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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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    • 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."
  2. Evening
    Whatever Evening is saying about life, death, and guilt isn't terribly new or interesting.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 1408
    As thrillers go, 1408 leaves too much room for fun.
  7. 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.
  13. 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.
  18. Ocean's Thirteen
    Breezy humor and a dazzling heist keep 'Ocean' franchise in the money.
  19. Hostel: Part II
    The moviemaking is driven only by contempt; he (Roth) wants to nauseate us into submission.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Surf's Up
    The most colorful of the penguin 'toons to date, both figuratively and literally.
  21. La Vie en Rose
    If even half of Olivier Dahan's robust film about Piaf's life is true -- and let's face it, much remains shrouded in myth and mystery -- it's a wonder she could get dressed in the morning, let alone forge a legendary singing career.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    12:08 East of Bucharest
    For all its pessimism, the movie prompts a viewer to search his or her own memories for actions rather than reactions, and to mull over the differences between the two. It's a dark little ride, but at the end the lights hesitantly flicker back on.
  23. Knocked Up
    Debbie gets away with being such a cauldron of extremes because the airy-voiced Mann is extremely good at playing them. She happens to be Apatow's wife (the kids in the movie are theirs), and with the possible exception of Téa Leoni , it's hard to imagine who else could get away with this combination of needling and affection.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gracie
    An inspirational sports movie, soccer subdivision, and it stops at every expected station of the cross on its road to the triumphant against-all-odds finale (in sudden-death overtime, yet). Yet it also feels appealingly handmade in a way most jock dramas don't.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mr. Brooks
    A fertile example of the Studio Film Gone Berserk, where too many characters and too many story lines geometrically progress until a level of blissful absurdity is reached.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crazy Love
    Crazy Love doesn't downplay the awfulness of what happened , but it also knows a good media circus when it sees one.
  27. Day Watch
    Anyone looking for sleek futuristic action and production design should keep walking.
  28. Mala Noche
    This is the first, smallest, and most essential planet in the Van Sant solar system. The seediness of "Drugstore Cowboy " started here. So did the one-way crushes in "My Own Private Idaho " and the gorgeously epic longueurs of "Last Days. "
  29. Ten Canoes
    It's a thriller that refuses to thrill. It taunts us with resolution and mysteries, then slaps our hand for reaching out for a conclusion.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pierrepoint
    Like its hero, the movie doesn't flinch for most of its running time.
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