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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. Enola Holmes 2
    Enola doesn’t just break the fourth wall. She tickles it, winks at it, and tugs at its sleeve. With another actress, this would be annoying. With Brown, it’s charming.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Adoration
    Watching Adoration is like juggling three tennis balls, a porcupine, and a graduate thesis, but eventually it finds a unifying theme, that of tolerance melting away racial and intergenerational hatreds.
  3. Outbreak
    it's an OK genre movie, providing an honest quota of scares and carried by Hoffman's way of alternating stoniness and warmth as the guy in the anticontamination suit. [10 Mar 1995, p.49]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    JCVD
    JCVD may not be the first meta-musclehead movie, but it's certainly the most surprising.
  5. Girls Town
    Jim McKay's funky, spunky "Girls Town" is a refreshing girls-who-fight-back film that succeeds in being political without ever being didactic. [30 Aug 1996, p.F4]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Captain Marvel
    In fact, without in the least playing like an agenda-driven blockbuster, Captain Marvel posits that female superheroes don’t have time for bullroar and might just be better at taking care of business.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dolphin Tale
    The dolphin is, quite simply, remarkable, and the unstated message of resilience and adaptation ripples easily off the screen to the smallest viewers.
  8. A Better Life
    This isn't a case of a liberal-minded movie inflicting goodness upon a character but a man radiating goodness because, well, he is good.
  9. Hot Shots! Part Deux
    Hot Shots! revels in absurdity. At times it's as surreal as the Marx Brothers. [21 May 1993, p.26]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Notorious Bettie Page
    It's a handsome, often funny piece of work with a nearly fatal inability to settle on a tone.
  11. Rental Family
    Rental Family is the kind of movie that should not work at all. It takes an unusual premise, one ripe for oversentimentality, and then strikes the perfect balance between heartwarming and heartbreaking.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    The movie is almost willfully dull, for its real subject is everything we never say to our parents, or they to us.
  13. Clockwatchers
    Clockwatchers may not be perfect, but it's on to something. [22 May 1998, p.D5]
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  14. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    A fine afternoon at the megaplex. And it will make a welcome addition your home library when it's released on video.
  15. The Innkeepers
    For too long, this movie asks us to be interested in something that rarely in the history of the service industry has been sustainably entertaining: how dull certain jobs can be.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Northfork
    This is very much the bargain that Northfork offers an audience: Buy into the brothers' elegiac meditation on angels, Eden, and the death of American innocence or sit back and scoff at it as so much David Lynch lite.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One Hour Photo
    Thriller fans might remember a terrific 1987 B flick called ''The Stepfather.'' One Hour Photo is that film, directed by an art student.
  18. Father and Son
    Where a lesser movie from a lesser director might sink into its own ponderousness, Sokurov uses the ambiguity of the father and son's relationship to craft a sort of erotic puzzle.
  19. Confess, Fletch
    The journey is always more entertaining than the destination, and this one’s a lot of fun.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Quartet
    Quartet is a sweet-tempered, rather fuddly drama about retired opera singers, and compared to a slick crowd-pleaser like "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," with whom it shares a star and a sentimentalized view of old age, it's a mess.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prometheus
    Watching Prometheus is like opening a deluxe gift box from Tiffany's to find a mug from the dollar store.
  22. Orgasm Inc.
    Canner is either overwhelmed by so much impressive access to so many alarming business opportunities or lacking the investigative rigor to drive home the moral problems of these drugs and the existential problems of these women.
  23. Paper Clips
    Inspirational.
  24. Goon
    The movie's unlikely sincerity can't completely offset its ugliness for less bloodthirsty viewers, but it helps, and it does smooth over some narrative rough edges.
  25. The Lost Bus
    McConaughey and Ferrera have chemistry and serve their roles well. The endangered children all start to blur together, though Nathan Gariety stands out as Toby, a scared 7-year-old who bonds with McKay. But you’re not watching “The Lost Bus” for deep characterizations. You’re watching it for the action. On that basis, Greengrass and company deliver the goods.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Teenage
    Regrettably, it’s terrible poetry: a roughly chronological jumble of archival footage, unconvincing period reenactments, gauzy voice-overs, and half-baked ideas that makes one yearn for the stolid dullness of a History Channel documentary.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Patience Stone
    A startling fantasy of Muslim feminist empowerment that allows the Iranian-born actress Golshifteh Farahani to put on what amounts to a one-woman show.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Renoir
    Renoir may be too decorous, but it’s about decoration — the intense beauty of surfaces.
  29. Grateful Dawg
    The pure joy of music-making is what this gem of a film is all about.
    • Boston Globe
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pursuit of Happyness
    I don't think I've seen a mainstream movie get fatherhood so right since "Kramer vs . Kramer": the fear, the indulgence, the snappishness, the pre-occupied "uh-huhs" as a child natters about his day, the steamrolling waves of love.
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