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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saraband
    Builds slowly and naturally to an unbearable personal crisis.
  2. Chronicles
    For a movie about serial killings and media sensationalism, Cronicas sure is wimpy.
  3. 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.
  6. 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."
  9. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Lila Says
    Lila is all come-ons without any charm.
  13. 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.
  14. March of the Penguins
    Touching and brisk.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Herbie Fully Loaded
    Blandly noisy and inoffensively average.
  16. The Deal
    Blame the unsexy subject matter if you want, but blame the uninspired casting first.
  17. The Perfect Man
    To be endured rather than enjoyed.
    • 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.
  22. 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.
  23. The Honeymooners
    It's not as bad as the average Hollywood movie, it's stupendously worse.
  24. 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.
  30. 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.
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