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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. Cassandra's Dream
    The movie is actually a softer treatment of the similar sibling anguish in Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead." Allen isn't enough of a great dark artist to pull off a full-scale tragedy the way Lumet does.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cloverfield
    Cloverfield is content to be a creature feature; that's what makes it bearable and what keeps it from greatness. The genre, not the script, does the psychological heavy lifting.
  3. Mad Money
    This is the feistiest Hollywood movie about American women and their thankless jobs since "9 to 5."
  4. 27 Dresses
    A sporadically entertaining cupcake of a movie.
  5. Taxi to the Dark Side
    The film quickly becomes one of the most powerful, carefully researched investigations of the moral-legal side effects of current American military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's terrifying in a way that sneaks up on you.
  6. First Sunday
    A sorry excuse for a ghetto SOS.
  7. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
    This is the sort of movie where men stand blankly over dead loved ones, then start digging. Masculine stoicism or emotional botox? You decide.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
    Simple without being simple-minded, warm without worrying too much about being cool. It's agreeably silly fare for the very small set and not so noisy that parents can't either follow along or take a quick nap.
  9. One Missed Call
    One Missed Call was originally a so-so Takashi Miike freak-out. Now it's a worse-worse American eyesore.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Honeydripper
    Has John Sayles finally lost his mojo? How anyone could take a subject like the moment the Delta blues went electric and suck the joy and fury out of it is anybody's guess, but the talky, dull "Honeydripper" represents playwriting rather than filmmaking. And didactic playwriting at that.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Orphanage
    The Orphanage gets by on mood and a mournfulness that's not easily soothed. Sadness and loss, it says, are the threads connecting the spirit world and our own, and women, who bring life into the world, understand that far better than men ever will.
  12. There Will Be Blood
    There Will Be Blood" is anti-state of the art. It's the work of an analog filmmaker railing against an increasingly digitized world. In that sense, the movie is idiosyncratic, too: vintage visionary stuff.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
    The problem with the "Alien vs. Predator" series is that the humans keep getting in the way.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Persepolis
    They're both tales of growing up in the shadow of Islamic fundamentalism, but Persepolis is everything "The Kite Runner" is not. It's a personal memoir rather than fiction, coolly observant instead of melodramatic, female rather than male in sensibility and sense of humor - it has a sense of humor.
  15. The Bucket List
    In The Bucket List, Nicholson is human-ish. And Freeman is so human.
  16. The Great Debaters
    For a film about the power of speech, it's the quiet moments of rapture that say everything.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Water Horse
    If you want to take the kids to a cockle-warming tale of humans and computer-generated critters, do yourself a favor: Skip the singing rodents and head for the baby Loch Ness Monster in The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.
  18. P.S. I Love You
    Blithely inept.
  19. Charlie Wilson's War
    Is, in its way, an apolitical comedy about politics. Or at least a naïve one, since those weapons likely eventually made their way into the hands of Al Qaeda.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    National Treasure: Book of Secrets
    Often as noisy, dippy, and enjoyable as 2004's "National Treasure," and when it's not, it's just another sequel, more absurd than most.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Sweeney Todd comes as close to raging at normalcy as Burton has dared. It's no coincidence that the rage is borrowed from a greater artist.
  22. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    The first 30 or so minutes of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story condense the entire Hollywood biopic genre into a sweet chewable tablet. It's the Flintstones vitamin of spoofs.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alvin and the Chipmunks
    Like most family movies these days, "Alvin" is torn between the glitz that sells and the homilies that endure. It's a load of Ting Tang Wallet-Wallet Bling Blang.
  24. I Am Legend
    It's neither a neat little allegory about faith nor a transcendently entertaining one. I Am Legend is actually about the last man on earth played by one of the last real movie stars on earth. To be honest, Smith was all I was thinking about while I sat through I Am Legend.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Kite Runner
    I'm of two minds about this. A movie that held on to all the breathless tearjerkery of the novel would probably have to star Bette Davis as Amir, but as amended by Forster the story is now touching and somewhat dull.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Youth Without Youth
    At its best, the movie's crazy in unexpected and poetic ways; at its worst, merely preposterous.
  27. The Perfect Holiday
    You want to make lemonade from this, but even the lemons stink.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nanking
    Thorough and sadly engrossing documentary.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Atonement
    The movie never goes as deep as the novel (no movie could), but it's a worthy approximation: a Merchant-Ivory movie that turns in on itself with a lucid and painful sigh.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Golden Compass
    At times you feel Weitz flipping the pages and dog-earing wildly, and that's a shame: This is a movie that needs to be lengthy and discursive, the better to duck into the back alleys of its invention. A visionary is required. This director isn't one.
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