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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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    • 7 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hottie & the Nottie
    You've seen dozens of movies like this on cable in the wee hours.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In Bruges
    Fiennes's energy gets the film over the finish line.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    The movie's amiable, impulsive, intense, and scattershot, and since those are qualities associated with Vaughn himself, in the end it's a fair representation.
  4. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    This is one of those your-roots-are-showing family circuses where just about everybody seems like a clown.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Caramel
    Warmly shot (by Yves Sehnaoui) and comes with a strong, burbling soundtrack of Arab pop; it slides down easily and occasionally too easily.
  6. The Eye
    Their movie is watchable - never more gratuitously so than when Alba is filmed showering and slipping into a tank top. But we've been here before, no?
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
    She has boundless energy, a wardrobe that won't quit, and enough real teenager in her to come across as more than a mere Disney creation.
  8. Over Her Dead Body
    Over Her Dead Body is to romantic comedy what Spam is to meat. But at least with Spam, you get cool packaging.
  9. Praying with Lior
    There's an honest, unfiltered quality to what you see and hear.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Strange Wilderness
    By far the funniest part of Strange Wilderness is the trailer for "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" that's running before it.
  11. The Witnesses
    This is the epidemic from love's point of view, a story as much about how the disease can ravage the heart as it does the body. It is also Téchiné's best film since 1998's superb "Alice et Martin," and 1994's even better "Wild Reeds."
  12. Rambo
    Rambo isn't dull. It is, however, often murkily directed, a real shortcoming in an action movie. In the big rescue-the-prisoners sequence, it's very hard to keep track of who is doing what to whom where.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How She Move
    When the cast starts clomping atop a car, their synchronized bodies joining with the booming cross-rhythms, we're sold.
  14. Meet the Spartans
    The best thing in Meet the Spartans is the swift kick in the bombast it delivers to the oh-no-not-us homoeroticism of "300."
  15. Untraceable
    It's a warmed-over suspense thriller that's more disturbing than it is surprising or scary.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    Writer-director Cristian Mungiu confirms the Romanian cinema renaissance while creating a paradoxical marvel: a bleak tale of illegal abortion that powerfully affirms one's faith in people.
  17. U2 3D
    They may not be as cool as Bono's fly shades, but the plastic yellow glasses required for viewing U23D supply an amazing fly-on-the-amp view of the Irish rockers in their natural habitat.
  18. Teeth
    Teeth is the "Incredible Hulk" of sex satires.
  19. 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.
  21. Mad Money
    This is the feistiest Hollywood movie about American women and their thankless jobs since "9 to 5."
  22. 27 Dresses
    A sporadically entertaining cupcake of a movie.
  23. 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.
  24. First Sunday
    A sorry excuse for a ghetto SOS.
  25. 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.
  27. 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.
  30. 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.
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