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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Morning Light
    A fluffy piece of Disney nonfiction.
  12. 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex Drive
    Three things and three things only keep Sex Drive from being teen-comedy landfill. The first is James Marsden, hilarious as the hero's bully-boy big brother. The second is Seth Green, beyond droll as an Amishman with attitude. The third is the Mexican doughnut costume.
  14. Frontrunners
    The movie doesn't know what it wants to say about the election or the people who run in it.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Body of Lies
    It's a genre film - the action is fierce and nonstop - with a brooding undercurrent of unease that aims for the complexities of John le Carre.
  16. Breakfast with Scot
    This is territory previously covered in the French film "Ma Vie en Rose," which took a relatively more sophisticated view of both a child's self-expression and adults' discomfort over it.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    City of Ember
    City of Ember lacks the vision and scope of "WALL-E," but it's based on a pretty good kids' book and it makes a pretty good "Twilight Zone" episode, with hope dangling at the end rather than one of Rod Serling's cosmic black jokes.
  18. The Express
    This movie is especially egregious since it bundles the civil rights era, garden-variety bigotry, and the achievements of Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Happy-Go-Lucky
    Happy-Go-Lucky isn't one of Leigh's epic social canvases like "Secrets & Lies" or even "Topsy-Turvy"; rather, it's an edgy character study whose message only gradually emerges.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Quarantine
    Like "Blair Witch," Quarantine uses the conceit of a movie-within-a-movie to give documentary immediacy to its assorted grotesqueries.
  21. Dung che sai duk
    "Ashes of Time" was always more a work of philosophy than pure entertainment, and a decade and a half later it still is.
  22. RocknRolla
    It's fun to see Tom Wilkinson, for instance, with a massive bald spot virtually eating scenery with a knife and fork.
  23. Rachel Getting Married
    The movie's few false notes come from Lumet's script, which can be overly explanatory. Because Demme is opting for present-tense realism, the characters are forced to fill us in on who did what when to whom, why, and how.
  24. Religulous
    The film has a habit of cutting away from interviews for Maher's commentary during the drive to the next location. You can see him trying to work the car for a laugh.
  25. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    Forget the metaphors, why not just make a movie about poor, exploited Mexicans?
  26. Blindness
    A perversely enjoyable, occasionally harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's 1995 disaster allegory.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flash of Genius
    The problem with Flash of Genius isn't that the subject is dull but that the movie is.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    An American Carol
    Ultimately, the problem with An American Carol is the problem with far too much political discourse in this country, left or right: It highlights the worst excesses of the opposition for the sole purpose of discrediting the vast middle.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    Nothing in How to Lose Friends feels fresh or on target.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    Sollett's working with stale material, clearly. He genuinely likes people, though, and his fondness revives "Nick and Norah" and sets it spinning with camaraderie and hope.
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