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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. Taking Woodstock
    This is as safe and sweet a movie as you could make about America’s sex-drugs-and-rock ’n’ roll-est event.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inglourious Basterds
    A manically playful revenge fantasia made from the spare parts of Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns and strapping World War II action flicks.
  3. World's Greatest Dad
    It takes a while for the movie to build to its wicked possibilities and only a few scenes to squander them.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Post Grad
    A disjointed patchwork of zany character sketches lacking in coherence and credibility.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shorts
    Be warned, though: This is the multiplex equivalent of ADD.
  6. The Baader Meinhof Complex
    Swift, brutal, lurid, often overheated, and occasionally comical, but it’s also a serious, well acted, and unromantic exploration of the rise and demise of a terrorist gang whose radicalism ultimately reached beyond the young men and women who set it in motion.
  7. Fifty Dead Men Walking
    A richer movie might speculate on McGartland’s life now. How does a local hero survive in an anonymous void?
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Five Minutes of Heaven
    Five Minutes of Heaven’reduces Northern Ireland’s troubles to a gimmick, but it’s an interesting gimmick, and the two men hoisted on its petard work at vivid cross-purposes. If nothing else, the film’s worth seeing as a demonstration of opposing acting techniques.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    X Games 3D: The Movie
    You’d think the 3-D effects would bring the action closer, but the kooky optics often have the opposite effect, turning the athletes into GI Joe and Boba Fett action figures zipping around a dollhouse set.
  10. My One and Only
    The movie has a jolly, half-remembered quality, as though it were adapted from a particularly rose-colored memoir.
  11. Still Walking
    There’s nothing static about Still Walking.’ The presence of three kids sees to that, as does the eloquence of Kore-eda’s framing and compositions.
  12. The Headless Woman
    This is also the first of Martel’s films to build in a direction other than up. The film’s lateral movement continues a kind of class commentary.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    District 9
    The last time I felt the sort of outrageously kinetic action-movie high District 9 delivers, it was 1981 and George Miller, Mel Gibson, and "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" had just come roaring out of Australia.
  14. Ponyo
    A movie loaded with strange delights.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    At its best, The Time Traveler’s Wife does suggest the preciousness of a life that’s too often beyond our control. At its worst, it’s more than a little nuts.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bandslam
    Bandslam is “Camp’’ with rock ’n’ roll instead of show tunes, but its roots go back to the Busby Berkeley backstagers and Mickey-and-Judy let’s-put-on-a-show musicals of the 1930s.
  17. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    You put up the cash, the movie clunks.
  18. Earth Days
    The rare ecological documentary that doesn’t nag us to run out of the movie theater and change the world.
  19. It Might Get Loud
    As documentary, it’s low concept. But it’s never dull.
  20. The Way We Get By
    Watching them issue hugs produces an involuntary response. You want to hug them, too.
    • Boston Globe
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Perfect Getaway
    A Perfect Getaway may not play fair by the audience but at least it cheats honestly. These days that's something.
  22. Julie & Julia
    This is blissful moviemaking. Much of the pleasure we have in watching it comes from seeing Tucci and, obviously, Streep connect.
  23. Cold Souls
    The movie turns what could have been a tedious meta-movie exercise into a sincere dour farce.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    A loud but proficient slab of explode-o-rama summer blockbuster nonsense, perfectly entertaining if you like that sort of thing, extremely skippable if you don't.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beeswax
    It all feels studiously artless - some people huffily insist that Bujalski’s movies aren’t movies at all - but the more you contemplate his landscapes, the more his control over their various elements is revealed. He’s the real deal: a maturing artist obsessed with how and why - and if - his generation will mature.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Sell the Dead
    A sweet, splattery bit of in-jokery; if it’s not actually a good movie, on some level you have to admire the chutzpah of a film set in 1850s Ireland but shot on Staten Island.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paper Heart
    The movie’s a platypus: cute as the dickens but what the heck is it?
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Second Skin
    This is a well-made film that will seem revelatory to moviegoers unfamiliar with the huge, worldwide gaming culture. They’re going to be pretty hard to find, however.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Funny People
    What’s best about Funny People, actually, is Sandler, who takes the weird, resentful anger that has always coursed beneath his comedy and puts it right on the surface.
  30. The Cove
    The Oceanic Preservation Society doesn't change the world so much as call attention to something so very wrong with it. And in doing so, The Cove culminates with an image of political agitation that might be one of the most oddly effective public service announcements you'll see.
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