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For 7,946 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: 5,228 out of 7946
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7946
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7946
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  1. Pixels
    Pixels may feel flatter to kids of the ’80s than it does to moviegoers too young to have known Pac-Man from Ant-Man.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Holidate
    In trying to play up the naughty, witty side of the rom-com equation, the movie settles for snarky. It’s an acrid fairy tale, if not without a few pleasures, and it arrives on Netflix just in time for — wait, Christmas?
  3. Under Siege
    Under Siege is dumb formula stuff, sensory jolts by the numbers. [09 Oct 1992, p.89]
    • Boston Globe
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stoned
    All the pieces are in place for an incisive tale of Brit-pop ego and madness, but filmmaker Stephen Woolley -- a celebrated UK producer ("The Crying Game") making his directing debut -- lets the story get away from him.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Dead Don't Die
    Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die may not be a gifted filmmaker’s worst movie, but it’s certainly his most cynical — a unique cinematic worldview reduced to schtick.
  6. Get Over It
    Comes off more like a series of painful cliches than a comedy or a love story.
    • Boston Globe
    • 63 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
    Even a fan, however, might prefer the excellent, recently released concert DVD "Pixies: Live at the Paradise in Boston" to this tepid behind-the-scenes experience.
  8. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    What I found more disturbing was the casual misogyny of the convoluted story line.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jersey Boys
    Behind the familiar hits, Jersey Boys is a story about the pressures and rewards of professionalism. Far too little of that has made it into this biopic. It’s just too mediocre to be true.
  10. Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
    Alba, meanwhile, is again ridiculously shoehorned into a comedy gig, although she does have an amusing opening bit spying while nine months pregnant. If only diaper bomb gags weren't the inevitable follow-up.
  11. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    Though Murray and Curry gamely deliver some chuckle-worthy one-liners along the way, they're mostly leashed to material as moldy and uninspired as the "Jeffersons" theme song.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Return
    As B-level suspensers go, though, The Return isn't actively awful -- just slow and cursed with a lead who acts with her t-shirt.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    MirrorMask
    Aggressive visual invention is rarely its own reward, and this movie does nothing to better the odds.
  14. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    The truth is, indeed, still out there. And when Carter finds it, may he heed its wisdom: Let go.
  15. Back to the Future Part II
    The sequel goes down the tubes by spreading itself across four time zones and inviting comparison to the original by spending most of its time back in 1955, where another mess must be set right. [22 Nov 1989, p.35]
    • Boston Globe
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Insidious
    The crazy train of Insidious runs fully off the rails when the filmmakers go logical and some of the strange gets explained away as a double shot of demonic possession and astral projection.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Irish Drinkers
    All the good intentions in the world can't save White Irish Drinkers from playing like the baldest of retreads.
  18. Him
    I’m not implying that a horror movie needs to be coherent to deliver the chills — watch any J-Horror movie for proof that this concept can work. But “HIM” doesn’t even try to be scary. It’s too busy bombarding us with nonsensical, quickly flashed images that divulge nothing.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Watch
    It's another one of those loud, penis-obsessed bro farces, lazily written (by actor Seth Rogen, among others) and haphazardly directed.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hollywood Dreams
    Meant to be an insider's tale, but it feels like it comes from the cinema of hangers-on.
  21. The History of Sound
    The History of Sound is even more repressed than its characters, and at over two hours, that’s far from entertaining.
  22. Playing for Keeps
    This isn't a genre-less character study, it's myopic romantic comedy, and watching a woman of Catherine Zeta-Jones's easy carnality and fathomless beauty compete for the attention of Gerard Butler, who's pining for Jessica Biel, is dismaying, like spotting Anna Wintour in line at a soup kitchen.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    See No Evil
    Generic teen dice-and-slice with interior design by way of ''Saw." The movie's tight and reasonably well shot, though, and there are flashes of nasty invention between the ritual guttings.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sydney White
    Sydney White makes "Mean Girls" look like Shakespeare.
  25. Monster Trucks
    Monster Trucks might not be a complete lemon, but it’s hardly cherry.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deadfall
    Wilde is stuck with the harder job of simultaneously playing sexy, innocent, conniving, and heartsore, and the effort appears to give her a headache. "This is kind of like an old movie," Liza says to Jay in one scene. Lady, don't you wish.
  27. The Strip
    The Strip makes you appreciate what hard work effortless comedy is.
  28. Session 9
    You couldn't ask for a better setting for a horror movie. What you could ask for is a better script.
    • Boston Globe
  29. Mother Mary
    The back and forth between the two actors becomes fraught with confusing allusions and muddled metaphors before ceding control to some unsuccessful supernatural elements.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dopamine
    There are rich issues at play here, about the nature of attraction and whether individual will is or isn't pinned to the wheel of physiology. But Decena hasn't dramatized them; he's used them as talking points set to an indie-film guitar strum, and the result is both earnest and passionless.
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