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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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    • 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Megamind
    The bliss of Megamind is the way it pursues solutions for tired problems.
  6. Due Date
    A rather pat, occasionally desperate road comedy.
  7. 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.
  9. 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.
  14. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Burlesque
    It's entertaining enough, like watching a celebrity workout film with a plot. But never once is it believable.
  19. The Warrior's Way
    While the movie seems designed to be a breakout for Jang, it's Lee whose work actually makes an impression.
  20. The Tourist
    A slow and silly action-comedy romantic-thriller.
  21. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    The Dawn Treader, like its predecessors, has no real struggle or drama. We're dealing with kids for whom everything comes too easily for us to care.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tiny Furniture
    Dunham has been justly praised for her determination in getting Tiny Furniture made, but the movie itself has been overpraised as a result.
  23. Queen of the Lot
    It's one of the funniest things I've seen in a movie, and the closest Jaglom has come to brilliant satire. It also explains why this woman is just chatting on a countertop and not Jay Leno's couch.
  24. I Love You Phillip Morris
    The performance often errs on the side of cartoon, but it's laced with flashes of remorse and chagrin, with sincerity. When Carrey tries to do "dramatic acting'' the life always goes of out him.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fighter
    The Fighter is this close to a triumph: a movie that steeps us in the grit of its time and place - Lowell, Mass., in the 1990s - and electrifyingly dramatizes Ward's battles with the family that almost loved him to death.
  26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    For a studio so clearly willing to take risks with so many of its movies, this particular movie has a whiff of exploitation. Rowling wrote one epic funeral that Warner Bros. requires us to attend twice.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Marwencol
    A strange and very beautiful documentary about the gray area between obsession and art.
  28. Black Swan
    Some girls fight over men. Ballerinas fight over parts. But the occasional brilliance of Black Swan is that it's a one-way fight. Nina battles herself.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Made in Dagenham
    The movie moves, but it doesn't breathe.
  30. Today's Special
    A modest but extremely enjoyable movie.
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