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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fish Tank
    Fish Tank should be seen for what it does well and for what it hints may come, if Andrea Arnold and her audiences are lucky.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Spy Next Door
    The film’s so formulaic your 6-year-old will be ticking off the plot points as they lope by.
  3. 44 Inch Chest
    It’s a stagy, half-entertaining, half-tedious acting competition between five excellent Englishmen.
  4. Daybreakers
    Daybreakers has unexpected flashes of brilliance.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Youth in Revolt
    There are some good, sharp, surprising laughs in Youth in Revolt. So why does it feel so dreadfully familiar?
  6. Leap Year
    It’s unclear what Amy Adams did to deserve Leap Year, but all that’s missing from the movie is a set of jailhouse bars over her scenes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Waiting for Armageddon
    The movie could have used a little fire and brimstone itself. It’s a little too cautious.
  8. In Search of Memory
    There are many indicators of star power. Not the least of them is unforgettability. On screen, no less than in the laboratory, Eric Kandel has star power.
  9. The White Ribbon
    The ends remain loose in The White Ribbon.’ But that lack of closure is thrilling. Haneke lays his movie and its mysteries at our feet, leaving us to ask, “What in tarnation?’’
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sherlock Holmes
    It pleases me to report, then, that Downey brings his brain, his wit, and his gift for intelligent underplaying, even as he understands he has been hired to play Sherlock Holmes, action hero.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    In short, “Imaginarium’’ is a Terry Gilliam movie and it’s a mess, which over the years have come to mean much the same thing. It’s one of his better messes, though, or at least this critic was won over by its ramshackle whimsies.
  12. It's Complicated
    Streep is in movie star mode, and she’s irresistible. But Baldwin achieves something not many men have been able to with Streep: You notice him.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sita Sings the Blues
    The film, dazzling and poignant and five years in the making, retells the ancient Indian epic "The Ramayana" from a gentle but insistent feminist perspective.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    Almost but not quite as obnoxious as its title. Little kids will love it. You’ll need a hazmat suit.
  15. Police, Adjective
    The usual emphasis in a detective film is upended so that procedure, thrillingly, is more important than action. In its own way, this is one of the most intense cop movies you'll see.
  16. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    Grant and Parker stand around as if they're waiting for someone to yell, "Cut.'' He's in one movie. She's in another. Neither is any good.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Avatar
    An entertainment to be not just seen but absorbed on a molecular level; it's as close to a full-body experience as we'll get until they invent the holo-suits. Cameron aims for sheer wonderment, and he delivers.
  18. Nine
    The movie is full of risible pontifications about the nature of art but falls well short of capturing the angst of creative frustration.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Young Victoria
    It’s a muddled but plush experience overall, and if you’re a royalist completist or a historical romantic, you’ll probably have a decent time.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The New Daughter
    Buried under a mound of haunted house cliches is a creepier, more sophisticated movie about the sexual power of teenage girls, and their fathers’ inability to comprehend, clambering to get out.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crazy Heart
    The music is terrific, as it should be in a movie where T Bone Burnett wrote the songs with Stephen Bruton.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Town Called Panic
    A proudly Calvinist work - I mean the comic strip character, not the philosopher - that understands the delights of deep play.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Invictus
    Freeman portrays Mandela not as a saint but as a man who knows he has the political freedom of being seen as one; it’s a majestically two-dimensional performance with glimpses of a third dimension peeking through.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lovely Bones
    The Lovely Bones, then, is something special: A spectacular, cringe-inducing failure as both a book adaptation and a film.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Single Man
    There’s a lot, in fact, that keeps this film from greatness. One performance alone recommends it. That’s enough.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Slammin' Salmon
    When is a comedy not a comedy? When it’s not all that funny.
  27. Up in the Air
    At its best, Up in the Air invents new realms for old Hollywood sophistication.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Station
    The movie’s a chocolate box of nougaty performances, from Christopher Plummer’s delightful depiction of Tolstoy as a ribald old naïf to Paul Giamatti twirling his waxed mustache and playing to the gallery as Vladimir Chertkov.
  29. Transylmania
    Lowbrow vampire spoof.
  30. Brothers
    This is a corny tale, told with both generous helpings of deli-sliced cheese and a brief stretch of chilling tumultuousness.
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