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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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  1. 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.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  13. 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.
  18. 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.
    • 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  27. 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.
  29. Rendition
    Rendition is a reminder that, in the wrong hands, political outrage can be a slog.
  30. 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.
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