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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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    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Civic Duty
    Faced with a limited location and concept, Renfroe points his camera everywhere: The movie's seriously overshot, never settling for one angle when five would do.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brooklyn Rules
    Too many cliches and not enough energy have come along for the ride.
  3. Flanders
    A powerful film of suffering and sacrifice and desperation. But it's vacuous, banal, and, where its mix of sentiment and grisliness is concerned, rather despicable.
  4. Angel-A
    The movie might have been more tolerable had Besson searched harder for a performer and not a specimen. Barbara Stanwyck in her prime might have made more sense.
  5. Introducing the Dwights
    Nothing about this movie works, not the title (it used to be called "Clubland "), not Blethyn's attempt to inject comedy into her rickety stereotype of a character.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goya's Ghosts
    An overstuffed turkey that's entertaining for all the wrong reasons.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Skinwalkers
    Watching the movie is a little like picking up issue #42 of a comic book after you've skipped the first 41: There's an entire back story mythos hovering in the background like a phantom limb.
  8. Underdog
    Underdog! Rest assured, there is no superhero cliche left unchewed; they even manage to slide in a "Lady and the Tramp" homage while they're at it.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Daddy Day Camp
    Innocuous amusement for 5- to 8-year-olds and other people stuck in the anal stage of development.
  10. Stardust
    Stardust certainly could have gone somewhere fun. But the magic and zip you need to get a blimp like this off the ground is scarce.
  11. Dedication
    Unlike most of what Moore has been in, Dedication is unlikely to delight retirement homes on movie night. But it's not imaginative, lively, or true enough to speak to its intended audience of American Apparel shoppers, either. It's a slog.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Right at Your Door
    The film is low budget but puffed with self-importance, and it offers proof that Hollywood filmmakers should probably steer clear of topics that actually matter.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Across the Universe
    Hobbled by its vaguely insulting comic-book version of the '60s and by a humorlessness that can only come from talented people convinced they're creating work for the ages.
  14. Dragon Wars: D-War
    You don't have to hand the folks behind Dragon Wars much (the acting, directing, costumes, editing, props, music, etc: They're all off). But when they decide to sic that giant snake and those prehistoric dino-birds on downtown Los Angeles, the movie turns shockingly watchable.
  15. Mr. Woodcock
    The film logs almost all of its laughs when it's at its crudest, meanest, and most unfiltered. Everything else - and that is to say most of the movie - is a big, fat, derivative waste of time.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Resident Evil: Extinction
    This version 3.0 needs an upgrade.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sydney White
    Sydney White makes "Mean Girls" look like Shakespeare.
  18. Trade
    Human trafficking is an awful societal issue, and Trade happens to be an awful movie about human trafficking.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    The producers - Fox Films and the usually reliable Walden Media - have tried to gin up the story for multiplex audiences. They've succeeded in making a movie for no audience at all.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bella
    In this bilingual morality movie about love, family, and fate, however, the unpredictability turns out to be highly predictable.
  21. August Rush
    The Hollywood version of one of those fawning "60 Minutes" segments about musical prodigies. For most of it, I could hear the congested awe of Morley Safer.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hitman
    There have been plenty of movies adapted from video games before, but Hitman may be the first one that actually feels like a computer wrote and directed it.
  23. First Sunday
    A sorry excuse for a ghetto SOS.
  24. Rambo
    Rambo isn't dull. It is, however, often murkily directed, a real shortcoming in an action movie. In the big rescue-the-prisoners sequence, it's very hard to keep track of who is doing what to whom where.
  25. Meet the Spartans
    The best thing in Meet the Spartans is the swift kick in the bombast it delivers to the oh-no-not-us homoeroticism of "300."
  26. Untraceable
    It's a warmed-over suspense thriller that's more disturbing than it is surprising or scary.
  27. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    This is one of those your-roots-are-showing family circuses where just about everybody seems like a clown.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vantage Point
    The result is a movie that's both clever and stupid - an interesting feat.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Other Boleyn Girl
    Not good enough to take seriously and, sadly, not bad enough to be any fun.
  30. Penelope
    This story could have gone in a number of more inspiring allegorical directions but winds up your average bedtime story instead.
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