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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. The In Crowd
    The moral universe remains unsullied in this lite, lo-cal thriller - the cinematic equivalent of a fizzy summer drink.
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  2. Taking Care of Business
    Taking Care of Business could be a lot worse. It's a swift, if entirely predictable, identity-switch movie that wastes little time on the way to its morality play conclusion. [17 Aug 1990, p.36p]
    • Boston Globe
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
    The lack of a credible external perspective beyond the narrative provided by Glass, his friends, family, and associates, makes the film feel too cozy.
  4. Red Cliff
    Even at 148 minutes (and viewed twice!), you still feel as if you’re watching the longest coming attraction ever for a John Woo movie.
  5. October Country
    What results is both real and surreal, giving and self indulgent. That’s the country we all live in.
  6. Sugar Town
    Likable, but at times it's also inescapably sketchy and ramshackle.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reign Over Me
    In its best moments, Reign Over Me quietly says that we're our problem friends' keepers. At its worst, the movie IS a problem friend.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nim's Island
    8- to 12-year-olds will have a good time, and you'll have a good time watching them have a good time. Otherwise, the film's an oddity.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unbroken
    Unbroken stirs a moviegoer by default; it’s an astounding story of human endurance that has been brought a little too safely to the screen.
  10. 13 Going on 30
    It's looking for comedy and romance in the obvious places.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Sisters in Law
    Despite the lack of an especially defined narrative arc, the people are what make the movie -- as they should in a tale like this.
  12. Studio 54
    The documentary is good on the gay aspect of 54, and disco generally. Schrager became highly successful as an impresario of boutique hotels. Still, when he talks about Studio 54 there’s a touch of wonder in the tough-guy growl.
  13. All the Old Knives
    The filmmaking is stylish yet impersonal — or can true style be impersonal? Maybe that’s why proficiency is a better word. A general slickness obtains.
  14. The Quick and the Dead
    The Quick and the Dead is a sly, savvy Hollywood sendup of Sergio Leone Westerns with Sharon Stone playing the Clint Eastwood righteous avenger role and Gene Hackman the heavy. You'd call it a spaghetti Western, but the budget is too high. Maybe we'd better think of it as Hollywood's first angel-hair-pasta Western. [10 Feb 1995, p.47]
    • Boston Globe
  15. Die Another Day
    Die Another Day is still as professionally mediocre as its predecessors.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Delirious
    Everyone here is obsessed with finding "the real thing" - the next hot actor, the next revealing paparazzi shot, the lover or the friend who'll make it all worthwhile. Everyone settles for the illusion of reality instead. It's prettier, and it doesn't hurt so much.
  17. Daddy's Home
    Consider it a predictable movie with flashes of unpredictability, one that actually coaxes some early laughs with, yes, scatological wit, then makes us groan when it shamefully takes the low road back to poopville a bit later on.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Starsky & Hutch
    Stealing the movie, however, is rapper Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear, the pimp/informant originally portrayed by Antonio Fargas on the TV show.
  19. Tangled
    The movie has a field day with thousands of airborne lanterns, a troop of Neanderthal thugs (one is a mime), some surprisingly fleet camerawork, and good editing. I can't think of a cartoon more confident about how to use jump cuts for comedy. Those senses of cleverness and innovation merely underscore how shopworn the rest of this movie is.
  20. The Wall
    Watching Taylor-Johnson’s character engage the enemy this way is intriguing, but also a bit removed from the realism the film is after. Can you say catch-22?
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Happenstance
    It has every mark of inspiration by imitation.
    • Boston Globe
  22. Space Cowboys
    Space Cowboys does achieve liftoff.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Birth of a Nation
    Produced, co-written, and directed by its star, The Birth of a Nation is very much a first film, its hesitancies disguised as bluntness, and the best things about it are Parker’s acting and his ambitions.
  24. Europa Report
    Technique largely does the work of imagination. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The nuts and bolts of Europa Report may feel very familiar, but the movie doesn’t look quite like anything else.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flyboys
    The movie's straightforward and ingratiating, and as pretty-boy history lessons go, it's a lot less obnoxious than "Pearl Harbor."
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    You’re left with another Denzel Washington performance that gets under your skin and stays there, rankling away. That’s a lot more than most movies offer — even the better ones.
  27. Chuck
    The film’s casting in general is a strength, however deep the resonance of what the actors are playing. Schreiber’s ex-girlfriend, Naomi Watts, is a brassy, savvy presence as Wepner’s bartender soulmate.
  28. Saw VI
    Who knew that the franchise’s creators would eventually find a plot twist that made sense?
  29. Catherine Called Birdy
    Ramsey is close to a force of nature, equally skilled at conveying Birdy’s curiosity, humor, orneriness, and not-infrequent bewilderment. In other words, she’s a 14-year-old.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Noah
    Noah is equal parts ridiculous and magnificent, a showman’s folly and a madman’s epic.
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