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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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  1. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  9. 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.
  13. 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.
  19. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
    An arch espionage comedy that's never as amusing as it thinks it is.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  23. The Tracey Fragments
    Formally, the effect is like watching really cinematic confetti.
  24. 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.
  25. 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?
  27. 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.
  30. XXY
    The grown-ups in Lucia Puenzo's XXY are a glum lot.
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