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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 Wildest Dream
    The most powerful moment in the film is a tiny one. Anker and his Irvine, Leo Houlding, plan to reenact most of Mallory's climb wearing gabardine and hobnail boots instead of North Face and Gore-Tex.
  2. The Anniversary Party
    Isn't what you'd call a probing film, but it's a slick and savvy one.
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  3. Formosa Betrayed
    As a political thriller, Formosa Betrayed has enough suspense and intrigue to pull viewers along willingly. It doesn’t try too hard, which is refreshing.
  4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Muppetmaster Jim Henson has done a good job of translating the Turtles - and their 4-foot-tall rat guru, Splinter - into animatronic form. [30 Mar 1990, p.28p]
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  5. Belfast
    Lyrical and episodic, Belfast is often affecting, if far too sentimental.
  6. Annapolis
    Directing Annapolis is Justin Lin, whose previous feature was the irresponsible high-school comedy thriller "Better Luck Tomorrow." This second movie is more his speed.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Year
    If anything, The Big Year plays like Ron Howard's "Parenthood'' with birds instead of children.
  8. Together
    The film doesn't amount to an emotionally palpable experience. Most of the stops it attempts to pull out are rusty. The movie ends with a gigantic lump in its throat, one that would take a tall glass of Barbara Stanwyck to wash down.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chaos Theory
    "Maybe" was watchable and blandly pleasant; "Theory" is a smidgen better than that, if not the cruelly funny farce the movie's best impulses and its own trailer would have you believe.
  10. F9: The Fast Saga
    Usually loud and almost always ridiculous, F9 is action-packed enough to make your carburetors seize up.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Non-Stop
    Writers John W. Richardson, Chris Roach, and Ryan Engle bet that the central hook — Who’s the bad guy? How’s he doing this? — will keep us paying attention. And they’re right.
  12. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    Much as Bardem enlivens things, the real source of zip is Kaya Scodelario (“Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials”). Charming and spirited, she’s Daisy Ridley dialed up a notch.
  13. Dust to Glory
    Brown lays out his guiding philosophy up front when he says of the Baja, ''This isn't about a race, it's about the human race."
  14. The Well Digger's Daughter
    Say this for Auteuil: He has a sense of movie history. The closing credits include the equivalent of an Easter egg for lovers of film and especially for lovers of French film.
  15. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    You could argue that the only thing that’s automatic about A Dame to Kill For, really, is some of the firepower that its hardcases are packing.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fountain
    A noble, shipwrecked folly.
  17. The Thing
    The basic story is identical, and when there are fraught, climactic opportunities for the movie to make a gutsy departure, it passes up the chance.
  18. I Swear
    Along with an equally superb Scott Ellis Watson, who plays Davidson as a teenager, Aramayo is the best thing in this movie. Unfortunately, the rest of it is Biopic 101, which at times makes the story feel too simplistic and thin.
  19. My Worst Nightmare
    Huppert's character, who's a tornado of demands at work, is almost as obnoxious as Poel-voorde's. She just not as willfully disgusting. He chews up all the scenery with his thick Belgian accent and splaying limbs and general cartoonishness.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    It's Kind of a Funny Story
    What's largely missing from It's Kind of a Funny Story: genuine emotional pain. Still, the movie's an often charming example of "Cuckoo's Nest'' Lite.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    City of Ember
    City of Ember lacks the vision and scope of "WALL-E," but it's based on a pretty good kids' book and it makes a pretty good "Twilight Zone" episode, with hope dangling at the end rather than one of Rod Serling's cosmic black jokes.
  22. Kodachrome
    The pervasive, absorbing bitterness and hurt falter only when the story eases off its characters’ cynical insistence that people don’t change. Sudeikis knows how to play jarringly nasty — see “Colossal,” for one — but choked-up can be a reach here.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Intimate Strangers
    There's a thin line between the subtle and the dramatically inert, and Intimate Strangers pitches a tent on it.
  24. Miral
    Miral feels like gastric bypass moviemaking. It's a miniseries awkwardly stuffed in the body of a two-hour drama about the Palestinians' long struggle against the Israelis.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Match Point
    The question that should be asked is whether Woody Allen has made a good movie this time out, and the honest answer is "almost."
  26. Farewell, My Queen
    One of the movie's strengths is how we see the revolution - or, rather the anticipation of it - not from the perspective of royal or radical but courtier and servant.
  27. Why Him?
    A James Franco-Bryan Cranston teaming that’s not as wild as intended, but reasonably diverting just the same.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Moxie
    True to its title, Moxie has a lot of moxie, and it’s an easy watch, smartly acted by a crew of young talents.
  29. The Comedy
    At some point, he finds himself drifting around a swimming pool, and it's tempting to think of Dustin Hoffman sinking to the bottom of the deep end in "The Graduate." But there's a difference. Swanson's pool is empty.
  30. White Wedding
    The movie, from South Africa, is charming and its characters' feelings sincere enough. It's just so cluttered.
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