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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    24 Hour Party People
    Just don't expect the truth. An extremely bent, highly amusing form of the truth, maybe, but not the truth. 24 Hour Party People shares with the current Robert Evans documentary ''The Kid Stays in the Picture'' an awareness that a good anecdote often trumps the facts, but here the cheats are cheekily laid bare.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Ty Burr
    Identifying Features
    The movie ultimately seems to suggest that the evils unleashed upon Mexico come from a place beyond humankind, which seems an easy way out after all Magdalena and Miguel have been put through. That said, this remains a terrifying cinematic vision that can’t be ignored, from a young filmmaker who won’t be.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Ty Burr
    Atonement
    The movie never goes as deep as the novel (no movie could), but it's a worthy approximation: a Merchant-Ivory movie that turns in on itself with a lucid and painful sigh.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Host
    Mostly, though, it's "Godzilla" with a severe case of Murphy's Law, and it is never less than bizarrely delightful.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Beanpole
    The movie is floating into a fierce war of wills between Iya and Masha, one in which their locked stares gradually seem to become an eerie, eternal bond of sisterhood. They can’t look away. Neither may you.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Meek's Cutoff
    There's nothing out there remotely like Meek's Cutoff, for which some viewers may be thankful. The ending seems calculated to drive the literal-minded screaming out of the theater and yet it's the only possible way out.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Fruitvale Station
    Writer-director Coogler could easily have turned Fruitvale Station into a work of agitprop — a film to work you into a froth of anger — but he’s after things that are harder to grasp: the measure of a man’s life and the smaller struggles, satisfactions, and injustices that can fill 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.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    The Handmaiden
    Elegantly depraved and immaculately degenerate, Park Chan Wook’s The Handmaiden is an astonishment. The filmmaking is masterful, very near to Hitchcock in its sly, controlled teasing of the audience.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Slumdog Millionaire
    You may even feel like dancing in the aisles yourself. Sure, the real world doesn't always work this way. Have you forgotten that this is one of the reasons why we go to movies in the first place?
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Ty Burr
    Black Is King
    Even when the meager story line falters — more on that in a bit — the music and visuals mesh into a dazzling whole.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    A Christmas Tale
    With at least nine primary characters and running two and a half hours, it's a big, fat novel of a movie - a domestic epic that fuses bitterness and forgiveness in completely satisfying ways.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Ty Burr
    The Hero
    The Hero may not be a great movie but it’s a welcome tribute to a lanky, taciturn presence — a love letter to an actor that reminds us of why we ought to love him, too.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Truffle Hunters
    The movie, a balm for the senses and the soul, celebrates and discreetly mourns an activity that stretches back to antiquity and is slowly being snuffed out by global market forces.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Judas and the Black Messiah
    A ferocious and first-rate drama.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
    The byplay between DiCaprio and Pitt is delicious and finely drawn — you’d better believe Tarantino knows he’s dealing with two of our last old-school movie stars and sneakiest actors.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    After the Storm
    A small-scale, satisfying human drama that backs gradually into larger matters.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Up the Yangtze
    In his masterful and haunting documentary Up the Yangtze, Yung Chang shows the old China drowning helplessly under the weight of the new.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Booksmart
    Booksmart registers as an instant classic that doesn’t reinvent the genre so much as refurbish it from within, and it matters very much that the writers, director, and stars are all women. Also that they’re having a hell of a good time.
    • 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
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    Séraphine
    What Moreau does with this role is as inscrutably moving as anything Séraphine Louis painted.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    49 Up
    No matter their wealth or social status, these people share disappointments and elations and a sense that life, in the end, may be what life is about.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    The movie’s a social history, a love story, and a call to arms. It’s very sad and it’s very good.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 58 Ty Burr
    The Joy Luck Club
    A sumptuous two-and-a-quarter-hour emotional epic built on one lachrymose climax after another. What little plot there is exists only to set up the next Big Cry.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    At times heavy-handed in its symbolism, “Seed” is still a gripping, provocative knockout — a domestic political thriller — that hints at the limits of oppression and the long, long bending of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “moral arc.”
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Ty Burr
    Nancy
    Nancy is an eccentric, pungent gift of a film about a woman without identity played by an actress without persona.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    War Witch
    War Witch deals with a reality so horrific that the film’s touches of magical realism are welcome, even necessary — the only way to retain one’s bearings and sanity in a world without signposts.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Toy Story 4
    A hugely entertaining and emotionally resonant pleasure for audiences of all ages.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Ty Burr
    My Winnipeg
    Maddin's Winnipeg is a rich, funky, funny stew of fears and desires, of mangled civic chronology mashed up with hothouse private emotions. This is a secret history, and it's a wonder.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    In the Heights
    Like a cool lemon ice on a blistering summer day, In the Heights feels like a reward.
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