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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  10. 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.
  13. Strayed
    Hardship and suffering don't drive this movie so much as a romantic's gloss on the two.
  14. 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.
  16. Godzilla
    A definitive, low-tech stomping of every sci-fi clone that has sprung up in the original's wake.
  17. Valentin
    Narrated from start to close by an 8-year-old, it often seems like a coloring book on tape.
  18. Oasis
    Oasis is that rare miraculous whirlwind romance that moves from attempted rape to reverence without kicking up a lot of dust.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Super Size Me
    I don't usually make recommendations of this kind, but if you or your kids have gone to a burger joint in the last few weeks, you really do need to see this movie.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Van Helsing
    We haven't had a good Frankenstein, Dracula, or Wolf Man movie in a long time, so here's one where the whole gang shows up. One catch: It's not good.
  21. New York Minute
    The movie's no good: It's written, directed, performed, photographed, edited, and marketed on a fifth-grade reading level; despite that and its twin stars' saucer eyes and ropy limbs, it's no Muppet movie either.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Clay Bird
    Unfolds with the serenity of a fable but underneath it draws intelligent, deeply troubled connections between the personal, political, and spiritual.
  23. Laws of Attraction
    There's not much of a script. The direction is the pits, and stars Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore, playing dueling divorce lawyers who fall in love, are lousy, too.
  24. Since Otar Left
    What an amazing presence Gorintin has. Never mind her hunched back and white hair, she's no crone. She makes Eka needy for happiness but susceptible to heartbreak. It's a great performance, full of both joy and the quiet, disappointing parts of being alive that come with knowing change is part of life.
  25. Godsend
    Godsend makes swill of religion, science, family, and morality. It has the sensitivity of a cactus, the ingenuity of a square wheel, and the integrity of a CEO.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Envy
    A weirdly airless disaster, a turkey so insistently DOA that the dialogue serves as its own epitaph.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    This is an old-fashioned sports hagiography of the sort that Gary Cooper used to star in while Teresa Wright sat smiling and worried on the sidelines, and, amazingly, it engages your attention and even respect while trotting out every clubhouse cliche in the book.
  28. The Saddest Music in the World
    Maddin's movies are easy, too. Point your eyes at the screen; the magic follows.
  29. Mean Girls
    The movie is always entertaining and frequently smart about the new ground one girl will break to humiliate another.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Agronomist
    Smartly filmed (aside from a few distracting editing fripperies), but it's so dazzled by its subject and saddened by his martyrdom that it never moves past the heroic politics of dissent.
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