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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. Double Take
    Gallo has delivered a clever suspense comedy that, thanks to a taut script, creative direction, and first-rate performances from its leads, gives Double Take more weight than one would expect from a genre crowd-pleaser.
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  2. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    With its inventively nutso action, youthful vibe, and subversive topicality, the “Kingsman” franchise feels more relevant than even Daniel Craig’s James Bond. Screen espionage doesn’t come any hipper these days.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Somersault
    The movie has more style than depth and it's sometimes in danger of confusing the two.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bellflower
    Hardly a consistent piece of work, but even when it falls apart toward the end in a mess of bad acting and amazingly youthful pretentiousness, you may find it hard to look away. Handmade and helpless, it's nevertheless the real deal, an artful blurt of sensitivity and rage.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    The primary talking head is Ono, of course, who's serenely protective of Lennon's greater legacy. Her cooperation ties the film's hands, but only to a point.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    A tale of narrow talent destroyed by pop hubris, raging insecurity, substance abuse, and murder.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Body of Lies
    It's a genre film - the action is fierce and nonstop - with a brooding undercurrent of unease that aims for the complexities of John le Carre.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beatriz at Dinner
    Beatriz at Dinner has been directed with subtle but damning chamber-comedy finesse by Miguel Arteta (“The Good Girl,” “Chuck & Buck”) and written by that great deadpan satirist Mike White (“Chuck & Buck,” “School of Rock,” TV’s “Freaks and Geeks”).
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Two Can Play That Game
    In addition to the film's two extremely likable stars, the strong supporting cast features a who's who of rising African-American actors.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Final Year
    The film’s chief flaw is that it’s in the room but never really in the room — the key figures talk about passionate interoffice policy arguments, but we never actually see them. Still, The Final Year takes in setbacks, breakthroughs, gaffes, and a steady drumbeat of talking-head criticism from televised outsiders, heard on the film’s soundtrack but not seen.
  11. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
    It really only comes alive in its shots of people in the neighborhood sitting around their television sets. What we're really talking about here is a problem in scope. In Hamburger's film, the world is no bigger than a cup.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Napoleon Dynamite
    An inspired dead-end stunt that keeps delivering snarky laughs far longer than it has any right to.
  13. Restoration
    For all its shortcomings, Restoration is miles beyond most historical epics. [26 Jan 1996, p.51]
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  14. Beautiful Darling
    As fascinating as the material is, like so much of popular culture it doesn't hold up well out of context.
  15. Side by Side
    The directors and distributors can't rely on us. They should be implored to watch their movies in the same theaters we do. It's the only way for them to understand that a crime is being committed.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Circumstance
    A rhapsodic erotic romance that takes place in a cultural prison, and it pulses with a defiance that would be mischievous if it weren't so rip-roaringly angry.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Earth
    Like Field, the new movie has a sneakily dark sense of humor, a taste for the odd bit of gore, and a love of psychedelic mushrooms and cinematic hallucinations.
  18. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Witherspoon is a professional, demanding we give ourselves over to her carbonated pluck.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    City of Gold
    It is a film about Los Angeles, culture and coexistence, the American dream. It is the opposite of narrowcasting.
  20. Every Little Step
    In Every Little Step, the performers bleed, sweat, cry theater - without having to tell us.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Twilight Samurai
    The anti-"Kill Bill." This is an old man's movie in all the good ways: gentle, humanistic, rich with observation, quietly aware of all that can't be solved by the sword.
  22. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    Penn's Kumar could become Jeff Spicoli for the generation of college kids who've never seen "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" but always seem to have a copy of "Dude, Where's My Car?" cued up at a moment's notice.
  23. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
    There are unexpected things in “Magician,” such as Puck’s presence. Welles’s first screen test, from 1937, and an appearance on “I Love Lucy” are others. But even the expected things, such as the numerous Welles clips, are consistently unexpected.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ex Machina
    A note of paranoia creeps in that nods to classic film noir on one hand and baroque misogyny on the other. Or maybe this is just Garland’s dank idea of what men do when they’re left to their own devices: Create dream mates from the flayed skin of their fantasies.
  25. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
    Some of the best scenes show the family gathering after court sessions to discuss strategy, support each other, and vent.
  26. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    Cinema's greatest caveman meets his ancestors. For us, it's a reassurance: The creative process is astonishingly old and its fruits still surprisingly fresh.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cléo from 5 to 7
    Cleo from 5 to 7, a sort of combination between realism and avant-garde imagination, is the kind of film that young people, learning to appreciate foreign-made pictures, will find stimulating. [15 Feb 1963, p.8]
    • Boston Globe
  28. Happy, Texas
    I can't imagine anyone not feeling entertained by Happy, Texas.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Swiss Family Robinson
    The RKO Swiss Family Robinson isn't considered a lost classic — a lost pretty-good-movie is more like it — but the fact that Disney is finally releasing a movie they bought specifically to sit on is unexpected and welcome. [20 Oct 2019, p.N1]
    • Boston Globe
  30. Under the Sea 3D
    It's all a treat to behold, and, at least where the turtle and the jellyfish are concerned, it's transcendently beautiful, too. I just wish there was more of it.
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