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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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    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Valhalla Rising
    Fascinating for its gonzo formal daring and brooding attitude, "Valhalla'' is still a trial for audiences seeking characters, plot, and things happening.
  2. Big Miracle
    It needs only to entertain. And that it does thoroughly, leaving us both charmed and enriched without feeling very preached at. Praise be.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Le Pont du Nord
    Le Pont du Nord is not one of Rivette’s greatest works — honor goes to “Celine and Julie” or 1991’s “La Belle Noiseuse” — but it’s a useful compendium of his themes and it captures a very specific time, place, and sensibility.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Birder's Guide to Everything
    At its occasional best, A Birder’s Guide to Everything hints at the profound pleasure of standing very still and witnessing wonders the rest of the world passes by.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Tower
    It’s not a gimmick if it works, and “Tower” works unnervingly well. The film is essentially an oral history, with firsthand accounts from those who were there — survivors, responders, and onlookers — with their words read by younger actors.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Babysplitters
    The setup is ridiculous, but the playing is pure comedy of mortification and watch-through-your-fingers funny.
  7. The Day of the Locust
    Exquisitely painful look at how Hollywood turns its hopefuls into whores. [03 May 1992, p.B35]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Isle of the Dead
    "Dead" isn't a horror film but a study of human character under pressure, with Karloff's flawed, imperious General Pherides torn between rationalism and a homicidal belief in elder gods. [23 Mar 2014, p.N]
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  9. Margaret
    Who knows what movie Lonergan was searching for in all that footage? But what emerges from the tinkering and legal skirmishes is an occasional marvel, a kind of everyday highbrow social X-ray, Paul Mazursky by way of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
  10. Grand Piano
    Though Mira shows skill at evoking mood and building tension despite the constrained circumstances of the premise, the narrative quickly and embarrassingly breaks down.
  11. Kindergarten Cop
    Kindergarten Cop finds Arnold up to his old tricks, which will be exactly what his fans will want to know. But it's tough on kids and may make more than a few feel uncomfortable. [21 Dec 1990, p.51]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    First Blood
    Ted Kotcheff's First Blood is a cute, slick anti-Vietnam war film carefully treated to go down for the pro-war constituency it's made for. [23 Oct 1982]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vajra Sky Over Tibet
    A gorgeous, meandering travelogue that only gradually bares its teeth.
  14. Ice Age
    The coolest animation in town.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Boxtrolls
    We never know them as characters, particularly father figure Fish, because screenwriters Irena Brignull and Adam Pava have them speak an un-translated, Jawa-Gollum gibberish, not English.
  16. Good Fortune
    Good Fortune showcases the virtues of the goofball side of Keanu Reeves. With all that great John Wick action, it’s easy to forget just how charming and lovable Reeves can be when playing an average joe or a misfit.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aniara
    Parts of the film aren’t pretty because people don’t always act in pretty ways, and the speculation that such an event might create its own hermetically sealed reality, one increasingly distorted to our eyes, is intriguing, if not especially deep. It all plays out like a “Big Brother” reality show with 5,000 participants and no Big Brother.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    He Named Me Malala
    We may someday look back on He Named Me Malala as a film that told us much about a future world leader — or one that told us surprisingly little.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Meet the Robinsons
    Almost as funny as it is hyperactive, the new computer-animated family comedy is luscious to look at and as fizzy as a can of soda popped open in your face.
  20. Stuck
    Gordon made similar lurches all over the map in his previous exercise in grotesquerie, "Edmond," which was based on a David Mamet play and starred William H. Macy as, of all things, a racist misogynist on a grisly bender. Stuck could have used some of that outrageousness.
  21. Nina's Tragedies
    Gabizon never establishes a consistent tone or point of view. Instead, we hop from one episode to the next, with no momentum and no reason to care about these people.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sunshine Cleaning
    An intelligent, often touching, sometimes pedestrian drama.
  23. Remembering Gene Wilder
    The documentary really lays on the praise and sentiment. That may not be unusual in such an enterprise, but it gets tired sooner rather than later.
  24. Word Wars
    Only occasionally do the thrill of the game and the passion of its players come together. That said, these guys' nakedly neurotic enthusiasm keeps the movie from being a total jumble.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Polar Express
    Zemeckis and Hanks really seem to think they’re giving us a Christmas movie for the ages and a technology that will change cinema forever. They’re wrong on both counts. The Polar Express is merely a marvelous toy that has somehow become convinced it has a soul.
  26. Edmond
    In Mamet's understanding, straight white maleness is the most powerful weapon such men have. It can also be illusory, which is why the last scenes of Edmond are so touching.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wackness
    Disappointingly, the movie runs along the track of many earlier coming-of-age dramas, with appointed station stops at Cynicism, Puppy Love, Puppy Sex, Puppy Heartbreak, and Greater Wisdom.
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  28. Best Worst Movie
    It captures a version of our best worst selves.
  29. The People vs. Fritz Bauer
    Because of the film’s earnest awkwardness, these excursions into the demimonde come off as campy.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The True Adventures of Wolfboy
    The movie itself suffers from hyperbole, hyper-self-consciousness, at times hyperventilation. A magical-realist coming-of-age fairy tale set in Buffalo and environs, it toggles between whimsy and grim realism.
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