ''Dog Days" director Ulrich Seidl -- known, by the way, for playing fast and loose with the documentary format -- the irony-laced ''Jesus, You Know" does persuade viewers to sit up and take notice of its inspired conceit.
  14. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
    Engrossing and provocative.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Green Butchers
    Neither rare nor particularly well done. If you're looking for Danish meatballs served on dark wry, though, you could do worse.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Aryan Couple
    Despite its handsome photography and a few memorable performances, The Aryan Couple is mainly notable for its inappropriate, blithe sentimentality.
  17. Closer
    From Marber's fiercely polished writing, Nichols wrings every drop of acid, yet it's a show of the director's goodness that a movie fundamentally preoccupied with interpersonal ugliness is allowed to end on a convincing note of beauty.
  18. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    It does manage to put a somewhat complex human face on the domestic troublemakers, if not their exploits.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Purple Butterfly
    Ye bites off substantially more than he can chew.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Very Long Engagement
    Flattens you with concussive detail and the awfulness of war; it plays like "Saving Private Ryan" as remade by a Continental mathematician flipping out on Ecstasy.
  21. Paper Clips
    Inspirational.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Notre musique
    Elegant, insistent movie -- a great gray filmmaker's finest in years.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Christmas with the Kranks
    Kranks is a feel-good movie in which every character is hateful (except, sigh, the cancer lady), and a Christmas movie too chickenhearted to mention Jesus.
  24. Alexander
    The best there is to say is that it's better than ''Troy."
  25. Fear and Trembling
    As wonderful as Testud is, her character doesn't make much sense.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Days of Being Wild shows Wong discovering his own cinematic language, and he's as astonished as we are.
  27. National Treasure
    National Treasure even has a rough time approaching the heart of ''The Amazing Race," a show that manages, in 44 minutes, to make you care about average folks as they follow clues across the globe.
  28. Bad Education
    This is a brilliantly structured hall of mirrors that wraps Catholicism and the movie industry into a tasty film noir.
  29. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    The film, which is as economically made as it is primitively animated, ambles from adventure to adventure, taking nothing seriously, not even itself.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bright Future
    The movie has a curious and cumulative power.
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