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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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    • 40 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Illegal Tender
    The movie's a genuine oddity: a Latino action drama with one foot in bullet-spitting genre flicks -- '70s blaxploitation and '80s coke-kingpin films are the primary reference points -- and the other in raggedly personal family melodrama.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mr. Bean's Vacation
    Either you'll find the man hilarious -- or he'll seem like one of those awful, tedious comedians who only THINKS he's hilarious.
  3. The Nanny Diaries
    The movie's banal fantasies badly chafe any anthropological consideration of what a girl should do with her career. This isn't life. It's Lifetime.
  4. Resurrecting the Champ
    If most boxing movies are about redemption, Resurrecting the Champ is a boxing movie that goes to exasperating lengths to redeem its boxing writer.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Right at Your Door
    The film is low budget but puffed with self-importance, and it offers proof that Hollywood filmmakers should probably steer clear of topics that actually matter.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    September Dawn
    The movie isn't THAT bad -- it's just made-for-TV historical treacle that has somehow found its way to the big screen (and barely that; if you want to be moved or outraged by the film, you'll have to travel to Danvers or Revere).
  7. War
    Fun here is fleeting.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hottest State
    When Laura Linney turns up about an hour into The Hottest State, you can see the movie that might have been.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hannah Takes the Stairs
    Shot with intentionally banal anti-style - minimal soundtrack music, found sound, jitter-cam - the movie achieves a wisdom that's bigger than it seems.
  10. Superbad
    As films about the young and the horny go, I preferred the smarter approach director Jeffrey Blitz takes in "Rocket Science."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Death at a Funeral
    Death" builds slowly and inexorably to a comic explosion that's just too good -- too insanely, impossibly mortifying -- to spoil here. Let's just say it dwarfs everything that has come before it.
  12. Them
    Technique is all you have to admire. There's nothing underneath the formal exercise. The film's coyness about what's happening is cheap.
  13. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    The title is Portuguese for "send a bullet" and the clever American tag line is "the rich steal from the poor; the poor steal the rich."
  14. The 11th Hour
    The word bears repeating, so everyone from Andrew Weil to Stephen Hawking to Mikhail Gorbachev is here to speak the still-inconvenient truth. The filmmaking, however, is far more relentless than in that Oscar-winning Al Gore slide show.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Invasion
    Buried somewhere within the bipolar extravaganza that is The Invasion is an awfully good movie that got away.
  16. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    A portrait of two different men whose compulsion for Donkey Kong is hilarious.
  17. The Last Legion
    The film is nothing to be ashamed of (especially if you're Kingsley). But it's as if everybody involved knows what the deal is.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Delirious
    Everyone here is obsessed with finding "the real thing" - the next hot actor, the next revealing paparazzi shot, the lover or the friend who'll make it all worthwhile. Everyone settles for the illusion of reality instead. It's prettier, and it doesn't hurt so much.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Skinwalkers
    Watching the movie is a little like picking up issue #42 of a comic book after you've skipped the first 41: There's an entire back story mythos hovering in the background like a phantom limb.
  20. 2 Days in Paris
    Here's all you really need to know in order to determine whether Julie Delpy's 2 Days in Paris is something you need to experience for yourself: Her blond hair is often all frizz, and she prefers glasses with a big black frame. She's Mia AND Woody.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rocket Science
    When it's not opting for whimsy, Rocket Science makes you cringe, which is what's good about it.
  22. Rush Hour 3
    Rush Hour 3 reminds us that Tucker is an utterly strange entertainment phenomenon: He exists only in the world of these movies.
  23. Stardust
    Stardust certainly could have gone somewhere fun. But the magic and zip you need to get a blimp like this off the ground is scarce.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Daddy Day Camp
    Innocuous amusement for 5- to 8-year-olds and other people stuck in the anal stage of development.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In Paris
    Dans Paris provides a brooding, poetic echo - an after-dinner mint to a lasting meal.
  26. The Bourne Ultimatum
    The movies are smart -- smarter than you, but not in an off-putting way. Their basic appeal, especially this new one, is that Matt Damon’s killing machine, Jason Bourne, is the cleverest man on earth. And we thrill to his sense of superiority.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ten
    The Ten is a virtually snicker-free exercise in audience pain. It's less a movie than an endurance test.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Becoming Jane
    Anne Hathaway's Jane is headstrong and clever, balanced and true.
  29. La faute à Fidel!
    Brilliantly, the movie becomes a double coming-of-age story. The parents' political awakening parallels their daughter's.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bratz
    A live-action film based on a line of dolls, it's pure marketing chum for tweeners: a proudly shallow, purposefully bland ode to girly-girl narcissism. I could actually feel my brain stem shrivel up as I watched it.
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