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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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  1. Undertow
    It's an exercise in 1970s mood. But all the film does is conjure, channel, and allude, until there's really no movie of Green's own for an audience to grab onto.
  2. The Manson Family
    There's no real journalism here, just the sort of appalling revisionism that can turn a bloodbath into a beach party.
  3. Lightning in a Bottle
    It's hugely entertaining.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Machinist
    The main, if not only, reason to see The Machinist is for Christian Bale's title performance, and even then you have to be a fan of hardcore martyrdom in the service of craft.
  5. The Grudge
    Takes a leaf from the "Psycho" handbook and abandons its star for stretches here and there.
  6. Surviving Christmas
    It's the sort of stupid swill that gets spewed out by a studio committee, slapped together without a brain, a heart, or a good idea about where to put a camera or when to cut a scene.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex Is Comedy
    A rigorous and bracingly charming movie about moviemaking.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    P.S.
    Contains more than its share of implausibilities and absurdities.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Final Cut
    Williams gives a performance that's honest and carefully wrought but on some level still a stunt. All that courtliness is wearing him out, and it's wearing us out too.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Moolaadé
    It's worth stressing how deeply pleasurable Moolaad is to watch.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Being Julia
    You can feel her (Bening) drag Being Julia uphill for an hour and a half until the final 15 minutes, when the ground finally levels out and the picture becomes fine, vengeful fun.
  12. Saints and Soldiers
    For a certain kind of moviegoer, Saints and Soldiers provides above-average nostalgia. Others, more hardened, might call it child's play.
  13. Shall We Dance
    Gere is a pleasure, smiling and spinning and high-fiving his two classmates -- played by Bobby Cannavale and Omar Miller -- and the movie is happy and extremely likable.
  14. Team America: World Police
    Stuck between point-blank ridicule and the obligations of a weary plot. Surprisingly, more than an hour of watching marionettes fight, curse, and fornicate turns out to be as dull as watching Michael Dudikoff do the same thing in one of his unremarkable soldier movies.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Scandal
    Of all the "Liaisons" adaptations, this may be the most sentimental.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vera Drake
    The film is startlingly even-handed.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Around the Bend
    The result is a curious hash: warmly funny in the comic scenes and shamelessly sentimental during the sad bits, of which there are many.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vodka Lemon
    This is frostbitten Fellini -- a film that finds fresh beauty and contentment in the wake of centuries of conquering armies. The great joke of Vodka Lemon is that the conquerors missed what was there all along.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stage Beauty
    Yet Crudup does good, mercurial work despite a silly surfer-dude haircut.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Friday Night Lights
    It also bears something you rarely experience in a football movie. Friday Night Lights has a soul.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Primer
    Shane Carruth's extraordinary work of shoestring speculation throws you into a deep ocean of techno-jargon and lets you dog-paddle or sink like a stone.
  22. Raise Your Voice
    The movie's enthusiasm is as indelible and shiny as the lip gloss its star wears to bed.
  23. Tarnation
    A masterpiece.
  24. Taxi
    Too much of Taxi is just tired.
  25. Tying the Knot
    It makes a sane, civil, humanist case for marriage for all.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Begins and ends as a fulsome Kerry campaign bio along the lines of the famed Bill Clinton convention short, "The Man From Hope."
  27. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    While the story couldn't be simpler and the filmmaking is crude, it forcefully addresses a reality.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dig!
    The result is one of the most unforgiving ground-level documentaries about the music business ever made -- the six-string equivalent of "Hoop Dreams."
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shark Tale
    Where "Nemo" was clever, soulful, and marvelous to look at, "Tale" is manic and surprisingly ugly, with a script that leans on the shallowest aspects of hip-hop street cred while pimping for corporate product placement at every turn.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Heart Huckabees
    Among the most insane mainstream movies ever released.
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