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For 7,947 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 1.1 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. The Color of Paradise
    The story is spun forth ravishingly, tenderly, and urgently, with a captivating mix of beauty, spare sophistication, and profound humanity.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Listen to Me Marlon
    The result is something that feels fresh, even revelatory — a work of elegiac bio-doc impressionism. Listen to Me Marlon gets under the skin of the most mysterious performer of the 20th century and forces us to recalibrate all our feelings about him.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Am Not Your Negro
    Here are great swaths of Baldwin’s prose, read by Samuel L. Jackson in a vocal impersonation that is actually a rather brilliant piece of acting — he convinces you it’s the writer you’re hearing.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Heights
    Like a cool lemon ice on a blistering summer day, In the Heights feels like a reward.
  5. Rififi (re-release)
    It's terse, atmospheric, fatalistic, with vertiginous camera angles and edits offsetting its gray documentary flatness.
  6. The Age of Innocence
    On screen as on the page, The Age of Innocence is a stunning period piece filled with depth charges. [17 Sept 1993, p.49]
    • Boston Globe
  7. Gomorrah
    Both a staggering realist thriller and a jeremiad.
  8. Shanghai Triad
    A feast of a film that goes on feeding you long after you've left the theater. [25 Dec 1995, p.83]
    • Boston Globe
  9. No Home Movie
    The rest of the film consists mostly of Akerman talking with her mother, blithely and lovingly, about everyday ephemera and about the past (Natalia was a survivor of Auschwitz), both via Skype and at her mother’s genteel home in Brussels.
  10. Boys Don't Cry
    "In Cold Blood," "Badlands," "The Executioner's Song," and now, joining those grisly milestones on the heartland hit list, and every bit their equal, is Boys Don't Cry.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Exit Through the Gift Shop
    One of the best, most karmically satisfying comedies of the year, much to the chagrin of the people who are in it.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Irishman
    The movie is a masterpiece, one made by a man counting down his own years as if they were rosary beads.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Splendor
    The movie is pricelessly comic -- the Harvey/Joyce scenes catalog the couple's neuroses with glee -- but it just as often reaches for something richer.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    The miracle is that 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is better: tighter, smarter, funnier.
  15. A Bronx Tale
    A Bronx Tale is a joy, a film that comes unerringly from someone's heart and experience, and not from a power lunch of agents with clients to be packaged. [1 Oct 1993, p. 49]
    • Boston Globe
  16. Sorry, Baby
    There are no grandiose moments here, only little ones that, cobbled together, create a moving and profound experience.
  17. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
    The women here aren't afraid to get extreme about love, but in the end, you sense that they are too sound to destroy themselves over the worthless man they have allowed to personify it. That's what lifts Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown from the amusing to the sublime. [23 Dec 1988, p.23]
    • Boston Globe
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      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 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Knives Out
    Pound for pound, actor for actor, laugh for laugh, Knives Out may be the most entertaining movie of the year.
  20. Hard Truths
    Hard Truths is a definitive work in Leigh’s canon.
  21. The Tale
    For your two hours of discomfort, you will gain a better understanding of the insidious ways in which sexual predators work, and a clearer picture of how a victim’s denial and memory can conspire to bury the truth in the name of self-protection. You will also gain the experience of watching a wisely written, inventively directed, and extraordinarily acted story
  22. Naked
    Naked is one of the most scorchingly compelling films in years, Mike Leigh's masterpiece, an unflinching vision of civilization in retreat, life as apocalypse. [4 Mar. 1994, p.51]
    • Boston Globe
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      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.
  25. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    This is one of the year’s best films, a heartbreaking stunner that’s not easily shaken.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      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 Reviewed by
      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.
  28. The Last September
    A gorgeous autumnal period piece that catches a vanishing proprietary class on the eve of its extinction in Ireland in 1920.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      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.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pépé le Moko (re-release)
    Foreign intrigue is raised to an art form.
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