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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 1.1 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Perfect Stranger
    After "Gothika " and "Catwoman ," a viewer has to wonder: Why does this woman keep making thrillers if she can't bring herself to be thrilled?
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Redline
    An action flick loaded with cars, chrome, and silicone, is everything you'd expect it to be, and yet so much less: less character development, less believability, and most unforgivably, less escapist entertainment.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Delta Farce
    Consider this the sequel to "Ernest in the Army " that the late Jim Varney never got around to making. It's not very good but at least it's not evil.
  4. Hostel: Part II
    The moviemaking is driven only by contempt; he (Roth) wants to nauseate us into submission.
  5. License to Wed
    If unused spit takes, flubbed dialogue, and extra improvisation are so uproarious, why not give us 90 minutes of that? License to Wed is tolerable for about five.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ten
    The Ten is a virtually snicker-free exercise in audience pain. It's less a movie than an endurance test.
  7. War
    Fun here is fleeting.
  8. Halloween (2007)
    As with Zombie's two previous schlock horror features, "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects," the atmosphere here isn't so much tense and jolting as unnervingly weird and gory, but it's effective.
  9. Good Luck Chuck
    This is less an affront to women than it is to comedy.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
    A dull little PG-rated spook story for tweener girls.
  11. Awake
    The movie tries going for a laugh or two. It even makes stabs at irony. But since none of the story is suspenseful, remotely believable, or, at the very least, cheaply entertaining, who cares?
  12. Revolver
    The latest Guy Ritchie shoot-em-up, is a joke. You laugh with it but mostly at it.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alvin and the Chipmunks
    Like most family movies these days, "Alvin" is torn between the glitz that sells and the homilies that endure. It's a load of Ting Tang Wallet-Wallet Bling Blang.
  14. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
    This is the sort of movie where men stand blankly over dead loved ones, then start digging. Masculine stoicism or emotional botox? You decide.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Strange Wilderness
    By far the funniest part of Strange Wilderness is the trailer for "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" that's running before it.
  16. Fool's Gold
    A tedious adventure-romance.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hottie & the Nottie
    You've seen dozens of movies like this on cable in the wee hours.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Witless Protection
    It's mostly harmless dum-dum stuff, though.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    10,000 BC
    So, yea, it is a stinker. But it is prophesied that in six months time you shall come across 10,000 B.C.’ in the land of Pay-Per-View. And you shall say: ‘‘Pass the popcorn.’’
  20. Run, Fatboy, Run
    Might as well have been written by a rushed piece of software. The program calls for a surprise engagement, a street fight complete with crotch punches, an apartment eviction, and a runaway child - all in about five minutes. As an obstacle course, this is mighty efficient. As comic storytelling, it's painful, not too far from being socked in the crotch.
  21. 88 Minutes
    I've seen Pacino over the edge. This is not it. He looks pooped and pickled. Maybe being the only thing standing between a megaplex opening and a trip straight to the $4.99 bin at Target wiped him out.
  22. Deception
    The movie actually does feel like an Americanized work of Hong Kong moviemaking. But the desperate, derivative style, the nonsense plotting, and leggy, horny women are applied like too much MSG.
  23. What Happens in Vegas
    When it was over I felt vaguely embarrassed. I wasn't just leaving a movie theater. I was taking a walk of shame.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Happening
    You feel like you're not watching the end of the world but the end of a career.
  25. The Love Guru
    This is the first time we've seen Myers in the flesh since he committed assault and battery on Dr. Seuss, and I wish the cat had stayed in the hat.
  26. Meet Dave
    On just about every occasion in Meet Dave, Murphy appears to be on the verge of cracking himself up. This is good news. At least someone found him funny.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mirrors
    At nearly two hours, Mirrors is overlong for a summer horror toss-off, and the movie's three or four false endings make it seem even more of a haul.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Henry Poole Is Here
    Manages a fairly rare trick: It's a movie that's both deeply felt and completely phony.
  29. Lakeview Terrace
    The movie might have something to say about black racism, but the conversations go nowhere, and the cliches of the genre take over.
  30. My Best Friend's Girl
    There's a cheap thrill in watching Hudson defuse Cook's pig antics with some foulness of her own.
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