Ty Burr

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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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Girlhood
    The movie captures that heady adolescent sense of time stopping and the moment mattering while standing far enough back to let us acknowledge all the pitfalls Marieme is moving too fast to see.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Knives Out
    Pound for pound, actor for actor, laugh for laugh, Knives Out may be the most entertaining movie of the year.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Oslo, August 31st
    The surface of Oslo, August 31st is as cool and crystalline as a Scandinavian lake, but at its core is a benevolence for the life we all share and tears for the man who can no longer share in it.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    I'm Still Here
    Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here is an epic within an epic: a teeming family drama contained within the melodrama of a country going insane.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    If Beale Street Could Talk
    Baldwin knew that hope is the engine that takes us to the future, to a changed and better day, and whether that hope is embodied in action, in expression, or in a child is immaterial. If Beale Street Could Talk is a stained-glass window looking out onto what could still be.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Raging Bull
    The film that many consider the finest of its decade, Raging Bull, has aged well, and not just because it was filmed in black and white.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Honeyland
    A documentary about a Macedonian beekeeper doesn’t sound like one of the best films of the year, does it? But few movies capture the great wheel of nature turning with as much beauty and empathy as Honeyland, and fewer still show how easily the wheel can slip its track and come crashing to pieces.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Seven Samurai
    Moves like hot mercury, and it draws a viewer so thoroughly into its world that real life can seem thick and dull when the lights come up.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 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.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    The performance of Flanagan, a first-time actress, is both harrowing and possessed of an eloquence that has no need for words. You come away from this movie weeping for the Autumns of this world but awed by their endurance.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Reservoir Dogs
    You may not like the terms Tarantino sets, but you have to admit he succeeds on them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Broken Flowers
    Exhilaratingly slow, which for many will simply mean SLOW... Those who can downshift appropriately, however, stand to be enraptured.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Gunda
    Gunda ― which doubles as the name of the movie and the name of the pig ― is as close as we may ever come to experiencing the world as animals do, specifically the animals that become our food.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Eephus
    Eephus belongs with the great baseball movies not because of any major league ambitions but because it understands what the game has meant and still means in small towns, among average people and weekend players.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Letters from Iwo Jima
    Eloquent, bloody, and daringly simple.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Jackie
    Jackie is a chamber drama rather than an epic; an impressionistic work of emotional opera rather than a chronological parade. What is this movie trying to do? Simply dramatize everything that can go on inside a woman simultaneously marginalized and revered.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    A Real Pain
    Culkin walks a line between obnoxiousness and delight; it’s a performance both liberating and touched by a deeper, more inarticulate sadness.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    The Kids Are All Right
    Movies like The Kids Are All Right -- beautifully written, impeccably played, funny and randy and true -- don't come along very often.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    Gorgeously stoic art film.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Sugar
    In its unhurried fashion, Sugar can take its place with the best baseball movies. Where most focus on the grand slam, this one's about the life that surrounds the game and everything that comes after.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Au hasard Balthazar
    To see Au Hasard Balthazar is to understand the limits of religious literalism in movies -- the limits, even, of movies themselves. Bresson pares everything away until all that's left are the things we do and the hole left by the things we could have done but didn't.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Paterson
    Paterson the movie doesn’t mine the dross and drab of our everyday lives for gold — it says they already are gold, and all you have to do is look. “Say it! No ideas but in things.” See it.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    This Is Not a Film
    In short, This Is Not a Film is the world within an apartment, and it is quietly devastating.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Quai des Orfèvres [re-release]
    A film noir? A backstage musical? A whodunit? A comedy? In truth, it's all of the above -- plus a kinky love story, an absorbing melodrama, and a mordantly jaded snapshot of postwar Paris -- and all of them are wonderful.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Ghosts of the Abyss
    It's a unique trip that flirts with hokeyness at the surface but that grows more compelling, awe-inspiring, and tragic the deeper you go.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Boyhood
    Boyhood is a stunt, an epic, a home video, and a benediction. It reminds us of what movies could be and — far more important — what life actually is.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Hamilton
    Hamilton stands as a reminder of how hard it is to get a democracy right, and how necessary it is to keep trying, as long as it takes.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    Boseman makes the character’s eyes glitter with humor and rage and fear; Levee knows what he deserves and how far it remains out of his reach, and maybe so did the man playing him. It’s a magisterial performance.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    The Human Voice
    The Human Voice is a banquet disguised as a light lunch, heady with flavors; you come away blissfully sated and hungry for more.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    One Battle After Another
    One Battle After Another isn’t really a political film, but neither is it not a political film. It just carries its concerns within the framework of a hellacious action movie, a sidesplitting character comedy, a riveting suspense thriller and various other genres the director makes up as he goes along, replete with a hapless hero, a warrior princess and the damnedest villain the movies have seen in a very long time.
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