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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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    • 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.
  3. The Girl Cut in Two
    It's intriguing. To be honest, though, there is less to it all than meets the eye.
  4. 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.
  7. 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.
  11. 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.
  14. Swing Vote
    Swing Vote is a satire that's afraid to satirize.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  18. 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.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Step Brothers
    Take the kids at your peril. Mismarketing aside, Step Brothers is crudely funny, which means that sometimes it's crudely hilarious and more often it's just crude.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Baghead
    The movie's cheap, it's clever - it's even a little scary in places.
  21. Brideshead Revisited
    The film plays fast and loose with the book, until its emotional depths, spiritual conflicts, and Waugh's discreet humor have been wrung out.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Teen
    Parents are another matter. Almost to a man and woman they lay expectations on their children that ignore who those children are.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    CSNY/Déjà Vu
    The film, like the tour it documents, wallops you in the face with politics.
  24. Boy A
    Boy A comes frustratingly close to succeeding as tragedy.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Dark Knight
    You come away impressed, oppressed, provoked, and beaten down, holding on to Ledger's squirrelly incandescence as a beacon in the darkness.
  26. Mamma Mia!
    The movie takes the ABBA jukebox musical that ate London, and is still eating Broadway, and turns it into a surprisingly sensuous experience.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Space Chimps
    Short, cheap, weird, and passably diverting.
  28. Transsiberian
    Unfortunately, there's never a moment where you can't see Anderson and his co-writer, Will Conroy, yanking on the strings.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mad Detective
    Mad Detective is equal parts gonzo inspiration and overwrought indecision. It could be called "The Lunatic From Kowloon."
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    Of all the comic book movies that have spun out of theaters this long and pulpy summer, Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army is the most unapologetically comic book-y.
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