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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
    An Amazing Couple
    Turns what sounds suspiciously like a gimmick into a concept that holds water. Or, in this case, the sparkling wine of comedy.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Emmanuel's Gift
    Directed in the breathless inspirational tones of an infomercial, the film's an acceptable document of a thoroughly remarkable individual.
  3. Mo' Better Blues
    Mo' Better Blues has problems. Lee hates being compared with Woody Allen, but it looks as if he's going to do what Allen did in trying a new kind of film until it works. [03 Aug 1990, p.29p]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Morlang
    Morlang is a repressed creep whose worst crime, as far as the audience is concerned, is dullness.
  5. Kingsman: The Secret Service
    It’s also a movie that further establishes Vaughn as one of the edgier and more underrated genre voices of the moment, and that makes us wonder why Colin Firth hasn’t indulged in an action sideline all along.
  6. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
    The title might trumpet Harley Quinn’s emancipation, but she again feels like a character trapped in a movie that’s mediocre at best.
  7. Kevin Hart: What Now?
    Contrived, inane, absurd, and occasionally brilliant, it’s all a blur.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Watermelon Man
    Directed by Melvin Van Peebles as the '60s writhed to a close, it's very much a product of its time: unsubtle, psychedelic, truly weird, occasionally very funny. [08 Dec 2002]
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  9. Saturday Night
    Despite the frenetic pace, “Saturday Night” falls flat and fails to raise one goose pimple.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Funny People
    What’s best about Funny People, actually, is Sandler, who takes the weird, resentful anger that has always coursed beneath his comedy and puts it right on the surface.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Glastonbury
    As with most rock festivals, you had to be there, and if you're British you probably were, one year or another. In that case, Glastonbury is a pointed but essentially nostalgic tour of one country's more noble pop impulses. Otherwise, it's as muddy as Yasgur's farm back in the day.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Light Between Oceans
    A sweeping romantic period drama, heavy with themes of love and duty and fate, lifted up by cinematic craft and great performances.
  13. The Man Who Invented Christmas
    Consistently intriguing as all the lit-process tidbits are, the film struggles to mesh footnotes and somber notes.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Emperor's New Clothes
    Not without its charms. But it never rises to its clever what-if concept.
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  15. Katakuri-ke no kôfuku
    If there's one image that sums up the filmmaking style of Takashi Miike, it's the close-up of a bubbling hot pot on the family dinner table.
  16. The Lost City
    Sometimes it works — let’s say 12 percent of the time — and The Lost City can actually be deft and imaginative. Unfortunately, that leaves 88 percent which doesn’t.
  17. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    This native send-off is robotic enough to leave you eager to see what an artist might do with a reboot.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Following
    There are moments in Christopher Nolan's thematically ambitious film noir that make you wish he had the time and money and, to a certain degree, talent, to fulfill his lofty goals. [11 Feb 2000, p.C9]
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  19. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    Garlin's movie is beautiful in its own way. It also suggests that David's show would still be brilliant without the aggravation. I'm not saying that David should renounce misanthropy. But maybe he could curb less of Garlin's apparent enthusiasm for people.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    SPECTRE
    I know the opening credits for a James Bond movie are supposed to be silly, but the start of Spectre achieves almost orgasmic levels of kitsch.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Femme Fatale
    Fatale is, truthfully, a mess - an absurdly overwritten Eurotrash thriller that beggars an audience's suspension of disbelief. It's also great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Alice Neel
    For all the juicy storytelling, Alice Neel remains, in this film, a cipher: brash, grandmotherly, and beyond understanding.
  23. Asphalt Zahov
    It is haunting in its literal and symbolic meanings, which is the powerful, lingering effect of Yellow Asphalt.
  24. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Most of the expert insights contained in this concise documentary are already available in the door-stopping exposes of other experts, a fact that lends the proceedings a nagging redundancy.
  25. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
    Engrossing and provocative.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Invisibles
    The Invisibles favors quantity of remembrance over quality of any one experience.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghostbusters
    The movie is genial, sloppy, slightly above average summer movie fun.
  28. Them
    Technique is all you have to admire. There's nothing underneath the formal exercise. The film's coyness about what's happening is cheap.
  29. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    Strange’s superpowers are many. So are Cumberbatch’s, and one of them is making sneering seem practically jolly.
  30. Freakier Friday
    I liked the “Freaky Friday” remake. It had some real emotional heft to it, much of it due to the excellent performances by Curtis and Lohan. This time, all the characters are one-note, especially the teenagers.
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