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For 7,947 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 1 point 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    MirrorMask
    Aggressive visual invention is rarely its own reward, and this movie does nothing to better the odds.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Waiting...
    Teenage boys will be in heaven. All others: Check, please.
  3. Where the Truth Lies
    An erotic thriller. It is also an Atom Egoyan picture, which means any claims either to actual eroticism or conventional thrills are theoretical at best.
  4. Finding Home
    Finding Home is well meant and earnest but is stretched to almost twice what would have been a comfortable length.
  5. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Rarely is a movie audience asked to put up with so much noise for such a thankless payoff.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Libertine
    A glorious disaster.
  7. Marebito (The Stranger from Afar)
    It's actually a pretty lousy thriller.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    Noisy, silly, gratingly upbeat, and piously sentimental, 'Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is what passes for wholesome family entertainment these days. It's the sort of movie to send small children and grandparents out of the theater hugging each other and strong men in search of bourbon.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hoodwinked!
    One aches to think what the great "Looney Tunes" directors could have done with this material.
  10. The Ringer
    Come on. You want to know if it's funny. And the answer is: kind of.
  11. Casanova
    The movie treats trysting as comedy and yet is stingy with the laughs.
  12. Tristan and Isolde
    Franco can be exhilarating in movies -- tremulous, unhinged, a little wild. Here his jaw never stops quivering and his eyes stay welled up, advertising a breakdown that never comes. Not that Myles has a presence a man would fall apart over. She's too professional to drive anybody crazy.
  13. Something New
    This is an inept and unsubtle romantic fantasy about how black people and white people don't mix.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Date Movie
    Date Movie has enough laughs to make rambunctious dudes hoot and holler, but not nearly enough to ensure the happy ending it promises.
  15. Freedomland
    An overblown urban crime drama that should be a lot better than it is.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Stay Alive
    Always the way in horror flicks: These first scenes, when the characters are being tenderly established and the concept is still young, are the best.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stoned
    All the pieces are in place for an incisive tale of Brit-pop ego and madness, but filmmaker Stephen Woolley -- a celebrated UK producer ("The Crying Game") making his directing debut -- lets the story get away from him.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wild
    How's the movie? Technologically incredible, aesthetically pretty hideous, and narratively lumpy: Kids who aren't cynics (i.e., 9 and under) will roll with it.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    RV
    RV has teeth -- more teeth than the last few Steve Martin films, anyway -- but it's terrified to bite down, knowing that the paying audience would feel it more than anyone.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Art School Confidential
    Zwigoff's overdue for a turkey, in other words. Art School Confidential is it.
  21. One Last Thing...
    Dylan and Nikki are an awkward match at best, and their combined story is about as creative/convincing as a Hallmark card.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goal! The Dream Begins
    Handsomely shot and with a likable lead in Kuno Becker, it also suffers from a script so outrageously generic you could buy it at Costco.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    See No Evil
    Generic teen dice-and-slice with interior design by way of ''Saw." The movie's tight and reasonably well shot, though, and there are flashes of nasty invention between the ritual guttings.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Break-Up
    The biggest unresolved question here is why we're paying $9.50, plus popcorn, for something we can presumably get at home for free.
  25. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    Though Murray and Curry gamely deliver some chuckle-worthy one-liners along the way, they're mostly leashed to material as moldy and uninspired as the "Jeffersons" theme song.
  26. The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
    The strip is now a cartoonish sitcom pretending to be a romantic comedy about a drama queen and his adventures in lust. The movie might have gotten away with it, were it interested in romance or comedy.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    A noisy and lazy stopgap movie that goes absolutely nowhere and takes 2 1/2 hours to get there.
  28. You, Me and Dupree
    Unofficially, You, Me and Dupree is a companion piece to last summer's "Wedding Crashers," a movie whose lunacy is desperately needed this summer.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Barnyard
    Speaking as both a parent and a critic, I do believe I'd rather drive rusty railroad spikes through my eyes than have to sit through one more computer generated family film about talking animals. The bad news for Hollywood is that after seeing Barnyard my kids feel the same way.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Another Gay Movie
    You get the impression that the cast and crew of Another Gay Movie could have made a genuinely funny film if they weren't obsessed with out-grossing the already gross "American Pie."
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