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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Don Jon
    What Don Jon is, surprisingly, is honest. R-rating aside, it should be required viewing for every 15-year-old boy on the planet.
  2. White Palace
    There's warmth and a kind of benevolence in bed with them, too, and it carries the film past its compromises. If White Palace is no "Last Tango in Paris," it's at least a sizzling, fat-free "Last Hamburger in St. Louis." [19 Oct 1990, p.33]
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  3. The Eye
    Like the horror-flick hacks who infest Hollywood like termites, the Pangs don't build suspense, they assault the senses with twitchy photography and Danny's editing.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bend It Like Beckham
    The film's most natural appeal is to adolescent athletes -- in particular, cleat-wearing young ladies who will bask in its hard-won girl-power message. This is a movie with bruised shins and a huge heart.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Prestige
    It's like "The Illusionist" crossed with a really hard Sudoku.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    Much like reality TV, nothing much of consequence happens.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Judy
    If you saw Judy Davis as Garland in the 2001 miniseries “Me and My Shadows,” you know that’s a performance to beat. Zellweger matches it in her own way, through hair and makeup but mostly by channeling a kind of terrified bravura that’s riveting to watch. This Judy knows she’s an icon, and she knows it does her no good, and it’s all she’s got.
  8. I.Q.
    There's not only physics between them, but chemistry. I.Q. may be slight, but it's a civilized delight. [23 Dec 1994, p.45]
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  9. Restoration
    For all its shortcomings, Restoration is miles beyond most historical epics. [26 Jan 1996, p.51]
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  10. Wonka
    It’s not as memorable as the original, but like a good piece of chocolate, Wonka is at its most delectable when you’re consuming it.
  11. Truth
    Engrossing and occasionally moving, it doesn’t electrify like that other film about the press taking on a chief executive, Alan Pakula’s “All the President’s Men” (1976).
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Family Law
    It's a deceptively small film, one whose observations may continue to detonate quietly in your mind after the lights have come up.
  13. Parents
    It's a wickedly inventive blend of revisionist history and childhood dread. [17 March 1989, p.45]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elegy
    Elegy drifts helplessly into melodrama, and it loses its bearings and its head in a ridiculous final act.
  15. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
    It’s not especially filling, but it leaves a pleasant aftertaste.
  16. Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
    In short, the film inserts us into a solipsistic universe of Norman Lear, one that also overlaps many of the most significant social, political, and show-biz issues of the second half of the 20th century.
  17. October Country
    What results is both real and surreal, giving and self indulgent. That’s the country we all live in.
  18. Carancho
    Carancho is a particularly jaw-dropping example of what this great, cunning city - on film, anyway - is capable of: an exhilarating bummer.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Hip Hop Project
    And while the young director tends to skip over many of the larger societal issues plaguing many of the HHP participants, his desire to honestly platform the emotional heartbeat of his subjects still rings true.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Landline
    It’s just another wry New York family-dysfunction farce, with a stronger supporting cast and (slightly) better production values than Robespierre’s first film but also a propensity for playing it safe and dulling the pain just when the pain should be sharpest.
  21. Stardust
    Stardust certainly could have gone somewhere fun. But the magic and zip you need to get a blimp like this off the ground is scarce.
  22. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    We are treated to the riotous, almost David Lynchian moment in which Ferrell runs around a motorway in his undies screaming that he's on fire. He's not. Actually, come to think of it: He is.
  23. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    To love Wilco is to believe in a certain rustic intelligence about popular music (and about yourself) and to embrace the Tweedy worldview that you need sarcasm and vagueness to cope with the pitfalls of sincerity.
  24. Tattoo
    Maybe Tattoo is creepy and stylized enough to pull you along anyway, but if you like your thrillers to dig below the familiar epidermis, look elsewhere.
  25. Trembling Before G-d
    Examines this dilemma with compassion and sensitivity.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
    Part of the shoujo genre of gently fantastic romantic dramas about and for young teenage girls, it's also funny and creative enough to charm parents, brothers, cousins, and anyone else looking for an openhearted fable.
  27. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    You get the sense that the cheap thrill of cheating is like putting a Band-Aid on a broken bone. The movie feels just as inadequate emotionally and psychologically. There's a lot of outward behavior but no inner life.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pieces of a Woman
    The best moments are cinematic or actorly; the former come early and the latter are concentrated in the poised, agonized figure of the title character.
  29. Strange Days
    Bigelow's walk on the wired side isn't perfect, but she certainly grabs us by our voyeurism and yanks us into the head trip of the year. "Strange Days" is more than wired - it's loaded. [13 Oct 1995, p.37]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Teen
    Parents are another matter. Almost to a man and woman they lay expectations on their children that ignore who those children are.
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