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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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    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark Blue
    In the end, the problem with movies like Dark Blue is that they willfully ignore the systemic, historical, cultural, and class causes of racism in favor of pinning it all on a few bad apples. Sure, that's entertainment. It's also a lie.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lawless Heart
    The thread that winds through their stories is love lost and connections found, but only the audience is able to weave it into something to keep.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gods and Generals
    Sanctimonious claptrap -- an inert pageant of waxen figures that fails completely as drama even as it insults the sensibilities of anyone not clinging to rosy memories of the slave-era South.
  4. Old School
    It's also a message movie, about as weighty as Lara Flynn Boyle and twice as absurd. But I'd like to report that I had an excellent time.
  5. The Life of David Gale
    Positively reeks of self-importance -- the jokey, ham-fisted, pseudo-socially relevant, punch-pulling kind. It reeks worse of acting -- the Jack-Lemmon-in-a-coma Kevin Spacey kind.
  6. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    Watching the uncertain and disappointing new apartheid documentary Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony'' is like going to the lecture of an impassioned but really disorganized professor.
  7. Painted Fire
    This is that rare art flick whose subject goes nuts because his work is not self-indulgent ENOUGH.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Jungle Book 2
    Note that it took six writers to come up with the script for The Jungle Book 2. Note that Rudyard Kipling isn't one of them.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gerry
    Watching Gus Van Sant's Gerry is the cinematic equivalent of watching paint dry. I mean that as high praise.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Settles for the cliches of American suspense films, right down to an ending that leaves the door open to a possible sequel.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All the Real Girls
    Green unquestionably has a rare, intermittent knack for rapture.
  12. Daredevil
    Daredevil the movie strains itself trying to catch up with Sam Raimi's web-slinging megasmash. It's a faceless copy, right down to the muscle-rock groaning on the soundtrack.
  13. Stone Reader
    A deep, exhaustive, and moving piece of do-it-yourself detective work.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deliver Us from Eva
    Dawdles amiably and can't quite decide what it wants to be.
  15. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey don't simply star in this movie; they tag-team it out of the Freddie Prinze Jr. --Julia Stiles puppy-love ghetto.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shanghai Knights
    So appallingly slipshod in all the usual departments is this sequel to the engaging martial-arts comedy Western ''Shanghai Noon'' that you're tempted to cite its makers for contempt.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    May
    Satisfyingly, May also turns out to be lowdown genre fun, a film that nearly makes up in slacker wit and high-spirited gore what it lacks in budget and elegance.
  18. Biker Boyz
    It's too long and self-consciously progressive to be entertaining, but it's too well-intentioned to be dismissed altogether.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lost in La Mancha
    It is an honest, dumbstruck, not particularly deep demonstration of how insanely difficult it is to make a movie, any movie, no matter how blithe the end result may appear on screen.
  20. The Guru
    The movie offers up too many airy spiritual lessons in the hope of crossing from farce to sentiment.
  21. Final Destination 2
    By the time I saw poor Tim crushed, head to toe, by a falling sheet of plate glass, I was certain I hadn't signed up for anything this punishing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Recruit
    Pacino, thankfully, is on-screen enough to keep this stew on a solid low boil.
  23. Chaos
    The best that can be said of the men in Coline Serreau's Chaos is that some of them are pimps.
  24. Darkness Falls
    So much schlock and melodrama find their way into Darkness Falls that when an exasperated character shouts near the end ''All this over a [expletive] tooth!,'' you know how he feels.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    The filmmakers are smart to cut between their primary interview and later footage of Junge watching that interview and offering further commentary -- living footnotes, as it were.
  26. In the Mirror of Maya Deren
    Intimidated by the words "avant-garde film"? Then hand yourself over, without reservation, to the skills of documentarian Martina Kudlacek and her astonishingly accessible primer, In the Mirror of Maya Deren.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Divine Intervention
    The Academy accepts submissions only from real countries, and Palestine isn't one. This is as good a joke, and as dark, as anything in the movie.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Guy Thing
    A pleasant, thin, hammerlocked movie about the pleasures of breaking free - it's the Cliff Notes version of anarchic classics like ''Bringing Up Baby'' or ''What's Up, Doc?'' Should you want to take the graduate course, you'll find those films at your video store.
  29. National Security
    The film is profane. But who knew police brutality could play as a laughing matter?
    • 16 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kangaroo Jack
    Will parents be able to sit through Kangaroo Jack without plunging sharp sticks into their eyes? The short answer? Yes. Barely.
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