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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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    • 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.
  3. 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.
  6. 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.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Journey to the Center of the Earth
    For a harmless "Indiana Jones" knock-off, Journey to the Center of the Earth has an awful lot riding on it.
  14. Meet Dave
    On just about every occasion in Meet Dave, Murphy appears to be on the verge of cracking himself up. This is good news. At least someone found him funny.
  15. A Man Named Pearl
    This is moviemaking that honors the craftsmanship of its subject.
  16. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
    If you go into "Wanted and Desired" with preconceptions, prepare to feel them challenged and altered, even if they are ultimately confirmed. The facts speak loudly.
  17. Giorni e nuvole
    In American movies, the iconic question usually is, can men and women be friends without the sex part getting in the way? Here it's, can a husband appreciate his wife as a woman? The movie's success in Italy is partly a matter of frustration: Women need their men to grow up.
  18. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Thompson - his brilliance, his self-destruction, and the ground he broke - is always at the center, but the film occasionally loses its focus.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wackness
    Disappointingly, the movie runs along the track of many earlier coming-of-age dramas, with appointed station stops at Cynicism, Puppy Love, Puppy Sex, Puppy Heartbreak, and Greater Wisdom.
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  20. Tell No One
    Once the final character has put the last puzzle piece in place, courtesy of an epic explanation, a kind of relief sets in: Someone just needed to spell it all out. It does not entirely help.
  21. Hancock
    Once the vulgar comedy dissipates, we're left with poorly photographed, bullet-riddled summer-action mayhem. The only thing drunker than Hancock is the editing and camerawork.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Finding Amanda
    Finding Amanda, unfortunately, is one vast, irritating surface.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    WALL-E
    The best American film of the year to date.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wanted
    Preposterous, luridly entertaining.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trumbo
    Trumbo never wavered in his belief that his persecution was only a horrible symptom. He understood the real victim of blacklist America was America itself.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elsa y Fred
    Elsa & Fred does graze against an interesting idea: that the vitality of our youths lives on in the prison of aging bodies.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Mistress
    Cool, carnal, and lethal, The Last Mistress is a period drama with a difference.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Red Roses and Petrol
    Because "Petrol" is so grim, its few moments of repentance and reconciliation don't feel as contrived as they might otherwise; if any film has earned the right to be sentimental, it's this one.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Get Smart
    The movie errs by turning Max into a figure of hangdog sympathy: "The 40 Year Old Virgin" with a shoe phone.
  30. The Love Guru
    This is the first time we've seen Myers in the flesh since he committed assault and battery on Dr. Seuss, and I wish the cat had stayed in the hat.
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