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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Machuca
    It's a tale powerfully told, nevertheless, with an unusual vantage point in its upper-class young hero.
  2. Aliens of the Deep
    Stirs excitement about exploration of all kinds.
  3. Lost Embrace
    Has a novelist's human touch. Were it a book, it would go somewhere on the shelf with Jonathan Safran Foer and early Philip Roth.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Nomi Song
    Succeeds at its main tasks. It re-creates new wave New York with Proustian force, from the Kiev (the diner) to Fiorucci (the clothing store).
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Mother's Smile
    It's a bit of a mess but strong stuff nevertheless -- a mournful, often wickedly funny religious satire that suggests what Kafka might have come up with had he been raised Catholic.
  6. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    A fine afternoon at the megaplex. And it will make a welcome addition your home library when it's released on video.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Because of Winn-Dixie
    In pace, sensibility, and big, beating heart, this is a child's first indie film, and it's the better for it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Animation Show 2005
    It's a mixed bag almost by definition. Yet the good is good indeed, making this show worth a look for devotees of the form.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Up and Down
    The film bears a resemblance to such multicharacter dramas as Robert Altman's ''Short Cuts" and Paul Thomas Anderson's ''Magnolia" -- like them, it's a portrait of a society straining at the seams -- but it manages the neat trick of being both charming and bilious.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dear Frankie
    The movie's still shameless; the difference is you don't mind.
  11. Intimate Stories
    A delightful road movie.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Walk on Water
    There’s something happening here and it isn’t exactly clear. What is clear is that Eytan Fox may yet make a great film for the 21st century.
  13. Whisky
    A fine film of few words and very little motion.
  14. Robots
    Isn't as trippy, scary, handmade-looking, or environmentally aware as some of Miyazaki's pictures. But it shares their dreaminess. Even at its most ingenious, not even Pixar does that.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Millions
    You really don't need to borrow someone else's kids to ponder and enjoy what Millions has to offer.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fifty-Fifty
    True to its title, Schizo is both gripped by the past and pulled toward an unknown future.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steamboy
    Boys of all ages, by contrast, will be mesmerized by the relentless, breathtakingly visualized action.
  18. Fever Pitch
    Effortlessly entertaining romantic comedy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kung Fu Hustle
    Like a meal prepared by an extreme chef, ''Hustle" is more than a bit of a mess. It still tastes like nothing you've ever had before.
  20. Major Dundee (re-release)
    Expanded, Major Dundee is still a mess of great scenes sprinkled among some fairly monotonous action.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Palindromes
    What makes Palindromes bearable is that Solondz has yet to come up with an answer.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Double Dare
    Focuses on a parallel universe that moviegoers rarely consider: that of the invisible, hard-working craftspeople who put the illusion together.
  23. The Game of Their Lives
    What the cast members lack in sharpened skill they more than make up for in raw gusto and athletic scrappiness (most of the actors have logged a lot of soccer in their pasts). These guys give a sport that is virtually nameless in the movies a good name in this one.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    3-Iron
    Dreamlike and the slightest bit precious, the film is a beautiful, over-cultivated hothouse flower.
  25. Mysterious Skin
    The film is actually a major artistic breakthrough for Araki, a onetime bad boy of independent filmmaking. Its psychological intelligence, attention to emotional currents, and humanity are surprises.
  26. Brothers
    Piercingly co-written and directed by Susanne Bier, the movie dramatizes one man's collapse and the other's surprising maturation.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    Watching these pint-size Astaires and Rogerses practice the fox trot, tango, rumba, and swing is the immediate hook to Mad Hot Ballroom.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tell Them Who You Are
    In more ways than one, Mark Wexler gets the release he's seeking.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    As female-bonding comfort food goes, ''Sisterhood" is that rare meal both adolescent girls and their mothers will be able to agree on.
  30. Lords of Dogtown
    The movie is like a daydream, and it's most infectious when the characters are in motion or misbehaving, which is often.
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