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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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Summer Wars
    In Summer Wars, it's what's old that's made to seem refreshingly new.
  2. Gulliver's Travels
    A migraine inducement that you'd think Jack Black had gotten out of his system years ago. Yet he still finds an excuse to wear a blazer and shorts and fling his bodily orb like Angus Young on Guitar Hero night at the neighborhood bar.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rabbit Hole
    Rabbit Hole is a personal project for Kidman - she produced the film after falling in love with the play - and it seems to have revived the quickness in her. That ice-blue gaze has found its focus again, and it looks deep into the one thing none of us want to face.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Legend of Pale Male
    It's notable for some astounding urban wildlife footage and for the way it unintentionally reflects the giddy narcissism of the primate known as homo sapiens.
  5. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
    Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander's dark-comic expansion on his cult Internet shorts, in which he crafts a back story for Santa that's as black as stocking coal.
  6. Somewhere
    I can't say why Coppola wanted to spend time with this man. It's like following someone on Twitter who fails to generate many compelling tweets.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All Good Things
    Jarecki's not remotely in Scorsese's league yet, but he knows New York and he has seen the dark soul of man. Maybe next time he won't blink.
  8. True Grit
    This isn't a rousing movie as much as a reassurance. The brothers (Coens) prove they can play it straight, but they're preferred, for better and worse, at a sharp angle.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Little Fockers
    Is there a statute of limitations for how many good actors can be wasted in a bad movie?
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bhutto
    People called the Bhuttos "The Kennedys of Pakistan" and, in a parallel with our losses, the Pakistanis suffered the untimely deaths of Benazir, her father, and her two brothers.
  11. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
    Not only does the movie look like it's set somewhere, it feels, cinematically, to have arrived from someplace - early John Cassavetes, the French New Wave, Eastern Europe.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The King's Speech
    The movie isn't badly done, just overdone - a cozy art-house crowd-pleaser coasting on the expectations of its genre.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Tempest
    A comparison to Baz Luhrmann is useful: Where Taymor self-consciously aestheticizes pop vulgarity, a movie like "Moulin Rouge!" just dives right in.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Yogi Bear
    Picture Timberlake in the booth recording his lines and you have the best joke in the movie. Everything else is actively painful, a frenetic, unfunny mix of action, romance, dud dialogue, and icky things popping out of the screen.
  15. TRON: Legacy
    Tron: Legacy gives us a dud stud named Garrett Hedlund as Sam Flynn, the hero of this petrified sequel to 1982's "Tron." None of what he sees impresses. The feeling is mutual.
  16. How Do You Know
    The experiment in the new movie is this: What happens when his Type A's are forced out of their comfort zones? If only Brooks had managed to leave his. How Do You Know feels like a collection of scenarios he's done better.
  17. Megamind
    The bliss of Megamind is the way it pursues solutions for tired problems.
  18. Due Date
    A rather pat, occasionally desperate road comedy.
  19. Cool It
    Cool It arrives having been labeled the anti-"An Inconvenient Truth." It is. But not in the philistinistic way you'd expect.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unstoppable
    Unstoppable is edited for maximum impact without showboating. The central situation sustains the drama and the way it's filmed, and when that situation is over, so's the movie. More films should be this enjoyably functional.
  21. Saw 3D
    The dismemberment and torture are now shtick. The filmmakers - "Saw" veterans - struggle to imbue this movie with the usual righteousness.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Material
    What sustains the film is its tone of almost hallucinatory foreboding. White Material isn't about the calm before the storm but the seconds before the deluge.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love and Other Drugs
    If product proves especially difficult to swallow, take with a grain of salt and three or more alcoholic drinks, or wait until such time as active ingredients Hathaway and Gyllenhaal have been more effectively utilized elsewhere.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Faster
    Faster is meat-and-potatoes action with a side of crazy.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsters
    Monsters is a genuine curio: a moody, low-budget road-movie romance that takes place against a background of alien invasion.
  26. Waste Land
    Waste Land is just what the film's website says it is: "stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit."
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
    In inviting us along to peek into the life, filmmakers Kerthy Fix and Gail O'Hara don't give us quite enough about the art.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Nutcracker
    This is first-degree cultural homicide.
  29. Tangled
    The movie has a field day with thousands of airborne lanterns, a troop of Neanderthal thugs (one is a mime), some surprisingly fleet camerawork, and good editing. I can't think of a cartoon more confident about how to use jump cuts for comedy. Those senses of cleverness and innovation merely underscore how shopworn the rest of this movie is.
  30. Burlesque
    It's entertaining enough, like watching a celebrity workout film with a plot. But never once is it believable.
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