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For 7,964 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 0.9 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casa de mi Padre
    It's a solid short film stretched to Silly Putty thinness.
  2. 21 Jump Street
    We have lots of terminology for what happens when two male stars appear to have the platonic hots for each other. The genre is called bromance. The feelings are bromantic. The orientation is bromosexuality. What Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum have in 21 Jump Street scrambles, transcends, and explodes all of that.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Ramsay delivers an overdirected, conceptually obnoxious art film that's torture to sit through, listen to, and think about.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Being Flynn
    Mostly, though, Being Flynn is memorable for the sight of a once-great actor rousing himself to a performance the movie itself isn't prepared to handle.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Forgiveness of Blood
    Marston's a miniaturist even when The Forgiveness of Blood calls out for larger gestures, and you occasionally sense a more bruising, compelling movie lurking behind this one.
  6. A Drummer's Dream
    Nearly all the interviews are with the professionals. That's fine, since these guys are almost as good at talking as they are at smiling.
  7. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    It's all been called Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, just like Paul Torday's 2007 novel, and, except for some despicable behavior in the later going, it couldn't be more harmless.
  8. Friends with Kids
    There's also new piety and self-righteousness about parenting. Comedies are nervous to find the real humor and wonder in having a family. It's usually tragedy or nothing.
  9. Silent House
    This is acting that seems more freaked out, more traumatized than it ought to for a movie about an unwanted houseguest.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    John Carter
    Against the odds, John Carter is itself pretty amazing - an epic pulp saga that slowly rises to the level of its best imitations and wins you over by degrees.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In Darkness
    In Darkness is a disaster movie, and the disaster is the Holocaust. In the space between the two halves of that sentence, you have what works about the film and what's a little creepy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kill List
    A scuzzy little cross between a crime movie and a horror freak-out that gets under your skin and stays there, even if you can't understand half of what the characters are saying.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tyrannosaur
    The movie is cruelly frank about the ways damage cascades down to the powerless, but while it's not for the fainthearted (or for animal lovers), rewards are there.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chico & Rita
    A likable but cliched star-crossed romance set along the post-WWII Havana-New York jazz axis, the Spanish-made film features terrific music, passable artwork, and characters who stubbornly refuse to become more than sketches.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
    See it in the right sick frame of mind, and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie can be shockingly and terribly hilarious. Or not.
  16. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    It's been animated by the same company that made "Despicable Me,'' which is to say you don't know whether to watch The Lorax or lick it.
  17. Project X
    The party itself is something to see. A Pasadena blowout turns into a horny, druggy, apocalyptic scene culminating in riot police, news choppers, and a gentleman with a flamethrower.
  18. Good Deeds
    Good Deeds is the first of the 11 movies he's written and directed to try a one-tone-fits-all approach. Sadly, that tone is funereal, and it's always a beat out of step with the rhythms of both real life and most movies.
  19. Gone
    Hand it to Amanda Seyfried - she seems to have a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you.
  20. Addiction Incorporated
    Once it finds its footing in old-fashioned journalism, the film packs a wallop.
  21. Bullhead
    Roskam appears more interested in trying to combine genres that don't easily cohere. On one hand, the film's a crime-thriller and police procedural. On the other, it's about the lingering trauma of Jacky's personal misfortune. The other hand is much stronger.
  22. Act of Valor
    Peculiarly entertaining exercise in bare-bones, Hollywood-style action heroism.
  23. Wanderlust
    This movie has no teeth. It does not want to say anything, other than the unprintable word for penis, over and over.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Coriolanus
    Coriolanus leaves an acrid, unfinished taste. Fiennes, making his directorial debut, gets into the meat of the thing, and he takes advantage of the bluntness of the text; even Shakespeare newcomers will be able to follow along.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Secret World of Arrietty
    At the technical level, The Secret World of Arrietty isn't as ambitious as the studio's finest work, and the animation is stronger on texture than detail.
  26. Declaration of War
    As ponderous and overwrought as a film hogged by a couple of young hipsters named Roméo and Juliette can be.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rampart
    Something to see and little to remember, an acrid character study undone by narrative implausibilities and its own lack of purpose.
  28. This Means War
    It's got both a soap opera plotline and a Chuck Norris-load of taxpayer-financed gadgets and gear. It also has Reese Witherspoon in another terrible part.
  29. Hell and Back Again
    Dennis's film attempts something few documentaries have: to inhabit the psyche of its subject.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chronicle
    Chronicle will never be mistaken for an artistic breakthrough, but it has a solid gimmick and pieces of it are brilliant.
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