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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. Lucky Them
    What follows is no “Citizen Kane,” or even “Velvet Goldmine” (1998), Todd Haynes’s arty tale of a reporter trying to track down a missing glam rock star, in which Collette also starred, playing the missing man’s alcoholic wife.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The TV Set
    A tart, smart, closely observed satire of the television industry.
    • 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.
  4. Love Jones
    It's funky and funny, not just sleek, riding witty repartee that makes it seem an extension of the fizzy, romantic comedies of the '30s (as well as the Harlem Renaissance, invoked by its poetry club scenes). [14 Mar 1977, p.C1]
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  5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    Spielberg has said that in their collaboration, cut short by Kubrick's death, Kubrick had opened his heart as never before. Although the fingerprint of each is upon A.I, there are times when the prints are blurred and merged. And this film will blur the hitherto distinctive profiles of each.
    • Boston Globe
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Tale of Two Sisters
    A Tale of Two Sisters reminds that few things are as terrifying as our own imaginations.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    In short, “Imaginarium’’ is a Terry Gilliam movie and it’s a mess, which over the years have come to mean much the same thing. It’s one of his better messes, though, or at least this critic was won over by its ramshackle whimsies.
  8. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
    My only complaint about Naked Gun 2 1/2 is that it doesn't give you enough time to finish laughing at one gag before the next one comes along, cracking you up all over again. Naked Gun 2 1/2 is high-flying low comedy, 90 minutes of sublime nonsense that only the devoutly humorless could hate. [28 June 1991, p.69]
    • Boston Globe
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Salt of Life
    The Salt of Life is about that moment in a man or woman's life when members of the opposite sex stop seeing them, and while the mood is jauntily sensual, the undertow is fierce.
  10. Operation Mincemeat
    A fine cast — Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton — do their stiff-upper-lip best. It’s not good enough.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Runaways
    In rock, it's about the attitude as much as the music. In some cases, more so. And the Runaways were all attitude.
  12. Pawn Sacrifice
    The movie, though, is not so good. If it came down to acting instead of chess, we might have lost the Cold War.
  13. Patrik Age 1.5
    The cute little domestic comedy gains a slightly rough edge - maybe Sven isn't meant to be a father or a husband.
  14. Driving Madeleine
    Driving Madeleine is held together by the funny and dignified performances of its two leads.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Memphis
    I thought of “That’s Life!” while watching Memphis, Tim Sutton’s sometimes forced, sometimes extraordinary tone poem about a modern-day bluesman. Enigmatic and brief — all of 79 minutes — the movie seems to fall into the cracks between documentary and fiction.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Week with Marilyn
    The point of "My Week'' appears to be that Colin is the one person in Monroe's life who isn't using her, but if squeezing two books and a movie out of one brief encounter isn't exploitation, I don't know what is.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kill Your Darlings
    That Ginsberg is played by Daniel Radcliffe might come as a shock, but the shock wears off as the movie rolls on and you realize you’re in very good hands.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Merely grand old-school fun - a rollicking class reunion that stands as the second best entry in the venerable series.
  19. Salt
    Jolie doesn't seem entirely bored with the routine. She has a laugh or two at her bionic image: Evelyn is a woman who uses a maxi pad as a bandage.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    “If we die, let it be for a cause, not a spectacle,” the heroine barks at one point. If such a statement sounds fairly insane coming from a series that has grossed (to date) $2.3 billion worldwide, Mockingjay — Part 2 is sturdy enough to render it moot while you’re watching. After that, it’s up to you whether to swallow the irony or choke on it.
  21. I Love You Phillip Morris
    The performance often errs on the side of cartoon, but it's laced with flashes of remorse and chagrin, with sincerity. When Carrey tries to do "dramatic acting'' the life always goes of out him.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tucker & Dale vs Evil
    It's fast, it's funny, and it works.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Everything Must Go
    A comparison to Carver's original story - called "Why Don't You Dance?," easily Googleable, and all of 1,600 words long - is instructive.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Amazing Grace
    It's a doughty movie, stuck halfway between Masterpiece Theatre and Classics Illustrated, but, to his credit, gifted journeyman director Michael Apted understands he's playing the long game.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    One Last Kiss
    More movies should be so funny and perceptive, with writing this sharp and acting this believable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saving Mr. Banks
    Because it’s a Hollywood movie from a major corporation looking fondly at itself, it concludes that, while art may heal our psychic wounds, craftsmanship and commerce heal them better.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Made in Dagenham
    The movie moves, but it doesn't breathe.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beauty and the Beast
    In short, there’s plenty of spectacle in Beauty and the Beast, which will be enough for many if not most young audiences. But there isn’t much magic, and what there is coasts on 26-year-old fumes.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ivory Tower
    Rossi gives us a survey course when what we need is a seminar; the movie is a useful “What’s Wrong With College 101” but the advanced study remains to be done.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    X-Men: First Class
    Perfectly fine summer folderol, epic enough on its own terms if not quite big enough to expand beyond its genre and matter to people who find it difficult to care about characters who spit gobs of flaming phlegm. I realize there are fewer and fewer of us, but we're a hardy band and stubborn.
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