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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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    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Starsky & Hutch
    Stealing the movie, however, is rapper Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear, the pimp/informant originally portrayed by Antonio Fargas on the TV show.
  2. The Reckoning
    The movie has none of the embarrassing absurdity and cheap effects that made last year's trip back to the 14th century, "Timeline,'' such a joke. We should be so lucky. Instead, we get a listless avenger drama.
  3. Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
    Fills you with a healthy respect for the men and women gladly risking their lives for your entertainment. The film itself works best with its into-the-camera reminiscences and on-the-set mishaps.
  4. James' Journey to Jerusalem
    There is a lot to recommend about James' Journey to Jerusalem. Its people are not among them. This searing little parable contains some of the more deplorable folks you're likely to see in a movie about faith.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Club Dread
    A bumptious splatter farce that manages to improve from awful to moderately engaging as its cast is winnowed down to the five guys themselves.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Greendale
    Beware of stoner rock stars talking politics. No matter where you stand on the spectrum, the ecological/anticorporate idealism of Greendale is so vague as to be insulting to anyone past the backpack-and-Birkenstocks stage of life.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Twisted
    Eerily similar in its story line to "In the Cut," the much pasted Meg Ryan sex-and-death thriller that came out last year. Only it's worse.
  8. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    Bland though it is, "Havana Nights" could be the start of a globe-bettering franchise -- and across history, too: "Dirty Dancing: Monticello Mornings"; "Dirty Dancing: Gaza Strip Afternoons."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goodbye Lenin!
    One of the most enjoyable movies I've seen lately, but it has a biting knowledge of that which history gives and history takes away.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Passion of the Christ
    Seems to be exactly the movie Mel Gibson wanted to make as an abiding profession of his traditionalist Catholic faith. On that score it is a success.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Teknolust
    Has a welcome humor but only in theory, and theory, chilly and self-involved, is where this filmmaker seems most at home. Like its bio-digital sirens, the movie never quite comes alive.
  12. Big Animal
    Gathers a sort of darkness as it comes to its oblique conclusion.
  13. Against the Ropes
    The movie is only sporadically interesting.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Clifford's Really Big Movie
    Big, noisy, harmless, and a little clumsy -- yep, that's Clifford, the Big Red Dog. And it's Clifford's Really Big Movie, too.
  15. EuroTrip
    In light of our recent crackdown on runaway nudity, the steady stream of exposed breasts in the gnarly Eurotrip give it a nostalgic feel.
  16. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
    Every ounce of the film feels artificially upbeat.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kitchen Stories
    If you've ever staggered out of IKEA oppressed by the clean, inhuman lines of a thousand affordable dinette sets, you may get a kick out of Bent Hamer's comedy Kitchen Stories.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Welcome to Mooseport
    It's a disappointingly limp small-town farce played several shades too broadly by a cast that has done better work elsewhere.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After the Life
    A straight-up drama and thus the only film in "The Trilogy" not forced into a genre straitjacket -- suspense thriller ("On the Run") or farce ("An Amazing Couple") -- "Life" is also the finest of the three. This isn't a coincidence.
  20. The Seagull's Laughter
    Lively and beautiful filmmaking. It may leave you scratching your head, but it shouldn't leave you cold.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    50 First Dates
    The plot -- it's inspired and ridiculous at the same time -- is best described as "Groundhog Day" meets "Memento."
  22. Robot Stories
    In Robot Stories, technology hasn't colonized human life, it's finding ways to make living (and loving) better.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    An Amazing Couple
    Turns what sounds suspiciously like a gimmick into a concept that holds water. Or, in this case, the sparkling wine of comedy.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Osama
    Osama works simply as the story of one unlucky young girl.
  25. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    A terrifyingly cheap-looking B-movie comedy mocking terrifyingly cheap-looking science-fiction B-movies. As such things go, this one has its moments.
  26. Miracle
    You might cheer. You might cry. For a minute, you might even wish it were you on that medal stand.
  27. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Takes a dedicated and true snapshot of African-American life. But so little of its presentation is memorable. This is a haircut movie that redefines ''fade.''
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Catch That Kid
    Flatters its audience by dividing the grown-up world into mean idiots and nice idiots, which might be interestingly subversive if the movie had anything on its mind. Instead, it's just a Hollywood crash course: Heist Films 101.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Return
    Filmed with a cold, poetic beauty, The Return slowly strips away motivation until it arrives at a place of myth both private and oddly universal.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Dreamers
    The Dreamers isn't that bad -- actually, it's funny, affecting, interestingly twisted, and seriously erotic before it heads south in the final stretch.
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