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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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    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shooter
    A stylish but essentially businesslike smash-and-crasher.
  2. The Hills Have Eyes II
    The director, Martin Weisz , doesn't lean on a lot of noise and editing tricks. He can relax, since all the scares are built into the Cravens' script, which invokes both "Goonies" and last year's instant-classic, chicks-versus-cave-dwelling-vampires flick "The Descent."
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Mimzy
    For smart kids between the ages of 8 and 12, the movie hits the sweet spot with a satisfying cosmic bang. It's a cross between "A Wrinkle in Time" and a middle-school version of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
  4. Pride
    It's called Pride, and, while it's neither as socially urgent as "Freedom Writers" nor as danceable and soapy as "Stomp the Yard," it's better acted and tougher to resist
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reign Over Me
    In its best moments, Reign Over Me quietly says that we're our problem friends' keepers. At its worst, the movie IS a problem friend.
  6. TMNT
    The movie is a serviceable way to pass the time: Kids will cheer the bright colors and funny new words ("Kowabunga!").
  7. Air Guitar Nation
    A semiserious documentary about a cult of performance art that until recently was never meant to be taken seriously.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Boy Culture
    It doesn't know if it wants to wallow in its characters' pity or to flesh them out with their own personalities. So it does both, with half-hearted results.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Color Me Kubrick
    Color Me Kubrick digs all sorts of devilish ironies out of this "true...ish story," and it's a fine dark farce before turning sad and, worse, monotonous. The con wears off before the movie does, but while it's in the air, "Kubrick" spins with bogus cheer.
  10. First Snow
    It's a slow, moderately involving descent into the inevitable, with Pearce gamely trying to figure what's going on. Better him than me.
  11. Journey from the Fall
    Even when its wires are showing, the movie's soul is always evident.
  12. Offside
    As funny as it is sharp.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Page Turner
    The stakes in this story seem too low to justify its audience’s attention. If The Page Turner were a novel, it would hardly be a page turner. Why should we hold films to a lower standard?
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
    It's an angry story, but also a strangely hopeful one, in the sense of new life sprouting through a battlefield. Above all, it's personal and specific, and that IS news we can use.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
    The movie's a cheeky, low-budget goof on dice-and-slice horror films, but for all the visible seams, it's a lot cleverer than "Scream."
  16. Nomad
    The filmmakers don't appear to know what's important, let alone how to pace an epic for big drama and maximum thrills.
  17. Dead Silence
    This new movie is a more credible, less grisly act of filmmaking , but it's a less compelling exercise. It doesn't have the ruthless moral reasoning of the first two "Saw" pictures, however grotesque and specious that reasoning was. But it does have a plot that revolves around a ventriloquist and her demon doll.
  18. I Think I Love My Wife
    The movie, instead, is a work of giddy self-sabotage that seems determined to matter and not matter at the same time.
  19. Premonition
    It's a movie only a psychic could love, since a psychic would know to stay home or see "Zodiac" instead.
  20. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    The historical scope of this story, as well as Loach's interest in absolute fairness, seems to have drained some of the life from its telling.
  21. Adam's Apples
    The movie is one long pose. But it develops into an idea slightly greater than its flippancy. The steady frenzy is whipped into a roux of two reasonably developed characters.
  22. 300
    There's a stale, synthetic airlessness about the movie. Imagine a large cast trapped in a series of spectacular screensavers. It could be ancient Greece. It could be somebody's hard drive.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Host
    Mostly, though, it's "Godzilla" with a severe case of Murphy's Law, and it is never less than bizarrely delightful.
  24. Beyond the Gates
    Sadly, this is the sort of movie in which the white Europeans do all the talking and worrying with each other. The Africans, for the most part, are either terrified, cowering, wincing masses or corpses strewn in the dirt.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
    James Scurlock's documentary horror show has a critical message to impart -- your credit cards are out to kill you -- and a naive, ham - handed way of imparting it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Namesake
    The Namesake has a deep, alluvial poetry to it, like a mighty river reaching the sea. It's mysterious and ordinary, insightful and banal, rambling and precise, and it is altogether unexpected.
  27. The Ultimate Gift
    The message is clear almost immediately: charity not vanity.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Exterminating Angels
    Leave it to the French to take the joy back out of sex. The high-minded erotic drama Exterminating Angels has heat but little light; it speaks of pleasure while treating it as a dirty word. The cast huffs and puffs but the exercise, sadly, remains academic.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
    Part of the shoujo genre of gently fantastic romantic dramas about and for young teenage girls, it's also funny and creative enough to charm parents, brothers, cousins, and anyone else looking for an openhearted fable.
  30. Zodiac
    Zodiac is a kind of corrective remake of "Se7en," a renunciation of that earlier movie's psychotic nihilism. That rejection extends to a neat sight gag. Fincher gives us a shot of a cardboard cutout for "Dirty Harry" that mocks the personal abyss that catching Zodiac becomes.
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