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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. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    The movie usefully, carefully, and cogently argues that Bieber is more than his hair. He is his hoodies. He is his pop-hooks. He is his many handlers.
  2. Babylon
    Babylon is a labor of love that never feels laborious. But as the allusions and inside jokes pile up, they become distracting. Or they do if you care about old movies.
  3. Enemy at the Gates
    It's too circumscribed and polite for the story it's telling, curiously deficient in the unexpected.
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  4. Planes
    Planes has some wonderfully goofy, even ineffable, touches.
  5. Friday Night
    Has a sultry and complex psychological intent all its own, yet it's reminiscent of some earlier Denis works, including ''Nenette and Boni.''
  6. Calendar Girls
    More like that crowd-pleasing UK fluff that requires great actresses to do wacky things. Mirren is such an easy, breezy presence that you might think she's playing the screenwriting equivalent of air.
  7. Extraordinary Measures
    The screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs affirms life and jerks tears with welcome degrees of humor and muscle.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
    The magazine changed hands a number of times before shuttering in 1989, but JJ Kramer now owns the brand and the archives and with this movie hopes to reintroduce them to a new generation. And why not? One thing about CREEM is that it always rises to the top.
  9. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Assassin is funnier and less awkward than her last concert film, 2004's ''CHO Revolution," but nowhere near as consistently gut busting as 2002's ''Notorious C.H.O." or (first and still best) 2000's ''I'm the One That I Want."
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
    Kleine's film is rambling and unfocused but mostly charming, and it steps into deeper waters almost in spite of itself.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girl on the Train
    If only the movie had the courage to be as gonzo as it wants to be!
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Greenland
    Greenland, a solid, stolid disaster film arriving on major streaming platforms this week, posits that the sky is falling, puts manly Gerard Butler in the middle of it, and asks us to be diverted by the spectacle of civic breakdown and mass panic. Are you not entertained? Somewhat surprisingly, yes.
  13. Lost Illusions
    A good movie, Lost Illusions aspires to be a great one, but that ambition helps keep it from being a better movie. It’s overstuffed and a mite too leisurely: a self-consciously dignified film whose least dignified characters are its most compelling ones.
  14. Blue Beard
    Breillat’s film can seem at times like a far less opaque version of another story set in the 17th century about sex and power: Peter Greenaway’s “The Draughtman’s Contract.’’
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Burnt Orange Heresy
    When a cast is assembled that is as elegantly depraved as the one in The Burnt Orange Heresy, attention must be paid. And this art-world thriller has enough burnished surfaces, glamorous locations, and dark doings to keep an audience rapt for much of the running time. Yet somehow you may end the movie feeling less full than when you began.
  16. Light It Up
    Light It Up isn't a great movie, but it's a cut above most so-called urban thrillers.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Cherry Orchard
    As Ranevskaya, the film's focal point and one of its only sources of vitality, Rampling is an enigmatic treasure.
  18. Holy Smoke
    In the end, Holy Smoke crashes and burns.
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Siberia
    Siberia is a Freudian wallow made by a New York street fighter of a Fellini, and it is nothing if not authentic in its stress-fractured machismo.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Magnificent Seven
    It ain’t Shakespeare, or even Kurosawa. But it’s an acceptable remake of a western that itself was an acceptable remake of one of the greatest movies ever made. Enjoyable, even, until the last act proves how dull an overextended gun battle can get.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Twentieth Century
    The Twentieth Century exists somewhere on the Venn diagram between midnight movie, fever dream, Turner Classics fetish object, and all-Canadian prank. Does that sound interesting? By all means. Does the movie go anywhere? Not really. Will you mind? I didn’t.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Puffy Chair
    Ostensibly a road-trip farce, Chair really depicts the highway to man-child hell: The laughs come from the gulf between how mature the characters think they're being and what emotional toddlers they are.
  23. Denial
    The film works adequately as a historical drama.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Suspiria
    When art-minded film directors stoop to genre-minded filmmaking, it’s generally a good idea to duck. Despite sequences that may lodge in your memory forever, Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is no exception to this rule.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ides of March
    The filmmaking is shallow but assured, the star charisma thoughtful but undimmed. As for the character, I'd vote for Mike Morris. Actually, I wish I could.
  26. The Good Girl
    Despite Aniston's hard work, Good Girl could be better.
  27. Emilia Pérez
    Though I’ve had weeks to roll “Emilia Pérez” over in my head, I still haven’t reached a conclusion about it. If nothing else, this movie will lodge itself in some corner of your brain that you’ll return to now and again.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    30 Days of Night
    A proficient, atmospheric fangfest that does nothing you haven't seen before but still does it passably well.
  29. Thirteen Lives
    The heart of the movie is the discussions among the divers and, even more, the scenes in the caves. Simply as a technical achievement, the underground and underwater filming is highly impressive.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mud
    The most striking aspect of Mud is the air of myth and tall-tale telling that hovers lightly over the settings and characters.
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