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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. Rumble in the Bronx
    Kinetic, fizzy, delivering more bounce to the ounce than anything out there right now, "Rumble in the Bronx" is my kind of mindless fun. [23 Feb 1996]
    • Boston Globe
  2. Capitalism: A Love Story
    Redundant for a filmmaker whose work has always dealt with the dismaying consequences of this country’s profit motive. Isn’t every Michael Moore film ultimately about capitalism? This one just has a more facetious title.
  3. Secretariat
    Grace is grace, and however it arrives, there's no denying its presence.
  4. Day Night Day Night
    Astonishing.
  5. She's So Lovely
    When the chemistry isn't there - and it mostly isn't - the actors and film seem merely self-indulgent, despite the obvious devotion with which She's So Lovely was made. [29 Aug 1997, p.C3]
    • Boston Globe
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    Vol. II is less focused than “Vol. I” — less funny, too, although there are a few dank laughs — and you feel Von Trier’s inspiration and energy start to flag during the final laps.
  7. Wall
    Coming and going through the wall's checkpoints is a tiresome and undignified process that makes US airport security look like a cocktail reception.
  8. Fast & Furious 6
    At more leisurely, less furious moments, meanwhile, the cast shows the easy chemistry that comes with having now done a couple of these all-hands-on-deck episodes.
  9. Lilting
    Unlike other films that successfully explore abstractions, such as Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love” or the memoiristic collages of Terence Davies, it doesn’t seem to have much going on beneath the drab surface.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Must Be the Place
    This isn't a great movie, but it is a special one. And Penn is something to see.
  11. Muppets Most Wanted
    The well-worn plot basics are dressed up nicely by the film’s consistently clever humor, as well as a celebrity cameo roster that’s stacked even by Muppet standards.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Onward
    The movie is almost wholly lacking in the Pixar touch — that extra oomph of wit, invention, creative craziness, darkness, depth of feeling, whatever, that makes the company’s products among the very few items manufactured for children in our sold-out popular culture to not feel like products.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    13 Tzameti
    13 (Tzameti) is an existential horror film, a violent prank, a metaphor for modern Europe, and a first-time director's startling calling card.
  14. Extract
    All we have here are bits, so many, in fact, that Extract’ feels more like a collection of crumbs.
  15. Abominable
    Yes, as it turns out — not only is Abominable as amusing as the competition, it boasts a lyricism and sweetness uniquely, sublimely its own.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Role Models
    Any movie that shows its heroes firing up a joint between stints as high-school anti-drug crusaders is true to its black little heart.
  17. Hamlet
    Ahmed gives his all, but it’s not enough to elevate this version above near-miss status.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Giuliani Time
    Giuliani Time has an ax to grind and wields it with dull-edged force.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Kite Runner
    I'm of two minds about this. A movie that held on to all the breathless tearjerkery of the novel would probably have to star Bette Davis as Amir, but as amended by Forster the story is now touching and somewhat dull.
  20. Criminal
    Just as exciting and socially vivid as Bielinsky's. Yet, somehow it's more stressful. The American characters practically sweat desperation.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Haute Cuisine
    Haute Cuisine proves the limits of cinema: It’s a movie that needs Taste-o-Vision.
  22. The Green Mile
    There's almost too much there, but the three-hour-plus film permits the kind of detailing that not only brings the storytelling to life, but sometimes persuades us we're breathing to its rhythms.
  23. The Jane Austen Book Club
    It's a lot like a pumpkin spice frappuccino with extra sugar and extra cream. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll leave with foam on your nose. So cute. As a friend said on the way out: At least no books were harmed in the making of this movie. And he's right. But that's only because no one really tried.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Evil
    Extremely watchable, even if it never goes as deep as it should.
  25. The Incredible Hulk
    There's a certain pleasure to be had in some of the physical blowouts.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    For Ellen
    It has a sense of drift that both vexes and beguiles.
  27. Mr. Jealousy
    The ensemble quality is high and likable, even if Baumbach's inventiveness as a writer falters after the film's sweet, savvy beginning. [12 June 1998]
    • Boston Globe
  28. Nuremberg
    Rami Malek and Russell Crowe lead a cast of actors doing excellent work in this large scale, old school ensemble piece.
  29. Hair High
    If Plympton is making pastiche, he's also having a laugh at a universal experience that for a lot of people was probably pretty crummy. Apparently, it was a little crummier for him.
  30. Fighting
    Fighting has real grit and excellent acting. In other words, there is gold in that dirt.
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