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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. Prom Night
    When Jamie Lee Curtis ran from a killer in 1980's "Prom Night," she was 22 and had a unique gift for belting out fear. She was the Beverly Sills of slasher flicks. That "Prom Night" was dumb, but it wasn't insulting in the way this remake is.
  2. Street Kings
    Street Kings is nonsense, and yet the crooked, racialized world underneath the soulless mayhem is pretty fascinating.
  3. The Visitor
    This is a film of our times - paranoid, heartbroken, disillusioned - and the rare recent American movie whose characters react the way actual people might.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chaos Theory
    "Maybe" was watchable and blandly pleasant; "Theory" is a smidgen better than that, if not the cruelly funny farce the movie's best impulses and its own trailer would have you believe.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bra Boys
    Bra Boys uses reenactments to make the case that Jai acted in self-defense, but the tactic comes off cheap and unconvincing. Worse, the director never bothers to talk to anyone outside the tight coterie of insiders. Why should he when his brothers' freedom is at stake?
  6. Smart People
    Mostly, Smart People is a failure of imagination.
  7. Body of War
    To say the least, the film is awkward, like a piece of badly assembled Ikea furniture. Still, editor Bernadine Colish weaves together all that C-SPAN footage into a disturbing procedural indictment. Legislators use the same language - often the president's - to justify the rush to war. The repetition is comical until it's scary: They're parroting.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Young@Heart
    Sloppily made at times and it comes close to wearing out its welcome, but you can't blame Walker for not wanting to let his subjects go. And as the movie progresses, a viewer begins to understand why: These people are literally singing for their lives.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flight of the Red Balloon
    The subject is the privileged state of childhood itself - how we're all lucky to have had it and how it so easily floats away from our grasp.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Meduzot
    In spite of the entropy, Jellyfish is close to a comedy, with a gentle sense of absurdism and a welcome generosity toward its characters.
  11. Leatherheads
    The film moves slowly and steadily, but it's never exactly dull, just mild.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Blueberry Nights
    Music and nostalgia are what fuel all this filmmaker's movies, though, even a half-baked translation like this one.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nim's Island
    8- to 12-year-olds will have a good time, and you'll have a good time watching them have a good time. Otherwise, the film's an oddity.
  14. The Ruins
    A surprisingly effective little horror nightmare.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shine a Light
    Shine a Light did something I didn't think was possible. It got me caring about the Rolling Stones again.
  16. Water Lilies
    A distant thematic and artistic cousin of Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides" and Lucrecia Martel's "The Holy Girl."
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tuya's Marriage
    The film has an ending that anyone who has watched a movie in the last 15 years will see coming half an hour into the film. But even with that, the weight of the performances from Yu Nan and Bater is enough to make for a satisfying, if uneven, film.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flawless
    It's assured and neatly crafted - the time zips by while you're watching it.
  19. Run, Fatboy, Run
    Might as well have been written by a rushed piece of software. The program calls for a surprise engagement, a street fight complete with crotch punches, an apartment eviction, and a runaway child - all in about five minutes. As an obstacle course, this is mighty efficient. As comic storytelling, it's painful, not too far from being socked in the crotch.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    21
    The movie's chief audience, consequently, will probably be gullible and young, responding to the cliches only because they haven't seen them before. They have a word in Vegas for these people: Suckers.
  21. My Brother Is an Only Child
    Ripe, ferociously acted comic drama.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Priceless
    Priceless is a bauble - an art-house diamond made of paste that somehow still gives you good glimmer for the money.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stop-Loss
    Heavy metal, alt-pop, southern rock, orchestral swells, wailing Middle Eastern tunes all vie for our attention, but none of this noise drowns out the sound of good intentions twisting themselves into an impotent knot.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Superhero Movie
    How can you tell the target age for Superhero Movie is exactly 13 1/2 years? Because most of the jokes are Internet-related.
  25. Alexandra
    Alexandra is a pleasure to watch, but it's also one of those lovely, unclassifiable movies that flourishes better with repeated or prolonged exposures.
  26. Drillbit Taylor
    Drillbit Taylor sounds like a rediscovered blaxploitation movie or a name near the top of the NFL draft.
  27. The Grand
    A defective poker comedy where the poker is a lot more interesting than the people playing it.
  28. Shelter
    Shelter is a gay movie like other American gay movies. Boy meets boy. Boy comes out. Boys fight opposition. Opposition caves. If there's life beyond the closet, too few movies know it exists.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Meet the Browns
    The women of Perry's army will come out feeling they've been well-served, and for the rest of us there's Bassett, getting her groove back after a spate of less than worthy roles. Perry's getting his groove, too - I give him two more films and an A-list cameraman.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shutter
    If Shutter is any indication, the reputation of professional photographers is still on the wane. Not only are photographs creepy, the film suggests, but so are photographers.
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