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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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Heights
    Heights breathes, is briefly and immediately present, and is over. In this summer of noisy steroid cinema, such small favors are welcome.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Me and You and Everyone We Know
    Remarkably, ''Me and You" doesn't shock so much as soothe.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Summer of Love
    At its most interesting, the movie offers us the sight of people desperately embracing faith in the hopes it will pull them through.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Batman Begins
    In Batman Begins, Christian Bale gives us the best Bruce Wayne that has ever graced the screen.
  5. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    Maybe my priorities are wrong, but this inquiring mind wants to know when these two will find a movie entirely worthy of his understatement and her naughtiness. This one has its moments, but it's also littered with action-flick junk.
  6. The Honeymooners
    It's not as bad as the average Hollywood movie, it's stupendously worse.
  7. High Tension
    The horrible anticipation he [Aja] builds is derailed by a gimmick that makes the twist in, say, ''Fight Club" seem perfectly logical. To say more would be to ruin the movie, and why should I do that when its own makers have done it for you?
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    One could forgive a budget this threadbare, performances this amateurish, a plot this tortuous if the 3-D effects passed the cool test. Sadly, watching ''Adventures" is an experience akin to seeing the world through dung-colored glasses.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Howl's Moving Castle
    The filmmaker's obsessions have got the better of him. That said, I can't recommend the film highly enough, since bad Miyazaki is still leagues better than anyone else.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    5x2
    It flirts intriguingly with the unknowable, what it shows us of the knowable isn't terribly interesting.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
    A vanity film refreshingly lacking in vanity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cinderella Man
    A broad, foursquare piece of populist filmmaking that happens to be tremendously moving.
  13. Lords of Dogtown
    The movie is like a daydream, and it's most infectious when the characters are in motion or misbehaving, which is often.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rock School
    As a portrait of dysfunctional pedagogy, it's both refreshing and more than a little terrifying.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Apres Vous (After You)
    The movie is largely set in a busy Paris restaurant, and, not surprisingly, the food looks terrific. You may come out hungry for poached sea bass and a little starved for drama.
  16. Deep Blue
    A riveting and sobering way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
  17. Caterina va in città
    As much as the director andco-writer, Paolo Virzi, might try, he can't bring any of these people into focus. The movie is shapeless, too.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    As female-bonding comfort food goes, ''Sisterhood" is that rare meal both adolescent girls and their mothers will be able to agree on.
  19. The Longest Yard
    Everyone in this overstaffed showbiz sampler has been better somewhere else. An assortment of talented comedians, character actors, professional athletes, sports commentators, one rapper, and two former sitcom stars sit in this movie like too much food on a buffet cart.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Madagascar
    Antic, cute, scattershot, it's a remarkable-looking but terribly uncertain bit of CGI fluff, with its richest humor off to the sides of the action and a whole lot of average in the middle.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bomb the System
    Visually dazzling and dramatically trite -- it's virtuoso piffle.
  22. The Fearless Freaks
    An uncommonly intimate portrait, in large part because the filmmaker, Bradley Beesley, is a longtime neighbor, friend, and collaborator.
  23. Saving Face
    Actually the problem with Saving Face as a romantic comedy is that its central romance is a drag.
  24. Stolen Childhoods
    As moviemaking, it's monotonous. But its insistence on breaking our hearts proves a reliable weapon.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    The real deal, an often awkward but nonetheless terrifically compelling high-stakes human drama.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    It's an account of what helplessness does to a man whose philosophy of life has been founded on decisive action.
  27. Mindhunters
    It's hard to have sympathy for a movie that tosses in the old shower sneak-up sequence or allows its characters to speak as obviously as possible while standing in a pool of red liquid.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kicking & Screaming
    It would have been nice if someone had included a script, too.
  29. Monster-in-Law
    By Hollywood standards, a movie carried with such gusto by a 67-year-old woman has to be considered a miracle. And I'm not sorry to say I enjoyed watching her do it.
  30. Unleashed
    Doing nothing special, Freeman manages to make the picture seem wiser, funnier, and more eloquent than it is.
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