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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. Not Easily Broken
    For most of Not Easily Broken, I wondered why the movie wasn't worse. Then I remembered it was directed by the veteran Bill Duke, who applies ample TLC.
  2. The Unborn
    The Unborn joins a growing glut of Holocaust- and Nazi-themed material -- "Valkyrie," "Defiance" - that are long on posturing, suppositions, and righteousness, yet short on moral complexity. Nazism and its crimes have lately inspired theme parks more than actual movies. Too many rides on that roller coaster and I feel sick.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Another Love Story
    A violent, melodramatic, feverishly overplotted tale of midlife crisis and crazy love. It's good, nasty fun until it gets boxed in by its own contrivances toward the end.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Defiance
    Depressingly predictable in its dialogue and dramatic beats, Defiance is most interesting as a study of unlikely leaders.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Revolutionary Road
    Maybe it's a cheap shot to call Revolutionary Road "American Beauty" without the laughs, but it gets to the heart of the problem.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Waltz with Bashir
    Waltz With Bashir not only breathes but it howls - and sobs and curses and croons and, in the end, when sound proves useless in the face of calamity, falls into awful silence.
  7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    At its most profound, Benjamin Button isn't about anything more important than Pitt's very handsomeness, which, for a surprising stretch of time, is a wonderful subject for study.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Spirit
    The movie's cleverest idea is to give the Octopus identical clone henchmen with names like Phobos, Logos, and Huevos, all played by Louis Lombardi with a marvelous fat-boy idiot grin.
  9. Bedtime Stories
    The appeal of Bedtime Stories belongs entirely to Sandler. As a comedian, he doesn't have to stoop to a kid's level. He's usually already there.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Chance Harvey
    Harvey is so thin it barely registers as a movie, yet these two actors - British apples and American oranges in their respective approaches to character - almost miraculously weave something memorable out of nothing much.
  11. Marley & Me
    The movie is torn. It wants to honestly explore the natural wear-and-tear of the Grogan marriage. But it also seems OK with being something that could pass as a midseason replacement on ABC.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Valkyrie
    It's a smooth, compelling, almost suspenseful (more on that in a bit), and slightly hollow Hollywood period piece.
  13. The Secret of the Grain
    Takes one man, his children, their spouses and babies, his ex-wife, his girlfriend, her daughter, and his friends and turns it all into a masterpiece about the strange power of food - to heal, unite, exasperate.
  14. Theater of War
    What is the value of art in times of strife? Should people be sitting in the theater or rioting in the streets? Walter's film reminds us that once there was a man whose work made no distinction between the two.
  15. The Tale of Despereaux
    A skillfully managed fairy tale about a mouse, a rat, and fairy tales in general.
  16. The Class
    I was much more disheartened leaving the movie the first time I saw it than I was the second. Its richness resides in its apparent objectivity. Without sacrificing a sense of hope, Cantet suggests that the school system is just like a certain vexing grammatical tense: imperfect but still fighting against irrelevance.
  17. Moscow, Belgium
    I wanted to keep watching. I wanted to leave. In between, I prayed for the piano-accordion soundtrack to silence itself for just one scene (it's like being trapped in a little French restaurant that refuses to close).
  18. Seven Pounds
    I'd like to make a 911 call myself: Lord, please stop this increasingly fine actor (Smith) from climbing onto another cross.
  19. Yes Man
    The biggest problem with this movie - not that it's mediocre, dull, or barely written (though it's guilty on all counts). It's that Carrey himself is miscast.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wrestler
    The Wrestler is a character study, no more and no less, yet it's open-ended enough to function as many things.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gran Torino
    An endlessly fascinating movie. If only it were a good one.
  22. Che
    The labor applied to Che is apparent, but it would be wrong to characterize the movie as laborious the way it was in, say, 2006's "The Good German," where Soderbergh took great pains to re-create 1940s Hollywood wartime glamour.
  23. Timecrimes
    Vigalondo is only partially capable of building suspense (the film's latter stages contain one knot too many); his achievement owes more to his imagination than his pop craftsmanship.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    Something has been lost in the translation, and it's not just the script.
  25. Doubt
    As a consideration of faith and propriety, the movie never managed to boil my blood or break my heart.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nothing Like the Holidays
    Both despite its familiarity and because of it, Nothing Like the Holidays brings it home for Christmas.
  27. Delgo
    Delgo demonstrates how hard it is to create a memorable, credible-looking piece of animated entertainment.
  28. The Reader
    After a sensuous introductory act, The Reader descends into a series of dismaying contradictions regarding the moral toxins of the Holocaust - which still pollute postwar Germany.
  29. Wendy and Lucy
    Wendy Carroll is a character we rarely see in movies anymore, a woman left alone with her thoughts. That a moviegoer would care what she's thinking testifies to the power in Williams's brand of solitude.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hunger
    So what is Hunger? Unexpectedly, a visually ravishing tour of hell and a meditation on freedom that at best is wordlessly profound and at worst interestingly obscure.
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