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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 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. The Velvet Underground
    What makes a rock band worth attending to a half century after its breakup isn’t its personalities or backstory or context, interesting as those can be, and here they’re all highly interesting. It’s the music.
  2. Mulholland Dr.
    It's flawed, but it's also rich. And how many films make you feel that you and the filmmaker are following the course of a dream?
    • Boston Globe
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Not just one of the best but, at its best, an exercise in pure action-movie propulsion and an essay in how to get from Point A to Point B in the most ingenious and exhausting way imaginable.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cléo from 5 to 7
    Cleo from 5 to 7, a sort of combination between realism and avant-garde imagination, is the kind of film that young people, learning to appreciate foreign-made pictures, will find stimulating. [15 Feb 1963, p.8]
    • Boston Globe
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Grizzly Man
    Timothy Treadwell was killed, along with his girlfriend, by a rogue bear in October 2003.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      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.
  7. Robot Dreams
    Robot Dreams reminds us that animated feature doesn’t mean “movie for kids.”
  8. Jane
    The film confronts not just the expected issue of environmentalism but also explores themes of survival, separation, loss, and death.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Are the Best!
    A messy, congenial empowerment story that knows how aggravating adolescence can be when you refuse to fit in.
  10. Spartacus
    Spartacus stands up handsomely. At times it's even stirring, as in Woody Strode's performance as the African gladiator who, in sparing Spartacus' life, opens his eyes. Spartacus is one of Hollywood's great comic strips. [3 May 1991, p.45]
    • Boston Globe
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    About Endlessness
    The film has an epic sense of devastated wonder that can only come from standing as far back from the parade as one possibly can while still holding on to one’s empathy.
  12. Portrait of Jason (re-release)
    Artistically, though, you can’t help but trust him. Like any star turn, Holliday’s performance rings utterly true. It’s that indefinable but unmistakable reality-beyond-reality called art.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nomadland
    Nomadland balances with spine-tingling grace between respect for that restlessness of spirit and longing for a society that has any notion of how to care for it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hope
    Writer-director Sødahl expertly balances the sentimental and the acerbic, the grave and the altar. But Hope lives or dies on its central performances, and they are perfectly realized.
  15. My Journey Through French Cinema
    A glorious late-summer pendant.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    Even more than "Chicken Run," Were-Rabbit is a tiny plasticine masterpiece.
  17. About Elly (2009)
    A 2009 film only now getting theatrical distribution in the United States, it is perhaps Farhadi’s richest, most complex and ambitious.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    The heroine’s voice-overs, delivered into the microphone of a Bell & Howell tape recorder in Minnie’s bedroom, are the movie’s motor. They’re proud and insecure, profanely comic, dripping with adolescent wisdom and self-absorption.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lincoln
    It makes politics exciting again.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elena
    Elena reveals a filmmaker in full command of his art and not much interested in catering to an audience. If you want this film, you have to meet it more than halfway.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All Is Lost
    All Is Lost works quite brilliantly on its most basic narrative level.
  22. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Banshees is like a short story trying to be a novel. The extra pages get filled with the postcard views. There are bits of wit — again, this is Martin McDonagh we’re talking about — but overall “Banshees” is lugubrious and slow.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love & Friendship
    The performances are uniformly excellent, but pride of place goes to Bennett’s Sir James, an upper class twit of Pythonesque proportions. Rarely has a character this moronic been this happy.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hereditary
    It’s an eerie mood piece that slowly and surely tightens the thumb screws before all hell breaks loose; that and the fact that much of Hereditary takes place in one rambling dark house is evidence that Aster has spent a lot of time studying “The Shining,” “The Exorcist,” and “Rosemary’s Baby.” It’s nice to have a classicist back in town.
    • 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.
  26. The Fugitive
    A hugely entertaining adrenaline rush of a thriller that does a couple of simple things right. That's all it needs to do. First, it casts Harrison Ford in the title role of convicted wife-murderer Richard Kimble, ever scrambling forward, one step ahead of pursuing cops, while hunting the real killer. Second, it never stops. [6 Aug 1993, p.41]
    • Boston Globe
  27. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    This is one of the year’s best films, a heartbreaking stunner that’s not easily shaken.
  28. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    A watchful, winding-down tragedy of a movie that delivers what it promises. As commentary, it's grim. As filmmaking, it's a powerfully disturbing odyssey through the Bucharest health care system.
  29. Maria Full of Grace
    Has a power that doesn't announce itself until it's over: You leave not wanting to give up on life, just resentful of the world we live in.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fateless
    Fateless looks man's inhumanity to man square in the eye and pronounces it standard operating procedure, and that may be the greater horror.
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