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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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    Sloppy, crude, pursuing the most far-flung tangents in hopes of a laugh, Anchorman still gave me more stupid giggles than I'd care to admit.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Riding Giants
    Giants has SO many insistent high points, in fact, that its breathlessness threatens to turn monotonous.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    King Arthur
    King Arthur does to this legend what "Troy" did to Homer, with one important difference: It's a better movie.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    ''Bonjour" is especially lucky in having Shlomi Bar-Dayan, the 16-year-old misfit of the title, played by a young actor named Oshri Cohen, who's able to convey the impossibility of ever making sense of the world with a single bruised gaze.
  5. America's Heart and Soul
    Schwartzberg does stumble upon some pretty fascinating people.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Clearing
    An opaque kidnapping drama that features three expertly crafted performances operating on three different planets.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Before Sunset
    That rose in the desert, a sequel that improves in every way upon its beloved predecessor and a romance that slowly builds a fire from embers thought dead.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    De-Lovely
    Turns out to be thoughtful, creative, and generally worthy of its subject, with sins that are more of ambition and miscalculation than of execution.
  9. Spider-Man 2
    Raimi seems more comfortable being his outlandishly jokey, B-movie self, letting entire sequences play on the line between carefree schlock and Hollywood blockbusting.
  10. The Notebook
    Considering the sunny, relatively pleasurable romantic business that precedes it, the elderly stuff seems dark, morbid, and forced upon us.
  11. Kaena: The Prophecy
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Time of the Wolf
    Haneke has become known as a dour modern master of cinematic pain, and in this movie he scrubs civilization down to the root level.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Two Brothers
    Honors the power and beauty of these beasts even as it underscores the cultured savagery of the men who are crowding them out.
  14. White Chicks
    The film feels long when it should be brisk, and it's bloated with stretches of hot, dead air. The racial kitsch goes nowhere.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fahrenheit 9/11
    One last thought: Fahrenheit 9/11 is many things, but for pity's sake let's not call it a documentary.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunting of the President
    It's the old-fashioned verities of documentary filmmaking that serve Thomason and Perry best.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Facing Windows
    Beautiful to look at and acted with full and tempestuous conviction, it still seems to be taking place in an apartment far across the way.
  18. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    The endearing and cheeky ensemble works hard, and Ken Scott's script finds ways of wringing irreverence from the apparent good nature of the situation.
  19. Father and Son
    Where a lesser movie from a lesser director might sink into its own ponderousness, Sokurov uses the ambiguity of the father and son's relationship to craft a sort of erotic puzzle.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    The result is a revenge thriller that's too taken with its own ambience to actually thrill.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Terminal
    Here's a film made by grown-ups for grown-ups, on grown-up themes of statelessness and belonging. Yet you could show it to a 6-year-old and have him or her understand all the nuances of plot and characterization.
  22. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    A terribly self-satisfied lecture about the ubiquity of quantum physics in spiritual life, is dishonest enough to suggest that even its cavalcade of scientists and mystics might not know anything about such topics as reality and the sub-atomic world.
  23. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    Ben Stiller is like a guy on the 1919 White Sox. He's rigged to lose. His comedy is the stuff of failure, and sometimes it's pleasurable watching him flit around in funny get-ups, only to have a pretty costar put him down.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Around the World in 80 Days
    A peppy, fast-moving, wafer-thin amusement that's fine for kids if you don't mind a lot of Three Stooges-style martial arts. For grown-ups, it's the equivalent of a 59-cent tin globe.
  25. My Sister Maria
    Artful, especially in the ways it avoids sentimentality and employs vintage film clips of truly riveting performances...But Maximilian's narcissistic examination of his theatrical family -- can be boring, and his creative license with the truth is kind of troubling.
  26. Word Wars
    Only occasionally do the thrill of the game and the passion of its players come together. That said, these guys' nakedly neurotic enthusiasm keeps the movie from being a total jumble.
  27. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    It's the videotaped equivalent of a primary research data dump. But to quote Bette Davis by way of Edward Albee: What a dump.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Chronicles of Riddick
    Like everything in this humorless new genre, "Chronicles" comes with its own snap-together mythology.
  29. The Stepford Wives
    It's hilarious -- and on purpose, too. This is the first satisfying adult summer comedy set in New England to come out of Hollywood since "The Witches of Eastwick" in 1987.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Garfield
    A black-dressing young intellectual of my acquaintance recently ascribed a "lazy generosity" to Garfield and his daily antics. If so, the movie gets the laziness but misses the generosity.
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