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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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    • 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.
  3. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    The mother-child dynamic here is the fraught stuff of any worthy melodrama.
  4. The Corporation
    At its most effective, the movie is a chastening, sobering, and thorough work of film journalism, however shortsighted.
  5. 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.
  8. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Frankie and Johnny Are Married
    The resulting movie is a nauseating flight of Hollywood navel-gazing.
  14. The Five Obstructions
    Part of what hooks you to this movie is how Leth outsmarts his taskmaster, and how the two men have divergent, almost incompatible aesthetic ideals.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Raising Helen
    Works so hard to be inoffensive that you may well be offended.
  16. My Mother Likes Women
    We do learn that love heals and that the movie's title makes a terrifically lewd little rock song. (Thank you, Sol.) But that's about it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rage in Placid Lake
    For every line of dialogue that's truly, glitteringly acid, though, there are five that are merely clever, and Lee, likable as he is, never really taps into the misery of the teen misfit.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Me If You Dare
    French films have long specialized in depicting the impassioned, go-for-broke infatuation known as l'amour fou. Yann Samuell's Love Me If You Dare may be the first to investigate l'amour annoying.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fanny and Alexander (re-release)
    One of his (Bergman's) most life-affirming films.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Control Room
    About the search for common ground, among journalists on all sides of the conflict and, through them, between viewers in America and the Arab world. Only within that common ground, Noujaim believes, can something like a workable, personal truth be found.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shrek 2
    What works best in Shrek 2 are the smaller roles, the pile-driving pop-culture jokes, and the moments of weird, early-Mad-magazine comic invention.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    With All Deliberate Speed
    The film is at its most quietly powerful, though, when telling the story of a group of African-American high school kids who took their discontent to the highest court in the land.
  23. Carandiru
    Angry and tragic, Carandiru is finally, in its own way, uplifting.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Breakin' All the Rules
    Has something many movies don't these days: interesting and attractive people talking to each other.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Slipping-Down Life
    The director deserves admiration for sticking to her guns, but here's a heretical notion: Maybe the producer's cut would have been a better movie. This version may be too late, but it's also too little, and that's what hurts.
  26. Strayed
    Hardship and suffering don't drive this movie so much as a romantic's gloss on the two.
  27. Coffee and Cigarettes
    At the heart of most of these encounters is talk about the nature of relationships -- cousins, twins, and peers. Mostly, though, Jarmusch displays an unexpected interest in the ironies and banalities of fame.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Troy
    At its intermittent best, Troy suggests a primitive pro-wrestling smackdown with epochal consequences. At its worst, it's a throwback to the ham-fisted sword-and-sandal international coproductions of the early 1960s: "The 300 Spartans" with better sets. Barely.
  29. Godzilla
    A definitive, low-tech stomping of every sci-fi clone that has sprung up in the original's wake.
  30. Valentin
    Narrated from start to close by an 8-year-old, it often seems like a coloring book on tape.
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