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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. Quantum of Solace
    The trouble with Quantum of Solace is that the frills are a mess, too. Even the customary opening title sequence, with its writhing silhouettes and screechy theme song by Jack White and Alicia Keys, is a cheesy throwback to the Roger Moore era: Ladies and gentlemen, the Quantum of Solace dancers!
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Christmas Tale
    With at least nine primary characters and running two and a half hours, it's a big, fat novel of a movie - a domestic epic that fuses bitterness and forgiveness in completely satisfying ways.
  3. Eden
    Eden is "Once" after two kids and 10 years of marriage have sucked the music out of life.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    We Are Wizards
    The documentary sweetly focuses our attention on the way human creativity transforms everything around it. Often in the nuttiest of ways, true. But still, it's a good thing.
  5. How About You ...
    It's all terribly sentimental without being truly terrible.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Slumdog Millionaire
    You may even feel like dancing in the aisles yourself. Sure, the real world doesn't always work this way. Have you forgotten that this is one of the reasons why we go to movies in the first place?
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Role Models
    Any movie that shows its heroes firing up a joint between stints as high-school anti-drug crusaders is true to its black little heart.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    JCVD
    JCVD may not be the first meta-musclehead movie, but it's certainly the most surprising.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    Because its gaze is so level and so unyielding, it stands as one of the better dramatic films made on this subject (although it's not nearly as fine as Louis Malle's "Au Revoir les Enfants."
  10. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    Fails to drum up much excitement.
  11. Pray the Devil Back to Hell
    The longer the film goes on, the more you crave a vaster history of modern Liberia, originally a colony founded by former slaves from the United States.
  12. Soul Men
    There are two reasons to put up with Soul Men, and that's the soul men themselves. Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac appear to be having a good time, and for most of this raunchy, poorly orchestrated buddy comedy, that's enough.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Haunting of Molly Hartley
    Molly Hartley is dull at worst and surprisingly spooky at best.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    Rudely silly rather than transgressively shocking, Zack and Miri is the sort of bawdy but fundamentally decent farce you could take Grandma to, provided Grandma were familiar with the oeuvre of Traci Lords.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Name Is Bruce
    Perhaps because Campbell is a purist at heart, My Name Is Bruce is as awful as anything he has done - a broadly silly gore comedy in which no gag is too cartoonish to be indulged in at least once and preferably three times.
  16. The Other End of the Line
    Watching Granger and Priya chase each other around a hotel like squirrels in a park, you wonder what these two see in each other.
  17. Let the Right One In
    The beauty of Let the Right One In resides in the way the horror remains grounded in a tragic kind of love.
  18. Synecdoche, New York
    I can't pretend to know fully what Charlie Kaufman is up to in Synecdoche, New York, with all the doubled characters, dreamy reenactments, comical minutiae, and personal unhappiness. But I got a great deal of pleasure out of watching him mount his fantasia about an artist suffering not simply for his art, but because of it.
  19. Changeling
    As Changeling strains toward its mawkishly optimistic conclusion, the old-fashioned moviemaking that Eastwood settled into doesn't suit either him or his star. It feels like a corny joke.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I've Loved You So Long
    A novelist and screenwriter, Claudel's directing for the first time here, and he leans on melodramatic contrivances more than he needs to. Still, he gives us a lean and observant weepie, and the mystery of Thomas's Juliette pulls you in.
  21. Saw V
    Oh, Jigsaw. Here we go again. You kill. I doze off. Someone at the studio goes "ka-ching!"
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pride and Glory
    Everything in this good-cop/bad-cop action drama is shrouded in gray and attended by wailing. This isn't a feel-good genre, granted, but does it have to feel this bad?
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    For all its unforgivable blandness, "High School Musical" opens young audiences to the charms of this most transporting of movie genres.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fear(s) of the Dark
    It makes a nicely grim little Halloween appetizer, although you may want to go home and hide under the bed afterward.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
    Grueling yet ultimately exhilarating.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    W.
    When it works, W. can take your breath away. When it doesn't, you can feel Stone still working out his feelings toward the man.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Filth and Wisdom
    Worst of all, the movie's simply not very shocking. Madonna has made a career out of toying with image and ego, but this is a vanity project in the smallest sense possible.
  28. Max Payne
    This is not a movie that has great passion for pleasures of the flesh. Its sexiest scenes involve bullets cutting through the air in the slowest motion possible.
  29. Morning Light
    A fluffy piece of Disney nonfiction.
  30. The Secret Life of Bees
    On screen something happens that goes beyond Monk's powers of description and Fanning's way of seeming 14 and 44 at the same time.
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