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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. The Song of Sparrows
    The images in The Song of Sparrows have a poetic grace that's to be desired in storytelling. You feel Majidi's hand much more than you do God's.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tulpan
    In the tradition of ethnographic dramas from "Nanook of the North" to "The Fast Runner," Tulpan drops us in the middle of a godforsaken nowhere and marvels at the people who live there.
  3. Goodbye Solo
    It sounds like the old unstoppable-force-meets-immovable-object trick. Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo has the trappings of such a story, but, mercifully, none of the follow-through.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsters vs Aliens
    If you have to see Monsters vs. Aliens - and if you're a parent, you will have to - make sure it's the 3-D version.
  5. Spinning Into Butter
    Despite all the hyperventilating, the movie fails to consider what these crimes mean when, say, the residents of the White House happen to be black. The filmmakers recognize that identity politics are often a trap door. But it's one they're helpless to save themselves from falling through.
  6. 12 Rounds
    As one of the WWE's marquee pro wrestlers, John Cena is some actor. As a straight actor . . . he's a great wrestler.
  7. The Haunting in Connecticut
    There is still a great horror movie about foreclosure to be made. In the meantime, this movie plays games. (How many rounds of hide-and-seek should an audience tolerate?)
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shall We Kiss?
    The whole thing's weightless: An upscale date-movie bonbon that keeps yielding pungent aftertastes.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Knowing
    Starts off mildly ridiculous, ascends to the full-blown ludicrous, and finally sails boldly off the edge of the absolutely preposterous.
  10. Sin Nombre
    It's the tone of the movie's two sides - action and stillness, graphic violence and romantic melodrama - that don't cohere.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Love You, Man
    The movie stakes out a whole new arena - male social performance anxiety - and ruthlessly mines it for comic embarrassment.
  12. Duplicity
    Duplicity so thoroughly equates sex and money that, in a manner apt for a recession, the audience is rewired when it's over. You don't care whether they love each other. You just want to see them paid.
  13. The Great Buck Howard
    This is an old man's movie, without an old man's experience. Despite McGinly's stated affection for Kreskin (the movie ends with a written appreciation of him), there's nothing personal about it. It's the movie equivalent of handing us a business card.
  14. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    The decadence is obvious. But true to the Valentino prerogative, it's beautiful - sad, too: a dream life moving into the unknown.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sunshine Cleaning
    An intelligent, often touching, sometimes pedestrian drama.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Miss March
    A sex comedy that appears to have been made by people who've never actually had sex.
  17. The Last House on the Left
    Like the current hit "Taken," Last House 2009 packs a vicarious jolt that might feel cathartic to certain moviegoers.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Edge of Love
    A "great poet" movie, the poet in this case being Dylan Thomas, and it's utter bollocks.
  19. Race to Witch Mountain
    This is not a movie. It's a coming attraction for a theme park.
  20. Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America
    While most of the scenes in Tony Stone’s peculiar Middle Ages art project look like a homemade educational reenactment, the film is actually more involving than it should be.
  21. Tokyo Sonata
    Tokyo Sonata, in so many senses, is about an allergic reaction to the very idea of what it means to be Japanese. The characters misplace their belief in etiquette, politesse, dignity, and propriety - or they struggle to maintain it.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Watchmen
    The best moments in Watchmen, then, work as delirious music-videos.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Phoebe in Wonderland
    Phoebe in Wonderland gradually loses its grip on tone and believability, climaxing with a show-must-go-on moment that's just plain silly. Thankfully, Barnz knows exactly where to end his film: on the face of a girl, and an actress, at the crossroads.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Everlasting Moments
    Quiet, observant, and intensely moving whenever Heiskanen is on screen, and it has a valedictory sweep that feels like a summing up.
  25. Fados
    As a production, Fados is pretty with its reflected surfaces and many projected images. But at times it hurts for the bite and texture of life outside that studio. For all the dolorous singing about and shots of streets, it'd be nice to hit one.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tokyo!
    If you've seen "Paris, je t'aime" or "New York Stories," you know the rate of return on these urban omnibuses is variable, and so it is here. Go in expecting minor pleasures and you'll be fine.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    12
    The new film's not only almost double the length of the original, it's four times as ambitious - a sprawling, surrealist, ultimately disturbing portrait of a society lurching uncertainly toward democracy. What's really on trial in this movie? Just the Russian soul.
  28. Crossing Over
    If Crossing Over is less self-congratulatory than "Crash" about confronting its designated problem, it's just as inept at dramatizing the complex ways that problem unites and divides us. Here every cause is something you can wear around your neck.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Echelon Conspiracy
    There's nothing in Echelon Conspiracy as suspenseful or entertaining as your average episode of "24."
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    Its swooping 3-D visuals let fans briefly feel they can touch a group that barely exists behind a wall of beefy security men.
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