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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. Johnson Family Vacation
    Boring, mediocre movie.
  2. Walking Tall
    Walking Tall, which is credited to four different writers, is wanting for a reason to be.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    The film is as spare and unvarnished as a wooden temple floating on a lake, but its reflections run deep, and it can ripple your thoughts for months.
  4. The Prince and Me
    This is a smart piece of revisionist fluff that dares to question what happens after the royal honeymoon is over.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hellboy
    So forget about taking anyone under 12. But if you want to see what a benign demon looks like when he's eating nachos and unwinding to Al Green, this is the movie for you.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Home on the Range
    Even older kids will understand that Pixar does it so much better, not because of their computers but because of an intelligent attention to script and character and craft. If the people running Disney don't understand that much anymore, maybe they should turn out the lights and go home.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
    So spectacularly bent that it exudes a contact cough-syrup high all its own.
  8. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    Ultimately, Bingenheimer seems underwhelmed with himself. The people who know him say, in the movie, that he's a relic. Mayor of the Sunset Strip makes heartbreakingly clear what a glorious relic Bingenheimer is.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Never Die Alone
    Invites us to both hate King David and admire his style, and there will probably be some hand-wringing about that.
  10. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    The 6-year-old I went with had the villain pegged in the first 15 minutes. Needless to say, she completely ruined the movie for me. Meddling kid.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ladykillers
    The loosest, silliest, broadest thing the Coens have yet committed to celluloid, and that includes "Raising Arizona," one of this critic's favorites.
  12. Jersey Girl
    Eloquent and unapologetically cute.
  13. Ned Kelly
    Ultimately, Jordan's vision is so murky that Ned Kelly remains as foreign to us as wombat stew.
  14. Dogville
    Despite its ultimate nuttiness, has a quiet, consuming power that sneaks up on you and doesn't go away. This is something new and ambitious for Von Trier: a work of compassion.
  15. The Gatekeeper
    Isn't the most seductive film ever made about border life or undocumented immigrants, but in a way it's unfair to compare it to such artistic triumphs as ''Touch of Evil,'' ''El Norte,'' ''Lone Star,'' and ''Traffic.''
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bon voyage
    This is a film lover's film, and as if to underscore the point, Bon Voyage opens and closes in a movie theater.
  17. Taking Lives
    Because the characters in the movie have only stock obsessions and vague personal histories, there's no reason to be interested in them.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Intermission
    Could fairly be described as a Robert Altman ensemble movie without the flab, or "Magnolia" with a mean streak and bigger laughs.
  19. Dawn of the Dead
    The movie is weak on attempts at survivalist philosophy (anyone bit by a zombie is likely to become one). Even the religious overtones feel tinny and unpronounced.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    This is the art-film Carrey: repressed, lovesick, unshaven. Essentially he's doing the same intellectual sad sack played by John Cusack in "Malkovich" and Nicolas Cage in "Adaptation"
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Noi the Albino
    The film's comic observations are rich, droll, and more than a little sad: Everyone in this isolated community seems beaten down by life.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spartan
    When Spartan is good, it's surprisingly gripping and fresh, and when it's bad, it's just another overcooked Hollywood paranoid thriller.
  23. Knafayim Shvurot
    This intimate, warmly made family portrait always feels true. The performances are particularly good.
  24. Secret Window
    A jokey, junky potboiler.
  25. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    Muniz has better secret-agent toys to play with, funnier lines and sidekicks helping him out, and a bit more discerning director in Kevin Allen ("The Big Tease").
  26. NASCAR: The IMAX Experience
    It is at least an "experience" that has to be labeled exhilarating.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    Wants to be as shocking as its title, but it doesn't have the nerve.
  28. Games People Play: New York
    Whitney's body of work doesn't suggest a filmmaker so much as an opportunist with a video camera. He makes a very specific sort of reality movie. It's called porn.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost River
    Truly, there is nothing the woman (Isabelle Huppert) can't do - except save "Promise'' from the valley of the shadow of bad French movie pretensions.
  30. Hidalgo
    Like most movies about men and horses, Hidalgo spares no expense in matters of corniness. Set in the 1890s, it's sort of a throwback movie, executed with the boyish kick of dusty old cowboy matinees.
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