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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. The Real Cancun
    Not so much a documentary as it is a bald-faced party movie.
  2. Tattoo
    Maybe Tattoo is creepy and stylized enough to pull you along anyway, but if you like your thrillers to dig below the familiar epidermis, look elsewhere.
  3. RocknRolla
    It's fun to see Tom Wilkinson, for instance, with a massive bald spot virtually eating scenery with a knife and fork.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Undine
    Petzold is a gifted filmmaker pulled in opposite directions by politics and melodrama, and when they’re in perfect tension, as in Barbara (2012) and Phoenix (2014), a masterpiece can result. Undine, by contrast, is the slightest bit waterlogged.
  5. Blockers
    As nifty as any of it is a witty, touching story thread about Adlon’s trepidatious geek wrestling with her sexual orientation even as she wrestles with peer pressure to hop into bed. And guess what? She and the movie make the smart call.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Humpday
    Serves up some caustic laughs before fizzling out.
  7. Bush's Brain
    In a refreshing change of pace, this week's anti-Bush documentary, Bush's Brain, is not really about George W. Bush at all. It's about his senior political adviser, Karl Rove.
    • 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    To Rome with Love
    A charming but terribly self-indulgent trifle that's less than the sum of its many parts.
  10. Doctor Sleep
    Not surprisingly, Doctor Sleep splits the difference, dutifully attempting to honor both King’s writing and Kubrick’s film simultaneously. The movie actually manages to pull it off for a time, until in the last act revisited concepts start to play more like ill-advised retreads.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Architect
    Perhaps urban-planning solutions are too much to expect from a Friday night at the movies, but in a film this ambitious, the evident lack of thought put into the problem is disappointing. As any architect knows, it's easier to tear down than to build up.
  12. Pitch Perfect 3
    The numbers just aren’t as dynamic as we might have hoped for from director Trish Sie, whose credits include alt-rock act OK Go’s “treadmill video” and other addictively innovative shorts.
  13. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    Strange’s superpowers are many. So are Cumberbatch’s, and one of them is making sneering seem practically jolly.
  14. The Method
    The movie doesn't trust that an illuminating comedy of pathetic people can be entertaining for long, so it sprinkles some hormones on the proceedings.
  15. Empathy
    At the very least, some of the answers and observations offered up in this hybrid documentary/drama/thesis project will surprise you.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Money Monster
    An acceptable time-waster for a slow day in a movie theater or a slow night on cable. But it never makes you mad as hell, so what’s the point?
  17. DragonHeart
    Dragonheart has what it needs at its heart - namely, the dragon. The rest of its story, about a disillusioned knight joining forces with the world's last dragon to help peasants overthrow a tyrannical 10th-century king, has a warmed-over quality. [31 May 1996, p.47]
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  18. Footloose
    This remake does something less organically fun. It makes kids nostalgic for something they never experienced.
  19. Zaytoun
    A scene between Yoni and Fahed in the pilot’s makeshift holding cell is a microcosm of everything that’s right about the movie, and not quite right.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Brothers Grimm
    An absurd mess that's more entertaining than it has any right to be.
  21. Citizen Koch
    In other words, Citizen Koch is preaching to the choir. Which might not be a pointless exercise, seeing how the choir failed to show up for the last midterm election in 2010, and might need extra motivation not to repeat that mistake this November.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    42
    The ambitious new biopic about Robinson, is better written and produced than those children’s books, but it isn’t any deeper, and that’s a disappointment.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    5x2
    It flirts intriguingly with the unknowable, what it shows us of the knowable isn't terribly interesting.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Man of Steel
    Snyder knows how to put on a show, and Man of Steel has a massive scope that’s hard to resist... But what’s missing from this Superman saga is a sense of lightness, of pop joy.
    • 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."
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shopgirl
    Still manages to be a Steve Martin vanity project in ways that are fairly creepy.
  27. Keeping Mum
    The movie is another of those harmless and politely made dark comedies that the English seem incapable of doing without.
  28. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    It all makes for competent but routine suspense.
  29. The Good Shepherd
    Leaves you longing for the other, better political thrillers it evokes.
  30. Legally Blonde
    There's always Witherspoon, swimming upstream and never letting it slow her down. Blindingly purposeful, she's a perky blond tornado. Marilyn Monroe would not only have cheered her on. She'd have learned something.
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