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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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    Watching these pint-size Astaires and Rogerses practice the fox trot, tango, rumba, and swing is the immediate hook to Mad Hot Ballroom.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Mother
    Isn't for the kiddies. It probably isn't for anyone not interested in the darkest corners of the human psyche.
  3. Layer Cake
    A lot of the problem is that the picture's protagonist is both naive and foul.
  4. Kings & Queen
    The film is a tower of literary and cinematic references, tangential yet somehow essential characters, and one fantastic performance after another. It's a simple movie yet is anything but.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tell Them Who You Are
    In more ways than one, Mark Wexler gets the release he's seeking.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crash
    Its characters come straight from the assembly line of screenwriting archetypes, and too often they act in ways that archetypes, rather than human beings, do. You can feel its creator shuttling them here and there on the grid of greater LA, pausing portentously between each move.
  7. House of Wax
    For Hilton haters, the stupid and grotesque remake of House of Wax will only stoke their schadenfreude.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kingdom of Heaven
    A mostly lumbering, occasionally rousing epic that walks a bizarre line between historical fact and Hollywood wishful thinking.
  9. Mysterious Skin
    The film is actually a major artistic breakthrough for Araki, a onetime bad boy of independent filmmaking. Its psychological intelligence, attention to emotional currents, and humanity are surprises.
  10. Brothers
    Piercingly co-written and directed by Susanne Bier, the movie dramatizes one man's collapse and the other's surprising maturation.
  11. Up for Grabs
    A rarity for documentaries. The movie is a full-tilt farce, and were it not completely true, it'd be a piercing satire that Preston Sturges might have polished into a resonant screwball.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Writer of O
    This gulf between a woman's public and private faces is an intensely rich subject that Rapaport glosses over.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Visually playful and often good fun, it never settles on a convincing narrative shape.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    xXx: State of the Union
    There are really only two kinds of big-budget action movies: stupid, and good and stupid. Surprisingly, XXX: State of the Union is good and stupid, which makes it an immediate improvement over 2002's meatheaded "XXX."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    3-Iron
    Dreamlike and the slightest bit precious, the film is a beautiful, over-cultivated hothouse flower.
  16. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    Like all of Jacquot's movies, it's not crazy enough.
  17. Funny Ha Ha
    A smartly observed, unpretentious, and unconventional comedy of manners -- or more properly, it's a comedy of mannerisms.
  18. The Holy Girl
    A collection of beautifully acted encounters, conversations, symbols, and vignettes woven into an evocative and unforgettably surreal garment.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ladies in Lavender.
    Likably played by Bruhl, the castaway remains more dramatic device than living, breathing character. And without him truly being there, Dench and Smith are just volleying an imaginary ping-pong ball between them. That's not acting -- that's exercise.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Another Road Home
    With pained gentleness, her film insists we make our homelands within us and take them wherever we go.
  21. The Interpreter
    A righteous but wrongheaded thriller, chokes on its well-meant outrage and leaves a moth-eaten plot and handful of nonsense characters on its way to a dopey finish.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Lot Like Love
    ''Love" doesn't have a plot so much as it has a concept, scribbled in crayon.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Double Dare
    Focuses on a parallel universe that moviegoers rarely consider: that of the invisible, hard-working craftspeople who put the illusion together.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    Entertaining and enraging.
  25. The Game of Their Lives
    What the cast members lack in sharpened skill they more than make up for in raw gusto and athletic scrappiness (most of the actors have logged a lot of soccer in their pasts). These guys give a sport that is virtually nameless in the movies a good name in this one.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Man Who Copied
    What could have been an effervescent 90-minute experience is so in love with the sound of its own voice that it develops genre trouble and piddles on for two-plus hours.
  27. The Amityville Horror
    The latest cannibalization of a popular older horror film.
  28. House of D
    House of D, is like the kind of sticky greeting card you'd find on CBS some Sunday nights.
  29. It's All Gone Pete Tong
    Isn't all wrong. But even at its very best, it's just all right.
  30. The Girl from Monday
    Numbing story.
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