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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. Love Songs
    Sings in the key of life.
  2. Planet B-Boy
    It looks great and the dancing is the kind of stuff that would upstage the average pop star.
  3. Irina Palm
    Doesn't deliver on a lot of fronts. But then again it gives us full-on Faithfull, who manages to bare herself completely without ever actually getting undressed.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Under the Same Moon (La misma luna)
    The result is a genuinely cathartic night at the movies - which is one of the reasons we go to them in the first place. Art it ain't, but popcorn is rarely this skilled or seductive.
  5. Doomsday
    Marshall reveals himself to be a terrific showman of chaos and comic savagery. This is Baz Luhrmann's "Mad Max."
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Horton Hears a Who!
    It's a tough balancing act and probably a futile one. As greedily as Hollywood looks upon these books as a franchise to strip-mine, the hard fact remains that what's good about them - Ted Geisel's untrendy gentleness, humor, and intelligence - resists translation to the big screen.
  7. Never Back Down
    The movie is just a cheesy, preposterous, semi-eroticized way of yelling, "Fight! Fight!," when two people go at it in the school cafeteria.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    On Broadway
    The heart of On Broadway is in the right place. But when the story behind a film is more interesting than what's on the screen, that's a problem.
  9. Sleepwalking
    The movie seems terrified of true psychological complexity or perversity. It's less a family tragedy than a lousy country dirge.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Funny Games (2008)
    If this is daring in theory, it's a failure in practice. Exactingly well-made, the movie is grueling and unpleasant in the extreme - that's the point - but it's also working from a specious premise, that film-school Brechtian devices can bring on mass enlightenment.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    10,000 BC
    So, yea, it is a stinker. But it is prophesied that in six months time you shall come across 10,000 B.C.’ in the land of Pay-Per-View. And you shall say: ‘‘Pass the popcorn.’’
  12. The Bank Job
    The movie doesn't hang together as a thriller, and the characters don't hang together as interesting people.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    College Road Trip
    Highly formulaic, make-'em-laugh-then-make-'em-cry comedy.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Married Life
    Albeit slumming with style and a fairly sharp scalpel. Married Life delights in peeling back the bright postwar social veneer to expose the characters' hidden agendas, and if this is a mystery movie, the mystery is other people.
  15. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
    It's polished-looking, yet dull.
  16. Paranoid Park
    Slight but fascinating.
  17. Snow Angels
    I left as frustrated as that band teacher is at the beginning of the movie. Enough with these meek, banal exercises, David Gordon Green. Hit me with the sledgehammer in your heart.
  18. CJ7
    CJ7 is precisely the 80-something minutes of delirium and cheesy special-effects you'd expect from the man responsible for the chaos of "Shaolin Soccer" and the lunacy of "Kung Fu Hustle."
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Girls Rock!
    How are girls supposed to behave in a culture that tells them they're Disney princesses for the first 12 years and sex toys after that? Girls Rock! has one answer: Strap on a Fender and rage against the machine.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blindsight
    The movie is about hope and courage and fortitude. It's about beating the odds and defying expectations. But Lucy Walker's movie is also about whether the trip was a good idea in the first place. The answer is compellingly complicated.
  21. City of Men
    The movie has a dramatic thinness, breezy tone, and unconvincing happy-ish ending that make it feel more inconsequential than anything about killers and imperiled children probably should.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chicago 10
    The result is Grade-A agitpop, a mixture of archival footage and cheeky, creative animated reconstruction that's funny and frightening in equal measure.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Other Boleyn Girl
    Not good enough to take seriously and, sadly, not bad enough to be any fun.
  24. Penelope
    This story could have gone in a number of more inspiring allegorical directions but winds up your average bedtime story instead.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Semi-Pro
    The problem with Semi-Pro is that it keeps forgetting it's a parody of sports movies; the final scenes are supposed to be uplifting (sort of) but they're not fooling anyone. The film's much better when it just lets the guys gas and sass each other.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Unforeseen
    The film's case against overdevelopment needs to be, and could be, aggressive, airtight. It should play to the unconverted. Instead, The Unforeseen gives us . . . poetry.
  27. Chop Shop
    Everything about Chop Shop is modest - the movie's scale, the characters' ambitions. Another director might have tried to nudge the film's grim detours toward tragedy. And that might have worked, too. But Bahrani is a refreshingly deceptive director in that sense.
  28. Charlie Bartlett
    What the movie lacks in technical polish (it's not very handsome-looking) and dramatic perfection, it makes up for in unusual social sophistication.
  29. The Signal
    The Signal is like a Romero zombie movie in which the zombies aren't dead, they're just really temperamental. Evil here is technology-born. Maybe our cellphones and satellite dishes are giving us all the crazy.
  30. Be Kind Rewind
    It's refreshing to see Gondry's moviemaking still possessed by the community spirit he caught a few years ago with "Dave Chappelle's Block Party."
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