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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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    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Oliver Twist
    The result is an expertly made, very watchable film that's curiously lacking in impact. By Polanski standards that has to be a disappointment.
  2. Sabrina
    Sabrina is a nice try that doesn't quite strike the romantic pay dirt it's after, but you won't walk away from it empty-handed. [15 Dec 1995, p.61]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flushed Away
    Parents will while away the time in moderate boredom until the film unexpectedly springs to life in its midsection, then just as abruptly goes back to sleep.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Skeleton Twins
    The bitter, funny dialogue by director Craig Johnson and co-writer Mark Heyman gives the two stars room to work both comic and dramatic sides of their gifts.
  5. Undercover Blues
    The script by Ian Abrams puts them through strictly formulaic moves, but it has flashes of wit and it's even literate. [10 Sept 1993, p.47]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Holy Land
    For all the film's flaws, it has a caustic, nondenominational view of apocalypses to come.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Finest Hours
    It’s a movie made for the kind of audiences who feel that movies aren’t made for them anymore — you know who you are. If you go, you might want to bring a raincoat.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsieur Ibrahim
    When Shirley MacLaine made this same movie, more or less, as "Madame Sousatzka," there was a whole lot of acting going on. Sharif brings us to Ibrahim with a modesty that oddly reminds you of why the actor is a legend.
  9. Barbershop: The Next Cut
    This time the not-so-idle talk is about taking a socially conscious stand against gang violence. And while some of this territory is covered too tritely and safely to have all the impact intended by director Malcolm D. Lee (“The Best Man Holiday”), the movie’s entreaties are compelling enough.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Them That Follow
    The snake stuff is riveting — how could it not be? But Poulton and Madison Savage’s treatment of the rural community tilts toward the anthropological: A few corny bits of dialogue can make the parishioners feel like types instead of characters.
  11. Girl, Interrupted
    There's too much control in it and not enough danger.
  12. Beginners
    The movie is foggy with reverence and uncertainty. This is the passive work of a man nervous to touch the third rail of his parents' discontent.
  13. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    So “Marcel” is sweet, it’s charming, it’s clever. It’s also about as long an 89 minutes as you’re likely to spend in a movie theater this summer.
  14. Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
    The documentary, like the series, is haimish in the extreme - cozy, warm, homey.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Summerland
    Spectacular locations on the southeast coast of England and a handful of fine performances are the best that can be said for Summerland, but that’s still better than most.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Madagascar
    Antic, cute, scattershot, it's a remarkable-looking but terribly uncertain bit of CGI fluff, with its richest humor off to the sides of the action and a whole lot of average in the middle.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Friends
    Funnier than any low-rent rip-off of "There's Something About Mary" has a right to be. It's crass, it's unsophisticated, it aims right for the slapsticky pleasure center of the under-30 moviegoer's brain. So sue me, I laughed. A lot.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Accepted
    Low of brow and pure of heart, the movie plays like "Animal House" extra-lite, and as such it's decent indecent fun.
  19. Three Stars
    Maybe because Hachmeister has a background in journalism, his movie endeavors to educate by covering a lot of ground in its 90-plus minutes, which is certainly commendable, it's just not that satisfying.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Boy Erased
    Boy Erased is strongest when it simply focuses on Jared as he copes with the trauma of coming out in a repressed society. This includes, in the film’s most shocking scene, a sequence of collegiate gay rape that leaves the boy with PTSD, which goes unnoticed and untreated by parents, authorities, and, to some extent, the film itself.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vacancy
    At its worst, Vacancy is merely the kind of taut B-chiller they don't make any more, other than to riff on them in "Grindhouse."
  22. The House Bunny
    The movie is a commercial for Hugh Hefner that makes his magazine seem like "Seventeen."
  23. Criminal
    Kevin Costner should stop trying to be so nice. His best performances have been as baddies.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Logan Lucky
    The new movie, a heist comedy, has been described in some quarters as “Ocean’s 11” for the NASCAR crowd, and that’s not wrong. It also feels like the director is trying to reverse-engineer one of the Coen brothers’ loopier excursions and not getting every one of the pieces in order.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The War Within
    Hampered by a mopey leading man.
  26. Bounce
    Something is missing in Bounce, the muted dynamic of which calls forth a perhaps inevitably muted reaction.
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  27. Look Both Ways
    The debut live-action feature of Australian animator Sarah Watt has several other things to recommend it as well, including a black-humored screenplay, realistic performances, eye-catching artwork, and a few creative turns on some well-worn themes.
  28. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
    This franchise might be all about shedding light on lost details, but “Mistress of Evil” sometimes leaves us in the dark.
  29. Scream 2
    I'm not sure that I really want to see "Scream 3,'" but Craven, Williamson, and the screamers certainly bring this one off by not only slapping all their cards on the table, but insisting we admire the way they play them.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Miles Ahead
    It’s all deeply felt and just as deeply unfocused, and that, more than the invented story line, betrays the movie’s subject.
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