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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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    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On a Clear Day
    Pleasantly inspirational on its own terms, "Clear" is no one's idea of fresh goods.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Celeste and Jesse Forever
    The movie is sardonic, hip, heartfelt, surprisingly white, and for all its ensemble pleasures, it's squarely about a furiously prim young woman and how she learns to bend.
  3. In the Pit
    It's an interesting, if dissatisfying rumination on the working people of industry -- how they labor, how they rest, what they think and feel.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deadpool 2
    Deadpool 2 is very good at what it does, which is flattering the audience into feeling like it’s in on the joke. If you’re a doubter, though, you may wonder if the joke’s on us.
  5. Passion of Mind
    There's no Passion in this psychological drama.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    2 Days in New York
    Chatty, neurotic, maddeningly messy, often very funny, "New York" spins in a lunatic orbit of its own.
  7. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
    More than any of the sappy writing ever does, their collective presence reminds us that any church is about community. The film is tired and trite, but they're terrific, every last one of them. [10 Dec 1993, p.53]
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  8. Pathfinder
    Urban and Bloodgood make the most of their parts, locking eyes and arms, and occasionally using American English as if the snowy 10th century were another way of saying, "Where the après ski?"
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Golden Compass
    At times you feel Weitz flipping the pages and dog-earing wildly, and that's a shame: This is a movie that needs to be lengthy and discursive, the better to duck into the back alleys of its invention. A visionary is required. This director isn't one.
  10. XX
    The creepiest part of XX, a quartet of short horror films by women, might be the Jan Svankmejer-like stop-action segments between each of them. Sofia Carrillo’s animated antique dolls and little furniture walking on stilt-like legs are the stuff of nightmares.
  11. My Reincarnation
    The story and settings hold interest throughout, but at times the very lack of emotional connection that Yeshi laments in his father seems to hinder the film.
  12. Oblivion
    Oblivion is a lot like its star: clean, cold, efficient, increasingly overblown, and not a little inexplicable.
  13. Bergman Island
    Among the virtues of Bergman Island is how uncluttered it is generally, as well as its consistent quietude and Hansen-Løve’s keenness of observation.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bourne Legacy
    The best thing that can be said about The Bourne Legacy is that Renner will survive it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine
    One of the director’s more superficial efforts; it’s watchable but glib.
  16. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Best when it's playful, toying with the fact that the Mafia has in a single generation been transmogrified from myth to joke.
  17. xXx
    As Diesel says, ''I like something fast enough to do something stupid in.'' Mission accomplished.
  18. Boiler Room
    Derivative and flawed. But it does throw off a few sparks.
  19. Swimming with Sharks
    Swimming with Sharks is fine when it puts Buddy into outrageous play. But it stumbles in a few other places, requiring a pretty hefty suspension of disbelief - first at Guy's making it into his miserable job that many would kill for, then when he finds himself on the receiving end of romantic attentions. [09 June 1995, p.57]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Honeydripper
    Has John Sayles finally lost his mojo? How anyone could take a subject like the moment the Delta blues went electric and suck the joy and fury out of it is anybody's guess, but the talky, dull "Honeydripper" represents playwriting rather than filmmaking. And didactic playwriting at that.
  21. Torque
    Invites you not simply to identify with its low IQ but to cheer it on. This is a movie that knows you know it's dumb, and that's enough to make the whole thing worth tolerating.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tabu
    A black-and-white fever dream, and, like all dreams, its meanings are elusive. It’s opaque, maddening, often pretentious, yet the pretensions may be on purpose, to push us away from the adulterous colonials at the story’s center and reveal the Africa they’re too obsessed with each other to see.
  23. Don't Worry Darling
    Darling never quite ignites. The closest it gets to ignition is Pugh’s performance. Styles is perfectly fine, but it’s her movie.
  24. National Treasure
    National Treasure even has a rough time approaching the heart of ''The Amazing Race," a show that manages, in 44 minutes, to make you care about average folks as they follow clues across the globe.
  25. African Cats
    Scholey, Fothergill, and crew do impressive work, but we're also reminded that wild animals don't know from cues, marks, and scripts. That's part of what makes them so compelling.
  26. Bride of the Wind
    Botches the chance to delve into the personality of a complex, alluring, and free-spirited woman.
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  27. Romeo Must Die
    The reason to sit through its uninspired, formulaic moves, however, is its half-dozen spectacular fight sequences.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lake House
    How deeply silly is The Lake House? As silly as a movie about two letter-writing lovers separated by a wrinkle in time can be. How much sweet, dumb fun is it? More than you might want to admit.
  29. Land of Mine
    One appreciates the desire of the filmmaker to let the audience fill in the back story, but Rasmussen’s behavior reflects badly on the Danish and heightens sympathy for the POWs.
  30. Despicable Me 3
    The laughs here are more about the colorfully zany action than the ho-hum material the cast gets.
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