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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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  1. 24 City
    If this is an unusually sentimental outing for Jia, it’s also characteristically tinged with woe. He’s just added a touch of sweetness to these otherwise sugarless lives.
  2. Herb & Dorothy
    Seemingly limitless access is what makes the movie interesting.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unmistaken Child
    Unmistaken Child stands as a window on a beautiful and mysterious world. The questions it leaves hanging are for us to untangle.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Up
    On the most basic level the new film is pure vaudeville: a loopy flyaway fantasy that's hysterically funny if only to keep the darkness at bay.
  5. Drag Me to Hell
    Working with his brother Ivan, Sam Raimi is laughing with us - and often louder than we are.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Departures
    This is the kind of tastefully poignant drama that asks its audience to confront taboos and then pats them on the back for doing so.
  7. Munyurangabo
    The finished film, which was completed in about 11 days, has the tidiness and optimism of a fable. But it showcases certain hard facts of life in a war-torn country whose scars have yet to heal.
  8. Pressure Cooker
    The movie's sense of inspiration is realistic. It never implies a future of glamour, only hard-won success.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girlfriend Experience
    Fair warning: I had to see The Girlfriend Experience twice before its pieces settled into coherent shape.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    O'Horten
    O'Horten is a precise, deadpan drama of slapstick existentialism - a Bent Hamer movie, in other words.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Easy Virtue
    iIf you can ignore a ridiculously overbearing soundtrack - a big if - the film's a pleasant bauble. Still, those coming in cold may be forgiven for thinking they've wandered into "Atonement" remade as a farce.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    It's bigger, noisier, shinier, and dumber, and it has no earthly reason to exist.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Dance Flick
    If you thought the world couldn't get enough of bad spoof movies, you thought wrong.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Terminator Salvation
    The latest installment in the venerable sci-fi action franchise turns out to be a straight-up war film, grim and muscular and thundering and joyless. It's the color of cement, and it weighs as much, too.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
    Burma VJ’ retorts that eyes and ears are everywhere in our ever-tightening global communications mesh. Voices, too, and they get heard. The generals and the ayatollahs have every right to be scared.
  16. Summer Hours
    The movie unfolds like something out of E.M. Forster, but Assayas isn't all that interested in family dynamics. Instead, he's made a chronicle of how the children will handle the sale of the house and its treasures.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Brothers Bloom
    Breezily enjoyable for about 10 minutes, until you realize the entire movie is going to be pitched at the same exuberantly manic pace. It's like being trapped in an elevator with a performing poodle that doesn't know when to quit.
  18. Angels & Demons
    Watching what Howard has done with the book - covering up the lewdness, blunting the snobbery, and spackling the amazing plot holes - is dismaying. This adaptation has the stink of superiority about it.
  19. Jerichow
    As ridiculous German suspense dramas go, you could do worse than Jerichow.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Management
    Sometimes a cute-stalker movie can win the audience's heart. Management only makes you ponder the line between true love and a restraining order.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Adoration
    Watching Adoration is like juggling three tennis balls, a porcupine, and a graduate thesis, but eventually it finds a unifying theme, that of tolerance melting away racial and intergenerational hatreds.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Julia
    The movie’s electrifying without being completely satisfying. Zonca and his star don’t play by Hollywood rules, which is both good (keeps us off-balance) and less so (at times the film doesn’t seem sure where it’s going).
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Little Ashes
    The problem is that both Philippa Goslett's script and Paul Morrison's direction lack the stylistic craziness - the sense of real, lunatic danger - a project like this desperately needs.
  24. Next Day Air
    None of these characters provides more than a smattering of laughs, but Def is the one guy we might like to see more of, if only because his role is small and better executed than it deserves.
  25. Outrage
    Outrage succeeds as activism, but it excels as a window into certain political psyches.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rudo y Cursi
    Rudo y Cursi is a grave and calculated affront to the men of Mexico, and that's the source of its roistering charm.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Star Trek
    In the pop high it delivers, this is the greatest prequel ever made.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Limits of Control
    Jarmusch has come up with a dud.
  29. Revanche
    Revanche was a foreign-language Oscar nominee this year, and it's a better movie than most of the films in the main race. The word "revanche" means "revenge" in German, but "waiting" would have been just as good.
  30. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    "Wolverine" feels enslaved to its many masters - Marvel Comics, Hollywood, and the young men who devour their products - never sidestepping the déjà vu it inspires.
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