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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. Volver
    Volver brims with personal and cinematic allusions, but no one hungry for a well-told tale from a master storyteller is required to understand them.
  2. Shottas
    A slick but dull new shoot- ' em-up from Jamaica, doesn't penetrate the mysteries of high-rolling, high-risk thug life.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unknown
    Unknown is punchy and entertaining. Maybe not the sort of thing you'd want to spend $10 plus a mortgage for popcorn on, but a nifty surprise on DVD several months from now -- or on pay-cable on-demand right now.
  4. Romántico
    The musician is candid about his own demons and gives the filmmakers access to his wife, two very different daughters, and, for a nicely done montage, his family photographs.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Babel
    Babel is a ziggurat of brilliant pieces built on sand. It's also this season's "Crash," a movie you know is Important because it never stops telling you so.
  6. Catch a Fire
    In Catch a Fire Noyce has caught the holy spirit. The movie is a thriller that wants to lift you up.
  7. Saw III
    Television is a state of mind. And the makers of Saw III have delivered the most despicable episode of "One Life to Live" ever.
  8. Climates
    It's one of the great movies on the vicissitudes of love, commitment, and attraction.
  9. Shut Up & Sing
    Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck's film is a fascinating look at the intersection of commerce, celebrity, and controversy.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Death of a President
    Turns out to be rather less than the sum of its headlines.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Absolute Wilson
    Absolute Wilson may not be original, but Wilson absolutely is. And for the glimmers of that originality that shine through here, the film is worth watching.
  12. Marie Antoinette
    As art, the movie is neither shallow nor profound, just inconsequential. Yet Coppola is too clever a filmmaker to dismiss the movie out of hand. If her film is mostly surface then she skims with style.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Running with Scissors
    There's grace here if the movie were willing to dig for it. Occasionally it does.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flags of Our Fathers
    You come out of the theater impressed by the scope of Eastwood's reach and frustrated by how little remains in his grasp. As gifted as this filmmaker is, this isn't the sort of thing he does best.
  15. Flicka
    The best parts of Flicka are its pinch-me optimism and its old-fashioned-movie flourishes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Prestige
    It's like "The Illusionist" crossed with a really hard Sudoku.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
    Harrowing and inexorable, the film recaptures the progressive insanity of Jim Jones and the hundreds of worshipers in his thrall, and it certainly gives you willies to last for days.
  18. Sweet Land
    A lovely , old-fashioned farm romance quietly doubling as a comment on immigration and American identity.
  19. Hair High
    If Plympton is making pastiche, he's also having a laugh at a universal experience that for a lot of people was probably pretty crummy. Apparently, it was a little crummier for him.
  20. The Grudge 2
    The most popular facial expression for victims in The Grudge 2 is something I'd like to call "deep befuddlement." This time "deep befuddlement" goes double for paying customers.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Man of the Year
    One walks out of Man of the Year aching for the squandered opportunities.
  22. The Marine
    What follows is serviceable action set to music you'd find in a video game -- or a military ad.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deliver Us from Evil
    It isn't often you get to meet the devil in all his glory, but here he is in Deliver Us From Evil, and his name is Father Oliver O'Grady.
  24. Driving Lessons
    Everybody in the movie is so tightly wound that Walters seems a model of actorly limberness. She cuts through the movie with speed and mannish, zany wit.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Infamous
    The pleasure of Infamous is in its gallery of larger-than-life portrayals.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tideland
    The results are dull, of all things. The movie itself feels like an overstuffed burrito,
  27. Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    For kids strung out on Anthony Horowitz's 007-lite adventure series, this maiden adaptation is a pleasant enough diversion from having to flip the pages.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    So Much So Fast
    It is harrowing, heartbreaking, cheering, and unforgettable.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Departed
    When The Departed roars to life, as it does in so many of its scenes, you feel like nobody understands movies -- the delirious highs, the unforgiving moral depths -- as well as this man does. Welcome back, Marty.
  30. Little Children
    What Little Children understands so well, and so poignantly, is a kind of parental existentialism that hits 30- somethings with kids: How does having children make you such a less interesting adult?
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