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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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    • 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Battle for Terra
    Please, moviegoers, time is running out for us. Our civilization (and bottom line) depend on fast-food kiddie meals stuffed with toys. In this way, we conquer the solar system.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    Ghosts is better-than-average McConaughey swill, but not by much - that's its pleasure and its curse.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Merry Gentleman
    An overly muted and cautious piece of work. Watching it is like seeing a man ease out onto the limb of a tree, constantly testing its strength.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Informers
    You come away with only the memory of Christie, the film's perfect California blonde, lying insensate on the beach in the final ravages of AIDS - a potent and frightening image the rest of The Informers can't live up to.
  23. Fighting
    Fighting has real grit and excellent acting. In other words, there is gold in that dirt.
  24. Il Divo
    Il Divo is showboat moviemaking, but the opulence is of a piece with the film's damning assessment of the durable Italian elder statesman Giulio Andreotti.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Soloist
    Isn't so much a story of perseverance and musical triumph as it is of despair, acceptance, and social commitment. The movie's a call to arms: We are our brothers' keepers, it says, and our brothers are in terrible shape.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Throw Down Your Heart
    Through it all, Fleck seems at a loss for words, stumbling through small talk and staring feebly as a Ugandan musician weeps during a song about his dead father.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tyson
    Terrifically compelling and, more than that, unexpectedly moving.
  28. Earth
    This Earth doesn't really have anything new to say, but it does present some newly entertaining ways of saying it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Treeless Mountain
    Feels both masterful and hesitant - it’s the work of a born filmmaker who’s still not quite sure what she wants to say.
  30. State of Play
    The overall lack of subtlety is a riot - there's even a cautionary production of "Peter and the Wolf" happening in the background during one journalist-politician showdown at a Beltway gala. Still, it's a pleasure watching this cast make the most of the material.
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