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For 7,964 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. Green Street Hooligans
    The movie, though, is nonsense. At its most credible, the story evokes fond memories of the adult drug narcs hiding among American high schoolers on ''21 Jump Street."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Music from the Inside Out
    Daniel Anker's Music From the Inside Out is so intent on divining the mysteries behind the creative act that it comes up frustratingly short on specifics.
  3. Transporter 2
    A sequel that makes it clear that the outrageous antics of the first movie had a one-time-only charm.
  4. A Sound of Thunder
    The movie fails to conjure the wonder of the Ray Bradbury short story that inspired it.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Underclassman
    Saved from total puff only by the obnoxiousness of its star, who seems to be laboring under the delusion that he's the next Eddie Murphy.
  6. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Assassin is funnier and less awkward than her last concert film, 2004's ''CHO Revolution," but nowhere near as consistently gut busting as 2002's ''Notorious C.H.O." or (first and still best) 2000's ''I'm the One That I Want."
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Constant Gardener
    A predictable conspiracy thriller that somehow ends up diminishing the real urgency of the West's humanitarian disconnect from Africa. If it sends audiences home to log on to the Amnesty International website, terrific -- but that still doesn't make it a very good movie.
  8. William Eggleston in the Real World
    The documentary is elliptical, with a slow, drifty rhythm. It presents an up-close but impersonal view of Eggleston.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Brothers Grimm
    An absurd mess that's more entertaining than it has any right to be.
  10. The Cave
    It's ultimately just a rigorous personal training film made by people who don't seem to like movies or the people who go to them.
  11. Undiscovered
    It doesn't belong at a megaplex. It should be playing on a Clear Channel station.
  12. The Baxter
    A self-consciously arch work of hipsterism that's more styled than funny.
  13. The Memory of a Killer
    Entertaining.
  14. Wall
    Coming and going through the wall's checkpoints is a tiresome and undignified process that makes US airport security look like a cocktail reception.
  15. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    A lot of the credit for what's right with 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin goes to the screenplay, which Carell and Apatow wrote. They like these characters and, when it matters, they dare to give them feelings, none truer than Andy's.
  16. Red Eye
    A one-trick action thriller that feels like a poor cousin of an episode of ''24." Call it ''12."
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Valiant
    The top-secret message this pigeon is carrying reads ''Wait for the DVD."
  18. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    If anyone is capable of pulling off a deviled screwball with cheeky panache, it's de la Iglesia, who's one of the world's great nutty directors yet to find the American following he so richly deserves.
  19. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    The violence in the final 45 minutes of Mr. Vengeance is tough to watch.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reel Paradise
    An amusingly damning portrait of a man trying to impose his will on a world that, really, has better things to do.
  21. The Skeleton Key
    It has the wild, rancid atmosphere of a garbage bag that a raccoon has ripped open.
  22. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    If all the first "Deuce" had going for it was a regular-guy approach to over-the-top humor, that's completely absent in this follow-up.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Four Brothers
    A faux-low-budget revenge thriller, pure and simple. There's nothing special about it, and that's what's refreshing.
  24. The Great Raid
    The Great Raid amounts to a noble failure. This is sad news for those of us who remain hopelessly partial to Dahl's mean streak. The failure we can live with. It's the noble part that will never do.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Asylum
    A classy unintentional hoot.
  26. The Goebbles Experiment
    Weirdly enthralling film.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Grizzly Man
    Timothy Treadwell was killed, along with his girlfriend, by a rogue bear in October 2003.
  28. Pretty Persuasion
    Isn't so much awful as it is self-conscious, overdone, shallow, and just not up to the level of its star.
  29. Pulse
    Where the average Japanese horror flick is petulant and nasty, Pulse is dolorous, shivery, and surreal.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Clean
    Clean has the same mixture of human tenderness and borderline-silly Eurochic that marks Wenders films like "Until the End of the World."
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