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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. MC5*: A True Testimonial
    MC5 is everything a rockumentary should be and usually isn't. Then again, MC5 was everything a rock band should be and usually isn't.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Faster
    In the end, promotion, as good as it may be, doesn't make for a real documentary. Faster is a kind of bone-crushing fun, but there's little drama and certainly no insight.
  3. Man on Fire
    Man on Fire is ponderous and bloated, dragging the Bible and Giannini into its swirling cesspool. Scott can't give the movie any real emotional weight. And Washington gives his first lifeless performance.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Twilight Samurai
    The anti-"Kill Bill." This is an old man's movie in all the good ways: gentle, humanistic, rich with observation, quietly aware of all that can't be solved by the sword.
  5. 13 Going on 30
    It's looking for comedy and romance in the obvious places.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Morlang
    Morlang is a repressed creep whose worst crime, as far as the audience is concerned, is dullness.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
    Turns out to be one of the finer peeks into the creative process of staging a play. Granted, that's a tiny genre, and the film's core audience -- theater majors and the people who love them -- is narrow. The lessons, however, are big.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    The result is insanely good, and the best time I've had at the movies in ages.
  9. The Punisher
    The movie is as grim and grave as the comic book. But it lacks atmosphere. It's often illogical and drubs you numb with its single dimension: noisy retribution.
  10. Connie and Carla
    The movie's queer delight is contagious. You'll exit lip-synching.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Young Adam
    Unfolds with an absolute minimum of dramatic highs and lows, and it's so disaffected that it prompts laughter at the wrong moments.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Twentynine Palms
    A textbook example of how a director can strip away plot, motivation, character, and meaning and still leave arrant pretension standing tall.
  13. The Girl Next Door
    Comes up short when things get serious, resorting to cliches and a whole lot of hooey about "moral fiber."
  14. The Whole Ten Yards
    Not as desperate, unfunny, and nonsensical as its title. It's worse. Worse than you can imagine. Unless, of course, you've imagined 90-something minutes of bloopers and outtakes that congeal into a story -- much the way a scab is formed.
  15. I'm Not Scared
    Watching it is like being lost in somebody's richly moody campfire story -- it's so good, in fact, that only once it's over do you realize you've been holding your marshmallows too close to the flame.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Alamo
    The real struggle in The Alamo is between historic revisionism and Hollywood notions of sacrifice, and it's not much of a contest: Hollywood wins, as it did in John Wayne's sprawling, factually spurious 1960 film.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ella Enchanted
    The producers of Ella Enchanted probably assume, correctly, that many more kids haven't read the book than have, and they're out to give that audience a slick, shallow good time.
  18. Johnson Family Vacation
    Boring, mediocre movie.
  19. Walking Tall
    Walking Tall, which is credited to four different writers, is wanting for a reason to be.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    The film is as spare and unvarnished as a wooden temple floating on a lake, but its reflections run deep, and it can ripple your thoughts for months.
  21. The Prince and Me
    This is a smart piece of revisionist fluff that dares to question what happens after the royal honeymoon is over.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hellboy
    So forget about taking anyone under 12. But if you want to see what a benign demon looks like when he's eating nachos and unwinding to Al Green, this is the movie for you.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Home on the Range
    Even older kids will understand that Pixar does it so much better, not because of their computers but because of an intelligent attention to script and character and craft. If the people running Disney don't understand that much anymore, maybe they should turn out the lights and go home.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
    So spectacularly bent that it exudes a contact cough-syrup high all its own.
  25. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    Ultimately, Bingenheimer seems underwhelmed with himself. The people who know him say, in the movie, that he's a relic. Mayor of the Sunset Strip makes heartbreakingly clear what a glorious relic Bingenheimer is.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Never Die Alone
    Invites us to both hate King David and admire his style, and there will probably be some hand-wringing about that.
  27. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    The 6-year-old I went with had the villain pegged in the first 15 minutes. Needless to say, she completely ruined the movie for me. Meddling kid.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ladykillers
    The loosest, silliest, broadest thing the Coens have yet committed to celluloid, and that includes "Raising Arizona," one of this critic's favorites.
  29. Jersey Girl
    Eloquent and unapologetically cute.
  30. Ned Kelly
    Ultimately, Jordan's vision is so murky that Ned Kelly remains as foreign to us as wombat stew.
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