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For 7,957 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: 5,236 out of 7957
  2. Mixed: 1,555 out of 7957
  3. Negative: 1,166 out of 7957
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    • 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.
  5. The Prince of Tides
    Generous in its emotions as well as its visuals, it makes its healing energies real because it takes the trouble to make its characters' pain believable. It's a big, bold, slightly old-fashioned film carried by its heartfelt conviction, by Barbra Streisand's painstaking direction and self-effacing acting, and by Nick Nolte. [25 Dec 1991, p.47]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Buck and the Preacher
    A modest entertainment made intriguing by the race element. [15 May 1972, p.14]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alien: Covenant
    There are a number of reasons “Covenant” works where “Prometheus” struggled to work. The characters are more incisively drawn this time, and their relationships inherently more dramatic.
  8. Sunset
    Oblique, often beguiling, and portentously cryptic.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bull
    Bull is one of those quiet heartland indie dramas that can serve as a tonic after a steady diet of blockbuster. It’s about human connection, which is much on people’s minds in these days of global pandemic. And it’s about rodeo bull riders, a group of people I’ve always thought should have their heads examined.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsters University
    This is not a bad movie, and to small children it will be a very good one. But it is closer to average than one would wish from the company that gave us “Up,” “Wall-E,” “The Incredibles,” and “Toy Story 3."
  11. School Ties
    School Ties might have been more potent if it were set in the present instead of 1955; still, it's richly drawn, strongly felt, handsomely produced, with a smoldering performance by Brendan Fraser. [18 Sept 1992, p.56]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
    The magazine changed hands a number of times before shuttering in 1989, but JJ Kramer now owns the brand and the archives and with this movie hopes to reintroduce them to a new generation. And why not? One thing about CREEM is that it always rises to the top.
  13. Deadpool
    They even make the requisite cameo by Marvel founding father Stan Lee feel profanely inspired. Not your usual Marvel superhero scene? In this case, that’s a good thing.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
    James Scurlock's documentary horror show has a critical message to impart -- your credit cards are out to kill you -- and a naive, ham - handed way of imparting it.
  15. The Courier
    Assured and well made (Dominic Cooke directed), The Courier offers bits of tradecraft — Penkovsky photographing documents with a miniature camera, a special tie clip used as identity-establishing bona fide — and a high-stakes extraction plan gets put in motion. But it’s less about what gets done than the persons doing it.
  16. Men
    What a waste of a superb actress. Buckley almost makes Men worth sitting through. Almost.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
    A sequel that is noisy, fast, and pretty smart but that lacks the spark of gonzo originality that made the first movie an out-of-nowhere treat.
  18. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
    Alice Creed isn't as good as Tarantino's directorial debut, or another movie it calls to mind, "A Simple Plan.'' But the genetic resemblance to those two films indicates how good much of this extremely assured picture is.
  19. The Matador
    Shepard's Matador demonstrates what an Almodovar picture would feel like without his gonzo sensibility. It's Almodovar for heterosexuals.
  20. Maudie
    The story offers many opportunities for glibness and sentimentality. Walsh falls for none of them. She enhances the grimness of Lewis’s surroundings, but does not exploit it.
  21. Dangerous Animals
    Though Courtney and Harrison give their all, this is a slick-looking yet routine exercise that wastes an ideal premise.
  22. The Good Boss
    Once the comedy does kick in, around the 100-minute mark, it does so quite nastily. The movie never quite recovers.
  23. Dick
    Hedaya is sublime.
  24. Panic Room
    Might give you a few decorating ideas if you happen to have been wondering about a home bomb shelter, but it's a thriller that doesn't thrill.
  25. Take Me to the River
    Despite outstanding performances, the characters lose subtlety as they grow more extreme, and their secrets when spelled out become anticlimactic. Maybe with a little more mystery, the evil would seem less banal.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bad News Bears
    The remake is stranded between pushing the scatological envelope and caving in to the formulas the 1976 movie established, and until the well-nigh foolproof ending, it comes up gasping for air.
  27. High-Rise
    Because it stoops to obvious editorializing (a voice-over of Margaret Thatcher on capitalism?), it never quite rises to the top.
  28. Timecode
    Like a good supermarket tabloid, Time Code grabs - and keeps - our attention.
  29. The Boys in the Band
    William Friedkin directs the adaptation of Matt Crowley's off-Broadway play about a group of gay men in Manhattan speaking increasingly frankly as a birthday party wears on. Sufficiently effective that you wonder what Friedkin was thinking with Cruising. [09 Nov 2008, p.N16]
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  30. Air Doll (2009)
    For 75 minutes or so, Air Doll is the lightest of Kore-eda’s movies, which include the superb “Nobody Knows’’ (2004) and “Still Life’’ (2008). Gradually, though, the tender music-box score — by one-man Japanese band world’s end girlfriend — is tinged with foreboding.
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