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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    It's a merry deconstructive delight and easily the best party in town.
  2. Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
    One of the smartest things Kaplan does, besides getting talented Boston folk singer Catie Curtis to contribute to the soundtrack, is hang around long enough to see how this three-headed relationship plays out.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After Innocence
    After Innocence isn't bravura filmmaking, and it doesn't have to be -- this is one of those documentaries where the subject is compelling enough to do the legwork.
  4. Prime
    Yes, Younger has made an update of the ''shiksa who changed my life" story in ''Annie Hall." But Prime is missing the psychological acuity and scabrous cultural wit of Woody Allen at his best. These lovers meet standing in line to see Antonioni's ''Blow-Up" and never mention the movie.
  5. Gay Sex in the 70s
    Yet despite the retrospective sensationalism, Lovett's 70-minute documentary is a sobering anti-erotic cautionary tale.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Syrian Bride
    The Syrian Bride could be one of those big, teeming matrimony comedies like "Monsoon Wedding" or "Father of the Bride" but for the barbed wire running right down the middle of the aisle.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ice Harvest
    "Bad Santa" it's not. Bumptiously entertaining it is.
  8. Syriana
    In its seriousness, Syriana has an absorbing, ominous roundness that plays even better with a second viewing.
  9. Transamerica
    It's debatable whether watching Huffman get dressed, take hormones, and learn to use a more feminine diction could sustain an entire movie, but the character is certainly a creation more original than a lot of the film itself.
  10. Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
    When the film ends, we're haunted. We've been driving with a ghost.
  11. The Descent
    A cult classic is born.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mrs Henderson Presents
    Mrs. Henderson Presents is a very old hat, and Judi Dench wears it beautifully.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    A gracefully subtle metaphor about life's Deep Magic has become a war film; what was a one-chapter battle toward the end of the book is now a ripsnorting Armageddon that looks like something Hieronymus Bosch might dream up after a heavy meal.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    King Kong
    It's not so much a remake as it is a loving re-creation of the 1933 original on extra-strength steroids, with a side order of Botox. You've seen it all before but most assuredly never like this.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Producers
    Susan Stroman directed the show on Broadway and what she has done here is photograph that show -- no more, no less. This is good news for anyone who couldn't afford a trip to New York and $100 tickets, but it's a fairly odd approach to cinema.
  16. Last Holiday
    Director Wayne Wang and his screenwriters sometimes ape ''Pretty Woman." But Latifah's obvious forebear is Pearl Bailey, who was just as regal and straight-up.
  17. Nanny McPhee
    Thompson adapted the screenplay from Christianna Brand's "Nurse Matilda" books, and she and director Kirk Jones balance the slapstick and levity with darker enchantments. At its most enjoyable the film feels like Roald Dahl's idea of "Mary Poppins."
  18. Final Destination 3
    Week in and week out, horror movies cheat us, so it's wonderfully cathartic to watch a bunch of kids cheat death in what turns out to be the best installment yet in the "Final Destination" franchise.
  19. Through the Fire
    It's hard to blame Telfair for letting his celebrity go to his head. If I were on the cover of Sports Illustrated in the 12th grade, there'd be no living with me either.
  20. Eight Below
    It's the most touching love story about tragically separated sexy beasts since "Cold Mountain."
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
    As a coherent, well-judged alternative history, the movie's a mess. As a thought-provoking and frequently hilarious jeremiad, it scores again and again.
  22. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    It's also the first apocalypse-minded franchise that's earned its downbeat mood. The action, for starters, is post-Cold War, post-Chernobyl, post-perestroika. Darkness is so much a part of the Russian psyche it must be nice to see a local movie try to put its hand toward the Light.
  23. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Rothemund gives us his sophisticated filmmaking only in the finale, which is devastating in its briskness and fury.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tsotsi
    It's a solid, earnest drama of moral redemption that places old cliches in an unfamiliar setting.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unknown White Male
    The Unknown White Male that Murray has made asks profound questions. They're just not necessarily the right ones.
  26. Black Orpheus
    This is a movie about the marriage between sound and image, and the sound is wearing the pants in the relationship.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deep Sea
    Travels around the world via the oceans' floors to show us symbiosis at work in a variety of ecosystems.
  28. Failure to Launch
    The movie brings to mind the more polite parts of "Wedding Crashers." Failure to Launch, while totally exuberant and appealingly made, is not nearly as randy.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Hills Have Eyes
    Hills is a far cry from its cheesy and predictable predecessor. "Gruesome" doesn't begin to describe the horrors that are revealed on-screen here.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Shaggy Dog
    What The Shaggy Dog feels like, more than anything, is an old-fashioned Disney movie.
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