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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. Bamboozled
    Ends with a fizzle, not a bang.
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  2. The Guardian
    The Guardian, based on a Dan Greenburg novel, is more suspenseful than most of the movies made from King's books. One reason is that Friedkin allows a certain weight of ominousness to accumulate, being in no hurry to let us know exactly what specific form the threat will take, or even from whom it will come. [27 Apr 1990, p.33p]
    • Boston Globe
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Legend
    Legend is more than a gimmick, but not quite enough. The movie’s a testament to the Krays’ ability to get away with everything — for a while, anyway. But it’s better evidence of Tom Hardy’s ability to do just about anything.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Alamo
    The real struggle in The Alamo is between historic revisionism and Hollywood notions of sacrifice, and it's not much of a contest: Hollywood wins, as it did in John Wayne's sprawling, factually spurious 1960 film.
  5. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    Like all of Jacquot's movies, it's not crazy enough.
  6. Cecil B. DeMented
    It's the cinematic equivalent of one of those prop guns where you pull the trigger and a little flag comes out of the barrel, waving gaily.
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  7. Return to Seoul
    Throughout the eight years covered by writer-director Davy Chou’s latest, Return to Seoul, Freddie will alienate the people around her and, by extension, the viewer.
  8. Straight Outta Compton
    F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton starts out strong, peaks quickly, and then gets tangled in complications and compromise and falls apart.
  9. Nightmare Alley
    Nightmare Alley doesn’t lack for action. It’s just that the action feels mechanical, a going through the motions. It’s a sincere going through the motions. It’s a committed going through the motions. But it’s still a going through the motions. Worse than a dream that’s a nightmare is a dream that’s a form of sleepwalking.
  10. Cutthroat Island
    The boldest thing about Cutthroat Island may be the way it maintains a comic tone as it portrays him as her boy toy. Things get pretty waterlogged on the island, though. If there's a fresh way to photograph buried-treasure retrieval, Harlin hasn't discovered it. [22 Dec 1995, p.60]
    • Boston Globe
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mozart's Sister
    It's a lovely dream that, in the end, feels too dreamlike. The director coaxes an intentionally passive performance from his daughter Marie, so that Nannerl's eventual waking to cold patriarchal reality doesn't sting as it might.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Emperor's Club
    That uncertainty -- in the professor, in the audience -- is what drives Emperor's Club to a surprisingly thought-provoking, even disturbing conclusion.
  13. 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.
  14. The Best Intentions
    As anyone who saw Pelle the Conqueror remembers, August is great with landscapes, but perhaps because he was telling Bergman's story here instead of his own, he seems on this occasion too reverent. Considering the fierce emotions that are the film's subject, The Best Intentions is too hushed, decorous, solemn. [14 Aug 1992, p.43]
    • Boston Globe
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Youth in Revolt
    There are some good, sharp, surprising laughs in Youth in Revolt. So why does it feel so dreadfully familiar?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is Not Berlin
    This Is Not Berlin is a relative rarity: a coming-of-age drama in which the student may have more maturity than the teachers.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Factotum
    Looks steam-cleaned, and that can't be right.
  18. Both Sides of the Blade
    The unhurried pace Denis maintains insures that the subplots feel less like distractions than a nod to the contradictoriness of daily life.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paper Heart
    The movie’s a platypus: cute as the dickens but what the heck is it?
  20. Joe Bell
    The movie’s heart is completely in the right place, which, frankly, can make it a bit of a chore to watch. Moral righteousness makes the world a better place, but filmic it’s not.
  21. Paper Clips
    Inspirational.
  22. Chasing Papi
    Just as you're ready to give up on Chasing Papi, Paul Rodriguez shows up, and the movie goes from plotless to wildly overwritten in just one scene.
  23. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    For all its handsomeness, the movie reveals a few cobwebs beginning to gather at the conceptual edges of the Disney animations.
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  24. Showtime
    Would seem to be surefire casting. The catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders.
  25. How to Train Your Dragon
    I’m on the fence here. I enjoyed the animated version of this movie quite a bit, so I’m torn between being happy this film was nowhere near as bad as I’d expected and being frustrated that I sat through a carbon copy. Your enjoyment will depend on whether your Toothless nostalgia has a full set of teeth.
  26. Stolen Childhoods
    As moviemaking, it's monotonous. But its insistence on breaking our hearts proves a reliable weapon.
  27. Breaking and Entering
    Breaking and Entering is a bourgeois movie full of bourgeois problems presented bourgeoisly.
  28. X2: X-Men United
    It's scenic, confidently directed and performed, dutiful, faithful, revelatory, informative, and largely involving. Rarely, however, is it any <I>fun</I>.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gringo
    It’s a twisty dark comedy in the action-suspense vein, piled high with talented actors playing cretinous fools and featuring enough betrayals, mistaken identities, and narrative switchbacks to keep you pleasurably befuddled.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All Day and a Night
    This is a grim, at times lurid tale with hard observations about growing up poor, Black, and male in America — about the cycles of defeat that can land multiple generations in prison — and many of the details have the sting of the rap songs that permeate the soundtrack. Elsewhere, however, All Day and a Night plays like an urban crime thriller made with more earnestness than style.
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