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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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    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Resident Evil: Extinction
    This version 3.0 needs an upgrade.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sydney White
    Sydney White makes "Mean Girls" look like Shakespeare.
  3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    The movie dreamily conjures up the outlaw's last months, and it's gorgeous, but long, cumbersome, and slightly shallow.
  4. The Jane Austen Book Club
    It's a lot like a pumpkin spice frappuccino with extra sugar and extra cream. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll leave with foam on your nose. So cute. As a friend said on the way out: At least no books were harmed in the making of this movie. And he's right. But that's only because no one really tried.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Across the Universe
    Hobbled by its vaguely insulting comic-book version of the '60s and by a humorlessness that can only come from talented people convinced they're creating work for the ages.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    December Boys
    A problematic memory play, shot through with honey-colored nostalgia, that backs nervously into darker matters.
  7. Dragon Wars: D-War
    You don't have to hand the folks behind Dragon Wars much (the acting, directing, costumes, editing, props, music, etc: They're all off). But when they decide to sic that giant snake and those prehistoric dino-birds on downtown Los Angeles, the movie turns shockingly watchable.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eastern Promises
    This is the first time, though, his (Mortensen)performance seemed so much bigger than the film surrounding it. That he manages the feat with so few wasted gestures puts him in line with the greats.
  9. In the Valley of Elah
    Paul Haggis switches from the problem of racism to the problem of Iraq. The war is a better fit. None of the exasperating guilt on display in "Crash" has made it into In the Valley of Elah, a solidly made genre movie: the Army mystery.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    King of California
    A flaky, tedious, intermittently likable fable about being crazy in a crazy world.
  11. Mr. Woodcock
    The film logs almost all of its laughs when it's at its crudest, meanest, and most unfiltered. Everything else - and that is to say most of the movie - is a big, fat, derivative waste of time.
  12. The Brave One
    The movie itself isn't nearly as interesting as whatever it is Foster is trying to work out for its two hours.
  13. The Rape of Europa
    Here the result is often disjointed and frustrating. That 2,000 people lived in the cellars of the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad is certainly remarkable but not altogether germane to the fate of art during the war.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
    So there's a hole at the center of "Pete Seeger" that the movie fills with loving remembrances, testimonials, and new interview footage of the singer at his hand-built cabin in upstate New York.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    3:10 to Yuma
    Both actors are among the best, most intuitively creative we have, and whatever transpires offscreen in Crowe’s case, onscreen they only serve their characters. Neither man showboats here, and it’s a thrill to watch them work.
  16. Fierce People
    The platitudes in this gratuitously sentimental movie are taken a lot more seriously than the people.
  17. In the Shadow of the Moon
    It's so simple, so obvious - and a revelation.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Romance & Cigarettes
    A hilarious, touching, and (except for a dip into melodrama near the end) skillful blend of subtle emotional depths and a dazzlingly playful surface.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shoot 'Em Up
    Absolutely not for feminists, lovers of period films, and anyone whose sensibilities are bruised by over-the-top stuntwork, it's a cocktail made up of three parts testosterone to one part brains.
  20. The Brothers Solomon
    This new goof might have been funnier still if the premise weren't so derivative, so just been there, done that.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunting Party
    Genocide is hard to decorate with the trimmings of dark farce. The Hunting Party wants to get at political truths through audaciousness, but it keeps bumping into that problem of taste, only to back down.
  22. Milarepa
    Despite timely and worthwhile subject matter, there is nothing very inspired or inspiring in what makes it to the screen. Maybe they're saving all of that for the sequel, too.
  23. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    Garlin's movie is beautiful in its own way. It also suggests that David's show would still be brilliant without the aggravation. I'm not saying that David should renounce misanthropy. But maybe he could curb less of Garlin's apparent enthusiasm for people.
  24. Death Sentence
    The cynics will slap their foreheads, the squeamish will cover their eyes, but the revenge movie fanatics should be nice and satisfied after the whole ordeal.
  25. Halloween (2007)
    As with Zombie's two previous schlock horror features, "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects," the atmosphere here isn't so much tense and jolting as unnervingly weird and gory, but it's effective.
  26. Exiled
    This intriguing story, like many tales of mid-20th-century American art, is fueled by testosterone.
  27. Self Medicated
    It's worth noting that the movie's spiritual underpinnings are sometimes fairly subtle and other times veer into "Touched by an Angel" territory. The third act is downright Bible-thumping.
  28. Balls of Fury
    The movie flaunts its ridiculousness and offers a relentless string of jokes about blindness, groin-bashing, and bodily odors.
  29. Dedication
    Unlike most of what Moore has been in, Dedication is unlikely to delight retirement homes on movie night. But it's not imaginative, lively, or true enough to speak to its intended audience of American Apparel shoppers, either. It's a slog.
  30. Deep Water
    Deep Water, which had seemed like a sort of Conrad novel, takes on the aspect of Dickens at his darkest.
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