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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
    American Teen
    Parents are another matter. Almost to a man and woman they lay expectations on their children that ignore who those children are.
  2. Carlito's Way
    Carlito's Way reunites the Scarface team of Al Pacino and director Brian De Palma to much better effect than the first time around, proving there's a lot of life still to be found in the conventional urban-gangster movie. [12 Nov 1993, p.45]
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  3. The Edge
    The Edge is mostly corny macho mano-a-mano stuff, made watchable by spectacular scenery and a lot of understatement in Anthony Hopkins's performance and David Mamet's screenplay - until an overwrought ending brings it down. [26 Sep 1997, p.D7]
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  4. Jackass Number Two
    This is extreme comedy, and it's amazing how director Jeff Tremaine, who along with Spike Jonze has been affiliated with this troupe from its outset, creates an environment where self-inflicted torture is uncontrollably funny without being morally offensive.
  5. Talk Radio
    Neither the film nor the play has figured out where to go with Barry Champlain once it plants him at the center of his can-of-worms microcosm. We're never bored by his whiplash flailings, but on screen, as on stage, we can't help asking ourselves to what end they're being deployed. [13 Jan 1989, p.46]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Margot at the Wedding
    A broader work than Baumbach's last movie, and it's funnier, too, even as you gasp at the misbehavior.
  7. White Noise
    Unfortunately, a screenwriter’s fealty to the source material is often the kiss of death. Some things are just not translatable from a reader’s mind to a more objective and visual medium like film.
  8. Roofman
    If only this movie were as interesting as the truth. Tatum’s sparkling charm can only take him so far; the script, by Cianfrance and Kirt Gunn, spends way too much time on a romantic subplot filled with sitcom scenarios and uninteresting characters.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter in Wartime
    Well-mounted and expertly played, Winter in Wartime is a class act that lacks only focus and originality to raise it above the ordinary.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kick-Ass
    Fusing teen comedy, bad-boy raunch, Tarantino-style gonzo mayhem, and tossing in a bloodthirsty little girl vigilante who swears like Steve Buscemi in a Coen brothers movie, the film has its moments of high-flying, low-down style. It’s also nowhere near as subversive as it thinks it is.
  11. Littlerock
    They're not looking to say anything grand. What they do say - and what we see - is smart and true.
  12. King of New York
    King of New York means to slam its excessses into juiced-up nocturnal flamboyance - and does. Assaultive and mindless, it's an incoherent mess. But its manic energies and go-for-broke stylistic gestures keep it from ever seeming dull. [15 March 1991, p.42]
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  13. Mean Girls
    The movie is always entertaining and frequently smart about the new ground one girl will break to humiliate another.
  14. Transamerica
    It's debatable whether watching Huffman get dressed, take hormones, and learn to use a more feminine diction could sustain an entire movie, but the character is certainly a creation more original than a lot of the film itself.
  15. Notorious C.H.O.
    Her face is as much a part of her comedic form as her observations are. It's an amazing slapstick instrument, creating a scrapbook of living mug shots.
  16. The Tailor of Panama
    Many spy capers lose their intended irony and wry black humor, but The Tailor of Panama stays stylishly on target in ways that would put a heat-seeking missile to shame.
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  17. Moulin Rouge!
    The film musical is at the moment an even more devitalized art form than the Broadway musical. But Moulin Rouge doesn't revive it. It only rearranges the bones.
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  18. Philadelphia
    Phildelphia, with its velvety textures and rhythms and heads-up soundtrack, does a good job of at least putting the topic on the mainstream table. And it's dramatically potent as well as historically important. [14 Jan 1994, p.73]
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  19. Sidewalk Stories
    Lane does know how to photograph his own interesting, large-eyed face to potent effect. He's an appealing talent, and Sidewalk Stories is a likable film. Beyond novelty value, it also finds modern ways of making contact with the very real feel for poverty that was so much a part of the early Chaplin films. [21 Sep 1989, p.60]
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  20. Dumb Money
    Gillespie and his editor Kirk Baxter cycle through scenes of these one-dimensional characters, headache-inducing montages of cable news footage, YouTube re-creations, and TikTok videos. The pacing is frenetic, but the content is mind-numbingly dull.
  21. The Good Dinosaur
    A very middling movie, it does have a nifty premise.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
    In inviting us along to peek into the life, filmmakers Kerthy Fix and Gail O'Hara don't give us quite enough about the art.
  23. Miami Vice
    The movie is seriously sexy and seriously entertaining.
  24. Breaking
    When the movie stays focused on the three characters in the bank, it has a taut energy that glosses over some of the bumpier dialogue and easy grabs for emotion.
  25. Paris, je t'aime
    As an ad for the city's charms, Paris couldn't have asked for a more sweetly jaundiced love letter.
  26. Pavarotti
    The best part of Ron Howard’s long-winded and fitfully moving Pavarotti occurs at the beginning with footage from 1995 of the world-famous tenor — who died in 2007, at 71 — visiting an opera house built in the middle of the Amazon jungle. The legend has it that Enrico Caruso had performed there 100 years before.
  27. Master
    Open-endedness in a narrative can be a good and challenging thing; or it can be a sign of having gotten in too deep and not being able to figure out how to get out. “Get Out” knew how to get out. “Master” doesn’t.
  28. La Vie en Rose
    If even half of Olivier Dahan's robust film about Piaf's life is true -- and let's face it, much remains shrouded in myth and mystery -- it's a wonder she could get dressed in the morning, let alone forge a legendary singing career.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    Second verse, same as the first, a little bit shorter and a little less worse.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Another Earth
    Another Earth is being sold as an indie sci-fi drama, but that does both the movie and its proper audience a disservice. This muted story of atonement, forgiveness, and parallel universes is more of an extended metaphor - a work of earnest poetry rather than science.
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