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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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    • 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.
  3. The Bucket List
    In The Bucket List, Nicholson is human-ish. And Freeman is so human.
  4. 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.
  6. P.S. I Love You
    Blithely inept.
  7. 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.
  10. 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.
  12. 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.
  15. 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.
  19. Revolver
    The latest Guy Ritchie shoot-em-up, is a joke. You laugh with it but mostly at it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Juno
    That smart, hip, human comedy you've been waiting for all year.
  21. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    He even calls the majestic view from one of the hospital landings his Cinecittà, after the legendary Italian film studio. The movie is a Cinecittà of the mind.
  22. Awake
    The movie tries going for a laugh or two. It even makes stabs at irony. But since none of the story is suspenseful, remotely believable, or, at the very least, cheaply entertaining, who cares?
  23. Protagonist
    Amazingly, no one seems steeped in the salubrious self-explication of therapy. They just sound like very good storytellers.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Savages
    Smartly written and beautifully played, The Savages is about that point in life where you look around and realize that where you are is probably as far as you're going to get. In spite of this, the movie's a comedy, dry and humane.
  25. Starting Out in the Evening
    A gentle collection of scenes that work and scenes that don't.
  26. August Rush
    The Hollywood version of one of those fawning "60 Minutes" segments about musical prodigies. For most of it, I could hear the congested awe of Morley Safer.
  27. Enchanted
    The sight of Adams gliding and beaming and chirping in this movie - a self-mocking cartoon that transforms into an inspired live-action musical farce - is just about the happiest time I've had watching an actor do anything all year.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hitman
    There have been plenty of movies adapted from video games before, but Hitman may be the first one that actually feels like a computer wrote and directed it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I'm Not There.
    The strangest thing about Todd Haynes's new movie isn't that he cast six actors to play the various faces and phases of Bob Dylan. It's that he needed only six.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Mist
    The Mist doesn't provoke further thought; it provokes active annoyance at being punished in the service of a pulp morality tale with pretensions.
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