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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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  1. White Chicks
    The film feels long when it should be brisk, and it's bloated with stretches of hot, dead air. The racial kitsch goes nowhere.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fahrenheit 9/11
    One last thought: Fahrenheit 9/11 is many things, but for pity's sake let's not call it a documentary.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunting of the President
    It's the old-fashioned verities of documentary filmmaking that serve Thomason and Perry best.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Facing Windows
    Beautiful to look at and acted with full and tempestuous conviction, it still seems to be taking place in an apartment far across the way.
  5. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    The endearing and cheeky ensemble works hard, and Ken Scott's script finds ways of wringing irreverence from the apparent good nature of the situation.
  6. Father and Son
    Where a lesser movie from a lesser director might sink into its own ponderousness, Sokurov uses the ambiguity of the father and son's relationship to craft a sort of erotic puzzle.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    The result is a revenge thriller that's too taken with its own ambience to actually thrill.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Terminal
    Here's a film made by grown-ups for grown-ups, on grown-up themes of statelessness and belonging. Yet you could show it to a 6-year-old and have him or her understand all the nuances of plot and characterization.
  9. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    A terribly self-satisfied lecture about the ubiquity of quantum physics in spiritual life, is dishonest enough to suggest that even its cavalcade of scientists and mystics might not know anything about such topics as reality and the sub-atomic world.
  10. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    Ben Stiller is like a guy on the 1919 White Sox. He's rigged to lose. His comedy is the stuff of failure, and sometimes it's pleasurable watching him flit around in funny get-ups, only to have a pretty costar put him down.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Around the World in 80 Days
    A peppy, fast-moving, wafer-thin amusement that's fine for kids if you don't mind a lot of Three Stooges-style martial arts. For grown-ups, it's the equivalent of a 59-cent tin globe.
  12. My Sister Maria
    Artful, especially in the ways it avoids sentimentality and employs vintage film clips of truly riveting performances...But Maximilian's narcissistic examination of his theatrical family -- can be boring, and his creative license with the truth is kind of troubling.
  13. Word Wars
    Only occasionally do the thrill of the game and the passion of its players come together. That said, these guys' nakedly neurotic enthusiasm keeps the movie from being a total jumble.
  14. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    It's the videotaped equivalent of a primary research data dump. But to quote Bette Davis by way of Edward Albee: What a dump.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Chronicles of Riddick
    Like everything in this humorless new genre, "Chronicles" comes with its own snap-together mythology.
  16. The Stepford Wives
    It's hilarious -- and on purpose, too. This is the first satisfying adult summer comedy set in New England to come out of Hollywood since "The Witches of Eastwick" in 1987.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Garfield
    A black-dressing young intellectual of my acquaintance recently ascribed a "lazy generosity" to Garfield and his daily antics. If so, the movie gets the laziness but misses the generosity.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Napoleon Dynamite
    An inspired dead-end stunt that keeps delivering snarky laughs far longer than it has any right to.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Imelda
    Imelda is at its most acridly useful when comparing the former first lady's recollections with others' less sanguine memories.
  20. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    The mother-child dynamic here is the fraught stuff of any worthy melodrama.
  21. The Corporation
    At its most effective, the movie is a chastening, sobering, and thorough work of film journalism, however shortsighted.
  22. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    [Cuaron]'s a visionary and crafty storyteller who rewards your patience, not with twists in the plot, though the movie has its share, but with pure feeling. Deploying wit, grace, and artistry, he's whisked a kid flick into adolescence.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I'll Sing for You
    For fans of African music, "Sing" is a rich archeological dig; for newcomers with open ears, it might be a revelation.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bukowski: Born into This
    Wants to claim Bukowski (1920-1994) as a 20th-century West Coast Walt Whitman -- a people's poet of modern degradation. Through a selective presentation of his writing and a reverently crass treatment of his life, it makes a funny, often intensely moving case, and you're having such a good time that you're glad to let it.
  25. Soul Plane
    When it's funny it's uproarious. Otherwise, you're crestfallen to discover that the movie is a relentless sucker punch to black entrepreneurship.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saved!
    If Saved! sinks into formula -- any movie with a showdown at a prom is treading a well-worn path -- you're grateful for its forgiving spirit.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Mother
    In reality, it's messy in the way that life is, and with a rare and welcome obstreperousness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Baadasssss!
    A much better movie than the one it honors.
  29. The Day After Tomorrow
    Emmerich does know his way around an action scene -- there's an exciting sequence in which Sam and his buddies run from wolves while looking for meds inside the huge ship that pulls up alongside the library. But he's a master of disaster with no people skills. The characters in The Day After Tomorrow are fantastically stupid.
  30. Frankie and Johnny Are Married
    The resulting movie is a nauseating flight of Hollywood navel-gazing.
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