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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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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  8. 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.
  11. 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.
  13. Hot Rod
    If the movie weren't so playfully dumb -- did you ever think you'd see Ian McShane throw Andy Samberg through a basement shelving unit? -- this would be exasperating.
  14. Underdog
    Underdog! Rest assured, there is no superhero cliche left unchewed; they even manage to slide in a "Lady and the Tramp" homage while they're at it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    El cantante
    Ideally, it would give you a sense of an entire people knocking the planet off its axis with a shake of their hips. If only El Cantante were that movie. Instead, it's a curiously sludgy cross between a Doomed Star biopic and a J. Lo vanity project.
  16. No End in Sight
    Ferguson's film is a clear-sighted counterpoint to the former secretary of defense's impression. As the title suggests, it's a seemingly infinite mess.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Know Who Killed Me
    An intensely unpleasant killer-thriller mystery.
  18. Molière
    Showing up for Molière eager for the story of one of the theater's greatest comedy writers would be unwise. It's not that kind of party.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    No Reservations
    The movie's pleasant and light, though, and its emotional crises are the crust on an acceptably edible crème brulee.
  20. The Simpsons Movie
    It would be a stretch to call The Simpsons Movie more than a crisper, livelier-looking episode of the series. The change in mediums changes nothing.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is England
    As its title implies, This Is England isn't a hyperstylized head-trip a la "Trainspotting" but a straightforward calling to account.
  22. Who's Your Caddy?
    As it develops, Who's Your Caddy? just becomes depressing. You want to alert the United Negro College Fund: A mind has terribly gone to waste.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Arctic Tale
    Arctic Tale has a very precise audience in mind: Young children who aren't yet ready for the graphs and sociopolitical alarm bells of "An Inconvenient Truth."
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Devil Came on Horseback
    Too often the movies view the problems of Africa through Western eyes, but "Devil" turns that weakness to a literal strength, because Steidle could do nothing in his position except take photographs.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goya's Ghosts
    An overstuffed turkey that's entertaining for all the wrong reasons.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hairspray
    If you look fast, you'll see Waters himself in a cameo (as a flasher; what else?), proof the new film is in touch with its dyed roots.
  27. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    Broad and badly made but sporadically inspired, "Chuck and Larry" is still an amazing improvement over "License to Wed," this month's other wedding comedy.
  28. Sunshine
    If their movie doesn't float your boat as a work of science-fiction, action, philosophy, heliocentrism, or staggering visual spectacle (although, it really should), then it certainly succeeds as a parable for cinematic ambition.
  29. Live-In Maid
    Quite easily Live-in Maid could have descended into a kind of Joan Crawford-Bette Davis gorgon salute. But everyone here seems way too smart for that, though apparently the movie is being prepped for an English-language version. So beware.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Interview
    One comes away from Interview exhausted and a little unclean, entertained by the acting equivalent of a pit bull fight but needing a hose-down. The movie confirms that in every relationship "there are winners and losers." True enough, but for the audience this one's a draw.
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