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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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    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert
    The point of "the official Muslim comedy tour" is that these guys are ordinary Americans just like you and me. Unfortunately, that extends to a lot of the jokes.
  2. Ballast
    This is the most significant feature about poor black life since Charles Burnett's 1977 "Killer of Sheep."
  3. The Lucky Ones
    As close as a movie about three Iraq war soldiers should come to mediocre TV comedy.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eagle Eye
    A movie only a copyright lawyer could love. It strip-mines at least three Hitchcock classics - "North by Northwest," "The Wrong Man," and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" - then commits unlawful assault on Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" just for the heck of it.
  5. Miracle at St. Anna
    Miracle at St. Anna is not work of outrage or joy. It's something distressingly new for the filmmaker: a work of obligation. It feels like a movie Lee made in order to say he did it.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Choke
    Disappointing not for what it is but what it could have been.
  7. Nights in Rodanthe
    Once a hurricane blows Gere and Lane into each other's arms, all the director's tasteful style and good sense turn into mush. Given the material, I suppose it has to.
  8. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
    If there were a liberal equivalent to Fox News (no, not MSNBC, which is so much milk-fed veal to Rupert Murdoch's steak tartare), Boogie Man is the sort of programming it would thrive on.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    The movie is almost willfully dull, for its real subject is everything we never say to our parents, or they to us.
  10. Appaloosa
    A warmly made, slightly offbeat movie about friendly devotion. It also happens to be a western, and every man in it is grizzled or wizened or both.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Battle in Seattle
    The chief culprits are Townsend's TV-movie characterizations and a very muddled message.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Duchess
    At a certain point, The Duchess stops attending to the topiary and becomes a women's melodrama instead.
  13. Lakeview Terrace
    The movie might have something to say about black racism, but the conversations go nowhere, and the cliches of the genre take over.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Town
    Someone once said about W.C. Fields that he had the rare ability to despise amusingly. I can imagine no greater compliment than to say that Ricky Gervais seems, at his best, like a young Fields.
  15. Igor
    You can't blame John Cusack for jumping at the chance to play Igor.
  16. My Best Friend's Girl
    There's a cheap thrill in watching Hudson defuse Cook's pig antics with some foulness of her own.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived
    Most useful and enlightening as a historical tour through the major crises of the Kennedy administration.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Burn After Reading
    Shallow and proud of it, an antic cartoon that lacks the comic inspiration to go the distance.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flow: For Love of Water
    Flow preaches to the choir with a starry-eyed NPR eco-humanism that can set the wrong kind of person's teeth on edge.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Towelhead
    Ball's trying to be honest about adolescent coming of age, but since he's dishonest about everything else, the movie collapses in on itself.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Family That Preys
    Family, sadly, is a plate of leftovers: a bland, baldly written melodrama about two longtime best friends and their messed-up families.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Righteous Kill
    When actors are as great as De Niro and Pacino, watching them in a movie like Righteous Kill is deadly.
  23. The Women
    The movie is a work of ambivalence. Is English making fun of these women? Or is she making a pilot for Lifetime?
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Save Me
    An earnest drama about the futility of "rescuing" gay men back to Jesus, Save Me presents a paradox: It's an issue drama in which the most compassionately drawn character is on the other side of the issue.
  25. Bangkok Dangerous
    Bangkok Dangerous is bad without lifting a finger toward interesting. The trouble with it is that the people who've made it don't appear to understand life enough to allow any of it into their movie. This is an airless affair.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Secret
    A structural mess that turns contrived just when it should be hitting home.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Pool
    Like Anderson, many directors claim to value local color, but few have gone as far, or achieved such impressive results, as has Chris Smith in The Pool.
  28. Babylon A.D.
    When this Vin Diesel vehicle isn't pointlessly frenzied, it's narratively inert, wasting some decent production design, and a French-flavored cast primed for fun.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Served the King of England
    A charming, damning portrait that has been stinging audiences in the Czech Republic since its 2006 release. In any language, what the movie says about surviving fascism by rolling with it speaks loud and clear.
  30. College
    The grime, filth, slop, vomit, and crotch-nibbling pigs double all too easily as a recipe for this movie's failure. It hasn't been made so much as excreted.
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