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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Russian Dolls
    The film isn't especially deep, but it's mostly delightful.
  2. Mission: Impossible III
    Only theoretically, though, is this exciting. Mostly, it all feels like a lateral move that keeps alive a franchise without breaking new ground.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Art School Confidential
    Zwigoff's overdue for a turkey, in other words. Art School Confidential is it.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    An American Haunting
    An American Haunting sets the bar at a new low: It makes ''The Blair Witch Project" look like a masterpiece of world cinema.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hoot
    The movie balances cardboard comic bad-guys with believable teenagers, has the courage to avoid romance, and unlike most Hollywood films suggests parents can be helpful and loving as well as clueless.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Down in the Valley
    The performances are deep and rich -- Wood is coming to seem like a smarter Chloe Sevigny, Rory looks to be the Culkin with talent, and Norton's portrayal of Harlan aches with ambiguity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Proposition
    A near-masterpiece of mood and menace, and one that deserves to be seen on the largest screen possible.
  8. One Last Thing...
    Dylan and Nikki are an awkward match at best, and their combined story is about as creative/convincing as a Hallmark card.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    United 93
    The movie is hard going, not least in the sense of powerlessness it leaves in an audience that knows exactly what will happen. And yet you come out feeling that the filmmakers have done the right thing by these people, and by this day.
  10. Stick It
    Peregrym is like a secondhand Hilary Swank. She has a looser presence and might be a better actor, but since we already have Swank, finding out is not a priority.
  11. Akeelah and the Bee
    All the gears, in fact, are shamelessly visible, yet they lock smoothly and resonantly into place. If Akeelah and the Bee is a generic, well-oiled commercial contraption, it is the first to credibly dramatize the plight of a truly gifted, poor black child.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    RV
    RV has teeth -- more teeth than the last few Steve Martin films, anyway -- but it's terrified to bite down, knowing that the paying audience would feel it more than anyone.
  13. The Lost City
    The Lost City is Andy Garcia's ballad to Havana during the Cuban revolution. You'll have to forgive the penthouse view, though -- it's the only one Garcia can seem to find.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Water
    Succeeds in its central goal: to turn a forgotten class of women into real, memorable human beings who deserve a different life.
  15. Lady Vengeance
    For most of Lady Vengeance, Park is playing with us. But the jokey atmosphere dissipates and the fun turns inside out in the movie's last act.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Army of Shadows
    The results bear witness to a time when sacrifice was bleached of everything but itself.
  17. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    A watchful, winding-down tragedy of a movie that delivers what it promises. As commentary, it's grim. As filmmaking, it's a powerfully disturbing odyssey through the Bucharest health care system.
  18. Three Times
    Another triumph of modesty from a master who deserves real, paying audiences, not just the adoration of besotted film critics.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Dreamz
    American Dreamz pitches its softballs with style. Martin Tweed, the preeningly heartless British host of the title TV show, just may be the great comic role that has always eluded Hugh Grant.
  20. The Sentinel
    The Sentinel isn't an entire season of ''24" smushed into a bland two hours of movie? Does Kiefer Sutherland know?
  21. Silent Hill
    Tens of millions of dollars were spent to tell us what we should have known going in: that the makers of the movie you're slogging through will spare no expense to demonstrate how much they hate us. Do us a favor. Tell them the feeling is mutual.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Somersault
    The movie has more style than depth and it's sometimes in danger of confusing the two.
  23. Mongolian Ping Pong
    In Mongolian Ping Pong the point is to look under the majestic vistas and see value in ordinary things -- ping-pong balls included.
  24. Stolen
    The Poe-like atmosphere in Stolen is such a chilling success that when Mashberg says that Gardner would have cracked this case herself, it's impossible to imagine that she isn't out looking for those paintings right now.
  25. Scary Movie 4
    Part sketch-comedy cartoon, part Cracked magazine spoof, installment four is the most scornfully made yet.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wild
    How's the movie? Technologically incredible, aesthetically pretty hideous, and narratively lumpy: Kids who aren't cynics (i.e., 9 and under) will roll with it.
  27. Kinky Boots
    Not since ''Mannequin on the Move" has a flamboyant black man brought so much fabulousness to stiff white heterosexuals.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hard Candy
    Hard Candy is the rare movie that may be worthiest for the arguments you'll have after it's over.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Notorious Bettie Page
    It's a handsome, often funny piece of work with a nearly fatal inability to settle on a tone.
  30. Look Both Ways
    The debut live-action feature of Australian animator Sarah Watt has several other things to recommend it as well, including a black-humored screenplay, realistic performances, eye-catching artwork, and a few creative turns on some well-worn themes.
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