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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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mary Queen of Scots
    The movie is less a movie than a collection of scenes lined up in a row, and the tone wobbles between pomp and circumstantial melodrama.
  2. Allied
    What Allied increasingly offers is insincere sincerity: As the emotional quotient rises, so does the phoniness.
  3. Fugitive Pieces
    The movie does offer intriguing, perceptive glimpses of the everyday difficulties of being both a survivor and the child of a survivor.
  4. Dredd
    Pretty clearly determined to deliver the antidote to Stallone's movie, the filmmakers take their cues from Christopher Nolan's Batman filmscape, dropping Dredd into a fictional concrete sprawl (actually South Africa) that's relentlessly grounded, visually and dramatically. In a generic way, the environment works.
  5. The Adjustment Bureau
    Whether this movie works for you largely depends on whether you're willing to work for it. To which I say: Bring your gym clothes.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The White Countess
    A watchable disappointment. Sumptuous to look at, tastefully dull, and ultimately rather silly.
  7. Lightyear
    Lightyear overcomes gravity of the physical sort. That’s what Space Command specializes in. It has a harder time with the emotional kind.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Good Boys
    A charming study of masculinity and friendship, the movie makes the case that “goodness” is a measure of how boys perceive themselves in relation to others. It may be another addition to the “adolescent party odyssey” line — think “Superbad” (2007) and “Booksmart” (2019) — but Good Boys yields something fresh.
  9. K-Pops!
    "Adorable" is not an adjective I’ve often applied to a movie, but “K-Pops!” earns it. It will play well on the big screen, and make you forget about your troubles for two hours.
  10. Notorious
    After 110 minutes of the "n" word being deployed with abandon, Biggie vows to renounce it. And just like that a deluxe episode of "Behind the Music" turns into an evening at church.
  11. Motherless Brooklyn
    What’s best about the movie is mood and texture, and the ensemble cast (the second best thing about the movie) mostly defers to those qualities. In that sense, Motherless Brooklyn might be described as novelistic, and in a good way.
  12. The Whale
    The Whale is being hailed as the comeback vehicle for Fraser. The actor has been through a lot, and he deserves roles that showcase his numerous talents. But he fails to bring humanity to this character who lives in a state of constant apology. The role feels like a cynical grab for an Oscar, which he’ll probably win as the Academy loves masochistic malarkey.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Warm Bodies
    I don't know if the first zombie date flick is a step forward or backward for civilization as a whole, but I can say that Warm Bodies pulls off a pretty impressive trick: It has its "Twilight" and goofs on it too.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    With All Deliberate Speed
    The film is at its most quietly powerful, though, when telling the story of a group of African-American high school kids who took their discontent to the highest court in the land.
  15. Get the Gringo
    Subpar stuff with a few multiplex-worthy bits: a gonzo opening chase with the US Border Patrol, some wisecracking narration, and grungy location atmosphere. [15 July 2012, p.N10]
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      • Posted May 12, 2018
  16. McFarland USA
    This chronicle of an ’80s high school cross country coach leading a team of Mexican farm laborers’ kids to competitive glory may be based on a true story, but the forced drama doesn’t help it to feel that way.
  17. The Neon Bible
    The Neon Bible doesn't always supply the depth or underpinning its images demand, but there's nice work in it, and it won't bore you. [19 Apr 1996, p.55]
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  18. Bride Flight
    Bride Flight is pretty predictable once the basic situation gets established.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gloomy Sunday
    Lushly engaging, even if it covers some of the same ground as ''The Pianist'' with less artistry and more melodrama.
  20. Stillwater
    The quality of the acting makes it easy to overlook how increasingly leaden Stillwater becomes — but not easy enough.
  21. Cool Runnings
    It's all prefab stuff, rendered acceptable by the sunny dispositions of the performers and the Jamaican location shots. You really have to love bobsledding, or Jamaica, or both, to love Cool Runnings. [1 Oct 1993, p.55]
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  22. Mr. Nice
    There's too much narration and too many drug-movie cliches.
  23. State of Grace
    State of Grace is a high-powered, luxuriantly textured Irish gang movie that you keep watching, convinced that at any moment it's going to come together and really grab you. It doesn't. [05 Oct 1990, p.45p]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In Paris
    Dans Paris provides a brooding, poetic echo - an after-dinner mint to a lasting meal.
  25. Christopher Robin
    It’s surprising to see how straight McGregor plays it for director Marc Forster (the J.M. Barrie portrait “Finding Neverland”), allowing the CG-animated Pooh and friends to endearingly steal the show.
  26. The Concert
    A passable, sometimes skillful farce.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wonder Woman 1984
    The sequel isn’t a disaster, but it’s a dud.
  28. Battle in Heaven
    With relentless and ruminative deliberateness, Reygadas shows us a Mexico City that seems to be decaying from the inside out.
  29. Body of War
    To say the least, the film is awkward, like a piece of badly assembled Ikea furniture. Still, editor Bernadine Colish weaves together all that C-SPAN footage into a disturbing procedural indictment. Legislators use the same language - often the president's - to justify the rush to war. The repetition is comical until it's scary: They're parroting.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ophelia
    What sinks the movie (rather than the character) are the tortured melodramatics of its backstage plot and dialogue that aims for clever — and sometimes is — but that generally approximates Shakespeare for, like, beginners.
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