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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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    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hostiles
    Despite the film’s length and aspirations, its anthropological correctness and historically accurate gore, Bale’s transformation from stone killer to empathetic ally is unconvincing.
  2. Do I Sound Gay?
    David Sedaris contributes a story about talking to a hotel clerk over the phone, which doesn’t add much to the discussion but is very funny.
  3. Soapdish
    Soapdish should have been a laugher. But this new spoof of TV soaps isn't nearly as funny as the real thing. Soapdish holds only the merest sliver of entertainment. [31 May 1991, p.28]
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      • Posted Jun 28, 2017
  4. The Phantom of the Open
    The movie is alternately preposterous and predictable, forced in humor and saccharine in emotion, and it’s not exactly steady in striking a balance between the two.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Overnight
    A bonbon of embarrassment comedy.
  6. Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
    Harris means to give us a realistic look at contemporary African-American women and succeeds impressively. [09 Apr 1993, p.46]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hanna
    It rockets along entertainingly enough for most of its running time - only that it's made with a self-importance the story itself doesn't warrant.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pacific Rim
    Pacific Rim is, hands down, the blockbuster event of the summer — a titanic sci-fi action fantasy that has been invested, against all expectations, with a heart, a brain, and something approximating a soul.
  9. The Smashing Machine
    Living up to her surname, Blunt doesn’t just chew and swallow the scenery, she regurgitates it and chews it again. Along with the bad writing given to her character, she singlehandedly torpedoes “The Smashing Machine.”
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Swallow
    The film’s greatest strength is its lead actress, Haley Bennett, who’s on camera for almost the entire running time and who portrays a desperately lonely woman’s journey through self-destruction toward something like sanity.
  11. The Warrior
    What really makes 'The Warrior worthwhile is its indomitable soul.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    L'Auberge Espagnole
    The movie also rather sweetly suggests that the apartment being shared is Europe itself. There's a reason this warm, stylish human comedy was a big hit all across the Continent: It conveys a new generation's conviction that borders no longer matter.
  13. We Were Soldiers
    It isn't afraid to genuflect to heroes and heroism and has everything it needs to connect with the resurgence of patriotism after Sept. 11.
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  14. The Autopsy of Jane Doe
    A lean indie horror flick that manages to creep us out even before getting to the part that’s meant to be truly unsettling.
  15. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    For a studio so clearly willing to take risks with so many of its movies, this particular movie has a whiff of exploitation. Rowling wrote one epic funeral that Warner Bros. requires us to attend twice.
  16. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    Fantastic Four: First Steps alternates between battle sequences that you’ve seen countless times and interminable scenes of exposition disguised as emotional beats. The actors play this poorly written material as if they were doing Ibsen, which is commendable, but their attempts fail because you truly don’t give a damn about their plight.
  17. Aristide and the Endless Revolution
    An absorbing piece of investigative journalism.
  18. The Lovers and the Despot
    What they don’t quite make clear, and perhaps it is impossible to do so, is what really happened in this odd episode of international espionage epitomizing movie-mogul tyranny.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Down in the Valley
    The performances are deep and rich -- Wood is coming to seem like a smarter Chloe Sevigny, Rory looks to be the Culkin with talent, and Norton's portrayal of Harlan aches with ambiguity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Year of Living Dangerously
    The movie masterfully evokes, through stunning direction and magnificent performances, the heat and passion of desperate people living in desperate times. [18 Feb 1983]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Mississippi Burning
    Mississippi Burning plays loose with truth, turning the history of the civil rights movement on its head. The filmmakers shamelessly transform what was ultimately a triumph of due process and nonviolent civil disobedience into an ugly might-makes-right spectacle. It's "Dirty Harry" coming at you from the left. [27 Jan 1989, p.72]
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  22. In a Better World
    The movie is swept up in earnest self-importance.
  23. Point and Shoot
    Despite his neuroses, VanDyke displays self-awareness and humility, and a charisma that ranges from the goofiness of Owen Wilson to the grandiosity of his hero, Lawrence of Arabia.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Photograph
    Another tale of timid souls united by a sweet movie gimmick.
  25. Last Breath
    I doubt anyone will be too bothered by the lack of character depth. The audience for “Last Breath” is there for the dangerous dive developments.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Silkwood
    Fueled by Meryl Streep's performance in the title role, energized by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen's script and tempered by Mike Nichols' understated direction, Silkwood is a brilliant movie that puts art above polemics, and the facts above speculation. [14 Dec 1983]
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  27. James' Journey to Jerusalem
    There is a lot to recommend about James' Journey to Jerusalem. Its people are not among them. This searing little parable contains some of the more deplorable folks you're likely to see in a movie about faith.
  28. Close to Home
    This movie just seems like a scattered excuse to make political points without saying much of anything. Worse, it also fails to show us, with any vividness, how Mirit and Smadar think and feel as women.
  29. Outrage
    Outrage succeeds as activism, but it excels as a window into certain political psyches.
  30. The Pillow Book
    The Pillow Book is Peter Greenaway's most stunning and accessible film since "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover." Dense, gorgeous and inexorable - once you give yourself over to its logic - it's a boldly erotic explosion of Asian chic, taken to places no film has gone before. [20 Jun 1997]
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