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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
    Cinderella
    Cinderella — the new, live-action Cinderella, that is — is an attempt by the Mouse House to revive one of Walt’s oldest fairy-tale adaptations with care and class and modernity and timelessness.
  2. Alice
    Alice isn't one of the best Allen films, but it's one of the better ones, generating more than enough whimsical fantasy to surmount its tacked-on moral. We're talking choice fluff here. [25 Jan 1991, p.29P]
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  3. Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
    The movie is only so-so, borrowing a little from the VH-1 school of popumentary but lacking the snazzy production values.
  4. Mr. Holmes
    Unfortunately, director Bill Condon and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher are clueless, and come up with an incoherent, implausible, contrived mishmash.
  5. Worth
    This is not the most promising dramatic material — legal and actuarial material, yes, dramatic, no. Yet Worth manages to combine process and emotion in a way that works.
  6. Ruby Sparks
    Much of the film is pure romantic comedy and a good one. Yet the filmmakers want it to be more.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rock School
    As a portrait of dysfunctional pedagogy, it's both refreshing and more than a little terrifying.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Demonlover
    Expect Demonlover to become a midnight-movie staple in the coming years. And expect shards of it to roil your dreams for weeks.
  9. A Simple Favor
    Kendrick’s interplay with Lively crackles, whether they’re going for laughs or something darker. Both are big selling points — as is their director, even if it’s not as advertised.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Time to Leave
    Time to Leave is an unintended litmus test for lovers of foreign films.
  11. I Saw the Devil
    But that ending is a whopper all the same: a heartless blast of tragedy, exploitation, amusement, and general flagrance.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Eclipse
    Above all, the film is lucky to have one of the better character actors in recent movies in a lead role: Ciarán Hinds as Michael Farr.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kill List
    A scuzzy little cross between a crime movie and a horror freak-out that gets under your skin and stays there, even if you can't understand half of what the characters are saying.
  14. Blink Twice
    Blink Twice may be aiming for a feminist statement, but it’s ultimately just a slasher movie with a bunch of one-dimensional Final Girls played by Alia Shawkat, Trew Mullen, Liz Caribel, and “Hit Man”’s Adria Arjona.
  15. Whisky
    A fine film of few words and very little motion.
  16. Tupac: Resurrection
    The movie is like an extra-strength episode of MTV's ''Diary,'' which is like ''A&E Biography'' in the first person. Only ''Resurrection'' has a subject who's been dead for six years.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Looking for Eric
    Eric begins this story as a sad-eyed cipher and ends it as a whole man, and maybe that’s structure enough, and reason enough, for one film.
  18. Kung Fu Panda 3
    A story that builds toward Po training an army of his panda brethren fails to deliver exponentially greater fun.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    World Trade Center
    One reason World Trade Center is such a good, healing cry is that it absolves us of the discomfort of thinking about everything that has happened since.
  20. Wonder
    Much as there is right with Wonder, there’s just as much that isn’t. Emotionally, the movie rarely feels false.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jimi: All Is by My Side
    Here is where All Is By My Side runs into trouble. The real Etchingham has said, forcibly, that this didn’t happen — not the beating nor her subsequent attempted suicide, shown in the film.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Take
    The Take represents the downside of the new documentary renaissance.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girl Who Played with Fire
    Whenever The Girl Who Played With Fire threatens to stall, Lisbeth whips out her Taser and tortures another sleazy, abusive man into vomiting forth his dirty secrets. In Sweden, I believe they call this "light entertainment.''
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Darfur Now
    Slick, impassioned, and guardedly upbeat, Ted Braun's film is a morale booster aimed at US audiences rather than the 2.5 million displaced Sudanese tribespeople whose villages have been destroyed and families slaughtered. That we need a pick-me-up more than they do is pathetic, but there you are.
  25. The Trip to Spain
    The proof that the “Trip” formula hasn’t become formulaic? How often, and hard, these two can make an audience laugh.
  26. Borgman
    Is Borgman a fable? A fairy tale? A parable? An allegory? A burlesque of Western bourgeois life in the 21st century? One thing Dutch writer-director Alex van Warmerdam’s film isn’t is a black comedy, even if that’s what it’s meant to be. The movie’s black, all right, but a comedy has to be funny.
  27. Zelary
    This is just humble, heartwarming storytelling with good acting and lush visuals.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
    The movie's a cheeky, low-budget goof on dice-and-slice horror films, but for all the visible seams, it's a lot cleverer than "Scream."
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Son of Rambow
    In many ways, Son of Rambow plays like a pint-size, even cheekier version of the recent Michel Gondry film "Be Kind Rewind." Both are stories about people making movies not because it's their job but because doing so brings a vast sense of play into their lives.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In Good Company
    Cheerful and easy to watch but surprisingly inept in the telling.
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