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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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  1. 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.
  3. 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.
  6. Anger Management
    The most dispiriting thing about Anger Management is that its cameos seem like leftovers.
  7. DysFunktional Family
    More vulgar than funny.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  14. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    Only loosely concerned with behind-the-scenes gossip and is squarely focused on the nature of Fellini's insatiability.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Good Thief
    The actor is magnificent -- ravaged, desperate, aware -- and no more so than in a scene toward the end when Bob's cardsharp cool finally breaks. It's a risky scene, the one note of corn, but Nolte brings it home. Too bad the movie doesn't.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Assassination Tango
    Since its maker is one of the least vain of Hollywood actors, it's one that is worthy of indulgence and respect.
  17. The Core
    The real core of The Core is the beautiful friendship between a highly emotive Eckhart and the sacrificial Karyo. Their bond is the best thing to happen to Franco-American relations since SpaghettiOs.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Head of State
    Gets better -- more rambunctiously astute -- as it goes, and its comic engine sputters into fitful life when Bernie Mac arrives on the scene.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Raising Victor Vargas
    The ''R'' rating is understandable, but absurd. This is a family film in the most complicated and, ultimately, most cheering sense.
  20. Basic
    Falls flat on two fronts: It's neither deep and interesting enough to be a brainteaser nor sufficiently thrilling to count as a mindless diversion.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Piglet's Big Movie
    If you've got some very small fry on your hands and 75 minutes to kill, this is as bright, colorful, and fuzzy as you're going to get.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chuen jik sat sau
    Filmed with panache, wit, chic amorality, and an inexhaustible supply of Micro Uzi ammunition, ''Killer'' nevertheless represents a baroque dead end for the Hong Kong action genre.
  23. Boat Trip
    Even 007 is a big old queen. Yes, Roger Moore's on board as a lusty codger, who, unlike the rest of us, can't get enough of Sanz.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    View from the Top
    Who on earth is this embarrassment -- easily the worst film of the year to date -- aimed at?
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dreamcatcher
    The longer it takes for the eldritch glop to hit the fan, in fact, the less true the movie may be to King. For better and for worse, Dreamcatcher is true to King.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Japan
    This crudely powerful film is a throwback. Unfolding at an elliptical pace that feels like a revelation, or tedium, or both, Japon recalls the glory days of 1970s art-house filmmaking.
  27. Willard
    Wonderfully deranged.
  28. Under the City's Skin
    More a bleak docu-melodrama than an esoteric morality play.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunted
    Del Toro does remind you of Brando here; unfortunately, it's the Brando of ''Apocalypse Now,'' the one with the green face and puffy line readings. Jones fares better, even if he wears the same grieving-for-humanity expression throughout the film.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Agent Cody Banks
    The premise of Agent Cody Banks is more than a little bizarre.
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