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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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mrs Henderson Presents
    Mrs. Henderson Presents is a very old hat, and Judi Dench wears it beautifully.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    A gracefully subtle metaphor about life's Deep Magic has become a war film; what was a one-chapter battle toward the end of the book is now a ripsnorting Armageddon that looks like something Hieronymus Bosch might dream up after a heavy meal.
  3. Marebito (The Stranger from Afar)
    It's actually a pretty lousy thriller.
  4. The World's Fastest Indian
    The film is at its best in Utah, both because in David Gribble's exhilarating cinematography we finally get to feel the full power and intoxication of the sport.
  5. Æon Flux
    Aeon Flux is the sophomore picture from Karyn Kusama, who's first movie was a modest boxing film called "Girlfight." Here she's in over her head. The movie's sexual and scientific ideas never come through, and the characters would be fun only if they came with a joystick.
  6. Transamerica
    It's debatable whether watching Huffman get dressed, take hormones, and learn to use a more feminine diction could sustain an entire movie, but the character is certainly a creation more original than a lot of the film itself.
  7. First Descent
    Less a documentary than a PR package with a chip on its shoulder.
  8. Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
    When the film ends, we're haunted. We've been driving with a ghost.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
    It's an altogether satisfying drama -- the sort of movie some people complain they don't make anymore. So here it is; what's your excuse?
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ice Harvest
    "Bad Santa" it's not. Bumptiously entertaining it is.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Friends
    Funnier than any low-rent rip-off of "There's Something About Mary" has a right to be. It's crass, it's unsophisticated, it aims right for the slapsticky pleasure center of the under-30 moviegoer's brain. So sue me, I laughed. A lot.
  12. Rent
    It's pedestrian.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Yours, Mine and Ours
    The movie equivalent of a box of generic macaroni and cheese: bland, easily digested, comforting, forgettable.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Libertine
    A glorious disaster.
  15. Syriana
    In its seriousness, Syriana has an absorbing, ominous roundness that plays even better with a second viewing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    39 Pounds of Love
    '39 Pounds of Love is a heartwarmer that looks away from darker, deeper, and more troubling matters.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Goblet of Fire is the entry in which Rowling finally took off the gloves.
  18. Walk the Line
    The film sends you home moved and in a tuneful mood.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Zizek!
    Zizek is a revolutionary playing a comedian playing a revolutionary. Which makes him worth watching, even in this movie.
  20. Aristide and the Endless Revolution
    An absorbing piece of investigative journalism.
  21. Breakfast on Pluto
    Ambles along nicely, but feels as if it's never going to end.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Syrian Bride
    The Syrian Bride could be one of those big, teeming matrimony comedies like "Monsoon Wedding" or "Father of the Bride" but for the barbed wire running right down the middle of the aisle.
  23. Pride & Prejudice
    Jane Austen's novel has been rejiggered into a jaunty romantic comedy that leaves us as incandescently happy as its characters.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Derailed
    A tawdry, predictable hunk of movie headcheese, and I still had a pretty good time with it.
  25. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Rarely is a movie audience asked to put up with so much noise for such a thankless payoff.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bee Season
    Here the foundation has been miscast. That's M-I-S-C-A-S-T.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ellie Parker
    Eventually the energy of the original short runs out and the movie coasts on fumes, but it remains surprisingly enjoyable for all that.
  28. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    On most levels his performance is as flat as his abs: very early Wahlberg.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chicken Little
    Shiny and peppy, with some solid laughs and dandy vocal performances, but even a small child may sense how forced this movie is -- how hard it tries to be all things to all audiences.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jarhead
    All writers are entitled to tell the story of their own war, whether it's on the battlefield, in their head, or -- as is usually the case -- somewhere in between. Like it or not, Anthony Swofford did just that. Mendes, by contrast, tells the story of a Hollywood war, and it's simply not the news we can use.
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