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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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  1. The Night Listener
    What makes the film such a guilty pleasure is how Williams's righteous self-pity is perfectly matched to Collette's nuttiness and despair.
  2. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    We are treated to the riotous, almost David Lynchian moment in which Ferrell runs around a motorway in his undies screaming that he's on fire. He's not. Actually, come to think of it: He is.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bridesmaid
    The film reveals its secrets slowly, and Chabrol tightens the screws not according to the rules of Hollywood suspense but with a cool, level gaze.
  4. Quinceañera
    At its core, Quinceañera, a modest but remarkably poignant comedy, is the story of a neighborhood.
  5. Boynton Beach Club
    Cannon actually is funny -- not to mention funny-looking. Plastic surgery has left her physically absurd, like a vaguely glamorous R. Crumb cartoon.
  6. Miami Vice
    The movie is seriously sexy and seriously entertaining.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Scoop
    Scoop is distinctly minor Allen, with less weight to it than one of his old humor doodles in The New Yorker.
  8. John Tucker Must Die
    The movie is as inconsequentially pleasant as its star, and far nicer than the title lets on, too.
  9. The Ant Bully
    The movie has a great time playing with ideas of scope and perspective, shifting between microscopic and macroscopic.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    13 Tzameti
    13 (Tzameti) is an existential horror film, a violent prank, a metaphor for modern Europe, and a first-time director's startling calling card.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Another Gay Movie
    You get the impression that the cast and crew of Another Gay Movie could have made a genuinely funny film if they weren't obsessed with out-grossing the already gross "American Pie."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brothers of the Head
    The film is something to see, and when it addresses the mysterious bond connecting creative people, it has an urgent, ugly splendor.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Little Miss Sunshine
    It looks at the all-American obsession with winning and chortles darkly. You still come out of the movie wanting to give your family a hug.
  14. Darshan: The Embrace
    According to several sojourners who speak in the film, Amma is the embodiment of love. And according to her website, it's her religion, too.
  15. Been Rich All My Life
    A so-so documentary about another fascinating, underreported piece of Harlem history.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Clerks II
    With Clerks II, the director retreats to home turf, but is Smith playing it safe or is he really interested in seeing how the old nabe has changed? Bit of both, actually.
  17. Lady in the Water
    There is a good chunk of Lady in the Water that is simply too well made and affectingly acted to dismiss as a mere exercise in arrogance.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monster House
    Monster House is the first horror comedy made exclusively for fourth-graders.
  19. My Super Ex-Girlfriend
    Runs out of fresh ideas about how to make its heroine look nuts.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fan-Fan the Tulip
    What played as glorious period tomfoolery to European festival juries and discerning U S audiences in the early 1950s now just seems quaintly pleased with itself.
  21. Little Man
    I laughed at the Wayanses' movie, and I don't even hate myself for it.
  22. You, Me and Dupree
    Unofficially, You, Me and Dupree is a companion piece to last summer's "Wedding Crashers," a movie whose lunacy is desperately needed this summer.
  23. Changing Times
    Another gorgeous and immensely satisfying reminder that there are few better directors than Téchiné when it comes to capturing the vagaries of the heart.
  24. The Oh in Ohio
    It's a thrill to watch Posey incorporate, at last, some true emotion into her exuberant screwball wit.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Time to Leave
    Time to Leave is an unintended litmus test for lovers of foreign films.
  26. Edmond
    In Mamet's understanding, straight white maleness is the most powerful weapon such men have. It can also be illusory, which is why the last scenes of Edmond are so touching.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gabrielle
    The catch in Gabrielle is that the audience pays as well.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    A noisy and lazy stopgap movie that goes absolutely nowhere and takes 2 1/2 hours to get there.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Scanner Darkly
    There's conspiracy here, as there is in all of Dick's books, and it wraps the film up with a moving but somewhat neat bowtie.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beowulf & Grendel
    The film is very near a comedy, and I'm not sure that's on purpose.
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