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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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  1. Broken Embraces
    It’s both ridiculous and ridiculously romantic, which is an apt description of a work shaped like a heart and structured like a pretzel.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Where the first film’s director, Catherine Hardwicke, plugged into Meyer’s vision of supernatural teenage lust with abandon, Chris Weitz is stuck with a sequel that’s a morning-after mope-fest.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Planet 51
    Young children and adults with high pain thresholds will enjoy the movie during its brief pause on the way to your On Demand menu.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Defamation
    In its sneaky, cheeky way, Defamation is a mitzvah, an act of kindness.
  5. The Sun
    This emperor verges on dementia, having no apparent clue how to function.
  6. Red Cliff
    Even at 148 minutes (and viewed twice!), you still feel as if you’re watching the longest coming attraction ever for a John Woo movie.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fantastic Mr. Fox
    By forgoing actual human beings, the director has made his most charming, least annoyingly fey film - a thing of lovely comic wisdom.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    2012
    The result is a state-of-the-art multiplex three-ring circus whose special effects stagger the senses and play like a video game, whose human drama aims for the cosmic and lands waist-deep in the Big Silly.
  9. The Messenger
    The scenes between Montgomery and Stone in plainclothes would seem to be tangential to Moverman's movie, but they're very much its point. Only in uniform do these men make sense to themselves.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pirate Radio
    Writer-director Richard Curtis (“Love Actually’’) has made a party, not a movie, and if the party goes on much too long, at least the guests are great company and the host’s taste in music is impeccable.
  11. William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
    This engrossing and provocative documentary is also about a tragic kind of liberal guilt.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon
    If Ten9Eight brings NFTE to the attention of you, your child, or your school administrator, that’s probably all that matters.
  13. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    This movie catalogs a wealth of human ugliness. It’s even been made to look ugly, presumably to underscore the horror movie that is Precious’s life.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Men Who Stare at Goats
    You can’t make this stuff up, but you can botch the telling of it, and that’s what sinks this satiric drama.
  15. The Box
    The Box is the work of a visionary flirting with commercialism after having so grandly flouted it with “Southland Tales.’’ He doesn’t give in completely. Several trips to the megaplex might be required for The Box to make complete sense.
  16. The Fourth Kind
    The Fourth Kind doesn’t build, instill, or maintain an audience’s fear. It just spends 98 minutes trying to prove that what you’re watching actually happened.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Christmas Carol
    Shockingly, the new film turns out to be very good, at times close to brilliant: a darkly detailed marvel of creative visualization that does well by Dickens and right by audiences - when it’s not trying to sell them a theme park ride.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    The result isn’t art but it is an improvement: a scurrilous, lowdown, sub-Tarantino action comedy that, unlike the original, doesn’t make you want to claw your eyes out. How’s that for praise?
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gentlemen Broncos
    A comedy that can’t even admit to its own overwhelming sense of disgust.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The House of the Devil
    An almost fetishistic re-creation of a horror-suspense movie from around 1978.
  21. Skin
    It’s a fascinating story: part genetic mystery, part socio-racial tragedy. However, Laing’s life, despite its inherent melodrama, does not automatically lend itself to the screen.
  22. This Is It
    Watching Jackson pop, lock, rock, writhe, thrust, and clutch his crotch, even at 50 percent, leaves a feeling of woe: This show really would have been major.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Antichrist
    Like a nightmare you recall during waking hours, and then only in its vast outlines, Antichrist has the power to haunt beyond words. For better and for worse, it is exactly the movie von Trier wanted to make and a piece of staggeringly pure cinema.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Amelia
    Inside Amelia is a sharp idea struggling to get out: How does a woman marketed to the public as a star turn herself back into a human being? And at what cost?
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Astro Boy
    Astro Boy alternately soars and sputters through a story line that’s not quite sure who it’s aimed at.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    Reilly gives it his all, and he’s both very enjoyable and about as scary as a stubbed toe.
  27. Saw VI
    Who knew that the franchise’s creators would eventually find a plot twist that made sense?
  28. (Untitled)
    Walking the line between the movie’s broad strokes and its near-perfect pitch is the art itself, which has been designed and constructed by a team of smart designers.
  29. Motherhood
    Thurman is bespectacled again for Motherhood, and it saddens me to report that neither she nor this comedy turns into more than an argument against procreation.
  30. Killing Kasztner
    There’s no question that Kasztner has vastly more significance for the historian. Eckstein, a grim footnote to history, has much more for the artist.
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