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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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    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    School for Scoundrels
    It achieves something previously thought impossible: It renders Billy Bob Thornton unfunny.
  2. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
    The first-time filmmaker aspires to show us what caused him to leave his neighborhood and stay gone for 20 years. All I can really glean is that the place was too loud.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
    Even a fan, however, might prefer the excellent, recently released concert DVD "Pixies: Live at the Paradise in Boston" to this tepid behind-the-scenes experience.
  4. The Last King of Scotland
    The Last King of Scotland joins the ranks of nightmarish innocents-abroad movies, from "Midnight Express" to "Hostel," where the disillusioned hero fights to return to civility.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All the King's Men
    I'm not the first observer, or even the second, to liken the star's (Penn) portrayal of fictional Louisiana governor Willie Stark to the late John Belushi's impersonation of Joe Cocker.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flyboys
    The movie's straightforward and ingratiating, and as pretty-boy history lessons go, it's a lot less obnoxious than "Pearl Harbor."
  7. Jackass Number Two
    This is extreme comedy, and it's amazing how director Jeff Tremaine, who along with Spike Jonze has been affiliated with this troupe from its outset, creates an environment where self-inflicted torture is uncontrollably funny without being morally offensive.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fearless
    Call it "Jet Li's Wushu Retirement Party."
  9. Jesus Camp
    If we are in the midst of a culture war, as many people proclaim in Jesus Camp, then the left should be concerned. The right's Christian soldiers appear to be extremely well trained.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Hardcore
    A sloppy mosh note to the genre, with its own excesses and oversights. It's like a flier for a band you've never heard of: torn, soaked with beer, itchy with aggression.
  11. The Science of Sleep
    This pop-up book of a film is an ideal arrangement between director and star.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Renaissance
    Stark eye candy of the first order, the film is saddled with the oldest story this side of "Blade Runner." Still, comic-book fanboys and graphic designers with time to kill should feel no shame in checking this one out.
  13. Old Joy
    Kurt and Mark's trip to those hot springs is a figurative return to Eden. Anyone who's had a disillusioning reunion with a moony old friend knows what Mark discovers: They're too old to stay that innocent. None of this hit me until after the movie ended. But it hit me hard: You can't go home again.
  14. Sólo con tu pareja
    Without trivializing the disease, the film challenges AIDS' stigma (albeit for heterosexuals) at a moment when it was still considered a death sentence.
  15. The Black Dahlia
    The first thing you notice about this so-so adaptation of James Ellroy's novel is the shoddy acting.
  16. Everyone's Hero
    Everyone's Hero is sincere and heartwarming; sometimes it's funny.
  17. Gridiron Gang
    The movie's inevitabilities (the humiliating loss, the ebb and flow of camaraderie, the triumphant finale) have deep resonance.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Kiss
    It very much wants to be "Garden State" five years down the line.
  19. 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.
  22. 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.
  24. Keeping Mum
    The movie is another of those harmless and politely made dark comedies that the English seem incapable of doing without.
  25. Al Franken: God Spoke
    Neither a profile nor a critique, though, the film's only focus is its subject's mild self-regard.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
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