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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Owning Mahowny
    Hoffman confessed he was drawn to the role because ''this was a guy who didn't know how to feel, and I found that fascinating.'' His challenge is our frustration
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue Car
    It's that central dance between teacher and student that makes the movie both hard to watch and worth your attention - a subtle waltz of power in which it's difficult to tell who's leading until too late.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    So who am I to carp that the film trades in the amiable realism of the show for just another watered-down pop star fantasy? Heck, it beats the Olsen twins. But not by much.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spellbound
    At its most unsettling level, Spellbound asks us to consider what words are for and what childhood should be. It's as profound as anything you'll see this year, and, yes, it should have won the Oscar.
  5. Marooned in Iraq
    As full of joy as pain, it's a perspective we need to see more often.
  6. The Real Cancun
    Not so much a documentary as it is a bald-faced party movie.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    City of Ghosts
    It's an actor's film, all right -- peppered with rich supporting performances but unconvincing in the telling.
  8. A Decade Under the Influence
    The movie star Julie Christie turned 62 last month, and anyone under the impression that she merely floated through her prime heedless of the age in which she worked should catch her in A Decade Under the Influence.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Confidence
    Run the game, bow to the movies that did it better and before, keep the dialogue on the line between hard-boiled and hokey, and throw one last curveball before the lights come up. It's a con in itself, but the reward's in the playing.
  10. Identity
    It's an exasperating exercise in B-movie hokum and screenwriter's gimmickry.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    It Runs in the Family
    It's ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' with all the emotions and half the artistry.
  12. Medea
    Medea works on von Trier's own imagistic terms. There are shots and sequences in this movie that feel unique.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winged Migration
    If it were any more real - if it were Imax, say -- the audience would be molting.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Holes
    Holes functions as a film, but just barely: Readers familiar with the book may negotiate the film's antic crosscutting, but newbies will need to pop a Dramamine before the lights dim.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lilya 4-Ever
    Doesn't derive its power from the turning wheels of plot suspense but from the simple act of looking and not blinking.
  16. Malibu's Most Wanted
    Kennedy doesn't take the character any deeper than a caricature of rich, nonblack fans of hip-hop culture. But as a caricature, he's fantastic.
  17. Love and Diane
    fully devotes itself to painting a family portrait seldom allowed such rich cinematic detail.
  18. A Mighty Wind
    Full of redeeming throwaways.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bulletproof Monk
    Indeed a rip-off - a rehash of Hong Kong superstar Chow's greatest celluloid moments with an overlay of Hollywood action cliches, youth-flick silliness, and ah-so stereotypes.
  20. Chasing Papi
    Just as you're ready to give up on Chasing Papi, Paul Rodriguez shows up, and the movie goes from plotless to wildly overwritten in just one scene.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    XX/XY
    A blandly filmed and subtext-heavy talkathon that wastes a game cast on a group of characters about whom it's almost impossible to care. If this were a cocktail party, you'd be back home with a good book already.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghosts of the Abyss
    It's a unique trip that flirts with hokeyness at the surface but that grows more compelling, awe-inspiring, and tragic the deeper you go.
  23. Anger Management
    The most dispiriting thing about Anger Management is that its cameos seem like leftovers.
  24. DysFunktional Family
    More vulgar than funny.
  25. The Man Without a Past
    It's a quiet little gag homage both to Boris Karloff and to the set up of shelf-loads of pulp novels and films noir. And Peltola, with his flat, serious face and damp, oil-black hair, happens to look, at times, like Richard Widmark and Kirk Douglas.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Phone Booth
    Short, suspenseful, funny, and profane, the film's a throwback to the neat little B-level thrillers the entertainment industry used to crank out by the dozen in the post- World War II era and the early days of TV.
  27. What a Girl Wants
    It's not that What a Girl Wants is dreadful; it's merely slapdash, wildly inconsistent in tone and style, and mind-numbingly predictable in character and plot.
  28. Levity
    Freeman and Hunter are both overqualified for material this ponderous, but she plays along, while he appears to have made a minimal emotional investment in the oncoming avalanche of coincidences and cliches.
  29. A Man Apart
    Directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Christian Gudegast and Paul T. Scheuring, the movie isn't even worthy of former NFL linebacker turned straight-to-video action figure Brian Bosworth.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    If you want state of the art anime that comes within spitting distance of escaping the limits of its genre, this might be your cup of bootleg sake.
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