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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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    • 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.
  2. The Dying Gaul
    The film builds into a lurid and suspenseful thriller.
  3. Gay Sex in the 70s
    Yet despite the retrospective sensationalism, Lovett's 70-minute documentary is a sobering anti-erotic cautionary tale.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
    The movie's masterstroke is to avoid interviewing the usual anti-globalist suspects and let solid, hard-working middle Americans speak.
  5. Prime
    Yes, Younger has made an update of the ''shiksa who changed my life" story in ''Annie Hall." But Prime is missing the psychological acuity and scabrous cultural wit of Woody Allen at his best. These lovers meet standing in line to see Antonioni's ''Blow-Up" and never mention the movie.
  6. Saw II
    The product of immaturity. It approaches suffering with a meaninglessness that must be a luxury for anyone who has never lost anyone, or is incapable of empathizing with someone who has.
  7. The Weather Man
    Dave is one of the most ineffectual characters ever to have an entire movie built around him.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    New York Doll
    You're left with the bewilderment and joy on Kane's face as he plays the old songs, and the sense of ghosts just behind his back.
  9. Paradise Now
    It doesn't take its ideas or its audience far enough. The result is a humanist potboiler.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Passenger (re-release)
    What's most shocking about The Passenger 30 years later? Seeing Jack Nicholson at the lean, sardonic height of his youthful powers? Finding a Michelangelo Antonioni movie with an actual plot?
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Three... Extremes
    Gore fans will want to bump the two-and-a-half-star rating up a star, whereas those who can't handle on-screen violence will want to stay the hell away.
  12. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
    This is a movie from the past that's also eerily of a piece with the film culture of now and tomorrow.
  13. Doom
    Dreary-looking and painfully slow, but it's not terrible.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    Just rent the kid ''National Velvet" when you get home. That movie's proof you don't need a true story to be inspired.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shopgirl
    Still manages to be a Steve Martin vanity project in ways that are fairly creepy.
  16. Stay
    Neither thrilling nor psychological, but it's chicly shot and edited and is pretty much art-directed to death.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    It's a merry deconstructive delight and easily the best party in town.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After Innocence
    After Innocence isn't bravura filmmaking, and it doesn't have to be -- this is one of those documentaries where the subject is compelling enough to do the legwork.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Emmanuel's Gift
    Directed in the breathless inspirational tones of an infomercial, the film's an acceptable document of a thoroughly remarkable individual.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Protocols of Zion
    May be the most successful forgery in the history of hate.
  21. The Roost
    Keep your big-budget horror movie expectations locked away in a separate crawl space, because this grainy feature debut from writer-director Ti West demands that you buy into the silliness, and the cheese.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Naked in Ashes
    The film pulls off the remarkable feat of immersing a viewer in their world without providing any insights whatsoever.
  23. Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
    One of the smartest things Kaplan does, besides getting talented Boston folk singer Catie Curtis to contribute to the soundtrack, is hang around long enough to see how this three-headed relationship plays out.
  24. Domino
    His [Director Tony Scott's] pornographic lust for bloodletting, gunplay, and out-of-control camerawork far exceeds his abilities to tell a story.
  25. Elizabethtown
    Audiences of a certain hipster disposition, in fact, will see Elizabethtown and pine for Zach Braff's ''Garden State," the movie to which Elizabethtown bears an unfortunate and inferior resemblance.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fog
    This new Fog floats in on the fumes of the 1980 John Carpenter original, but the surprise is that it's arguably better.
  27. Where the Truth Lies
    An erotic thriller. It is also an Atom Egoyan picture, which means any claims either to actual eroticism or conventional thrills are theoretical at best.
  28. North Country
    It infuriated me. It broke my heart. It convinced me that Caro, who's from New Zealand, is a strong, clear-voiced filmmaker
  29. Finding Home
    Finding Home is well meant and earnest but is stretched to almost twice what would have been a comfortable length.
  30. Innocent Voices
    Not a happy time at the movies. It bears the distinction of bringing to the screen a dark nugget of history.
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