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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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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  7. 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.
  9. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Drillbit Taylor
    Drillbit Taylor sounds like a rediscovered blaxploitation movie or a name near the top of the NFL draft.
  15. The Grand
    A defective poker comedy where the poker is a lot more interesting than the people playing it.
  16. 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.
  19. Love Songs
    Sings in the key of life.
  20. Planet B-Boy
    It looks great and the dancing is the kind of stuff that would upstage the average pop star.
  21. 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.
  23. 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.
  25. 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.
  27. 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.’’
  30. The Bank Job
    The movie doesn't hang together as a thriller, and the characters don't hang together as interesting people.
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