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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. 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.
  3. Igor
    You can't blame John Cusack for jumping at the chance to play Igor.
  4. 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.
  11. 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.
  13. 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.
  16. 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.
  18. 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.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Disaster Movie
    The filmmakers are idiots.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Year of the Fish
    At its best, Year of the Fish makes a virtue of naivete - its heroine's, its director's, and the fragile fairy-tale belief that everyone deserves a happy ending.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Traitor
    The film's a propulsive international espionage thriller, built on the hurry-scurry bones of the "Bourne" movies.
  22. Death Race
    Smartly, Anderson makes some eclectic casting choices that keep the story from feeling as though it's populated by video-game characters.
  23. The House Bunny
    The movie is a commercial for Hugh Hefner that makes his magazine seem like "Seventeen."
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hamlet 2
    In the new comedy Hamlet 2, Coogan comes perilously close to wearing out his welcome. It's actually a pretty fascinating sight.
  25. Trouble the Water
    The film is so immersed in Roberts's life that it becomes easy to think that most of what the camera sees is also from her perspective. It's actually too seamless.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Momma's Man
    Deeper, darker currents move through Momma's Man, eddying around fears of letting go on both sides of the generational divide.
  27. The Rocker
    A grubby little redemption comedy that in every way feels like a consignment-shop Jack Black vehicle.
  28. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    Once again, even reasonably committed fans will need a scorecard to keep track of who's fighting whom. What's the real target audience - i.e. kids - supposed to make of it all?
  29. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Fitfully good.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    Fly Me to the Moon is a crummy movie for kids, yet it still holds out the prospect of past wonders and future marvels. It's one small step for a housefly, one giant leap for 3-D.
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