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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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  1. Team America: World Police
    Stuck between point-blank ridicule and the obligations of a weary plot. Surprisingly, more than an hour of watching marionettes fight, curse, and fornicate turns out to be as dull as watching Michael Dudikoff do the same thing in one of his unremarkable soldier movies.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Scandal
    Of all the "Liaisons" adaptations, this may be the most sentimental.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vera Drake
    The film is startlingly even-handed.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Around the Bend
    The result is a curious hash: warmly funny in the comic scenes and shamelessly sentimental during the sad bits, of which there are many.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vodka Lemon
    This is frostbitten Fellini -- a film that finds fresh beauty and contentment in the wake of centuries of conquering armies. The great joke of Vodka Lemon is that the conquerors missed what was there all along.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stage Beauty
    Yet Crudup does good, mercurial work despite a silly surfer-dude haircut.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Friday Night Lights
    It also bears something you rarely experience in a football movie. Friday Night Lights has a soul.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Primer
    Shane Carruth's extraordinary work of shoestring speculation throws you into a deep ocean of techno-jargon and lets you dog-paddle or sink like a stone.
  9. Raise Your Voice
    The movie's enthusiasm is as indelible and shiny as the lip gloss its star wears to bed.
  10. Tarnation
    A masterpiece.
  11. Taxi
    Too much of Taxi is just tired.
  12. Tying the Knot
    It makes a sane, civil, humanist case for marriage for all.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Begins and ends as a fulsome Kerry campaign bio along the lines of the famed Bill Clinton convention short, "The Man From Hope."
  14. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    While the story couldn't be simpler and the filmmaking is crude, it forcefully addresses a reality.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dig!
    The result is one of the most unforgiving ground-level documentaries about the music business ever made -- the six-string equivalent of "Hoop Dreams."
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shark Tale
    Where "Nemo" was clever, soulful, and marvelous to look at, "Tale" is manic and surprisingly ugly, with a script that leans on the shallowest aspects of hip-hop street cred while pimping for corporate product placement at every turn.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Heart Huckabees
    Among the most insane mainstream movies ever released.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ladder 49
    Predictable, square, and honorable all at once.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  25. 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.
  27. 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.
  29. 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.
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