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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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lake House
    How deeply silly is The Lake House? As silly as a movie about two letter-writing lovers separated by a wrinkle in time can be. How much sweet, dumb fun is it? More than you might want to admit.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nacho Libre
    Very broad and very silly, it's a doodle of a comedy -- a one-joke idea (fat guy goes luchador) padded out to feature length by Black's willingness to do anything for a laugh.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lower City
    Everyone involved in the film seems better than the material.
  4. The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
    The strip is now a cartoonish sitcom pretending to be a romantic comedy about a drama queen and his adventures in lust. The movie might have gotten away with it, were it interested in romance or comedy.
  5. Only Human
    A dinner-from-hell comedy about a pretty Jewish Spaniard who brings a nice Palestinian guy home to her outspoken Madrid family.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wordplay
    Sweet, indulgent, and surprisingly soft in the center; the most minor entry in the brainiac-doc genre to date, it's nevertheless a perfectly entertaining hour and a half for crossword adepts.
  7. A/k/a Tommy Chong
    This isn't a great piece of nonfiction filmmaking, but it has its moments.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cars
    The movie wins you over through crack comic timing and an awareness that the point of driving isn't how fast you get there but what you see on the way.
  9. A Prairie Home Companion
    Kline's combination of pratfalls and urbanity is funny, but it rubs against the rest of the movie's effortless rustic charm. He's like Errol Flynn on a hayride.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Heart of the Game
    It's a wrenching, ennobling essay on teamwork and the hard struggle to change one's life.
  11. The Omen
    It's a terrible sign for a movie when the sole reason for its existence is a satanic opening date.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Break-Up
    The biggest unresolved question here is why we're paying $9.50, plus popcorn, for something we can presumably get at home for free.
  13. District B13
    Like its stunt work, the movie is both ridiculously hyperactive and a muscular feat of absolute confidence. I don't expect to have a more adrenalizing time at the movies this summer.
  14. The War Tapes
    Really the film is a deft first-person character study with a war zone for a background.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Puffy Chair
    Ostensibly a road-trip farce, Chair really depicts the highway to man-child hell: The laughs come from the gulf between how mature the characters think they're being and what emotional toddlers they are.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Peaceful Warrior
    The film's biggest miracle is the straight face Nick Nolte maintains in his role as Socrates.
  17. X-Men: The Last Stand
    The happiest news about the third (and final?) X-Men movie is actually quite sad: headstones. Yes, The Last Stand brings the lamentable deaths of several major characters.
  18. An Inconvenient Truth
    In an eco-horror show that politely masquerades as a documentary, the former vice president effectively warns of man-made cataclysm.
  19. La Moustache
    Comes on as both a rebuke to male vanity and a chic metaphor for midlife panic.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Da Vinci Code
    An acceptable but uninspired simulacrum: an overly faithful multiplex translation of a very, very popular airport novel.
  21. Over the Hedge
    There is actually an occasional moment of inspiration, but as an experience, the movie doesn't hog much shelf space in the memory.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    See No Evil
    Generic teen dice-and-slice with interior design by way of ''Saw." The movie's tight and reasonably well shot, though, and there are flashes of nasty invention between the ritual guttings.
  23. The King
    In James Marsh's The King, the usually wonderful Gael Garcia Bernal is all wrong for the role of Elvis Valderez.
  24. Lemming
    The score is the most effective thing about the film. Sometimes it's a suspicious, mischie-vous distraction from the reality that not enough of this makes sense.
  25. Twelve and Holding
    Cuesta prizes curiosity and perception over conflict resolution. He likes the way kids take their cues from adults and the ways they revolt against them. Even as the kids do the ugliest things, the film stays cool without ever being cold.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Poseidon
    Maybe it's the era we're living in, but the new film is as much fun as a shroud.
  27. Just My Luck
    This mangy comedy only demonstrates that Lohan's star power is too bright for falling into mounds of mud, rooting around in cat litter for a contact lens, and getting punched out by a roughneck jailbird, as she does here.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goal! The Dream Begins
    Handsomely shot and with a likable lead in Kuno Becker, it also suffers from a script so outrageously generic you could buy it at Costco.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Giuliani Time
    Giuliani Time has an ax to grind and wields it with dull-edged force.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Keeping Up with the Steins
    To paraphrase the old ad for Levy's rye bread, you don't have to be Jewish to love "Keeping Up With the Steins," but it helps.
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