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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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  1. Flicka
    The best parts of Flicka are its pinch-me optimism and its old-fashioned-movie flourishes.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    The movie is of this precise moment and you should probably see it now, since it will be dated by next Tuesday.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    The period ambience, comforting yet urgent, is the best part of Kit Kittredge - that and Breslin, who never once gets actressy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
    Less a documentary than a cry of outrage -- a series of exotic images that slowly turn horrifying.
  5. Talent Has Hunger
    An illuminating celebration of music and the art of teaching, comes at a time when both art and teaching are held in low esteem.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unmistaken Child
    Unmistaken Child stands as a window on a beautiful and mysterious world. The questions it leaves hanging are for us to untangle.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Bigger Splash
    The performances are expert.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rental
    A solid entry in the real estate horror genre and an impressively taut feature directing debut for actor Dave Franco. Relying far more on psychology than bloodletting, the movie nevertheless exudes a growing sense of dread that’s difficult to shake.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Deterrence
    There is a palpable edge-of-the-seat tension and a number of complex ethnic issues that linger after the movie ends.
  10. Married to the Mob
    Married to the Mob is a funny yard sale of a film about regeneration in a junked-up America. [19 Aug 1988]
    • Boston Globe
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Freaky Friday
    Freaky Friday version 2003 is a shinier, snappier animal, partly because young girls now dress like Avril Lavigne, and partly because Jamie Lee Curtis has her best role in years and knows it.
  12. The Secret Life of Bees
    On screen something happens that goes beyond Monk's powers of description and Fanning's way of seeming 14 and 44 at the same time.
  13. Ponyo
    A movie loaded with strange delights.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Music Never Stopped
    A drably directed yet terrifically affecting drama about family bonds, classic rock, and the human brain. It's sentimental, yet so honest and eccentric that it rises above schmaltz.
  15. William Eggleston in the Real World
    The documentary is elliptical, with a slow, drifty rhythm. It presents an up-close but impersonal view of Eggleston.
  16. Quinceañera
    At its core, Quinceañera, a modest but remarkably poignant comedy, is the story of a neighborhood.
  17. Viola
    Viola owes much of the pleasure it offers to the sorts of things one looks for in any good movie: an attractive cast, attractively photographed in an attractive location, and plotting that manages to feel relaxed without being lazy.
  18. Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
    Perhaps Fiennes’s intent is to draw the viewer into the solipsistic intensity of what it is to be Grace Jones. It is a bracing experience, because she is hedonistic, exultant, funny, and fierce.
  19. Last Life in the Universe
    There is no plot in Pen-ek Ratanaruang's exceedingly mellow situation comedy, and that's preferred, frankly.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Super
    Smart, sick, and subversive, Super gives you what you want only to make you wonder why you want it.
  21. Koch
    The documentary nicely mixes vintage news footage and photographs, talking-head interviews with journalists and Koch associates, and lots (and lots) of Koch.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cars
    The movie wins you over through crack comic timing and an awareness that the point of driving isn't how fast you get there but what you see on the way.
  23. Bachelorette
    Dunst is the realest, rawest thing in the film.
  24. The Road Home
    As luminous as the star presence at its center. It's at once a touching teacher movie and an even more touching love story.
    • Boston Globe
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Shadow of Women
    In the Shadow of Women, a portrait of a troubled French marriage, has the simplicity and subtle punch of a good short story.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Phantom of the Opera
    The Phantom of the Opera was never a brilliant movie, but it remains great, ghoulish fun, with Chaney tiptoeing the line between sympathy and shudders.
  27. Dark Money
    Reed follows the proceedings as they happen and builds the suspense of a top-notch courtroom drama.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Trudell
    A thought-provoking and graceful portrait of a tenacious peace warrior whose frankness is his greatest weapon.
  29. Finding Forrester
    A juicy and gratifying teacher movie (a genre to which I'm partial). The joy in performance shared by Connery and Brown is the big reason.
    • Boston Globe
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    By the Grace of God
    By the Grace of God shows how one man’s evil acts spread into the cracks of not just his victims’ lives but the lives of their loved ones as well. But the film’s gathering crowd also testifies to the sustenance people take when their pain is shared and they pool approaches and resources.
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