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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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    • 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.
  3. 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.
  5. Carancho
    Carancho is a particularly jaw-dropping example of what this great, cunning city - on film, anyway - is capable of: an exhilarating bummer.
  6. Fast Five
    As is par for the course in a "Fast and Furious'' movie, the only persuasive physical intimacy is between the men.
  7. Circo
    Circo offers a fascinating mix of backstage drama and family dynamics.
  8. 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.
  11. 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.
  13. 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.
  15. In a Better World
    The movie is swept up in earnest self-importance.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Potiche
    What the movie utterly fails to resolve is what François Ozon is up to here and where he's going next.
  20. The Elephant in the Living Room
    The movie effectively rids you of any notion that owning a cougar or a python is a good idea.
  21. Bill Cunningham New York
    It's as much a portrait of a kind of artist as it is a document of a city's evolving sense of style.
  22. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    As Apichatpong erases, once again, the barriers between the celestial and terrestrial, he also does away with the cordons between film genres - this is sci-firomancefamilyreligiousthrillercomedyporn. No video service has a section for that. The only suitable shelf is the one in your soul.
  23. My Perestroika
    Offers a surprising and revealing look at Russia's past and present.
  24. Born to Be Wild
    Ironically, Born to Be Wild banks solely on its tameness to captivate and inspire, aided by an upbeat, sometimes incongruous soundtrack.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Your Highness
    The most painful movie so far in a year that's already scraping the bottom of the barrel, Your Highness is a tedious, dung-colored misfire that sullies the genre of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "The Princess Bride."
  26. Soul Surfer
    The best moments come when Robb's all-purpose toughness experiences vulnerable doubt. These moments are flickers, but they're bright and human.
  27. Arthur
    The new remake of Arthur is a thin copy of the 1981 original. But it has a few things going for it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hanna
    It rockets along entertainingly enough for most of its running time - only that it's made with a self-importance the story itself doesn't warrant.
  29. I Am
    Shadyac doesn't film how his change inspires more change, or showing him, say, starting a school for destitute orphans. All we see him give is this movie. It's not much of a contribution.
  30. Happythankyoumoreplease
    The movie is generic and shallow in its glimpse of the love and sex lives of a handful of young New Yorkers.
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