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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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    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pursuit of Happyness
    I don't think I've seen a mainstream movie get fatherhood so right since "Kramer vs . Kramer": the fear, the indulgence, the snappishness, the pre-occupied "uh-huhs" as a child natters about his day, the steamrolling waves of love.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Apocalypto
    Say what you will about Gibson, but he's a genuine filmmaker, and Apocalypto gallops along the thin line between the deluded and the inspired with such conviction that you're yanked into its wake.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blood Diamond
    As an entry in the advocacy-entertainment genre, in which glamorous movie stars bring our attention to the plight of the less fortunate, Blood Diamond is superior to 2003's ridiculous "Beyond Borders" while looking strident and obvious next to last year's "The Constant Gardener."
  4. The Holiday
    A lark, with pretensions to be more.
  5. Unaccompanied Minors
    Crashes the slapstick of "Home Alone" into the youthful angst of "The Breakfast Club."
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Off the Black
    Off the Black is a small, dry, emotionally loaded short story that has been carried to film like baked fish to a platter.
  7. Screamers
    This film has provocations to spare; it just hasn't been made provocatively. It's a mess, actually.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Family Law
    It's a deceptively small film, one whose observations may continue to detonate quietly in your mind after the lights have come up.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inland Empire
    Inland Empire may be the most aggressively surreal feature film ever released to movie theaters in this country, and it's possibly close to the movie David Lynch carries around in his head.
  10. Days of Glory
    A movingly acted, terrifically old-fashioned World War II picture rethought as a post-colonial rebuke.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lives of Others
    The Lives of Others has similarities to Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 classic "The Conversation" but with undercurrents that resound across an entire century of European political history.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Nativity Story
    In a real sense, Nativity Story is the female other to Gibson's "Passion": Dedicated to life rather than death, it's suffused with a sense of the womanly divine.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj
    The Rise of Taj is relatively pointless in the scheme of things, but refreshing in what it (mostly) doesn't resort to for laughs.
  14. 3 Needles
    If good intentions were all it took to create a decent movie, Thom Fitzgerald's 3 Needles would be some kind of masterpiece.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    10 Items or Less
    10 Items or Less is nearly an acting class exercise, except for the fact that these two have long since graduated.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Architect
    Perhaps urban-planning solutions are too much to expect from a Friday night at the movies, but in a film this ambitious, the evident lack of thought put into the problem is disappointing. As any architect knows, it's easier to tear down than to build up.
  17. Turistas
    Turistas is not a slasher film -- not conventionally. Released by Fox's new teen division, it's the latest aquatic titillation from John Stockwell, the man who also brought us "Blue Crush" and the shockingly good "Into the Blue."
  18. Two Weeks
    Creaky, earnest melodrama.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dreamland
    If you're young, the film may intoxicate you. If you're older, it may make you relieved you're no longer young.
  20. Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
    This sequel, with the return of the first movie's insatiably slutty Los Angeles collegians, is as vulgar as its predecessor and just as almost-smart.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fountain
    A noble, shipwrecked folly.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deck the Halls
    The saddest part is that "Deck" wastes four comic talents ranging from the near-genius (Matthew Broderick, Danny DeVito) to the inspired (Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth ) to the charming (Kristin Davis of "Sex and the City").
  23. Deja Vu
    You aren't likely to see a more ludicrous movie for the rest of the year. But rarely has such ludicrousness been used to pay tribute to a town in need of love. Déjà Vu is generic enough to have been filmed anywhere. But it happens to be set in post-Katrina New Orleans.
  24. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
    As a movie, it’s a mess — and lazy, too.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Opal Dream
    The film squeezes out its feel-good messages like toothpaste from a tube.
  26. The History Boys
    A shrewdly acted, bittersweet comedy.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casino Royale
    If you miss the old cliches, consider whether, after 21 Bond films and countless parodies, your response is simply Pavlovian.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Happy Feet
    The movie's an uncategorizable mixture of the tacky and profound, and on some weird level, you have to respect it.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Let's Go to Prison
    It's a remarkably laugh-free comedy that takes on a dark subject and skitters along its surface.
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