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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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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  3. A Man Named Pearl
    This is moviemaking that honors the craftsmanship of its subject.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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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  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Brick Lane
    Easily, the best character in the film is Nazneen's tubby husband, who's been angling to take the family back to Bangladesh.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    The period ambience, comforting yet urgent, is the best part of Kit Kittredge - that and Breslin, who never once gets actressy.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Happening
    You feel like you're not watching the end of the world but the end of a career.
  22. The Incredible Hulk
    There's a certain pleasure to be had in some of the physical blowouts.
  23. Chris & Don. A Love Story
    As loving and welcome as Chris & Don is, it's not well enough conceived to create equilibrium among its many parts.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Winnipeg
    Maddin's Winnipeg is a rich, funky, funny stew of fears and desires, of mangled civic chronology mashed up with hothouse private emotions. This is a secret history, and it's a wonder.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Beauty in Trouble
    This being a Czech film, drama, comedy, history, and social commentary are served up in equal proportion.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Encounters at the End of the World
    Does Antarctica attract dreamers or create them? It's a thread that runs throughout the film.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kung Fu Panda
    Kung Fu Panda goes nowhere surprising even as its images unscroll handsomely before our eyes. The sound could go out in the theater, and you wouldn't ask for your money back.
  28. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    Nothing has brought me more cheap pleasure at a movie this year than the sight of shampoo and conditioner bottles falling off a rocking wall while comedian Alec Mapa, as a fellow stylist, tries to keep a straight face. He does a much better job than I did.
  29. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
    Even at the movie's most ridiculous (and Mongol is not without its ridiculous moments), this is a picture you laugh with more than laugh at.
  30. Mother of Tears
    Argento set a standard a lot of moviemakers are desperate to surpass. It's not simply that he's crazy about gore and supernatural hokum. It's that he understands that storytelling is both an art and a craft. His filmmaking carries you along on the illusion of effortlessness; amusement, suspense, a certain elegance follow.
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