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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. Black Orpheus
    This is a movie about the marriage between sound and image, and the sound is wearing the pants in the relationship.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Trudell
    A thought-provoking and graceful portrait of a tenacious peace warrior whose frankness is his greatest weapon.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Street Fight
    Properly told, political underdog stories are as compelling as pratfalls from banana peels are funny. Each is timeless and carries an integrity impervious to cynicism.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Date Movie
    Date Movie has enough laughs to make rambunctious dudes hoot and holler, but not nearly enough to ensure the happy ending it promises.
  5. Eight Below
    It's the most touching love story about tragically separated sexy beasts since "Cold Mountain."
  6. Freedomland
    An overblown urban crime drama that should be a lot better than it is.
  7. Battle in Heaven
    With relentless and ruminative deliberateness, Reygadas shows us a Mexico City that seems to be decaying from the inside out.
  8. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    It's also the first apocalypse-minded franchise that's earned its downbeat mood. The action, for starters, is post-Cold War, post-Chernobyl, post-perestroika. Darkness is so much a part of the Russian psyche it must be nice to see a local movie try to put its hand toward the Light.
  9. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Rothemund gives us his sophisticated filmmaking only in the finale, which is devastating in its briskness and fury.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter Passing
    Winter Passing plays like two indie movies trapped in one film, and Zooey Deschanel is in the better of them. Will Ferrell is in the other one.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
    As a coherent, well-judged alternative history, the movie's a mess. As a thought-provoking and frequently hilarious jeremiad, it scores again and again.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Curious George
    Genuine, artful simplicity may be an impossible quality in a modern children's movie, so Curious George opts instead for mayhem under a blanket of sweetness. The little ones understand.
  13. Final Destination 3
    Week in and week out, horror movies cheat us, so it's wonderfully cathartic to watch a bunch of kids cheat death in what turns out to be the best installment yet in the "Final Destination" franchise.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Firewall
    A movie like this needs a suave, amoral villain, so here's Paul Bettany.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pink Panther
    Suffice to say that Shawn Levy, director of the "Cheaper by the Dozen" movies, is no Blake Edwards; for every finely tuned slapstick fillip, there's a ton of messy, family-friendly buffoonery.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    That film remains an electrifying testament to pop music as a communal creative act.
  17. Through the Fire
    It's hard to blame Telfair for letting his celebrity go to his head. If I were on the cover of Sports Illustrated in the 12th grade, there'd be no living with me either.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fallen Idol (re-release)
    Formally, the movie's a lasting pleasure: Reed's incisive direction; Greene's easy yet weighted dialogue; the farseeing deep-focus photography of Georges Perinal; Vincent Korda's luxuriant sets.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Good Woman
    A Good Woman is pretty to look at and fakes witty elegance passably, so consider it a diversion -- a movie that might have been in the Oscar race if the elements had jelled but has instead been properly hung out to dry in February.
  20. When a Stranger Calls
    Even by the lowest standards, this is a frightless, cynically made movie.
  21. Something New
    This is an inept and unsubtle romantic fantasy about how black people and white people don't mix.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bubble
    Bubble is a stunt in search of a movie, and it almost finds one.
  23. Annapolis
    Directing Annapolis is Justin Lin, whose previous feature was the irresponsible high-school comedy thriller "Better Luck Tomorrow." This second movie is more his speed.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Big Momma's House 2
    Completely unnecessary but painless, like dentistry performed by mimes.
  25. Nanny McPhee
    Thompson adapted the screenplay from Christianna Brand's "Nurse Matilda" books, and she and director Kirk Jones balance the slapstick and levity with darker enchantments. At its most enjoyable the film feels like Roald Dahl's idea of "Mary Poppins."
  26. Manderlay
    Spike Lee has been treading similar terrain with both greater cogency and fewer similarities to Bertolt Brecht. Manderlay, though, is mad and perplexed in its own inscrutable, schematic way. The trouble is the angrier it gets, the more infuriatingly banal it becomes.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    The movie's still a wickedly droll put-on. Better yet, beneath the fun lurks a dry and weary sigh at life's refusal to match the tidiness of art.
  28. The Spirit of the Beehive
    This is a modest marvel of grace and framing that unfolds with the patience of a cloud and is driven more by wonder than pure emotion. It doesn't have the exuberance of Francois Truffaut 's "Small Change." Instead, it's that movie's antonym, yet just as wondrous.
  29. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    This is by far the most embarrassing of his seven movies.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Why We Fight
    An agit-doc of unusual depth. It has a point -- that the primary business of America over the past half-century has been waging war -- and it supports that point with nuance, research, and a willingness to hear the other side of the argument.
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