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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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    • 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  9. Saw VI
    Who knew that the franchise’s creators would eventually find a plot twist that made sense?
  10. (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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Where the Wild Things Are
    This version of Where the Wilds Things Are isn’t about childhood at all but about childhood’s end and what’s gained and lost by it. That’s why very young kids, dull Disney princesses, overprotective parents, and self-serious grown-ups should probably stay away.
  14. Law Abiding Citizen
    Like a lot of action-movie directors, Gray lacks the imagination to view the art of cat-and-mouse as more than a chance to play with state-of-the-art war technology.
  15. New York, I Love You
    New York, I Love You wants us to know that the city is a sexy, romantic, thrillingly random place where anything can go down. Sadly, two of those things are your eyelids.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Stepfather
    As such things go, it’s not bad: slick and proficient, The Stepfather 2.0 gets the adrenaline pumping, but the original has the brains.
  17. The Little Traitor
    The mix of mawkishness and polemic is naive. Children, though, will probably leave with a lot of good questions. A better movie would leave them with more.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Maid
    It’s rooted in observed reality and idiosyncratic individuals. It’s possible, Silva is saying, to live among people and still be terribly, crushingly isolated.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    An Education
    Best of all, An Education isn’t alarmist. It knows other people can’t seduce us if we don’t seduce ourselves first and that Jenny is level-headed enough to handle it and learn.
  20. The Damned United
    Hooper, the director, doesn’t include lots of amazing football sequences to upstage his star. He just moves everyone out of Sheen’s way. It’s about time.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Couples Retreat
    Everything about Couples Retreat feels plastic, though: the jokes, the trees, the extras, the attitudes. It’s dumbed-down entertainment aimed at a dumbed-down audience - the comedy equivalent of a McMansion.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bronson
    Bronson isn’t a story in the traditional sense at all. It’s a meditation on the art of rage - an action painting passing itself off as an action movie.
  23. Good Hair
    There’s a lot of Michael Moore’s ambulatory spirit in this film, which the comedian Jeff Stinson directed. There’s also a lot of the damning comedic commentary that made Rock’s old HBO series so urgent.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Visual Acoustics
    Essential viewing for builders, graphic designers, visual artists, and other optically inclined folk, but it’s a bit of a slog for the uninitiated.
  25. Araya
    While it insists that everyday lives in Araya are full of drudgery and toil, the film fails to produce a single ugly image.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Serious Man
    It’s a work of cruel comic genius, in some ways even crueler than “No Country for Old Men.’’
  27. Whip It
    Most crucially, Barrymore encourages Page to just let herself go. The sight of her making her way up residential streets in a pair of Barbie roller skates or screaming “Marco’’ in a game of Marco Polo is simply joyful.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zombieland
    What Zombieland’ has instead - in spades - is deliciously weary end-of-the-world banter.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Invention of Lying
    With The Invention of Lying, the British comic actor Ricky Gervais has come up with a wickedly funny idea for a movie - and then purged the wickedness right out of it.
  30. More Than a Game
    A missed opportunity is the effect of the school on the boys, and vice versa. Instead of sociology, More Than a Game focuses on personality.
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