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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Mother's Smile
    It's a bit of a mess but strong stuff nevertheless -- a mournful, often wickedly funny religious satire that suggests what Kafka might have come up with had he been raised Catholic.
  2. Uncle Nino
    An effortless heartwarmer that manages to be utterly corny but quite likable.
  3. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    Judy Irving's terrific documentary 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is ostensibly about birds, but only in the way that a game of Scrabble is about tiles.
  4. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    A fine afternoon at the megaplex. And it will make a welcome addition your home library when it's released on video.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nobody Knows
    Spare and elegant and harrowing, it's an ode to childhood trust being stretched until it snaps.
  6. Boogeyman
    A horror film whose only scare is that it was made at all... As with so many stupid horror movies in these post-''Scream" times, this one is at such a creative loss that all it can do is make its audience feel duped for having purchased a ticket.
  7. The Wedding Date
    Messing should know this is precisely the kind of movie Grace would ridicule Will for dragging her to see.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Nomi Song
    Succeeds at its main tasks. It re-creates new wave New York with Proustian force, from the Kiev (the diner) to Fiorucci (the clothing store).
  9. Assisted Living
    The whimsy Greenebaum wants to construct can't match the terminal sadness that naturally takes over the film. Perhaps in accidental tribute to Todd, the whole thing feels half-baked.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Daybreak
    Involving and sometimes comically bleak but never fully convincing as drama.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Travelers and Magicians
    Anyone interested in Buddhism and the chance to see the high-altitude, deep-spirited landscapes of Bhutan from a movie theater seat is herewith directed to Travellers and Magicians.
  12. Alone in the Dark
    Think of the lamest horror movie you've ever seen. Now think of Tara Reid in the lamest horror movie you've ever seen. See how much worse it could have been?
  13. Hide and Seek
    Ignore the hype. You won't find anything startling or memorable in the derivative Hide and Seek.
  14. Aliens of the Deep
    Stirs excitement about exploration of all kinds.
  15. Fascination
    I'm afraid this is one of THOSE movies, one where ''plot" is another word for ''gratuitous sex scene."
  16. Lost Embrace
    Has a novelist's human touch. Were it a book, it would go somewhere on the shelf with Jonathan Safran Foer and early Philip Roth.
  17. Are We There Yet?
    This gnarly and illogical little sitcom is bound to make any adult reconsider that next outing with the kids.
  18. Head-On
    Not about crashing into walls or crashing into other people. It's about crashing into yourself and living to tell the tale.
  19. Watermarks
    In the absolutely moving new documentary Watermarks, seven women in their 80s return to the Vienna swimming pool of their youth.
  20. Assault on Precinct 13
    Disappointing for a number of reasons. For one thing, it's silly. For another, it's not always silly enough to be diverting.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Machuca
    It's a tale powerfully told, nevertheless, with an unusual vantage point in its upper-class young hero.
  22. Coach Carter
    Who's it for? How do you put this message across without it seeming medicinal? Sure, MTV is among the movie's producers, but what 11th grader wants to spend a Friday night being hit with such a blunt instrument?
  23. Elektra
    As she sashays, mirthlessly, from one thankless confrontation to the next, it's unclear why anyone would find Garner any more deserving of stardom than certain mannequins.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Racing Stripes
    Simultaneously overplotted and simplistic, the new barnyard/racecourse comedy from Warner Brothers is predictable every step of the way, and it contains at least three too many poop jokes.
  25. The Chorus
    The crime of The Chorus isn't that it's corny. (I like corny.) It's that its corniness seems programmed.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    At its strongest cataloging the sheer sensory overkill of the festival -- the faces, the food, the many roads to bliss. Only the slightest historical information is offered and no spiritual background whatsoever.
  27. White Noise
    A moronic exercise in supernatural claptrap.
  28. Sky Blue
    This is one beautifully drawn, frequently lifelike piece of anime.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Love Song for Bobby Long
    Works hard to give quirk a bad name.
  30. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    Assassination reminds you that Penn can be very funny.
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