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For 7,945 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: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
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  1. There Be Dragons
    In fairness, putting holiness onscreen is an enormous challenge. It can be done, as several directors have shown, most notably Dreyer and Bresson. Bad enough that Joffe is the poor man's Lean. He's also the nonbelieving man's Dreyer and Bresson.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Queen to Play
    For all the talk, there's not a lot of chess here, and the game remains stubbornly on the level of metaphor. You don't feel rooked, exactly, but by movie's end you're more than ready for the check.
  3. The Beaver
    The most provocative thing about The Beaver is the adult-movie title. The film itself is alternately fascinating and dull, though mostly the latter.
  4. Jumping the Broom
    It's a self-conscious, inherently absurd tale of a rich black family invaded by secrets, lies, working-class loudmouths, and one or two pairs of pants found down around the ankles.
  5. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    Cinema's greatest caveman meets his ancestors. For us, it's a reassurance: The creative process is astonishingly old and its fruits still surprisingly fresh.
  6. Beautiful Darling
    As fascinating as the material is, like so much of popular culture it doesn't hold up well out of context.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Meek's Cutoff
    There's nothing out there remotely like Meek's Cutoff, for which some viewers may be thankful. The ending seems calculated to drive the literal-minded screaming out of the theater and yet it's the only possible way out.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    13 Assassins
    Epic in scope, ambition, and execution, it's a classic swords-and-samurai film with postmodern blood and guts, and it's completely satisfying.
  9. Something Borrowed
    I don't know whether she's (Hudson) drunk, stoned, or simply out of her mind, but if it weren't so sad watching her pick away at this skimpy, overlong romantic lie, she might be entertaining.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thor
    For a holding maneuver, Thor itself turns out to be diverting enough - not close to a sharp-edged romp like "Iron Man" but not the B-movie roadshow some of us were expecting.
  11. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
    Some entertaining inventiveness, before nagging limitations finally drag it down.
  12. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
    By the time the giant, snarling spider shows up - the most boggling of the movie's various "holy schnitzel" touches - parents of the littlest "Hoodwinked" fans may be feeling hoodwinked themselves.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rubber
    The carnage is cartoonishly graphic, but the onlookers watching through binoculars from a nearby sandy bluff are impressed.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prom
    That Prom plays as pleasantly and inoffensively as it does is due to the performances, particularly McDonell as the rebellious Jesse.
  15. Immigration Tango
    Neither the comedy nor the romance is strong enough in Immigration Tango to offer any improvement on Peter Weir's similar, and better, 1990 film "Green Card."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Double Hour
    What appears at first to be a Euro variation on David Lynch's patented mind games, though, ultimately settles for more conventional pleasures. The movie makes sense, more's the pity, although you may need to see it twice to figure out how.
  17. Carancho
    Carancho is a particularly jaw-dropping example of what this great, cunning city - on film, anyway - is capable of: an exhilarating bummer.
  18. Fast Five
    As is par for the course in a "Fast and Furious'' movie, the only persuasive physical intimacy is between the men.
  19. Circo
    Circo offers a fascinating mix of backstage drama and family dynamics.
  20. African Cats
    Scholey, Fothergill, and crew do impressive work, but we're also reminded that wild animals don't know from cues, marks, and scripts. That's part of what makes them so compelling.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Henry's Crime
    Occasionally too pleased with itself, it's also pleasantly unpredictable, and it has a trio of sweet hambone performances at its center.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    Much like reality TV, nothing much of consequence happens.
  23. Water for Elephants
    The camera, costumes, and art direction do everything right. Too much so. The movie strips away both the grand weirdness of the circus and the dire desolation of the Depression. Diane Arbus and Dorothea Lange are exchanged for Vanity Fair.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte)
    There's humor in "Le Quattro Volte," and then a deep, abiding sadness, and beyond that a larger, more graceful comedy that extends to the horizons.
  25. Rio
    Makes the surprising and seemingly inarguable assertion that, if we're not all Brazilian, then, at the very least, Brazil is a state of mind.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Conspirator
    An important film, on an important subject, that has had the life beaten out of it by Robert Redford, a man who should know better.
  27. In a Better World
    The movie is swept up in earnest self-importance.
  28. Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    With a plot devoid of suspense and characters without complexity, Rand's iconic line elicits merely a yawn, or a shrug.
  29. Scream 4
    Scream 4 has a smart beginning, featuring Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell, and one well-delivered line at the end that would have brought down the house in a better movie.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter in Wartime
    Well-mounted and expertly played, Winter in Wartime is a class act that lacks only focus and originality to raise it above the ordinary.
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