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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. Aurora Borealis
    An unremarkable comedy-drama.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Confetti
    A good-natured but terminally mild British mockumentary.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ground Truth
    The documentary any American with an opinion on our involvement in Iraq owes it to his or her conscience to see.
  4. Haven
    Silly little thriller.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    The primary talking head is Ono, of course, who's serenely protective of Lennon's greater legacy. Her cooperation ties the film's hands, but only to a point.
  6. Keeping Mum
    The movie is another of those harmless and politely made dark comedies that the English seem incapable of doing without.
  7. Al Franken: God Spoke
    Neither a profile nor a critique, though, the film's only focus is its subject's mild self-regard.
  8. Hollywoodland
    Hollywoodland has scraps of old movie glamour. It also has shades of later movies that sullied all that class and refinement with a lurid touch, namely Roman Polanski's "Chinatown." But that's all Hollywoodland is: scraps and shade.
  9. The Protector
    The Protector is about 84 minutes long, and only four of those minutes are devoted to plot.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Covenant
    The Covenant is dopey, formulaic stuff for the Friday night fright crowd. Worse for them, it's never remotely scary.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Le petit lieutenant
    You can sense Baye's struggling within the limits imposed on her. In her own way, she can convey the heat of a Penelope Cruz, the power of Mirren, the barely contained madness of Judi Dench -- but not here. They're just not on the beat she's been given.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Doors
    Think of Red Doors as a promise, and hope that Georgia Lee keeps it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vajra Sky Over Tibet
    A gorgeous, meandering travelogue that only gradually bares its teeth.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crank
    Crank is an efficient, witty, junkyard dog of an action movie for its first hour. Unfortunately, the script runs out of gas before the hero does. While it's cooking, though, it's violently preposterous fun.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crossover
    Earnest and predictable, Crossover deserves more than the horselaughs that will probably greet it in theaters -- but not a lot more. The movie is harmless, which is both its strength and its weakness.
  16. The Wicker Man
    As it is, LaBute has cleverly repurposed his creepy source material. This Wicker Man, which wasn't screened for critics, is a nutty atonement for the gender assaults of his filmmaking and playwriting past, including "In the Company of Men," "Your Friends & Neighbors," and "The Shape of Things."
  17. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    The filmmaker doesn't exactly let anyone off the hook.
  18. Bubot Niyar
    Heymann's film was originally a six-part series for Israeli TV. The feature he and his crew have made smoothly truncates those three hours into a rich, discretely damning 85-minute portrait of intolerance.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beerfest
    Making a comedy that celebrates binge drinking and cretinous behavior isn't a crime against nature. Making one that's as brutally unfunny as Beerfest is.
  20. Idlewild
    The camerawork is steady, the editing patient, the choreography playful. It's a zippy and inspired piece of moviemaking. But there's one problem. It's playing under the closing credits.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How to Eat Fried Worms
    The movie has a pleasing skinned-knee innocence that makes you wish everything else about it wasn't so shoddy.
  22. Invincible
    Has the problem of drifting in and out of authenticity.
  23. The Quiet
    Too confused to provide any thrills, even indecent ones.
  24. Queens
    It's called Queens and, no, silly, it's not about six gay men who want to get married. It's about their MOTHERS. And this being a Spanish comedy of the lowest Almodovar-ian order, the moms are a lot more flamboyant than their sons.
  25. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    There are moments -- just a few of them -- when the film . . . does feel a bit like work, a relentless civics lesson about the storm and its still-unfolding aftermath.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snakes on a Plane
    A movie called Snakes on a Plane had better be one of two things: So bad it's good or so good it's great. Darned if it isn't a little bit of both.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Accepted
    Low of brow and pure of heart, the movie plays like "Animal House" extra-lite, and as such it's decent indecent fun.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Illusionist
    Illusionist is like an overupholstered wing chair in the corner of a men's club -- you settle in only to be startled by how ridiculously comfy you are.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Material Girls
    Isn't as witty, stylish, or sophisticated as the similarly themed "The Devil Wears Prada." Material Girls is pitched to the Seventeen crowd, and it succeeds on its own terms. These days, even pre teens live in a material world.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Factotum
    Looks steam-cleaned, and that can't be right.
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