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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. Love, Cecil
    All in all, Beaton could have been a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel — both belonged to the Bright Young Things, in ’20s London — except that he and Waugh detested each other.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hannah Takes the Stairs
    Shot with intentionally banal anti-style - minimal soundtrack music, found sound, jitter-cam - the movie achieves a wisdom that's bigger than it seems.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Foot Fist Way
    The film itself suggests a sketch video on Ferrell and McKay's "Funny or Die" website, padded out to the dimensions of a character comedy.
  4. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    Like all of Jacquot's movies, it's not crazy enough.
  5. Split
    It’s a movie eager to examine the stigma of mental illness and the dynamics of victimization, to a point. Past that, it’s just distressing, narratively convenient exploitation that gets by on the strength of McAvoy’s fearless, electrifyingly adaptive performance.
  6. Normal
    Normal, as you’ve no doubt gathered by now, is pretty abnormal, and the extended reveal of the abnormality wastes much of what was good about the first half of the movie.
  7. The Adventures of Felix
    In this engaging, understated comedy, it is the journey and not the destination that matters.
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  8. I Capture the Castle
    If there's true magic to be found in the proceedings, it's in Garai's dexterous performance.
  9. Alpha
    The stylishly crafted film mostly succeeds in its engaging (and tagline-ready) ambition to chronicle “how mankind discovered man’s best friend,” even if its naturalistic strengths are swapped out for an exaggeratedly epic tone in the later going.
  10. L'amour fou
    The movie Thoretton's made, L'Amour Fou, is ironic. It's a term that conveys wild, passionate love. But there's nothing "fou" about the movie.
  11. The Great Yokai War
    A big, silly party.
  12. Chef Flynn
    For much of its first half, Chef Flynn feels like an after-school special with a difference — a big, big difference.
  13. The Upside of Anger
    It's the men in ''Upside" who speak all the truth.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Dreamers
    The Dreamers isn't that bad -- actually, it's funny, affecting, interestingly twisted, and seriously erotic before it heads south in the final stretch.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    The period ambience, comforting yet urgent, is the best part of Kit Kittredge - that and Breslin, who never once gets actressy.
  16. This Christmas
    One of those overstaffed, overstuffed "when do we eat?" holiday dramedies. Call it a double-extra-strength episode of "Soul Food."
  17. How to Get Ahead in Advertising
    Robinson's impassioned decency and coruscating invective make "How to Get Ahead in Advertising" a high-minded, invigorating mess. [19 May 1989, p.47]
    • Boston Globe
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Laggies
    There are enough indie clichés to blunt this movie’s edge.
  19. The Devil Wears Prada 2
    Once again, Streep is a fierce force of nature, slaying all with an icy stare and a cutting verbal wit.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Free Fire
    Because Free Fire is a essentially a comedy of bad manners — a bedroom farce that only happens to take place in a warehouse, with volleys of gunfire rather than slammings of doors — it’s a highly enjoyable 90 minutes, especially if your tastes run to the violent, the absurd, and the violently absurd.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Keanu
    If you’re in the right mood and seeing it with the right crowd, Keanu can put you close to a giggle coma, even as you realize the material’s far beneath the talents of its stars. They’re Key and Peele, but the movie treats them like Abbott and Costello.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Earth
    Like Field, the new movie has a sneakily dark sense of humor, a taste for the odd bit of gore, and a love of psychedelic mushrooms and cinematic hallucinations.
  23. Beau Is Afraid
    This is a movie with weapons-grade mommy issues.
  24. A Haunting in Venice
    Why Branagh and the screenwriter, Michael Green (he also did the two earlier Poirot adaptations), would want to bring actual, real-life horror into a mystery movie masquerading as a horror movie is a mystery beyond the powers of even Poirot to solve.
  25. Megamind
    The bliss of Megamind is the way it pursues solutions for tired problems.
  26. The Signal
    The Signal is like a Romero zombie movie in which the zombies aren't dead, they're just really temperamental. Evil here is technology-born. Maybe our cellphones and satellite dishes are giving us all the crazy.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Burn After Reading
    Shallow and proud of it, an antic cartoon that lacks the comic inspiration to go the distance.
  28. Invincible
    Has the problem of drifting in and out of authenticity.
  29. The Matrix Resurrections
    Anyone much over the age of 15 who saw the earlier movies knew they were silly. That didn’t matter. What mattered is that they didn’t feel silly. “Resurrections” does.
  30. Shutter Island
    This is a long, heavy film, in which Scorsese’s aerobic moviemaking turns mannered and uncharacteristically passive.
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