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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  7. Starting Out in the Evening
    A gentle collection of scenes that work and scenes that don't.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  13. This Christmas
    One of those overstaffed, overstuffed "when do we eat?" holiday dramedies. Call it a double-extra-strength episode of "Soul Food."
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beowulf
    Not all of it works - and not all of it works the way the target audience of jacked-up young males might want it to - but the movie is hugely provocative fun, and I'm pretty sure that's on purpose.
  15. Love in the Time of Cholera
    Little of the fragile wisdom with which García Márquez imbued that idea has survived this timid Hollywood treatment.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Margot at the Wedding
    A broader work than Baumbach's last movie, and it's funnier, too, even as you gasp at the misbehavior.
  17. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
    About a magical toy shop, but it has some of the sadder moments I've seen in a movie all year.
  18. Southland Tales
    Richard Kelly's Southland Tales isn't just a movie. It's an apocalyptic piñata that's been bazooka-ed open.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    No Country for Old Men
    The Coens also understand the stark immediacy of this tale, and they visualize it with brilliantly judged details.
  20. Fred Claus
    Fred Claus sells you something you didn't know you wanted: a Vince Vaughn Christmas movie. Vaughn is not the hook. Neither is the holiday. The script, by Dan Fogelman, is smarter than that.
  21. Lions for Lambs
    It does not feel good to report that a movie with Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise makes the eyelids droop. But that's what Lions for Lambs does.
  22. P2
    Amid the dumbness and disgust for paying customers, the movie does manage to cough up something I didn't expect: a performance so terrible you can't quite believe it's happening: Bentley's.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    War Dance
    This War/Dance is among the most affecting films I've seen all year; it cuts to the core of being and gives individual faces to sorrow and to hope.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Life of Reilly
    This charming, bittersweet 90-minute monologue consists of the actor telling tales of his childhood and early years, when he was an ugly duckling from an uglier family. The anecdotes are bruisingly funny and delivered with clarity and light mockery.
  25. American Gangster
    The result is kitschy entertainment that wants to celebrate Lucas's chutzpah and acumen while loosely condemning what they wrought: "Scarface" with a ghost of a conscience.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bee Movie
    The movie's not even close to Pixar standards - the animation is slapdash and the story construction's a mess - but the vibe is loose-limbed and fluky, and the gags have an extra snap that's recognizably Seinfeldian.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Darfur Now
    Slick, impassioned, and guardedly upbeat, Ted Braun's film is a morale booster aimed at US audiences rather than the 2.5 million displaced Sudanese tribespeople whose villages have been destroyed and families slaughtered. That we need a pick-me-up more than they do is pathetic, but there you are.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
    The triumph of this fond, uncontainable documentary is that it lets you hear that voice again loud and clear.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Martian Child
    One soggy slab of sentimental uplift, but it doesn't pretend to be anything else, and there's some honor in that.
  30. Sharkwater
    Undersea photographer Rob Stewart, who directed, wrote, narrated, stars in, and helped shoot Sharkwater, really, really loves sharks. He also fears for their future on the planet. His lively documentary makes you see why, on both counts.
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