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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. Virgin
    So much of Virgin is bunk masquerading as sexual politics.
  2. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    More of a sand-and-noodles western set in the Far East.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wicker Park
    Movies that are entertainingly nuts don't come around very often, and when they do they need to be given their due.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vanity Fair
    She has been made lovable -- and a Vanity Fair with a lovable Becky Sharp has no reason to exist. It's as if Shakespeare had put Hamlet on Prozac: What's the point?
  5. Suspect Zero
    Eckhart, who gets more rugged by the picture, certainly works hard to bring the audience along. But he's a nervous wreck for nothing. This movie isn't talking to us, it's talking to other serial killer movies.
  6. The Brown Bunny
    The Brown Bunny is certainly about how vain Gallo is. Yet rarely has narcissism produced such a handsome work of cinema.
  7. Bush's Brain
    In a refreshing change of pace, this week's anti-Bush documentary, Bush's Brain, is not really about George W. Bush at all. It's about his senior political adviser, Karl Rove.
  8. Hero
    These people may be really, really dangerous, but they're also really, really polite.
  9. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    There's nothing really wrong with it -- it's bad, but no worse than it needs to be, which is the problem.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    The overall effect is ghoulish.
  11. L.A. Twister
    Serves up a silly story and clunky dialogue that gets better than it deserves from Jennifer Aspen as Lenny's would-be girlfriend.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bright Leaves
    Where most documentaries offer us facts to hold on to, his (McElwee's) are obsessed with the mystery of things we don't know and never will.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    End of the Century
    Unearths the expected footage from the crypt -- including a hilarious live video of the band arguing onstage over what to play next. The anecdotes are pungent and revelatory.
  14. Nicotina
    While obviously not a unique or uniquely satisfying experience, the film still does the job in a pinch, and looks cool doing it.
  15. Rosenstrasse
    The picture's structural intricacy is a smoke screen for its psychological and emotional shallowness.
  16. Mean Creek
    Adults should find its simmering drama at least as compelling as teens will, even if parental figures are only slightly more present here than in a " Peanuts" comic strip.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bright Young Things
    Acridly funny.
  18. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Most of the expert insights contained in this concise documentary are already available in the door-stopping exposes of other experts, a fact that lends the proceedings a nagging redundancy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Lights
    Primarily a one-man show for Darroussin, and the actor, a longtime pro in the French film industry, comes through with a scarifyingly believable portrayal.
  20. Exorcist: The Beginning
    This prequel has something to appall everybody.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Benji: Off the Leash!
    Has a raggy charm, like the dogs, and a solid moral ending. For a late-summer children's film, it does the job.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Without a Paddle
    Never quite as dumb as "Harold & Kumar," but it's nowhere near as smart, and that's what kills it.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    AVP: Alien vs. Predator
    This is one schlockfest that may be enjoyed more by casual viewers than by hard-core fans, since writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson breaks with the established mythology of both properties whenever he feels like it. Like it matters.
  24. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    You get the sense that the cheap thrill of cheating is like putting a Band-Aid on a broken bone. The movie feels just as inadequate emotionally and psychologically. There's a lot of outward behavior but no inner life.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    With its lifeless animation, characterless characters, and plotless plot, Yu-Gi-Oh! is so flat as to make the card game on which it is based seem positively three-dimensional.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Danny Deckchair
    What you might call conditional whimsy, predicated on the audience overlooking so many plot implausibilities that it might get tuckered out from all the charity.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    So unfocused is Shonda Rhimes's screenplay and so flabby is Marshall's direction.
  28. Bang Rajan
    Choppy, cheesy historical war epic really has only a couple of things going for it, and its biggest asset remains the heroic popular legend that inspired its making.
  29. Last Life in the Universe
    There is no plot in Pen-ek Ratanaruang's exceedingly mellow situation comedy, and that's preferred, frankly.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
    A hardly fair, not especially balanced broadside that has the advantage of being correct.
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