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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kung Fu Panda
    Kung Fu Panda goes nowhere surprising even as its images unscroll handsomely before our eyes. The sound could go out in the theater, and you wouldn't ask for your money back.
  2. A Mighty Wind
    Full of redeeming throwaways.
  3. Dangerous Beauty
    Dangerous Beauty is a costume drama that hasn't quite decided whether it wants to exist on the level of serious historical drama or trashy entertainment. [20 Feb 1998, p.C6]
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  4. Capitalism: A Love Story
    Redundant for a filmmaker whose work has always dealt with the dismaying consequences of this country’s profit motive. Isn’t every Michael Moore film ultimately about capitalism? This one just has a more facetious title.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ocean's 8
    We go to heist films to see the suckers get taken in high style. This one just robs us bland.
  6. When Do We Eat?
    The film turns that stale old Seder into warmed-up dinner theater.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Into the Storm
    Bring on the bread and circuses. Into the Storm features laughable dialogue, far-fetched situations, and generic characters played by actors who almost look like more famous stars. I still had a blast; and if you lower your resistance, you may too.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    Perfume is a pitch-black period epic of squalor and enterprise.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Puccini for Beginners
    If Woody Allen were a young, attractive gay woman, he might make something like this, or so Maggenti hopes. But it would probably be funnier, and it would definitely cut deeper.
  10. Take Me to the River
    Flawed as it is, “River” reminds us where all the great music came from.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Step Brothers
    Take the kids at your peril. Mismarketing aside, Step Brothers is crudely funny, which means that sometimes it's crudely hilarious and more often it's just crude.
  12. Poison Ivy
    Poison Ivy isn't that much of a film. But part of its charm is that it doesn't pretend to be. It is, however, a great showcase for Drew Barrymore, as bad-news jailbait. [26 Jun 1992, p.29]
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  13. Finding Neverland
    It's a portrait of the artist as Mary Poppins.
  14. Dr. Dolittle 2
    It's warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious.
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  15. Calvary
    Taking its title from the site where Christ was crucified, the controversy-courting film has a lot of Catholic church business (and doctrine) on its mind, and veers from poetically eloquent to jarringly blunt in hashing it all out.
  16. Peace Officer
    Lawrence is an impeccable, commanding subject, not just because of his credentials but because of his presence and demeanor.
  17. She Hate Me
    A belligerent little sex farce roiling inside an otherwise inconsequential lampoon of corporate America, the movie is rude and ridiculous, fearless up to a point, and breathtakingly hungry to provoke.
  18. Titan A.E.
    A space shot worth taking.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Florence Foster Jenkins
    [A] stagy, troubling, bizarrely entertaining movie.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
    Who’s the audience for this? Well, me and about five other movie junkies at the crossroads of history and art. Maybe you, too, even if your knowledge of Buñuel stops with the slashed eyeball of “Un Chien Andalou” (1929), still one of the most shocking images in all cinema.
  21. The Backyard
    The most disturbing thing about this grass-roots-inspired extreme-wrestling documentary by Paul Hough is how much worse you expect the violence to be.
  22. Catch a Fire
    In Catch a Fire Noyce has caught the holy spirit. The movie is a thriller that wants to lift you up.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    King of California
    A flaky, tedious, intermittently likable fable about being crazy in a crazy world.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girl Who Played with Fire
    Whenever The Girl Who Played With Fire threatens to stall, Lisbeth whips out her Taser and tortures another sleazy, abusive man into vomiting forth his dirty secrets. In Sweden, I believe they call this "light entertainment.''
  25. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    Regardless, it's sad that Singleton is taking Diesel's sloppy seconds.
    • 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.
  27. Our Little Sister
    Unlike the Makioka sisters, this quartet lack ambiguity and mystery.
  28. Double Jeopardy
    Judd is pretty much on her own - an assignment she mostly can handle with aplomb.
  29. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    Director Thor Freudenthal (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid”) finds his groove with a succession of flashy 3-D renderings... They’re digitized riffs on the Sarlacc pit from “Star Wars” and the finale of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” — but as with the “Potter” cribbing, when it’s done well, it encourages “Percy” audiences to forgive the derivative chunks and thin emotion.
  30. My Old Lady
    It’s like a Parisian variation on Nicole Holofcener’s “Please Give,” or the premise of another PBS Masterpiece Theater series with Smith.
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