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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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  1. 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.
  6. Joshua
    Joshua is the sort of movie in which nobody does what you would do: like spank or demand an extra-strength time out.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  10. Transformers
    Partly impressive, partly inane buck-banging toy of a movie.
  11. 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.
  12. Ratatouille
    All the voice work here is excellent, especially Oswalt's. He sounds like Paul Giamatti but with a greater capacity for confidence.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sicko
    Sicko is Moore's best, most focused movie to date -- much more persuasive than the enraged and self-righteous "Fahrenheit 9/11."
  14. Evening
    Whatever Evening is saying about life, death, and guilt isn't terribly new or interesting.
  15. Vitus
    "Joshua" is a horror movie that doesn't want to freak you out too much. Vitus freaks you out, but its makers seem to have no idea that it does.
  16. Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox
    Alternately shows the elder Bronner as lovable and nutty, sinister and terrifying, victim and victimizer. Ultimately, those disparate elements never coalesce.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Live Free or Die Hard
    Sorry, boys. After two decades, the first film still does more with one skyscraper than Live Free or Die Hard does with an entire country.
  18. 1408
    As thrillers go, 1408 leaves too much room for fun.
  19. Evan Almighty
    Only in the last 30 minutes does Evan Almighty put his gifts to decent use. Epically hairy and biblically robed, Carell suggests at that point what a bolder, more psychologically serious treatment of religious conviction would have been like.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Mighty Heart
    I almost wish A Mighty Heart were about the Captain, and I'd bet director Michael Winterbottom does, too. The character contains all the contradictory impulses of this region of the world that the West tries and miserably fails to boil down to black and white.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Broken English
    A conventional New York-lonely hearts story made watchable by one element and one element only: Parker Posey.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lady Chatterley
    Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley is sensual in escalating degrees of heat, but the film's eroticism, which is substantial, is laid on with a caress. The movie's a slow-motion swoon back into Eden -- a nature documentary about humans -- and it's hypnotic.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    You Kill Me
    It's a predictable but acridly pleasant 12-step bonbon: self-help noir.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Manufactured Landscapes
    An eloquent ecological warning.
  25. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    The early dilemma in "Rise of the Silver Surfer " is this: Save the world or marry Jessica Alba . Your conscience says, "Save the world." But the Maxim reader in you knows better.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nancy Drew
    The movie's fodder for tweener girls with indiscriminate Nick TV addictions, but there's just enough wit on display to make you realize it could have been worse.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eagle vs Shark
    Watching Eagle vs Shark is like sitting next to a terminally awkward first date at a restaurant. You cringe and feel protective toward the poor, sweet dweebs at the same time.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fido
    Andrew Currie's stylish satire falls into the narrower niche of zombie farce, as pioneered by "Shaun of the Dead ," "Slither," Robert Rodriguez's half of "Grindhouse."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    This is music to gorge on, raw ethnic survival in the form of sound.
  30. Ocean's Thirteen
    Breezy humor and a dazzling heist keep 'Ocean' franchise in the money.
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