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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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    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
    A dull little PG-rated spook story for tweener girls.
  2. 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.
  5. 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.
  7. 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.
  9. Terror's Advocate
    Outrageous controversialist meets brilliant attorney, and fact intertwines with fiction.
  10. Why Did I Get Married?
    The most disappointing thing here, besides Perry's ongoing visual impairment (he deserves better cinematography and editing) is Scott.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  15. 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.
  19. Kurt Cobain About a Son
    A lovely piece of filmmaking, a gripping, minimalist marriage of sound and image.
  20. The Darjeeling Limited
    You have to admire that someone thought it’d be cool to assemble three of the movies’ most fascinating noses for a 90-minute romp.
  21. Trade
    Human trafficking is an awful societal issue, and Trade happens to be an awful movie about human trafficking.
  22. Feast of Love
    The bodies are athletic, young, and white, and yet this is not the sport sex we usually see in Hollywood movies. It's the sex of adulation. Sometimes the director Robert Benton goes heavy on the hydraulic positioning, but his movie is scarcely mechanical.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Game Plan
    It's painless, especially if you have a small child in tow, and the Rock, bless his heart, acts like it's all new to him. The star should do more comedy - he's got quick reflexes and a face that lends itself to cartoon double takes, and he's not afraid to look completely ridiculous.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Kingdom
    The movie ends on a plaintive can’t-we-all-get-along note, but at heart it’s a Charles Bronson flick. It mashes the revenge button the real world won’t let us push.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lust, Caution
    Lust, Caution is a disappointment coming from director Ang Lee, but it's a watchable one, and it rattles around in your head for a long time after you've seen it, as much for what it does right as for where it goes wrong.
  26. The Price of Sugar
    Offers yet another example of how a lot of what we consume is produced at somebody else's expense. In this case, it's sugar.
  27. Outsourced
    A sweetly acted and neatly executed social comedy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Into the Wild
    One such paradox, which Into the Wild doesn't note, is that those who flee civilization more often than not bring it with them. The bus in which Christopher McCandless died is now a tourist destination.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Winter
    The Last Winter sounds like a genre-movie platypus - a little bit of this, a little piece of that - but it stops short of laying an egg. In fact, it works eerily well.
  30. Good Luck Chuck
    This is less an affront to women than it is to comedy.
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