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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. Monkey Kingdom
    New rule: All Disneynature films must be narrated by Tina Fey.
  2. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
    Engrossing and provocative.
  3. Gay Sex in the 70s
    Yet despite the retrospective sensationalism, Lovett's 70-minute documentary is a sobering anti-erotic cautionary tale.
  4. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
    This is a person you'd enjoy spending time with and learning from. That's certainly the case with Dorman's film.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Songs from the Second Floor
    The film is depressive, slow, darkly funny, unyielding in its formal rigor, and unsettlingly beautiful. It's obviously not for everyone, but only because not everyone can meet its stare.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Invisible Man
    It’s a sly, twisty little chiller, not ashamed of its B-movie bona fides and better for it.
  7. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    The quest ends in a surprise Capra-esque resolution, which both satisfies and cloys.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    District 9
    The last time I felt the sort of outrageously kinetic action-movie high District 9 delivers, it was 1981 and George Miller, Mel Gibson, and "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" had just come roaring out of Australia.
  9. Fade to Black
    The film elects a storytelling manner that's scarily similar to the beginning of a lot of hip-hop thrillers.
  10. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    A long, warm, satisfying farewell encounter.
  11. Mysteries of Lisbon
    Mysteries of Lisbon brings us far inside oil-on-canvas in a way that isn't imitative. It's simply, magically a moving picture, what a movie in the 1800s would look like.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Picture
    The movie feels loose and unpredictable. You're never sure where Paul or the story is going, and while that makes The Big Picture unexpectedly gripping for much of its running time, the shapelessness ultimately wins out.
  13. The Trials of Muhammad Ali
    The archival footage in Bill Siegel’s documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali is wondrous. How could it not be, featuring the gentleman in the title.
  14. A Cry in the Dark
    Fred Schepisi's "A Cry in the Dark" is a powerful film with a terrific performance by Meryl Streep, her best since "Sophie's Choice." [11 Nov 1988, p.57]
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  15. Hold Your Fire
    There are many twists and turns to the story, and the documentary is consistently surprising.
  16. The Box
    The Box is the work of a visionary flirting with commercialism after having so grandly flouted it with “Southland Tales.’’ He doesn’t give in completely. Several trips to the megaplex might be required for The Box to make complete sense.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blue Streak
    A rather witty, streetwise comedy/action movie with a lot going for it.
  18. Munyurangabo
    The finished film, which was completed in about 11 days, has the tidiness and optimism of a fable. But it showcases certain hard facts of life in a war-torn country whose scars have yet to heal.
  19. We're No Angels
    Endearing, if not an A-list classic. [25 Sep 2005]
    • Boston Globe
  20. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    These children are indeed the faces of war. It's just harder to recognize them because they're the ones someone cared enough to save.
  21. Good Hair
    There’s a lot of Michael Moore’s ambulatory spirit in this film, which the comedian Jeff Stinson directed. There’s also a lot of the damning comedic commentary that made Rock’s old HBO series so urgent.
  22. Framing John DeLorean
    Argott and Joyce subordinate these more pressing political questions to a mirror-box exploration of the nature of truth and the unfathomable secrets of the soul. As such it is thoughtful, sometimes ingenious, but you can’t help thinking that they missed the real story.
  23. My Father the Hero
    The film works because Depardieu is relaxed enough to turn in persuasive acting that keep us from noticing how plastic the setup is. [4 Feb 1994, p.52]
    • Boston Globe
  24. El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
    Wetzel's challenge is to film the experiments so that the process itself is legible. We're made to marvel at slow-cooked, freeze-dried, unappetizingly bagged food, the way some mushrooms, when delicately sliced, evoke fruit and some crustaceans resemble side-sleeping snooze-bar slappers.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hate U Give
    Mostly, though, the movie succeeds because of the actress at its center.
  26. Miss Julie
    Figgis's film doesn't match its reach.
  27. Kedi
    Those who don’t especially like cats — or Istanbul, for that matter — might not get a lot out of Turkish director Ceyda Torun’s love letter to the feline population of her native city. For everyone else, it should be an almost unadulterated pleasure.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beeswax
    It all feels studiously artless - some people huffily insist that Bujalski’s movies aren’t movies at all - but the more you contemplate his landscapes, the more his control over their various elements is revealed. He’s the real deal: a maturing artist obsessed with how and why - and if - his generation will mature.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    RBG
    A documentary love letter to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and it assumes you love her too.
  30. Southpaw
    There's an engagingly homegrown quality to much of the footage.
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