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
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Atlantics
    Atlantics is a stunner that sneaks up on you: A folk tale, a police procedural, a ghost story, a love story, a fable of empowerment — Mati Diop’s directorial debut never stops evolving in new directions and meanings. It’s a work of magical realism close to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and other masters of the game, and the confidence with which it has been made is thrilling.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    2046
    The new film lives up to expectations and, indeed, pushes past them into virtually unmapped territory.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Hugo
    An exhilarating tale of magic, machines, memories, and dreams, Martin Scorsese pulls off the neatest trick of all. He marshals the marvels of modern movie technology - up to and including the dreaded 3-D - to create a love letter to the earliest of movies and, by extension, to every movie from then to now.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Beasts of the Southern Wild
    She's (Hushpuppy) trying to make sense of this world, and the movie, pitched between realism and fable, is the story of how she finally does. That balance is the key to the movie's magic.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    The Pianist
    There are three Poles in The Pianist -- Szpilman, Polanski, and Frederic Chopin. Of the three, fittingly, Chopin speaks the loudest.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    All Is Lost
    All Is Lost works quite brilliantly on its most basic narrative level.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    WALL-E
    The best American film of the year to date.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    12 Years a Slave
    12 Years a Slave is to the “peculiar institution” what “Schindler’s List” was to the Holocaust: a work that, finally, asks a mainstream audience to confront the worst of what humanity can do to itself. If there’s no Oskar Schindler here, that’s partly the point.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    The Social Network
    On the level of craft, the movie's just absurdly enjoyable. Sorkin's dialogue dazzles; the photography is burnished and sleek; the editing confidently sorts out a complex narrative.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    Writer-director Cristian Mungiu confirms the Romanian cinema renaissance while creating a paradoxical marvel: a bleak tale of illegal abortion that powerfully affirms one's faith in people.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Manchester by the Sea
    Manchester by the Sea is an experience worth having, not for the magnificence of its impact or the far-flung grandeur of its settings but for the way it illuminates with quiet, unyielding grace how you and I and our neighbors get by, and sometimes how we don’t.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    The Death of Stalin
    Buscemi is magnificent, but all the players rise to the occasion; you may especially cherish Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) as Stalin’s demented alcoholic son Vasily and Olga Kurylenko (“Quantum of Solace”) as pianist Maria Yudina, the film’s elegant and only note of genuine conscience.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Modern Times (re-release)
    Chaplin's sentimental politics and peerless comic invention dovetailed more perfectly in this film than in any other he made.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Capturing the Friedmans
    As the Friedmans split apart like fissile neutrons, their story becomes five stories, none of which is remotely like the others.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Winter's Bone
    It's those noir bones that give this social-realist drama its punch, as if Humphrey Bogart had been recast as a 17-year-old girl and dropped into the poorest corner of America.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    45 Years
    I emerged from the movie in a white-out haze of emotions, synapses overloaded, grateful beyond words to an actress who can convey so much with such subtlety of means.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Cousin Jules
    Cousin Jules is one of those rare experiences that’s rooted in the past yet feels very much of the moment. On top of that, it’s timeless.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    The Producers
    The one aspect of the original Producers that still stuns is the roaring, over-the-top, in-your-face thereness of its two lead performances.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    On the Waterfront
    The chance to watch a four-star classic the way it was meant to be seen -- fresh print, big screen -- is so rare as to be worth the trip.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    A comic put-on of awe-inspiring crudity and death-defying satire and by a long shot the funniest film of the year. It is "Jackass" with a brain and Mark Twain with full frontal male nudity.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    A Serious Man
    It’s a work of cruel comic genius, in some ways even crueler than “No Country for Old Men.’’
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    The Sixth
    Civics lessons rarely come this disturbing or this convincing.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
    It's an altogether satisfying drama -- the sort of movie some people complain they don't make anymore. So here it is; what's your excuse?
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Before Midnight
    If the first two films belong with the greatest (if talkiest) movie romances of all time, the new film is richer, riskier, and more bleakly perceptive about what it takes for love to endure (or not) over the long haul.
    • 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.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Moonlight
    In its quietly radical grace, it’s a cultural watershed — a work that dismantles all the ways our media view young black men and puts in their place a series of intimate truths. You walk out feeling dazed, more whole, a little cleaner.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    One Night in Miami
    To be successful and Black in America, this movie says, is to tell your own story even as you live it, in the pages of a book or the grooves of a record, in the end zone of a football field or the battleground of a boxing ring. To understand the weight and importance of having to be an example. And to understand when being an example just isn’t enough.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    From Here to Eternity
    So clear-eyed and three-dimensional that it makes the recent ''Pearl Harbor'' look like a bunch of kids playing dress up. Aspects of the film have dated, but in the important things it's more mature than anything proposed lately by modern Hollywood.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Ty Burr
    Time
    Time is not a cut-and-dried chronology. Rather it’s a poetic rumination on atonement and endurance, one that chops up and reorders time itself to give us a powerful portrait of a woman who refuses to take no for an answer.
    • 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?
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