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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. Mountain Patrol
    Never has a movie so soberingly made the fight to save life and the struggle to hold on to it seem so futile.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    La Mujer de Mi Hermano
    An oddly unsexy melodrama in which every supposedly shocking revelation (rape, incest, homosexuality, pedophilia) is treated with the same blithe shrug of recognition. It's numbing, especially with the film's deadly serious mood.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
    As charming as Dunn's kid-in-a-candy-store exploration is at times, it's apparent that his ''anthropological" take on the scene isn't much more than the love letter he always dreamed of writing to his headbanging pals.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story
    Fueled by off-kilter characters, charming and funny -- if haltingly awkward -- dialogue, and a reasonable amount of thematic ingenuity, "Blackballed" succeeds as a modest tribute to the kind of aging boys club that idles for hours in somebody's parents' rumpus room, its members tossing around big-man talk but trapped in emotional adolescence.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Sisters in Law
    Despite the lack of an especially defined narrative arc, the people are what make the movie -- as they should in a tale like this.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lucky Number Slevin
    The most original thing about Lucky Number Slevin is that it lets Lucy Liu play a screwball heroine.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Benchwarmers
    Not terrible, not terrible at all. Yes, the plot is terrible, some of the jokes are terrible, and Rob Schneider's bizarre from-the-neck-up oxblood tan is terrible, but the movie as a whole is a more-than-acceptable addition to the genre of shameless and hastily made American comedy.
  8. Phat Girlz
    This is a disarming and, in its own way, delightful vehicle for its star and executive producer, the comedian and actress Mo'Nique. Who could hate this movie?
  9. Take the Lead
    The movie partners all the cliches of the inner-city school drama with the cliches of the dance instructional, and the two keep stomping on each other's toes.
  10. Friends with Money
    Holofcener writes as well as Albert Brooks at his best, and her finesse with actors is as assured as James L. Brooks's on his TV and film projects from 20 and 30 years ago.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On a Clear Day
    Pleasantly inspirational on its own terms, "Clear" is no one's idea of fresh goods.
  12. When Do We Eat?
    The film turns that stale old Seder into warmed-up dinner theater.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    4
    Immense, mystical, and deranged beyond immediate comprehension, Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 4 is an apocalyptic allegory of Mother Russia and its current state of squalid exhaustion.
  14. Free Zone
    A minor movie on a major subject, a drama with an almost unbearable lightness.
  15. Sir! No Sir!
    Zeiger's movie is a timely salute to the risky and brave men and women who had the temerity not only to think for themselves but to speak their minds.
  16. I Am a Sex Addict
    Zahedi's search for fulfillment is depleting, like throwing good sex after bad. The more we learn about the hole in his soul, the more vivid his misogamy becomes.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Basic Instinct 2
    The accidental comedy sensation of the year to date.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    ATL
    Is ATL even a hip-hop movie? There's hip-hop in it, certainly, but unlike the recent vehicles for Eminem and 50 Cent -- respectively, ''8 Mile" and ''Get Rich or Die Tryin' " -- it does not have a rapper hero.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ice Age: The Meltdown
    Ice Age: The Meltdown is pure sequel product that should make children and undemanding grown-ups happy even as it lacks anything resembling storytelling inspiration.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Slither
    The acting is playful aces all around: Fillion gives good exhausted incredulity, Banks gives good virginal idiocy, and Rooker gives great conflicted monster arrogance even before the aliens get him.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brick
    Brick is Bogart goes to high school, in other words, but that thumbnail description doesn't begin to convey the lasting pleasures of Rian Johnson's directorial debut.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
    It's raucous and loud as hell; the hyperactive editing could trigger grand mal seizures.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Adam & Steve
    Not the knee-slapper it wants to be, but it's endearing nonetheless.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    Jeff Feuerzeig's film is as good a portrait of the artist as a beloved basket case as you'll see, but it's kept from greatness by the questions it refuses to ask itself.
  25. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    I wish I could say there is something pleasurable in watching John Goodman reminisce about the good old days while impaled on a steering wheel in the Volvo he's crashed on a California freeway, but I can't find what it is.
  26. Iron Island
    Like the great Iranian filmmakers, Rasoulof has no use for the artificiality of heightened drama.
  27. Drawing Restraint 9
    Slow but rarely tedious.
  28. Inside Man
    Washington hasn't been this relaxed in years. When he feels like it he can be the most charismatic star in the movies.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Stay Alive
    Always the way in horror flicks: These first scenes, when the characters are being tenderly established and the concept is still young, are the best.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    It's that gulf between earnest idealism and beaten-down realism that's the unexpected drama of Beauty Academy.
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