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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. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
    An arch espionage comedy that's never as amusing as it thinks it is.
  2. Surfwise
    The movie feels exhaustive in its loaded 90-something minutes, showing and telling us much while leaving the meaning of the tangles and twists in this family open to interpretation. For once, the tip of the iceberg is enough.
  3. What Happens in Vegas
    When it was over I felt vaguely embarrassed. I wasn't just leaving a movie theater. I was taking a walk of shame.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Before the Rains
    The competent, at times suspenseful Before the Rains orbits us along a trajectory of innocence corrupted, domesticity infested by politics, and local tradition messed with by a powerful Westerner. Unfortunately, that trajectory feels routine.
  5. The Tracey Fragments
    Formally, the effect is like watching really cinematic confetti.
  6. Iron Man
    Downey appears to like all this make-believe. Even the clunky dialogue sounds witty out of his mouth. This is not a part that makes great demands on his talent, and his slummy approach to it is amusing.
  7. Fugitive Pieces
    The movie does offer intriguing, perceptive glimpses of the everyday difficulties of being both a survivor and the child of a survivor.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Made of Honor
    In Made of Honor, the leads are beautiful and everyone else is a freak. So where does that leave us?
  9. Mister Lonely
    Korine is finding his way toward artistic greatness by searching his soul. It's possible that the man in the mirror is him.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Redbelt
    What Redbelt reminded me of more than anything else was a modern version of a classic film noir, particularly 1950's brilliantly seedy "Night and the City," with its pro-wrestling subplot.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Son of Rambow
    In many ways, Son of Rambow plays like a pint-size, even cheekier version of the recent Michel Gondry film "Be Kind Rewind." Both are stories about people making movies not because it's their job but because doing so brings a vast sense of play into their lives.
  12. XXY
    The grown-ups in Lucia Puenzo's XXY are a glum lot.
  13. Baby Mama
    In this era of Apatow and Ferrell and Rogen and Wilson, of men monopolizing movie comedy, Baby Mama feels absurdly momentous, and even political. Fey and Poehler aren't just taking back control of their bodies. They're taking back control of their profession.
  14. Deception
    The movie actually does feel like an Americanized work of Hong Kong moviemaking. But the desperate, derivative style, the nonsense plotting, and leggy, horny women are applied like too much MSG.
  15. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
    Is a truly political stoner movie even possible? The entire point of getting high is to take some of the sting out of life. The movie goes after easy targets and goes soft on the harder issues.
  16. Roman de gare
    The 70-something director puts us back in luxury's lap with Roman de Gare, which looks just like the high-roller ads you get in the first 40 pages of Vogue or Vanity Fair but feels vaguely more emotional. Lelouch wants to tie a Hermès scarf around our hearts.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Standard Operating Procedure
    In Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris does something inconceivable and, at first glance, ill-advised. He gives the US soldiers of Abu Ghraib back their humanity.
  18. Then She Found Me
    What ought to be a bittersweet movie about a woman's momentary unraveling feels like a workout class: Cardio melodrama.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Up the Yangtze
    In his masterful and haunting documentary Up the Yangtze, Yung Chang shows the old China drowning helplessly under the weight of the new.
  20. Deal
    Deal doesn't really care about the characters as much as it does the World Poker Championships, where Tommy and Alex end up. Once we get there the movie becomes interesting because Cates understands the game and its dramas a lot better than he understands people and theirs.
  21. 88 Minutes
    I've seen Pacino over the edge. This is not it. He looks pooped and pickled. Maybe being the only thing standing between a megaplex opening and a trip straight to the $4.99 bin at Target wiped him out.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Forbidden Kingdom
    Unashamed about giving its audience a good time, and the high spirits go a long way toward counterbalancing the cliches.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Predictable but still keeps you laughing along the way.
  24. The Life Before Her Eyes
    When the big twist is revealed at the end of The Life Before Her Eyes, you might think the only way to appreciate its cleverness is to see the film again. I did that. It didn't help.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pathology
    Even squeamish viewers are apt to be captivated by the tight, credible scripting; these 20-somethings talk and behave like today's irony-clad young sophisticates. And whatever your opinion of the subject matter, you can't fault the filmmaking.
  26. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    I was not a fan of Albert Brooks's "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" (2005), but Brooks, at least, seemed willing to concede before it was over that his movie was a terrible idea. Spurlock seems opportunistically optimistic.
  27. Zombie Strippers!
    Shouting the title never quite prepared me for either how stripping zombies aren't as hot or as funny as I thought they would be or how quickly the movie's eager intelligence collapses on itself.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
    The lack of a credible external perspective beyond the narrative provided by Glass, his friends, family, and associates, makes the film feel too cozy.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The First Saturday in May
    A compelling look at the price paid by the men who devote their lives to these extraordinary animals.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark Matter
    The final act of Dark Matter is grim but unconvincing, and the shortfall leaves an ugly, exploitive taste in your mouth.
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