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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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  1. 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.
  4. The Incredible Hulk
    There's a certain pleasure to be had in some of the physical blowouts.
  5. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. The Promotion
    A good, occasionally insightful workplace comedy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Operation Filmmaker
    It spreads the punishment around, from the executive suites of Hollywood to the mean streets of Baghdad. Everyone here comes out smelling bad - that's why the film's so good.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bigger Stronger Faster*
    A hugely entertaining personal documentary about what steroids mean to American pop culture.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Foot Fist Way
    The film itself suggests a sketch video on Ferrell and McKay's "Funny or Die" website, padded out to the dimensions of a character comedy.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Savage Grace
    A chilly inquest into very bad behavior, Savage Grace is presented to us like an entrée at a five-star French restaurant. It's decadence under glass.
  18. Sex and the City
    For the moment, King has restored women to their rightful place in a genre that is nothing without them. But, sadly, that genre isn't romantic comedy. It's the chick flick.
  19. The Strangers
    A horror film with a moral. No matter how nasty a gang of murderers is, the moviemaker calling the shots is ultimately worse.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Unknown Woman
    The movie looks great at least, and the cast includes such stalwarts of Italian cinema as Claudia Gerini and Pierfrancesco Favino.
  21. Stuck
    Gordon made similar lurches all over the map in his previous exercise in grotesquerie, "Edmond," which was based on a David Mamet play and starred William H. Macy as, of all things, a racist misogynist on a grisly bender. Stuck could have used some of that outrageousness.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Children of Huang Shi
    What ought to be the pinnacle of the story - the orphans' odds-defying 500-mile march over snow-covered mountains toward the relative safety of the Mongolian desert - is shunted toward the end of the film and compressed to a near-footnote.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    War, Inc.
    All that's missing is coherence. Call it Blunderbuss Satire.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Merely grand old-school fun - a rollicking class reunion that stands as the second best entry in the venerable series.
  25. The Edge of Heaven
    With impeccable skill, Akin has made a film roiling with cruelty but guided by tough political optimism. No, we can't all get along, but some us of are trying.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Jihad for Love
    Director Parvez Sharma, a gay Muslim himself, takes pains to show the wide range of Islam's attitudes toward homosexuality.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    Take away the storming music and grand vistas, and it's all a standard sword-and-sorcery adventure; director Andrew Adamson is more than a journeyman but much less than the visionary Peter Jackson is.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reprise
    Reprise is exceptionally smart about the crushing expectations brought to the table by those who love us.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Speed Racer
    The movie demands you be a glutton for sensation and then has the nerve to ask why you're not hungrier.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fall
    The Fall is what you'd get if you told a fiendishly gifted graphic illustrator the plot of "The Princess Bride" and sent him off to come up with his own version.
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