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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. 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.
  3. Little Man
    I laughed at the Wayanses' movie, and I don't even hate myself for it.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  8. 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.
  13. Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
    The movie is only so-so, borrowing a little from the VH-1 school of popumentary but lacking the snazzy production values.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Heading South
    Cantet does something that educated, upscale audiences may find exasperating in the extreme: He takes a tinderbox of racial and sexual exploitation, pours gasoline all over it, and refuses to light the match.
  15. The Devil Wears Prada
    While the picture isn't brilliant, it is, at its most entertaining, a kicky, surprisingly astute throwback to bygone Hollywood social comedies.
  16. The Blood of My Brother
    Combines an insider's perspective with what can only be described as gutsy cinematography.
  17. The Great Yokai War
    A big, silly party.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Superman Returns
    A generally thrilling entertainment that's not quite the grand slam you want it to be.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Motel
    Kang balances the uproariously comic with the profoundly sad, and the two tones amplify each other with subtlety.
  20. Strangers with Candy
    Still comic, but bigger isn't better.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Who Killed the Electric Car?
    The only question his movie doesn't ask is "What do you want your next car to run on?" That's up to you.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wassup Rockers
    The main characters may be refreshingly cliché-free, but almost everyone they meet in Beverly Hills is a stilted cartoon.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Click
    If it doesn't quite represent the new, improved Adam Sandler, it shows him almost desperately trying to figure out who that might be.
  24. Waist Deep
    Waist Deep is a cynical excuse for the writer and director (and talented actor) Vondie Curtis-Hall to sock some money away for the kids' college tuition. It's as if he watched "Get Rich or Die Tryin' " and thought, "It needs more palm trees."
  25. The Hidden Blade
    Enormously enjoyable.
  26. The Road to Guantanamo
    The film's insistence on the men's innocence is matter of fact. But it's also an urgent corrective to the suspicious eye the movies so often cast on Arabs and Islam.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Great New Wonderful
    A quieter, less melodramatic piece of work than last year's "Crash," and arguably a better one.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    Australian rocker Nick Cave talks of how discovering Cohen during his small-town youth "just changed things." Bono calls the singer "our Shelley, our Byron."
  29. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
    The F&F series is the 21st century's beach movie, one for some beachless future world where the kids are crowning 25 and seem capable of living off of hair gel and exhaust fumes.
  30. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    Though Murray and Curry gamely deliver some chuckle-worthy one-liners along the way, they're mostly leashed to material as moldy and uninspired as the "Jeffersons" theme song.
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