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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  19. My Best Friend
    Leconte's writing is tight and nimble, and while the tests of the duo's friendship are facile, under the circumstances, they make sense. The bond between Francois and Bruno approximates the real thing; Leconte seems to be arguing that you can grow a flower from fake soil.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Talk to Me
    Especially wonderful is Taraji P. Henson as Petey's longtime girlfriend Vernell , a vision in Foxy Brown period clothes with a pixie smile, lollipop legs, and a filthy mouth. After "Hustle & Flow ," this is at least the second movie Henson has stolen, and will Hollywood please do something about it?
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Time
    Kim is a hard director to pin down. This is the first time the inconsistency has spilled onto the screen, though.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Captivity
    A wan, derivative entry in the torture-porn cycle.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Darker, leaner, less expansive , and meaner, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is all business, and it casts a spell utterly unlike the first four films.
  24. Joshua
    Joshua is the sort of movie in which nobody does what you would do: like spank or demand an extra-strength time out.
  25. The Method
    The movie doesn't trust that an illuminating comedy of pathetic people can be entertaining for long, so it sprinkles some hormones on the proceedings.
  26. Introducing the Dwights
    Nothing about this movie works, not the title (it used to be called "Clubland "), not Blethyn's attempt to inject comedy into her rickety stereotype of a character.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rescue Dawn
    The question remains: Why would Herzog want to dramatize what he has already captured as nonfiction? To better control the material, I think, and to bring it in line with his own obsessions.
  28. Transformers
    Partly impressive, partly inane buck-banging toy of a movie.
  29. License to Wed
    If unused spit takes, flubbed dialogue, and extra improvisation are so uproarious, why not give us 90 minutes of that? License to Wed is tolerable for about five.
  30. Ratatouille
    All the voice work here is excellent, especially Oswalt's. He sounds like Paul Giamatti but with a greater capacity for confidence.
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