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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  9. Day Watch
    Anyone looking for sleek futuristic action and production design should keep walking.
  10. 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. "
  11. 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.
  13. Bug
    Engrossingly manic version of Tracy Letts's great stage play.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    You can bet your parrot "Pirates" will be back, even if "At World's End" hasn't the foggiest idea when to quit.
  15. Angel-A
    The movie might have been more tolerable had Besson searched harder for a performer and not a specimen. Barbara Stanwyck in her prime might have made more sense.
  16. Golden Door
    It's so hypnotically breathtaking, you don't realize you're not breathing. By the final shot, you don't realize you're crying either, but there go the tears.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paprika
    Someone walking cold into a movie theater showing Paprika might be excused for thinking the screen was having a Technicolor seizure. Fans of Japanese anime and filmmaker Satoshi Kon will simply feel dazzlingly at home.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steel City
    Steel City may be the only movie released this year that's so observant you can hear what the characters AREN'T saying.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Boss of It All
    The Boss of It All finds the common ground between business and acting -- panicky improvisation -- and wonders whether applause or an executive comp package is the greater reward.
  20. Shrek the Third
    The journey is not very exciting, but the destinations are inspired.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In Search of Mozart
    Most of the color and zest among the movie's many talking heads comes from the refreshingly irreverent opera director Jonathan Miller.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brooklyn Rules
    Too many cliches and not enough energy have come along for the ride.
  23. Flanders
    A powerful film of suffering and sacrifice and desperation. But it's vacuous, banal, and, where its mix of sentiment and grisliness is concerned, rather despicable.
  24. Severance
    Half hearted in its mockery of corporate culture and schlock. The filmmakers want to have it both ways -- the funny and the sadistic -- but rarely do so at the same time with any success.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fay Grim
    Fay Grim falls victim to its own worried hyperactivity; it shuts you out with chattery paranoia. Hartley wants us to see the big picture, but he forgets we need artists like him to bring it into focus.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hollywood Dreams
    Meant to be an insider's tale, but it feels like it comes from the cinema of hangers-on.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Once
    Once is the first rock musical that actually makes sense. People don't burst into song in this movie because the orchestra's swelling out of nowhere. The guy and the girl are working musicians -- or they'd like to be, if they could make a living at it -- and they're played by working musicians.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    28 Weeks Later
    The script is biting and timely.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Delta Farce
    Consider this the sequel to "Ernest in the Army " that the late Jim Varney never got around to making. It's not very good but at least it's not evil.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Georgia Rule
    For proof that some actresses can take on a misconceived role and get out alive, there's Huffman as Lilly.
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