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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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    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vacancy
    At its worst, Vacancy is merely the kind of taut B-chiller they don't make any more, other than to riff on them in "Grindhouse."
  2. Fracture
    You needn’t actually see Fracture to know that if the charge is acting that winks, these two are guilty.
  3. In the Land of Women
    In the Land of Women sounds like a piece of cheap science fiction about the last man on earth. If you're the lovelorn mother and daughter in Jonathan Kasdan's first movie, a grating romantic drama, that's painfully close to the truth.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Alice Neel
    For all the juicy storytelling, Alice Neel remains, in this film, a cipher: brash, grandmotherly, and beyond understanding.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Valet
    The new movie is tart and weightless, and it entertains without leaving a mark. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but at 85 minutes, The Valet at times feels like a blueprint for a farce rather than the farce itself.
  6. Stephanie Daley
    Tamblyn's surprisingly measured performance commands attention.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Road
    The movie trades the paranoia of modern omni-cam culture for a tighter, more personal drama, and while it sticks with you, you feel the missed opportunity like a phantom leg.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    Essentially, an act of terrorism against entertainment. It's inconsequential, potty - mouthed, extremely silly, and -- the worst sin of all -- dead boring.
  9. Pathfinder
    Urban and Bloodgood make the most of their parts, locking eyes and arms, and occasionally using American English as if the snowy 10th century were another way of saying, "Where the après ski?"
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Perfect Stranger
    After "Gothika " and "Catwoman ," a viewer has to wonder: Why does this woman keep making thrillers if she can't bring herself to be thrilled?
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Redline
    An action flick loaded with cars, chrome, and silicone, is everything you'd expect it to be, and yet so much less: less character development, less believability, and most unforgivably, less escapist entertainment.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dreaming Lhasa
    It's a Tibetan film -- a rare thing -- made by Tibetans, starring Tibetans, and set in the increasingly desperate exile community of Dharamsala .
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Everything's Gone Green
    It's a charming disappointment that retains the elements that make the writer's novels so good without ever bending them into cinematic shape.
  14. Year of the Dog
    Shannon gives the movie its inner life. Maybe the movie will give her back her comedy career.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Slow Burn
    A veritable rip-off of 1995's "The Usual Suspects," Beach's crime caper not-so-subtly apes Bryan Singer's use of multiple red herrings and flashback-heavy interrogation scenes, but lacks the stylistic flair and sophisticated narrative skills to pull off a similar feat of cinematic intrigue.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Private Fears in Public Places
    Private Fears says that life is a smoldering holding pattern, but Resnais is gracious enough to blanket the embers with eternal snow.
  17. Disturbia
    "Rear Window" never comes up in the Disturbia press notes, which is probably just as well since it steals that movie's premise but none of Alfred Hitchcock's wit, finesse, or seduction.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Grindhouse
    Tarantino and Rodriguez want you to cover your eyes in disbelief and get the unholy giggles at the same time. You do, but in two very different ways, and that's the movie's strength.
  19. The Hoax
    The only thing missing from The Hoax might be a couple of songs. It's that breezy and fleet a movie.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The TV Set
    A tart, smart, closely observed satire of the television industry.
  21. The Reaping
    Long-delayed, pitiful excuse for a horror film.
  22. Are We Done Yet?
    The movie needs Richard Dreyfuss .
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Firehouse Dog
    And that dog -- or, rather, that digitally enhanced replicant -- is just plain creepy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Black Book
    Black Book takes the conventions of the WWII epic -- the prison breaks, the interrogation scenes -- and undermines them with craft and muscle and the ripe lack of restraint we've come to expect from this director.
  25. Killer of Sheep
    Killer of Sheep is a drama that’s hardly at all dramatic, which makes it all the more moving. It’s quiet, unhurried, understated, unblinking. Mood matters more than style, dailiness more than incident. All movies are about other movies. A few are also about life. “Killer of Sheep” is one of them.
  26. Blades of Glory
    The film is quick, painless, and more than a little brave: not since John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, and the aerobicizers in "Perfect" has so much Lycra been so abused for our pleasure.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lookout
    Promises minor pleasures and delivers them. In the process, it's gracious enough to kick in a few extras: a nifty central gimmick, a self-effacing lead performance, and a big slice of ham from supporting actor Jeff Daniels .
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Meet the Robinsons
    Almost as funny as it is hyperactive, the new computer-animated family comedy is luscious to look at and as fizzy as a can of soda popped open in your face.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After the Wedding
    In After the Wedding Susanne Bier pushes the envelope further, toward operatic passion and the visual symbolism of Ingmar Bergman.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Live Free or Die
    This isn't a great movie -- it's barely good, really -- but it gets something about New Hampshire I've rarely seen onscreen: a defiant pride in the way things don't work out. Live Free is a comedy of vastly diminished criminal expectations. That's the fun of it, and the frustration, too.
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