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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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    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After the Sunset
    For a movie that's sexist, racist, and possibly the most deeply closeted gay love story to be released this year, After the Sunset is reasonably entertaining.
  2. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    The director, Beeban Kidron, handles the proceedings with an episodic aimlessness on par with Bridget's.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kinsey
    As superbly crafted -- as good -- as this movie is, Condon never really owns up to the cloud of pessimism at its center.
  4. Finding Neverland
    It's a portrait of the artist as Mary Poppins.
  5. Overnight
    Overnight is about all kinds of in-the-moment emotional rawness.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Polar Express
    Zemeckis and Hanks really seem to think they’re giving us a Christmas movie for the ages and a technology that will change cinema forever. They’re wrong on both counts. The Polar Express is merely a marvelous toy that has somehow become convinced it has a soul.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Callas Forever
    In sum, a big, honking tutti-frutti sundae of a movie that nonetheless is shot through with authentic feeling.
  8. Fade to Black
    The film elects a storytelling manner that's scarily similar to the beginning of a lot of hip-hop thrillers.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brother to Brother
    A very good drama about the difficulties of being young, black, and gay. With a bigger budget and a sharper focus, it might have been a great one.
  10. Cachorro
    Pedro is what a friend of mine calls a ''macho Iberico," which refers to a certain type of cocky, insensitive Spanish man.
  11. Alfie
    Shyer's version is a thing of infinite emptiness and nauseating vanity. It's not funny, alluring, affecting, or erotic, just conceited.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Incredibles
    Such smart, whiz-bang fun that you may not realize what it's about until you're safely home.
  13. Enduring Love
    Technically outstanding and the performances are strong.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Birth
    Such a meticulously wrought piece of hokum that it's both easy to admire and impossible to warm up to.
  15. Saw
    As long as Saw stays in that big, nasty bathroom, all we need to believe is the knot in our stomachs.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ray
    He (Ray) was, a more complicated man than this film, or perhaps any film, dares allow. Foxx is not at fault here.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sideways
    It's a performance (Giamatti's) so nuanced and so real in its everyday pain that it doesn't stand a chance of winning an Oscar. But it should.
  18. 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.
  19. The Manson Family
    There's no real journalism here, just the sort of appalling revisionism that can turn a bloodbath into a beach party.
  20. 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.
  22. The Grudge
    Takes a leaf from the "Psycho" handbook and abandons its star for stretches here and there.
  23. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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