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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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    • 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.
  4. Death Race
    Smartly, Anderson makes some eclectic casting choices that keep the story from feeling as though it's populated by video-game characters.
  5. 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.
  7. 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.
  9. The Rocker
    A grubby little redemption comedy that in every way feels like a consignment-shop Jack Black vehicle.
  10. 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?
  11. 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.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mirrors
    At nearly two hours, Mirrors is overlong for a summer horror toss-off, and the movie's three or four false endings make it seem even more of a haul.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Henry Poole Is Here
    Manages a fairly rare trick: It's a movie that's both deeply felt and completely phony.
  15. The Girl Cut in Two
    It's intriguing. To be honest, though, there is less to it all than meets the eye.
  16. Tropic Thunder
    Despite its contradictions, the film stayed with me after I left the theater. It's frivolous. But it's also powerfully surreal.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elegy
    Elegy drifts helplessly into melodrama, and it loses its bearings and its head in a ridiculous final act.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Beautiful Losers
    For a film about a gaggle of slackers, Beautiful Losers is remarkably polished; with its quicksilver editing and fastidious mise-en-scene, it's as tight as the artists are slack.
  19. Hell Ride
    It's a self-amused, self-conscious, seriously limp throwback to motorcycle westerns of the 1970s.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    What We Do Is Secret
    One for the fans, even though writer-director Rodger Grossman and co-writer Michelle Baer Ghaffari labor mightily to spin it into something larger.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pineapple Express
    Disappointingly, Pineapple Express is less than the sum of its ingredients, even if it's still a good stupid time at the movies.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bottle Shock
    Low budget, self-distributed, awkwardly charming, it's the kind of midrange Hollywood entertainment that's supposed to be extinct in this modern age. It makes you want to support your local vintner and your local moviemaker.
  23. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    In the intervening years, they've become pretty good actors, too. Now where's the filmmaker who'll give them more to do than pregnancy scares and falls off donkeys?
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Frozen River
    Does what too many independent American movies only pretend to do: Takes you to an unnoticed corner of our country and shows what it's like to actually live there.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    Despite exotic locations, epic cinematography, and much spectacular crash and bang, this "Mummy" feels like a threadbare toss-off.
  26. Swing Vote
    Swing Vote is a satire that's afraid to satirize.
  27. Sixty Six
    In the end, though, Weiland ("Made of Honor") pours so much heart into his autobiographically "true-ish" story that accessibility is a nonissue.
  28. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    A romantic comedy with film noir shadows.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Man on Wire
    The sight is magical and heartbreaking in equal measure. Look, the movie says: Where so many would fall, a man walks on air.
  30. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    The truth is, indeed, still out there. And when Carter finds it, may he heed its wisdom: Let go.
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