Ty Burr

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Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Washington Post
For 2,962 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ty Burr's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 The Kid Stays in the Picture
Lowest review score: 0 The Nutcracker
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,118 out of 2962
  2. Mixed: 484 out of 2962
  3. Negative: 360 out of 2962
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Namesake
    The Namesake has a deep, alluvial poetry to it, like a mighty river reaching the sea. It's mysterious and ordinary, insightful and banal, rambling and precise, and it is altogether unexpected.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Return
    Filmed with a cold, poetic beauty, The Return slowly strips away motivation until it arrives at a place of myth both private and oddly universal.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Sparks Brothers
    Now “the best British band to ever come out of America” gets the documentary treatment from director Edgar Wright, himself a cheeky bugger (Sean of the Dead, Baby Driver), and it is superbly entertaining whether you love Sparks, hate them, or just have never heard of them.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Girlfriend Experience
    Fair warning: I had to see The Girlfriend Experience twice before its pieces settled into coherent shape.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Crazy Heart
    The music is terrific, as it should be in a movie where T Bone Burnett wrote the songs with Stephen Bruton.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Me and You and Everyone We Know
    Remarkably, ''Me and You" doesn't shock so much as soothe.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Saint Maud
    A startling psychological horror story with a breakout performance by Welsh actress Morfydd Clark.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Tristana (re-release)
    As much as this tale of bent love runs in the ruts of its maker’s obsessions, it has an undertow that’s impossible to shake. [22 Nov. 2012]
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    April and the Extraordinary World
    A delightfully deranged steampunk adventure.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Secret of Kells
    A visually overwhelming labor of love, a hand-drawn medieval adventure tale that seeks and finds cosmic connections.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Judas and the Black Messiah
    A ferocious and first-rate drama.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Paprika
    Someone walking cold into a movie theater showing Paprika might be excused for thinking the screen was having a Technicolor seizure. Fans of Japanese anime and filmmaker Satoshi Kon will simply feel dazzlingly at home.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Persepolis
    They're both tales of growing up in the shadow of Islamic fundamentalism, but Persepolis is everything "The Kite Runner" is not. It's a personal memoir rather than fiction, coolly observant instead of melodramatic, female rather than male in sensibility and sense of humor - it has a sense of humor.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Our Brand Is Crisis
    It’s a galling and provocative experience to viewers of any political persuasion, and a reminder to the left of how easily idealism can run amok.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Guard
    The movie is more pure, profane enjoyment than a body should have in the dog days of August.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Best of Youth
    A slowly flowering miracle: an epic of normal life.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Green Room
    Violence in Green Room is just bad. Unfortunately for its heroes and for us all, it’s also sometimes inevitable.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Gangs of New York
    Scorsese and his team of Grade A talents are working on an operatic scale here, and like many operas, this is long, overwrought, sprawling, and more than frequently brilliant. It also hits just enough discordant notes to keep it from greatness.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Rashomon
    Rashomon truly is a warhorse of US art-house cinema, and by any yardstick it's the film that opened the door for Asian filmmaking in this country. [23 Apr 2010, p.12]
    • Boston Globe
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Notes on a Scandal
    Notes on a Scandal is a nice mug of poisoned eggnog for the holiday season -- a movie so smart and entertaining you almost don't feel its chill sicken your bones.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    Remembered for being the best Boston movie of all time. [27 Feb 2005]
    • Boston Globe
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a foodie's delight, obviously, and best seen either on a full stomach or with restaurant reservations immediately following.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Machete
    The movie's an unexpected end-of-summer tonic: a trash guilty pleasure with a healthy (if really violent) sense of outrage. It's also Rodriguez's freest movie yet, and possibly his best.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Tillman Story
    As taut and suspenseful as any fictional mystery.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    No Sudden Move
    No Sudden Move is a terrific movie — an unflashy near-masterpiece of professionalism on both sides of the camera.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Lady Bird
    As debuts go, Lady Bird is as strong as they get: funny, ferocious, and wise. It does, however, drape its restless energy and witty observations atop an overfamiliar framework of coming-of-age movies.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Neruda
    Neruda is a dream of Chile, of what it was and might have been, brought to the screen by a master dreamer.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Leaning Into the Wind
    As with the simpler and stronger “Rivers and Tides,” there are moments where you may want to stop the film to assure yourself you’re seeing what you’re seeing, so disordering to the senses are Goldsworthy’s re-orderings of nature.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Sicko
    Sicko is Moore's best, most focused movie to date -- much more persuasive than the enraged and self-righteous "Fahrenheit 9/11."
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Good Time
    Good Time is a prime example of what the cynical or the uninterested might dismiss as “feel-bad cinema” — low budget, kitchen-sink realism about unpleasant people in worse situations. It also happens to be one of the most uncompromising movies I’ve seen all year: vibrant and desperate and alive, it’s a work hanging on by its fingernails.
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