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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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    • 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lonesome Jim
    Humor in 'Jim' is a little too dry.
  3. Mardi Gras: Made in China
    Redmon's film is a welcome reminder that everything comes from somewhere and responsible people should at least pause to examine the label. For one thing, that's how bigger and better documentaries get made.
  4. L'Enfant (The Child)
    The arrival of closing credits feels like a trap door. The film is over, and, suddenly, we have to leave these people. The directors make no guarantee for their futures, but the strength of their filmmaking inspires you to hope for the best.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stoned
    All the pieces are in place for an incisive tale of Brit-pop ego and madness, but filmmaker Stephen Woolley -- a celebrated UK producer ("The Crying Game") making his directing debut -- lets the story get away from him.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
    ''Health Inspector" hopes to do for Larry what ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" did for Jim Carrey, who in this context looks like Noel Coward.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    V for Vendetta
    The real villain is a cowed and lazy citizenry. Meaning all of us. Disappointingly, V for Vendetta makes this point early and moves on, at some point turning as shallow as what it protests against.
  8. Find Me Guilty
    The best I can say about his (Diesel)performance is that it's charmingly terrible.
  9. She's the Man
    A screwball comedy that made me wish I were 13 again, because this is precisely the kind of movie I would have gone nuts for in the ninth grade.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thank You for Smoking
    Like its protagonist, the movie is smart, soulless, glib, and utterly charming -- just the thing to warm up a movie season that's been late to bloom.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Don't Come Knocking
    The finest scene in Don't Come Knocking is its quietest...The movie could have used a lot more of it.
  12. Failure to Launch
    The movie brings to mind the more polite parts of "Wedding Crashers." Failure to Launch, while totally exuberant and appealingly made, is not nearly as randy.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Hills Have Eyes
    Hills is a far cry from its cheesy and predictable predecessor. "Gruesome" doesn't begin to describe the horrors that are revealed on-screen here.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Shaggy Dog
    What The Shaggy Dog feels like, more than anything, is an old-fashioned Disney movie.
  15. Ask the Dust
    After an hour or so, Ask the Dust seems to have said everything, and the air starts to seep out of its hermetic atmosphere.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Duck Season
    It's one of the small, pitch-perfect treasures of the movie year.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    The Heart Is Deceitful wants to cauterize us into feeling something -- anything -- but it's far too heartless to know what.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Evil
    Extremely watchable, even if it never goes as deep as it should.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Game 6
    It's an inside-the-park home run -- a small, lovingly overwritten comic drama about fate, failure, and primal longing. To put it in words a Sox fan would understand, the movie hurts good.
  20. 16 Blocks
    It's unbelievably bland.
  21. Aquamarine
    Unique because it's the rare movie that fiercely respects the altruistic loyalty that bonds girls to one another.
  22. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    The movie they've assembled is in the vein of 1973's "Wattstax," but it's much more than a concert documentary. It's a jubilant, civic-minded lollapalooza.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Ultraviolet
    Jovovich is bad, and not in a good way. She turns in an epically expressionless performance (maybe she thought it was one of her modeling gigs?) but she sure looks great.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deep Sea
    Travels around the world via the oceans' floors to show us symbiosis at work in a variety of ecosystems.
  25. Merry Christmas
    It's a heart-warmer, a well-meaning movie that sets out to wring a modern message (and preferably some tears) from a famous but largely forgotten moment in history.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Our Brand Is Crisis
    It’s a galling and provocative experience to viewers of any political persuasion, and a reminder to the left of how easily idealism can run amok.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tsotsi
    It's a solid, earnest drama of moral redemption that places old cliches in an unfamiliar setting.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Doogal
    Charm-free, incoherent, and heartlessly sentimental, this woodenly animated co-production by American, British, and French companies offers boredom and irritation for parents, needlessly scary images for tots, and, for the pubescent boys who apparently run mass culture, a flatulent blue moose. It's ugly to look at, too.
  29. Madea's Family Reunion
    Perry is a playwright, and his dialogue here is usually entertaining.
  30. Running Scared
    A depressing piece of gun-crazy Hollywood scuzz that, with its gassy style and runaway immorality, makes a Tony Scott movie look like a Robert Bresson picture.
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