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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. The Blood of My Brother
    Combines an insider's perspective with what can only be described as gutsy cinematography.
  5. 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.
  8. 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.
  12. 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."
  13. The Hidden Blade
    Enormously enjoyable.
  14. 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."
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
    • 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  25. 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.
  27. 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.
  29. 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.
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