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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. The Stoning of Soraya M.
    Director Nowrasteh seems to think the only way to save lives is to sensationalize death. You could trek to the theater and have this movie whack you upside the head. You could also just mail a check for $10 to the human rights group of your choice.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    2 1/2 hours of tumescence disguised as a motion picture.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Whatever Works
    Whatever Works is very minor Woody, querulous, fitfully funny, and removed from any shared reality.
  4. The Proposal
    Neither (Bullock/Reynolds) brings out anything good in the other, and watching them try hurts the eyes, the tummy, and the libido.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Year One
    Any good will the movie generates, though, is grated right back off by Black, whose obnoxiousness has lost whatever charm it once possessed.
  6. $9.99
    A movie that entertains and enlightens without being preachy - in fact, most of its beliefs are strenuously ambiguous; that’s a key part of the joke.
  7. The End of the Line
    This movie wants to cover every base without thinking very deeply about them. So while a lot of ground is covered in 80 brisk minutes, the information presented is only abstractly useful.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Under Our Skin
    Heartbreaking stories of patients suffering life-shattering illness make Under Our Skin compelling. It would have been an even better movie if the filmmakers had been more diligent in following the money.
  9. Moon
    Moon might be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for fans of Sam Rockwell. Will there ever be more of him in one movie than there is here?
  10. Food, Inc.
    The whole thing is as subtle as a watermelon in a bowl of Cheerios but necessary, nonetheless.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    By itself, the new "Pelham" is a solid, suspenseful tale all over again, so long as it stays in the subway tunnels and airless offices of the transit department.
  12. Imagine That
    Eddie Murphy in another mediocre family comedy? Imagine that.
  13. Tetro
    A family melodrama with charm.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hangover
    It's a worst-case-scenario of bachelor party morning-after, and it is howlingly funny.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Séraphine
    What Moreau does with this role is as inscrutably moving as anything Séraphine Louis painted.
  16. Away We Go
    In tone and plotting, Away We Go feels like a fairy tale built on an aggravating collection of attitudes. It's condescending, judgmental, righteous, yet sincerely searching.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Land of the Lost
    Genially terrible, Lost is lazy, sloppy multiplex filler, good for a few solid giggles and not much more.
  18. My Life in Ruins
    The problem with the new movie is the same as with the previous one. Vardalos has this idea that she's a marm. And while it's true that she personifies her movies, I don't quite buy her librarian mode.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  23. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
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