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For 7,949 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: 5,230 out of 7949
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7949
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7949
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brothers of the Head
    The film is something to see, and when it addresses the mysterious bond connecting creative people, it has an urgent, ugly splendor.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Patti Cake$
    Patti Cake$ charts a path of rise and fall, breakthrough and disappointment, montage and romance that would be woefully predictable if we weren’t having so much fun tagging along. What’s fresh is the central figure, her talent and presence, and an exuberance that all that concrete Tri-State armor can’t hide.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Death at a Funeral
    Death" builds slowly and inexorably to a comic explosion that's just too good -- too insanely, impossibly mortifying -- to spoil here. Let's just say it dwarfs everything that has come before it.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    The sharp comic timing and devil-may-care breeziness of the original only return intermittently, and the new film’s emphasis is on family feuds and forgiveness. It’s heavy on the feels. There are hugs.
  5. Farewell, My Queen
    One of the movie's strengths is how we see the revolution - or, rather the anticipation of it - not from the perspective of royal or radical but courtier and servant.
  6. Deep Cover
    Although expertly directed by Bill Duke, Deep Cover becomes the cinematic equivalent of a drive-by shooting, posing as community uplift. [15 Apr 1992, p.91]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Connection
    It’s an easy film to watch and become engrossed in, and it’s just as easy to forget, despite a true-life twist that darkens the final minutes without making much of an impact on the whole. Expertly shot, excitingly edited, smartly acted, The Connection never quite connects.
  8. The Life of Chuck
    It’s one of this year’s best movies. I don’t know how it will fare at the box office, but I can see it becoming a beloved favorite in the same way “The Shawshank Redemption” ultimately did. Like that classic, this one really makes you think about life and the things we take for granted.
  9. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
    “Don’t Worry” is not a conventional biopic. That makes sense — Callahan sure isn’t a conventional biopic subject — but that unconventionality can present problems. Sometimes the movie is sentimental. More often, it’s scabrous. Maybe if the movie didn’t feel overlong (trim and tight it’s not), those qualities might seem better balanced.
  10. Reality Bites
    It's slick, but also heartfelt. It's for those who think it's cool to watch "Brady Bunch" reruns and uncool to watch MTV, and it's got terrific performances by Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Ben Stiller, who also directs this very appealing canter through the vocational and emotional minefields of our downsizing trash culture. [18 Feb 1994, p.33]
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  11. Somewhere Between
    Knowlton has landed on four stories that deserve to be told, and she's told them in a straightforward way that gets the job done, with obvious dedication and love.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rosewater
    What you may not be prepared for is the way that humor does play a part in the story, in the sense that recognizing the total absurdity of a theocratic police state is one way to rise above fear and keep one’s mind free. In Rosewater, ridicule becomes a weapon of liberation.
  13. Stranger Than Fiction
    Watching the movie made me long for the big , risky ideas and entertainingly fearless filmmaking in David O. Russell's "I Heart Huckabees " and Spike Jonze's "Adaptation ," which Kaufman wrote. Both were similarly conceptual escapades, but they let it all hang out.
  14. Cairo Time
    Cairo Time is a kind of bourgeois delusion. It's authentically aggravated but bogusly conceived.
  15. Arachnophobia
    Arachnophobia wants to be Jaws or The Birds, with killer spiders. It isn't. The movie lacks the skill really to tap our primal fears, and the spiders are the only things that don't seem mechanical in Arachnophobia. [18 July 1990, p.65P]
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  16. Damsels in Distress
    These are women who seemed raised on Louisa May Alcott and might have been aspirationally besotted with Jane Austen. But you sense tragedy looming. They're hurtling, inexorably, toward Tennessee Williams.
  17. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    Once “M:I-TFR” kicks into action mode, the film becomes riveting as we await whatever crazy stunt Tom Cruise is going to spring on us.
  18. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    Coogler and his returning company of actors and behind-the-camera craftspeople work overtime to achieve a balance of quiet empathy with the big thrills audiences have come to see.
  19. Chevalier
    Though it occasionally pulls its punches, the blows Chevalier does land sting and leave a mark.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nowhere Boy
    As sympathetic and well-turned as it is, Nowhere Boy only gives us more mythology.
  21. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Rarely is a movie audience asked to put up with so much noise for such a thankless payoff.
  22. McEnroe
    The documentary doesn’t give the sense of McEnroe as a person that Douglas’s film does. But it gives a rather astonishing sense of him as a player. With all due respect to those other McEnroe guises, that’s the one that matters.
  23. The Darjeeling Limited
    You have to admire that someone thought it’d be cool to assemble three of the movies’ most fascinating noses for a 90-minute romp.
  24. The Peanuts Movie
    Even with his glossy new look, Charlie Brown remains the Charlie Browniest.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Barney's Version
    A smart, well-acted two hours at the art house, full of witty observations and fellow feeling. But, really, it has no business being a movie.
  26. The Creeping Garden
    Whether unclassifiable and inconsequential oddity, or overlooked key to the meaning of life, or both, The Creeping Garden is the slime mold of documentaries.
  27. Sometimes Always Never
    This extremely dry film mixes humor and melancholy to distinctive, if muffled, effect. Take away the muffled part, and that’s very Nighy, too. In being winningly understated and sometimes maddeningly stylized, Sometimes Always Never is a bit like Alan.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Tree
    The gap between storytelling and story is rarely as wide as in The Last Tree, a coming-of-age drama that is rapturously shot and dramatically trite.
  29. Over the Hedge
    There is actually an occasional moment of inspiration, but as an experience, the movie doesn't hog much shelf space in the memory.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
    It's an angry story, but also a strangely hopeful one, in the sense of new life sprouting through a battlefield. Above all, it's personal and specific, and that IS news we can use.
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