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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  8. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casting About
    Voyeurism is central to the cinema and to acting, of course, and you'd better believe these women know it. Still, Casting About feels oddly disingenuous.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Hip Hop Project
    And while the young director tends to skip over many of the larger societal issues plaguing many of the HHP participants, his desire to honestly platform the emotional heartbeat of his subjects still rings true.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chalk
    The results are about what you'd expect: friendly, unfocused, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny.
  22. The Ex
    The next time Grodin attempts a comeback, it would be so great if he avoids movies where he might be upstaged by a sandwich stunt.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Provoked: A True Story
    There's an interesting movie in here, too, about the isolation of Indian brides brought to a new country by strange new husbands and mistreated, but Provoked rarely ducks below its glossy surface to go there.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    The film's slick and entertaining, an obvious must-see for musical hounds.
  25. Duck
    Writer-director Nic Bettauer can't decide whether to play Duck for tears or laughs.
  26. Day Night Day Night
    Astonishing.
  27. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
    The movie is a block of paper that, when Tsai's finished with it, becomes a chain of snowflakes. Loneliness doesn't often get such a gorgeously ornate tribute.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brand Upon the Brain!
    How often are psychosexual lunacy and classic cinema combined so fiendishly well?
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Away from Her
    With a tranquil fearlessness, it goes beyond the death of memory, to see what might be found in the unexplored country beyond. The answer is both frightening and comforting: More love. Unspecified love. Universal love.
  30. Spider-Man 3
    Raimi, who shares script credit with his brother Ivan and Alvin Sargent, strikes an exquisite balance between pop and woe, drama and whooshing adventure.
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