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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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  1. Mission: Impossible III
    Only theoretically, though, is this exciting. Mostly, it all feels like a lateral move that keeps alive a franchise without breaking new ground.
  2. Sommersby
    Sommersby is a handsome throwback to a kind of film that hardly gets made anymore. It's a richly textured period love story powered by two charismatic and intelligent star performances, with a fullness and amplitude that one more readily associates with quality studio films of the past rather than the MTV quick-cut present. [05 Feb 1993, p.25]
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  3. Shelter
    Shelter is a gay movie like other American gay movies. Boy meets boy. Boy comes out. Boys fight opposition. Opposition caves. If there's life beyond the closet, too few movies know it exists.
  4. Frankie and Johnny
    Rendering experience synthetic, replacing desperation with cuteness, Frankie & Johnny is Love Lite. [11 Oct 1991, p.49]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    La bûche
    The film's invented Paris -- endless restaurants, boutiques, and impossibly large apartments, with a little artificial ''grit'' thrown in -- is pretty, and the neatly wrapped plot provides the comforting illusion that one's own family dramas can be as easily and amusingly resolved.
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  6. Robot Stories
    In Robot Stories, technology hasn't colonized human life, it's finding ways to make living (and loving) better.
  7. Delicatessen
    What keeps the film going, and helps it keep its comic tone, is the constant threat of cataclysm - and the deadpan Buster Keaton charm of the ever-responsive Pinon as he combats the giant Rube Goldberg meat-grinder that the house, in effect, is. [17 Apr 1992]
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  8. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    Alan Rudolph's beautifully burnished, heartache-filled evocation of Dorothy Parker and her Algonquin Round Tablemates bites off a bit more than it can spew. But a couple of things make it special. [23 Dec 1994, p.45]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deadpool 2
    Deadpool 2 is very good at what it does, which is flattering the audience into feeling like it’s in on the joke. If you’re a doubter, though, you may wonder if the joke’s on us.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Way Back
    The Way Back is the first real Sad Ben film. It’s earnest and old-fashioned and sturdily made, and I wish that were enough to make it good.
  11. The Land Before Time
    From its opening evolution sequence of squiggly things in the water through its references to the great circle of life, The Land Before Time embraces a larger perspective than merely that of the adventure story. It's an affecting work, and a work of quality. [18 Nov 1988, p.29]
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  12. Puzzle
    Why can’t the film maintain its subtler shadings throughout? It’s a puzzle.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Care a Lot
    Marla Grayson is less a three-dimensional person (or even an interesting two-dimensional one) than a symptom of a sick society. And symptoms wear out their welcome pretty quickly. That shallowness renders Marla’s sexuality and stated feminism cynical rather than ironic, and it turns I Care a Lot into a lesser Coen brothers movie: No Country for Old Fogeys.
  14. The Infiltrator
    The movie’s best moments illustrate the lines that Mazur won’t cross, plus a few that he will.
  15. Pitch Perfect
    The college singing-group comedy Pitch Perfect isn't dumb, but Kendrick's participation implies that it might also be smart. And sometimes it is.
  16. Sea of Love
    Although the film is full of the sensory jolts common to this genre, it also has more humor than most, thanks to Richard Rice's tough, witty script. [15 Sep 1989, p.37]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mary Poppins Returns
    Mary Poppins Returns is torn between taking audiences back to their childhoods and treating them like children. You might have a good time but don’t be surprised if you feel a little dociousaliexpeisticfragicalirupus afterward.
  18. Dog Man
    The big surprise is that none of these talented voice actors bring anything new or interesting to their one-dimensional roles.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fairy
    The Fairy may be as close as we'll ever get to a live-action cartoon.
  20. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
    The stakes in the film are high enough for some plot, but low enough to maintain healthy blood pressure. There is a delicious lack of exposition — and plenty of inside jokes for the true fans.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Félix And Meira
    Even in the city’s most crowded place, Giroux makes his lovers seem like the only couple on Earth.
  22. Vivo
    Last year’s biggest animated feature was Pixar’s Soul. The best thing about it was a rare feeling for music, an ability to express jazz visually and rhythmically. At times, Vivo does the same even better for Latin music.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    No Impact Man: The Documentary
    It’s like Sinatra said: If you can make (do without) it there, you can make (do without) it anywhere. The movie leaves it up to you.
  24. You're Next
    Like [The Purge and The Conjuring], Adam Wingard’s sly, diabolical, and oddly moral You’re Next draws on the home invasion/haunted house scenario, but outclasses them with its wit, irony, and technically proficient terror.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    When We Leave
    As powerful as the movie is, it stays on the outside of a culture looking in.
  26. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
    "Star Trek VI" is one of the weaker additions to the Enterprise enterprise. It merely goes through the motions, including requisite moments that feel obligatory and uninspired. There's nothing gravely wrong here - no embarrassing scenes or egregious plot gaffes. There's simply nothing new, and certainly nothing fresh or reinvented. [6 Dec. 1991, p.53]
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  27. Hope Springs
    You feel embarrassed for Streep and Jones (Streep especially) because of the situations, often sexual, they're put in. They're definitely not mailing in their performances.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Catfish
    It seems to play as vastly different movies depending on who's looking at it.
  29. I Am Legend
    It's neither a neat little allegory about faith nor a transcendently entertaining one. I Am Legend is actually about the last man on earth played by one of the last real movie stars on earth. To be honest, Smith was all I was thinking about while I sat through I Am Legend.
  30. The Legend of Leigh Bowery
    It takes almost an hour for The Legend of Leigh Bowery to make a case for Bowery's sort of genius, and in the last third, the movie gives a real sense of what made him him.
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