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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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    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ladder 49
    Predictable, square, and honorable all at once.
  2. Incantato
    One wishes Incantato was made of something other than musty air. Avati provides no real emotional counterweight for all the whimsy and nonsense, and the movie carries neither the force of morality nor the titillation of trashiness.
  3. The Yes Men
    This movie could have been a nagging, preachy headache had either man exhibited a tendency for self-righteousness. But both are friendly, almost humble about their mischief.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Moog
    For every insight, there are a half-dozen meandering conversations and unguided reminiscences.
  5. First Daughter
    Just bland behavioral propaganda, and Holmes makes such a guileless and robotic spokeswoman, it wouldn't be nuts to think the White House was just another mansion in Stepford.
  6. A Dirty Shame
    A big, lascivious punch line about America's peculiar, embarrassed, hypocritical relationship with sex.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rick
    Everything about this curio is claustrophobic.
  8. The Last Shot
    Any movie that would think Calista Flockhart to be the sort of high-strung basket case who'd hurl obscenities down at a dog kennel outside her apartment is worth sitting through.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Forgotten
    Turns out to be a grade-A B-movie that grounds its thrills in particulars of time, place, and character, so that when the time comes to make the leap into the wholly preposterous, we do so willingly. This is a movie that earns our trust -- and then happily abuses it.
  10. Shaun of the Dead
    Every moment... is a cleverly constructed live-action joke on aloofness: The world is ending, and these people are too self-centered to notice.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anatomy of Hell
    Despite all that onscreen turgidness, Anatomy of Hell is itself so much a matter of the mind that it never rises above theory.
  12. The Motorcycle Diaries
    For a movie, this feels inadequate, despite its splendors and, later, its social dismay. It does, however, have the makings of a grand postcard.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    September Tapes
    The film eventually collapses under the weight of its no-budget arrogance, but it goes some interesting places beforehand.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Take
    The Take represents the downside of the new documentary renaissance.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Head in the Clouds
    If you're up for a relentlessly overripe melodrama that takes place in movie-Europe as opposed to the real thing (the Parisian streetwalkers in berets are a good tip-off), by all means catch Head in the Clouds.
  16. Zelary
    This is just humble, heartwarming storytelling with good acting and lush visuals.
  17. Mr 3000
    Mac's TV show seems to have trained him to settle for feel-good tack-ons that cut against the prickly nature of Mr. 3000. The actor has such a serious and wise bearing that it's hard to believe Stan as a shallow jackass, which is why several of his scenes with Boca seem phony.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Incident at Loch Ness
    Once the cat is out of the bag, "Incident" becomes simultaneously entertaining and disappointing.
  19. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    Put it this way: National Lampoon's Gold Diggers makes "The Anna Nicole Show" look sophisticated.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    No one has really been asking for a fusion of "Independence Day," Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," and an old Buck Rogers serial, but here it is anyway, and the only thing keeping it from greatness is a good story.
  21. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Brims with forboding, but it pulses with candy colors and the hum of neon signs.
  22. Wimbledon
    Wimbledon is refried "Notting Hill" with a Teen People glaze. The latter movie also gave us an American star cheering up some tired British guy. Wimbledon is blander and far less worth rooting for.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Silver City
    As it is, the movie only shudders to life when Dickie Pilager's onscreen.
  24. Reconstruction
    The movie is so chilly and fundamentally empty at its core that we're more or less on the outside looking in.
  25. Criminal
    Just as exciting and socially vivid as Bielinsky's. Yet, somehow it's more stressful. The American characters practically sweat desperation.
  26. Testosterone
    Another gay movie that luxuriates in emotional implausibility.
  27. Cellular
    A ludicrous little abduction thriller that boasts an entertaining cocktail of gunpowder, suspense, adrenaline, and cheese. I just couldn't hate this movie, and I really, really tried. It's tightly made and well written in deceptive ways that don't reveal themselves until past the halfway point.
  28. When Will I Be Loved
    Most atrocious movies build into their badness, as lacks of talent, ideas, self-confidence, or a total hatred of an audience, are revealed. This one gets it out of the way up front and never looks back.
  29. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Like so many movies with a keypad for a brain, Resident Evil: Apocalypse is another exercise in making us feel the irritation associated with having to stand behind some game hack for our turn to play.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Evergreen
    An earnest, simplistic, affecting slice of low-watt indie filmmaking that goes where few American movies bother: below the poverty line.
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