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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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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. RocknRolla
    It's fun to see Tom Wilkinson, for instance, with a massive bald spot virtually eating scenery with a knife and fork.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    Forget the metaphors, why not just make a movie about poor, exploited Mexicans?
  14. 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.
    • 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.
  20. Ballast
    This is the most significant feature about poor black life since Charles Burnett's 1977 "Killer of Sheep."
  21. 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.
  23. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  28. 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.
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