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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 Method
    The movie doesn't trust that an illuminating comedy of pathetic people can be entertaining for long, so it sprinkles some hormones on the proceedings.
  2. Self Medicated
    It's worth noting that the movie's spiritual underpinnings are sometimes fairly subtle and other times veer into "Touched by an Angel" territory. The third act is downright Bible-thumping.
  3. The Price of Sugar
    Offers yet another example of how a lot of what we consume is produced at somebody else's expense. In this case, it's sugar.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tuya's Marriage
    The film has an ending that anyone who has watched a movie in the last 15 years will see coming half an hour into the film. But even with that, the weight of the performances from Yu Nan and Bater is enough to make for a satisfying, if uneven, film.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    CSNY/Déjà Vu
    The film, like the tour it documents, wallops you in the face with politics.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    What We Do Is Secret
    One for the fans, even though writer-director Rodger Grossman and co-writer Michelle Baer Ghaffari labor mightily to spin it into something larger.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Year of the Fish
    At its best, Year of the Fish makes a virtue of naivete - its heroine's, its director's, and the fragile fairy-tale belief that everyone deserves a happy ending.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert
    The point of "the official Muslim comedy tour" is that these guys are ordinary Americans just like you and me. Unfortunately, that extends to a lot of the jokes.
  9. How About You ...
    It's all terribly sentimental without being truly terrible.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1
    By the end, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 has turned nearly as flabby as its aging antihero.
  11. American Casino
    It’s a relief to see a minimum of huffing and puffing on such a hot-button subject.
  12. Araya
    While it insists that everyday lives in Araya are full of drudgery and toil, the film fails to produce a single ugly image.
  13. Killing Kasztner
    There’s no question that Kasztner has vastly more significance for the historian. Eckstein, a grim footnote to history, has much more for the artist.
  14. Daddy Longlegs
    Any normal mother or father, seeing how the movie’s protagonist, Lenny, ostensibly supervises his two sons (Sage and Frey Ranaldo), is likely to suffer cardiac arrest.
  15. October Country
    What results is both real and surreal, giving and self indulgent. That’s the country we all live in.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Art of the Steal
    The movie’s never less than entertaining, but you often feel like arguing with the screen, and not in a good way.
  17. Formosa Betrayed
    As a political thriller, Formosa Betrayed has enough suspense and intrigue to pull viewers along willingly. It doesn’t try too hard, which is refreshing.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    City Island
    A strident, contrived, surprisingly lovable Noo Yawk City family farce.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young Trunk Show
    The movie’s not all glorious noise.
  20. 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.’’
  21. Lbs.
    The movie Bonifacio and Famiglietti have made is much better as a bittersweet family portrait. But those in search of a mirror for their own weight issues will find a deluxe one here.
  22. Why Did I Get Married Too?
    If Perry’s cinematic vision remains less than 20/20, his sagacity gets stronger by the movie.
  23. Warlords
    It’s all lavish, if disposable. But in a nifty change of pace, the warriors in The Warlords are interesting.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The City of Your Final Destination
    What was intended as a tart elegy for a vanished way of life becomes a valedictory to a certain kind of filmmaking: beautifully appointed, intelligently played, and civilized into inertia.
  25. The Perfect Game
    Much like a Sox starter struggling for the first couple of innings before settling down, The Perfect Game takes a while to get to the parts worth cheering.
  26. Oceans
    Unlike in “Winged Migration,’’ the majestic imagery fails to tell a story or advance a message.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Good, the Bad, the Weird
    It’s a lot of fun before it wears you out, and it wears you out sooner than it should.
  28. Iron Man 2
    Robert Downey Jr. looks as hung over in Iron Man 2 as he seemed drunk in “Iron Man.’’ He does his share of drinking this time, too. And the sequel makes more out of his insobriety. It has an early stretch where it fizzes and slurs, with the stars stepping on each other’s lines and feet. The movie feels drunk, too.
  29. Anton Chekhov's The Duel
    It just feels like playacting.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Wright
    Just Wright is as formulaic as they come, but at its core is a surprisingly tender romantic drama.
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