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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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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  8. 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.
  11. 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.
  13. 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.’’
  15. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. The Horse Boy
    Well-meaning but trying documentary.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Surrogates
    A reasonably watchable sci-fi B movie, a case of a good director and some intriguing ideas struggling to overcome formula plotting, limp dialogue, and a serious case of the sillies.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Paranormal Activity
    Even at 85 minutes, the movie contains maybe 50 minutes that scare.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pandorum
    Pandorum is a dark, disquieting dream worth watching out for.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    Slightly better than it should be. For Tucker Max, this possibly represents a triumph.
  24. Coco Before Chanel
    I could have watched this woman rip a piece fabric and turn it into a dress all day. I haven’t seen a lot of that. I have seen movies about a woman caught between two men, as Chanel is here.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Boys Are Back
    Tidily arranges its raw feelings about fathering and manhood into a decent, intelligent melodrama meant to soothe audiences and provoke no one.
  26. Fame
    It’s not a good sign when the first few minutes of a movie about singing, dancing, rapping, video-camera-wielding teenagers reminds you of a certain grimy horror franchise.
  27. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    If we learn nothing else about Krasinski as a filmmaker, it’s that he thinks more is more.
  28. Capitalism: A Love Story
    Redundant for a filmmaker whose work has always dealt with the dismaying consequences of this country’s profit motive. Isn’t every Michael Moore film ultimately about capitalism? This one just has a more facetious title.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Irene in Time
    Irene in Time is the initial first-run feature to debut at the Stuart Street Playhouse, Boston’s newest art house cinema. Both the theater and its audiences deserve much better.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In Search of Beethoven
    Grabsky’s goal appears to have been more circumscribed: an introduction to the composer that speaks to both the classical newcomer and someone who has loved this music for years but pieced together its back story only from hundreds of disconnected program notes.
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