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For 7,950 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 point 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: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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  1. Thirteen Days
    It turns the nerve-fraying Cuban missile crisis into a big pop myth with the grip of a vise.
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Infamous
    The pleasure of Infamous is in its gallery of larger-than-life portrayals.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blindsight
    The movie is about hope and courage and fortitude. It's about beating the odds and defying expectations. But Lucy Walker's movie is also about whether the trip was a good idea in the first place. The answer is compellingly complicated.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Mistress
    Cool, carnal, and lethal, The Last Mistress is a period drama with a difference.
  5. The Five Senses
    A deft, elegant, melancholy tapestry of flawed outreach, and the big reason it succeeds is Podeswa's courage in dispensing with a lot of exposition and trusting the audience - and the faces of the actors - to fill a lot of what otherwise would be gaps.
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  6. The Devil's Backbone
    A seductively corrosive horror story that also potently suggests the ways war can shatter childhood.
    • Boston Globe
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Maid in Manhattan
    It's Lopez who's the proper focus of this dream. So intent has she been on becoming a superstar in the past few years that many people have forgotten that, given decent material, she can act.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Shining
    When you sit down to The Shining, you sit down with normal expectations of being diverted, perhaps even being gripped, but not being undermined. But the film undermines you in powerful, inchoate ways. It's a horror story even for people who don't like horror stories - maybe especially for them. [14 Jun 1980, p.1]
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  9. Rock Dog
    Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard, director Ash Brannon (“Surf’s Up”), and crew combine these ingredients into something that’s uniquely likable, and even unique-looking at times.
  10. The Prince and Me
    This is a smart piece of revisionist fluff that dares to question what happens after the royal honeymoon is over.
  11. TÁR
    TÁR is ambitious, unusual, forceful, and ultimately frustrating, an emotional epic that’s also a nose-against-the-glass view of classical music and unconventional take on the #MeToo movement in that world.
  12. Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
    Jenkins has given the documentary a structure that’s largely chronological but primarily thematic. The shifting around makes for a nice flow. The film moves along crisply without ever feeling hectic or rushed.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bright Future
    The movie has a curious and cumulative power.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Palo Alto
    It’s a solid debut, and it gets to the heart of suburban adolescence in ways that slicker, more ostensibly mature movies don’t. That includes Aunt Sofia’s “The Bling Ring.”
  15. The French Dispatch
    It’s easily the most mannered movie Anderson has made, which is really saying something. It’s so mannered at times as to be almost unmoored — speaking of ships — but the many marvels it contains make that an acceptable price to pay.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lord of War
    Lord of War is advocacy entertainment -- an act of mainstream provocation -- and, for the most part, it works unusually well.
  17. Syriana
    In its seriousness, Syriana has an absorbing, ominous roundness that plays even better with a second viewing.
  18. Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
    Listening to Taylor is so compelling the screen could be blank and “Lost Tapes” would still be interesting. But director Nanette Burstein keeps things visually abundant with home movies, snapshots, film stills, film clips, newsreels, publicity photos.
  19. Black Gold
    You buy "fair - trade" coffee; you assume you're being socially responsible. But now, along comes Black Gold to tell you that all fair-trade coffee is not created equal, and that Ethiopia, the "birthplace of coffee" and home of some of the world's best beans, may be getting the least fair shake of all.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Herself
    The film is especially clear-eyed about the ways the state bureaucracy designed to help women like Sandra can sometimes stymie their best efforts.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Night at the Museum
    Stuffed with smart performers doing graciously silly work, and all Levy has to do is manage traffic.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    One hell of a party, and it doesn't let anything get in the way of that.
  23. Fight Club
    Begins with that invigoratingly nervy and imaginative buzz. But its chic indictment of empty materialist values fizzles.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Woman at War
    Because it’s an Icelandic movie, and absurdism seems to bubble up in the hot springs and the bloodstreams, Woman at War exudes a puckish sense of humor even as it deals with dire matters.
  25. The River Wild
    The sterling and reliable Strathairn brings stoic dignity to the husband's role, young Mazzello takes advantage of the chance to show more here than he did in Jurassic Park and Curtis Hanson's direction is expeditious and unpretentious. But River Wild is a Streeporama, and Streep at the flood tide is something to see. [20 Sep 1994, p.61]
    • Boston Globe
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wild Nights with Emily
    Beneath the japery and rough-edged filmmaking is an abiding love for the work — its passion and resilience — and respect for the women whose hidden lifelong language that work may have been.
  27. Father and Son
    Where a lesser movie from a lesser director might sink into its own ponderousness, Sokurov uses the ambiguity of the father and son's relationship to craft a sort of erotic puzzle.
  28. Tremors
    Fast-moving, light-handed, assured, even witty at times, and filled with satisfying special effects, Tremors plays like a redneck "Dune." [19 Jan 1990, p.23]
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  29. Harry Is Here to Help
    A sleek little poison pill of a movie.
    • Boston Globe
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Like Mike
    I don't want to sell Like Mike as something it's not. It's a cash-in, all right - just better written, more tightly edited, sharply performed, and a little more heartfelt than most.
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