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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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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Apprentice
    Written by Gabriel Sherman and directed by Ali Abbasi, it mostly achieves its vision — especially in its wildly strong first half.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Greyhound
    “Dunkirk” or “1917,” this is not. But as a window onto an under-acknowledged arena of combat and a starting point for armchair military historians, Greyhound is seaworthy enough to make it across.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Mystic Masseur
    Offers no tangible sense of Ganesh's genuine convictions (beyond a thirst for fame), nor of the essence of his character. By the time Ganesh's political downfall comes, in the same spiritless fashion in which his fortunes rose, it would take a mystic miracle to care.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    The joy is in the details, and they are unrelentingly comic.
  5. Vengo
    Presents a darkly realistic yet seductive world, with music as the tie that binds.
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  6. Blood Work
    Eastwood risks embarrassment flirting with material this naked in its mawkishness, then jumps right in. He seems to want the world to know: Inside the 72-year-old body of this icon of virility beats the heart of a Mexican woman.
  7. Silverado
    Silverado plays like a big-budget regurgitation of old Westerns. Whatkeeps it going is the generosity that flows between Kasdan and his actors. It's got benevolent energies, but not the more primal kind needed to renew the standard Western images and archetypes. [10 Jul 1985, p.26]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Paradine Case
    The Paradine Case is more than just a big and elegant whodunit. It has smart, penetrating, clever characterization and Mr. Hitchcock has used his unexcelled craftsmanship to show the interplay of motive and mood, the power and weakness of love, the courage and cowardice of mankind. [15 May 1948, p.12]
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  9. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    A romantic comedy with film noir shadows.
  10. Lymelife
    Like so many of these farm-raised films, this one looks polished, but takes no risks, offers no surprises, and contains a final sequence that's laughable for its lack of courage.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shortbus
    In Shortbus, the impish writer-director John Cameron Mitchell does the unthinkable: He puts the joy back in movie sex.
  12. The Grey
    It's cheap the way The Grey wants to be both a Liam Neeson "Quit Taking My Stuff'' movie and an existential thriller about survival.
  13. Mifune: The Last Samurai
    We hear from Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, several still-awed costars, one of Mifune’s sons, Kurosawa’s script supervisor, and a film sword master identified as “killed by Mifune more than a hundred times.”
  14. The History of Sound
    The History of Sound is even more repressed than its characters, and at over two hours, that’s far from entertaining.
  15. Fast Food Nation
    Fast Food Nation has the dramatic flatness and willful lack of personality of some documentaries -- or at least how Linklater thinks a documentary should be. The movie nonetheless feels like both a work of investigative journalism and an immense human-interest story, veering into muckraking, horror, teen comedy, and what passes for "Twilight Zone" science fiction.
  16. The Bad Guys
    The Bad Guys takes the cute kid with a fishing pole in the DreamWorks logo and replaces him with a rather raffish-looking wolf who sneaks his way up onto that crescent moon. Right off the bat, we’re being told to expect irreverence and inventiveness. Those expectations will be met.
  17. District 13: Ultimatum
    There’s no reason a conspiracy this outlandish should work twice. But it’s so hilariously within the realm of plausibility that it does.
  18. Herb Alpert Is...
    The first two-thirds is lively in pace, all of it is amiable in tone and sun-splashed in appearance. The final half hour gets a bit gushy. It’s mostly devoted to Alpert’s blissful second marriage, to singer Lani Hall — they’ve been married nearly 50 years — and his philanthropic largess. But since there’s a lot to gush about, that’s okay.
  19. Serial Mom
    Sly, oddly sweet, wickedly funny take on violence that's as American as apple pie. [15 Apr 1994, p.91]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Synchronic
    Opens itself up to some splendid drive-in philosophizing.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tokyo!
    If you've seen "Paris, je t'aime" or "New York Stories," you know the rate of return on these urban omnibuses is variable, and so it is here. Go in expecting minor pleasures and you'll be fine.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Alone in the Dark
    A surprisingly effective slice-and-dice cheapie; cool, controlled direction by Jack Sholder, who also wrote the script. [31 Oct 2012, p.G27]
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  23. Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
    There's a little less hilarity in Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult than in the first two films, but there's still enough slapstick firepower to put it across. There's efficiency in Peter Segal's direction, but never real zaniness, and in the gaps between the sight gags lurks the onset of sequelitis. [18 Mar 1994, p.68]
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  24. Dancer in the Dark
    Leaves you questioning its intentions.
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Official Secrets
    It’s an occasionally plodding but rarely dull movie, and one whose stakes outweigh its impact as drama. In the end, the message is both illuminating and disturbing.
  26. 16 Blocks
    It's unbelievably bland.
  27. Caterina va in città
    As much as the director andco-writer, Paolo Virzi, might try, he can't bring any of these people into focus. The movie is shapeless, too.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Ynever seen a documentary quite like this one, and aren't likely to again.
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  29. Songcatcher
    Somewhat sanitized but gorgeous Americana, with another impressive turn by McTeer.
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex Is Comedy
    A rigorous and bracingly charming movie about moviemaking.
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