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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
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Heat
    If you’re going to make a dopey, bawdy, foul-mouthed, predictable lady-buddy-cop movie, you might as well make it funny. And until it overstays its welcome in the final half-hour, The Heat is shamefully funny.
  2. Bad Times at the El Royale
    A line gets crossed. It isn’t the one between California and Nevada. It’s the one from “Bad” to worse.
  3. To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
    Tone is everything here, and the film never loses the smiling poise and benevolence that help you buy its gauzy plot as the three sashay through it. Douglas Carter Beane's script is witty as well as buoyant, which is a big help. [08 Sep 1995, p.99]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Doors
    Think of Red Doors as a promise, and hope that Georgia Lee keeps it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Machete
    The movie's an unexpected end-of-summer tonic: a trash guilty pleasure with a healthy (if really violent) sense of outrage. It's also Rodriguez's freest movie yet, and possibly his best.
  6. The Choral
    The Brits do this kind of light and dark juggling act better than almost anybody (see “Billy Elliot” or “The Full Monty”), and the filmmakers and their cast deliver a movie that’s perfect for viewing on a lazy Sunday afternoon at the movie theater.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In Her Shoes
    Entertaining enough, but it's more pat than provocative -- this is what makes it a bona fide audience pleaser while keeping it from drawing real blood.
  8. Illuminata
    Beverly D'Angelo, Rufus Sewell, Georgina Cates, Leo Bassi - tumble with zest through a daisy chain of sexual capers. But while warmly energized, their carryings-on also seem a little generic.
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  9. The Governess
    The sheer intelligence and independence of spirit in Driver's busy eyes almost carry The Governess past its structural limitations. [07 Aug 1998]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tomorrowland
    The thing barely makes a lick of sense. Rapturous on a scene-by-scene basis and nearly incoherent when taken as a whole, the movie is idealistic and deranged, inspirational and very, very conflicted.
  11. Point Break
    When the action sequences move into the sky-diving stuff, they give you a real rush.... Otherwise, though, Point Break is all wet. Too bad, because you always get the sense in a Kathryn Bigelow outing ("Near Dark," "Blue Steel") that she's trying to push a genre into new places. [12 July 1991, p.54]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
    Sadly, it’s not quite as fun as that sounds. If you’re up for something deeply and unsettlingly strange, though, Bruno Dumont’s portrait of the saint as a young zealot has genuine oddball pleasures amid stretches of real tedium.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On My Way
    Emmanuelle Bercot’s amusingly rambling drama hits the expected rest stops with a Gallic shrug and a lot of Gauloises.
  14. Three Thousand Years of Longing
    Even if it ultimately doesn’t quite take off, it’s a marvel of craft and care and detail. It’s also not quite like anything else.
  15. Scanners
    The film is more interesting as a phenomenon than as a movie. [27 Feb 1981]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Protocols of Zion
    May be the most successful forgery in the history of hate.
  17. White Wedding
    The movie, from South Africa, is charming and its characters' feelings sincere enough. It's just so cluttered.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
    The movie is extremely well produced, it features two excellent lead performances, and it is dull.
  19. The Bear
    Warm, intelligent, humane, The Bear is everything you could hope for in an outdoor adventure. [27 Oct 1989, p.33p]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    RED
    "The Expendables" trotted out the concept this summer, and it was good dumb fun - a nudge-nudge wink-wink '80s movie on steroids. RED is more self-consciously wacky, more stridently in your face, and more disappointing.
  21. Goosebumps
    This feature adaptation of kid-lit author R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror-comedy series is out to thrill fans with a story that’s just as obsessively invested as they are, right down to Black’s meta casting as Stine himself.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rules Don't Apply
    This is not a well-made film but it is an enjoyable one, in part because it’s genuinely unpredictable and in part because it’s a pleasure to see one of the great stars of his era on a movie screen once more.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Interview with the Assassin
    Like ''Blair,'' it never quite finds a way out of its own built-in dead-end.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spartan
    When Spartan is good, it's surprisingly gripping and fresh, and when it's bad, it's just another overcooked Hollywood paranoid thriller.
  25. Happy Accidents
    D'Onofrio's affably wide-eyed weirdness generates not only pleasure, but a genuinely authentic conundrum, bouncing forward and backward toward the truth.
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  26. Cellular
    A ludicrous little abduction thriller that boasts an entertaining cocktail of gunpowder, suspense, adrenaline, and cheese. I just couldn't hate this movie, and I really, really tried. It's tightly made and well written in deceptive ways that don't reveal themselves until past the halfway point.
  27. Happy, Happy
    The movie attempts to both explain everything away and pat itself (and Norway) on the back once we see Noa watching President Obama deliver his Nobel Prize speech.
  28. The Other F Word
    Full of slick editing and various zippy technical tricks: split screens, sped-up footage, song lyrics and other text (in wild fonts) superimposed on the screen. Sometimes it's fun. More often it's distracting.
  29. Kumaré
    What is offensive is how the masquerade punks these other people - and to no seeming purpose, other than to provide Gandhi with footage for this documentary.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Music Never Stopped
    A drably directed yet terrifically affecting drama about family bonds, classic rock, and the human brain. It's sentimental, yet so honest and eccentric that it rises above schmaltz.
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