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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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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    Compact, nasty, and altogether wonderful, a tale of brotherly greed and New York comeuppance that shows an old dog dusting off old tricks using new technology.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bella
    In this bilingual morality movie about love, family, and fate, however, the unpredictability turns out to be highly predictable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dan in Real Life
    There's a great movie to be had in the notion of a busybody whose advice keeps blowing up in his face, but Dan in Real Life merely sets it up and walks away.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
    A documentary that falls somewhere between overlong and compelling as it follows the 39th president on his controversial book tour.
  5. Music Within
    It's everything it ought to be: right-minded, well-intentioned, compassionate. But it doesn't rise above made-for-cable public service announcement, either.
  6. Saw IV
    Getting to the true root of his evil may necessitate "Saw LX."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lynch
    Lynch (one) may be the documentary David Lynch wants, but I'm not sure it's the one he or we deserve.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    30 Days of Night
    A proficient, atmospheric fangfest that does nothing you haven't seen before but still does it passably well.
  9. The Comebacks
    As dumb spoofs go, The Comebacks isn't bad. It takes almost every sports movie of the last five years ("Field of Dreams," too) and blends them into a single slapdash comedy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gone Baby Gone
    The joke's on us, it turns out; as a director, Affleck has come through with a sharp, morally ambiguous piece of pulp crackerjack.
  11. Rendition
    Rendition is a reminder that, in the wrong hands, political outrage can be a slog.
  12. Reservation Road
    The real problem with this movie isn't its trashy side - the "Death Wish" stuff is actually suspenseful. It's the creepy note of causal judgment that hangs over it.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
    A dull little PG-rated spook story for tweener girls.
  14. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Were there such a thing as a low-carb melodrama, Things We Lost in the Fire would be it - all the tears, half the guilt.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wristcutters: A Love Story
    Turns out to be a sweetly grim lark: a road film through Limbo. It takes the self-pity associated with ending one's life and uses it for the purposes of mordantly aware comic fantasy.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    O Jerusalem
    Alas, it aspires to be an epic drama but suffers from an acute identity crisis: It can't decide if it wants to be history, drama, or a cry for peace in the Mideast.
  17. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    Historians might demand a little more history from Elizabeth: The Golden Age. But soap opera loyalists could hardly ask for more soap.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Final Season
    The movie is decent and heartfelt, and it eventually settles into some sharp diamond action, but the small-town homilies are dropped like an anvil. If you thought 1993's "Rudy" was too spare and unsentimental, Final Season is for you.
  19. Lars and the Real Girl
    When a movie about a guy who orders a sex doll off the Internet can turn vice into virtue, something miraculous has occurred. Lars and the Real Girl achieves that kind of miracle.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sleuth
    The new version is a shiny piece of hardware that might as well be called "Sleuth 2.0," and it's exactly what you would expect from Pinter: very clever, extremely cold. Maliciously entertaining, too, until the halfway point, when you suddenly start wondering why anyone should care.
  21. Terror's Advocate
    Outrageous controversialist meets brilliant attorney, and fact intertwines with fiction.
  22. Why Did I Get Married?
    The most disappointing thing here, besides Perry's ongoing visual impairment (he deserves better cinematography and editing) is Scott.
  23. We Own the Night
    The movie's climactic car chase is as absurdly thrilling as it is innovative. Set almost silently in a blue-gray daytime downpour, it has a tough, improvisatory danger that makes the movie. If John Coltrane went in for action sequences, he'd have dug this one.
  24. King Corn
    It's fair to say that a meaner documentary might have packed more punch. But it's hard to imagine Michael Moore turning out anything that feels as pleasantly nourishing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Control
    The result is both a surprisingly lucid portrayal of clinical depression and dramatically a bit stiff.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Feel the Noise
    Old story, new beat: That sums up Feel the Noise, an acceptable if resolutely average low-budget drama set in the New York/Puerto Rican musical melting pot known as reggaeton.
  27. The Heartbreak Kid
    This remake is ultimately content to be repugnant.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Michael Clayton
    Michael Clayton is about the gap between predatory professionalism and the sins of real life - about how those sins can corrode the hardest business suit of armor.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    The producers - Fox Films and the usually reliable Walden Media - have tried to gin up the story for multiplex audiences. They've succeeded in making a movie for no audience at all.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lake of Fire
    After 152 epic minutes, ‘Lake of Fire’ comes down to this: If you’re not living this woman’s life, maybe you shouldn’t tell her what to do.
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