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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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    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bad News Bears
    The remake is stranded between pushing the scatological envelope and caving in to the formulas the 1976 movie established, and until the well-nigh foolproof ending, it comes up gasping for air.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    9 Songs
    It's a smart, provocative idea for a movie. I wish 9 Songs was that movie.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Edukators
    There's an evenhanded humanism flowing through The Edukators that may strike doctrinaire viewers on either side of the divide as mushy, but it's tough enough for the rest of us to chew on for a long time.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Days
    In its unstated cynicism, beauty, and self-pity, Last Days fits the myth of Cobain like a torn pair of jeans.
  5. November
    Offers cliches instead of chills.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    The movie's overlong and there are lumps in the batter, but this is a ''Charlie" that the author would recognize as upholding his playfully dyspeptic tradition.
  7. Wedding Crashers
    Tom Cruise might have saved his family from apocalypse. But Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have just saved our summer.
  8. Happy Endings
    The cast is strong. Kudrow and Gyllenhaal provide the movie's emotional center.
  9. The Warrior
    What really makes 'The Warrior worthwhile is its indomitable soul.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Murderball
    Murderball is a paradox: a movie about quadriplegics that insists we look beyond their disability.
  11. Dark Water
    As the movie is in step with Connelly's aching heroine and not trying to scare our socks off, Dark Water is of a piece with Salles's sensitive filmmaking. Obviously, from a genre standpoint, that presents a tremendous problem. Nobody goes to a horror movie for a good cry.
  12. Fantastic Four
    What the movie lacks most is a real sense of adventure.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beautiful Country
    The filmmakers bank against their impulse toward melodrama and deliver a reconciliation that is heartbreakingly understated.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saraband
    Builds slowly and naturally to an unbearable personal crisis.
  15. Chronicles
    For a movie about serial killings and media sensationalism, Cronicas sure is wimpy.
  16. Rebound
    Rebound is about as unmotivated as Coach Roy, doing nothing to distinguish itself from any other movie ever made about winless teams that learn to stop losing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    The film confirms director Audiard as a master of visual mood, in this case one of barely expressed emotional panic.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Undead
    In Undead, sadly, rigor mortis has set in.
  19. The World
    The director is becoming a master of blending the political and the personal with eloquence and deceptive lightness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    War of the Worlds
    War of the Worlds pushes some of the right buttons and enough of the wrong ones to make you wish that Spielberg would move on from aliens already and use his unparalleled talents to focus once more on earth.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bewitched
    Bewitched presents a phony and cynical look at how Hollywood might make or remake a television show. It's as grating, laughless, and narcissistic (though, to its credit, not as cruel) as that new Lisa Kudrow show-within-a-show-within-a-show, "The Comeback."
  22. Land of the Dead
    Looks and feels like someone else's better-made schlock.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rize
    There's a delicate balance here between expression and belligerence.
  24. Yes
    The result is a unique time at the art house: a work whose badness becomes guiltily pleasurable, like a Harlequin romance novel masquerading as a dissertation.
  25. Lila Says
    Lila is all come-ons without any charm.
  26. Memories of Murder
    What's most remarkable about it is the way Bong builds real suspense and plays the chilling moments straight while leaving himself room for nonsense and horseplay. He seems completely at ease with the marriage of the silly with the serious. Only time can reveal whether he's a master filmmaker, but this, at least, is a masterful performance.
  27. March of the Penguins
    Touching and brisk.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Herbie Fully Loaded
    Blandly noisy and inoffensively average.
  29. The Deal
    Blame the unsexy subject matter if you want, but blame the uninspired casting first.
  30. The Perfect Man
    To be endured rather than enjoyed.
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