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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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    • 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.
  3. Zelary
    This is just humble, heartwarming storytelling with good acting and lush visuals.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  8. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Brims with forboding, but it pulses with candy colors and the hum of neon signs.
  9. 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.
  11. Reconstruction
    The movie is so chilly and fundamentally empty at its core that we're more or less on the outside looking in.
  12. Criminal
    Just as exciting and socially vivid as Bielinsky's. Yet, somehow it's more stressful. The American characters practically sweat desperation.
  13. Testosterone
    Another gay movie that luxuriates in emotional implausibility.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  18. Virgin
    So much of Virgin is bunk masquerading as sexual politics.
  19. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    More of a sand-and-noodles western set in the Far East.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wicker Park
    Movies that are entertainingly nuts don't come around very often, and when they do they need to be given their due.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vanity Fair
    She has been made lovable -- and a Vanity Fair with a lovable Becky Sharp has no reason to exist. It's as if Shakespeare had put Hamlet on Prozac: What's the point?
  22. Suspect Zero
    Eckhart, who gets more rugged by the picture, certainly works hard to bring the audience along. But he's a nervous wreck for nothing. This movie isn't talking to us, it's talking to other serial killer movies.
  23. The Brown Bunny
    The Brown Bunny is certainly about how vain Gallo is. Yet rarely has narcissism produced such a handsome work of cinema.
  24. Bush's Brain
    In a refreshing change of pace, this week's anti-Bush documentary, Bush's Brain, is not really about George W. Bush at all. It's about his senior political adviser, Karl Rove.
  25. Hero
    These people may be really, really dangerous, but they're also really, really polite.
  26. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    There's nothing really wrong with it -- it's bad, but no worse than it needs to be, which is the problem.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    The overall effect is ghoulish.
  28. L.A. Twister
    Serves up a silly story and clunky dialogue that gets better than it deserves from Jennifer Aspen as Lenny's would-be girlfriend.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bright Leaves
    Where most documentaries offer us facts to hold on to, his (McElwee's) are obsessed with the mystery of things we don't know and never will.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    End of the Century
    Unearths the expected footage from the crypt -- including a hilarious live video of the band arguing onstage over what to play next. The anecdotes are pungent and revelatory.
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