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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. End of the Spear
    It's not remotely as luscious or half as bold as Malick's movie, but it is shorter and more educational.
  2. Underworld: Evolution
    They're still fighting in this sequel. But this is a more visually inspired, muscularly made movie than its predecessor.
  3. Glory Road
    This is a movie you could watch in your sleep.
  4. Last Holiday
    Director Wayne Wang and his screenwriters sometimes ape ''Pretty Woman." But Latifah's obvious forebear is Pearl Bailey, who was just as regal and straight-up.
  5. Tristan and Isolde
    Franco can be exhilarating in movies -- tremulous, unhinged, a little wild. Here his jaw never stops quivering and his eyes stay welled up, advertising a breakdown that never comes. Not that Myles has a presence a man would fall apart over. She's too professional to drive anybody crazy.
  6. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
    Pays high-toned tribute to its subject. How high-toned? Bach and Ravel play on the soundtrack as a honeyed light streams through the windows of Cartier-Bresson's Paris apartment.
  7. Following Sean
    If ''Sean" was about conviction and revolution, Following Sean is about ambivalence and resignation. In either case it's pretty easy for a funny-provocative kid to stand out.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fateless
    Fateless looks man's inhumanity to man square in the eye and pronounces it standard operating procedure, and that may be the greater horror.
  9. Hostel
    Not horrifying enough.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Promise
    Has a daft sweep, and if you're in the mood for empty swordplay in baroque settings, purple dialogue delivered with straight faces, and romantic yearnings that never, ever resolve, The Promise may be your cup of oolong.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Match Point
    The question that should be asked is whether Woody Allen has made a good movie this time out, and the honest answer is "almost."
  12. Wolf Creek
    Wolf Creek is ultimately all about the torture and the trauma. Happy holidays.
  13. Casanova
    The movie treats trysting as comedy and yet is stingy with the laughs.
  14. Rumor Has It...
    An embarrassing romantic comedy from Rob Reiner.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The New World
    The New World is something I don't think I've ever seen before on a movie screen: an epic lyrical dialectic. Self-indulgent, gorgeous, maddening, grueling, ultimately transcendent, it's a Terrence Malick movie all the way, and possibly the director's most sustained work since 1972's "Badlands."
  16. The Matador
    Shepard's Matador demonstrates what an Almodovar picture would feel like without his gonzo sensibility. It's Almodovar for heterosexuals.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Munich
    The director can work wonders within his celluloid universe, but when the time comes to hand us back to reality, he stumbles. With this movie, that hurts.
  18. Caché (Hidden)
    Maurice Bénichou does the most heartbreaking work in the movie, playing a friend of Georges's. It's a character and a performance I'll have a tough time getting out of my dreams.
  19. The Ringer
    Come on. You want to know if it's funny. And the answer is: kind of.
  20. The Intruder
    Enigmatic as it is, The Intruder dares us to see movies as visual marvels tethered to humanity.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    Noisy, silly, gratingly upbeat, and piously sentimental, 'Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is what passes for wholesome family entertainment these days. It's the sort of movie to send small children and grandparents out of the theater hugging each other and strong men in search of bourbon.
  22. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Writers Nicholas Stoller and Judd Apatow remake is more devilish, hitting its targets with the reckless glee required for a round of Whac-A-Mole.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The White Countess
    A watchable disappointment. Sumptuous to look at, tastefully dull, and ultimately rather silly.
  24. The Family Stone
    The movie is a holiday romantic comedy that wants to put the holiday romantic comedy out of business.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    Tommy Lee Jones makes his feature directing debut here, and the film is as weathered, subtle, and sympathetic as the actor's own face.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Producers
    Susan Stroman directed the show on Broadway and what she has done here is photograph that show -- no more, no less. This is good news for anyone who couldn't afford a trip to New York and $100 tickets, but it's a fairly odd approach to cinema.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hoodwinked!
    One aches to think what the great "Looney Tunes" directors could have done with this material.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    King Kong
    It's not so much a remake as it is a loving re-creation of the 1933 original on extra-strength steroids, with a side order of Botox. You've seen it all before but most assuredly never like this.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brokeback Mountain
    Brokeback may be too polished for some people, too elegantly dispassionate in its study of choked passion.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    The film version of Memoirs of a Geisha is very like a geisha itself: a thing of exquisitely refined surfaces beneath which beats an ordinary heart.
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