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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. Sing
    The result is entertainment whose pace and sound, while dizzyingly brisk at points, still accommodates characters and a setting that are terrifically rich — a menagerie more fully, memorably realized than “Zootopia.”
  2. Deja Vu
    You aren't likely to see a more ludicrous movie for the rest of the year. But rarely has such ludicrousness been used to pay tribute to a town in need of love. Déjà Vu is generic enough to have been filmed anywhere. But it happens to be set in post-Katrina New Orleans.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lizzie
    The resulting movie is atmospheric and compelling, and it makes an empathetic case for Borden as an intelligent, passionate woman so stifled by her father and the suffocating society he represented that she lashed out (and then some).
  4. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
    Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has enough good material to make you wish it were better. Unfortunately, it owes debts to the biopic genre that no honest film can pay.
  5. Heartbreaker
    This is a movie whose cynicism in the name of idealism might have appealed to Billy Wilder.
  6. Mr. Holland's Opus
    There's a lot to like in Mr. Holland's Opus, even if you find yourself wishing it had been more artfully written, directed - and trimmed. [19 Jan 1996, p.58]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On the Basis of Sex
    Watchable, illuminating, and ultimately unmemorable — inspiring without being inspired.
  8. Run All Night
    The story loses its convincingly scaled sense of jeopardy in the late going, and it ultimately unravels.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Matthew Barney: No Restraint
    As blandly lucid as Barney's is wildly and perplexingly imaginative.
  10. We Own the Night
    The movie's climactic car chase is as absurdly thrilling as it is innovative. Set almost silently in a blue-gray daytime downpour, it has a tough, improvisatory danger that makes the movie. If John Coltrane went in for action sequences, he'd have dug this one.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ice Age: The Meltdown
    Ice Age: The Meltdown is pure sequel product that should make children and undemanding grown-ups happy even as it lacks anything resembling storytelling inspiration.
  12. Lakeboat
    Feels a bit flat and underdeveloped.
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  13. Intact
    The movie pits fortune against destiny and has an enigmatic old time splitting the difference.
  14. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    Give your brain the night off, and Myers will make you smile too.
  15. Nico and Dani
    The film is rightfully carried by Nico and Dani and under Gay's artful helmsmanship it's carried with remarkable sympathy and believability.
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Signs
    Its quirks are exactly what make Signs interesting, entertaining, and good.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bridget Jones's Baby
    “Baby” is to Helen Fielding’s original 1996 novel and its 2001 movie adaptation what “Sex and the City 2” was to the HBO series — a cause not for celebration but overdue burial.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elvis & Nixon
    Elvis & Nixon strains itself to bring the title duo together and then relaxes — finally — while Spacey and Shannon perform the actor’s equivalent of a waltz.
  19. Legally Blonde
    There's always Witherspoon, swimming upstream and never letting it slow her down. Blindingly purposeful, she's a perky blond tornado. Marilyn Monroe would not only have cheered her on. She'd have learned something.
  20. Cars 3
    This is the rare movie that might benefit from silence. Partly that’s because of the squeezed syrup of Randy Newman’s score.
  21. Moonlight Mile
    The first half of Moonlight Mile feels like the runaway trailer for a movie that can't wait to jerk your tears. But to quote Joe in a moment of epiphany, there's a ''truth enema'' out there, and, boy, it really brings this movie around.
  22. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    It’s comedy with a hint of honesty — but we’re fine with shallow and sparkly, dahling.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Savages
    Savages is Oliver Stone's strongest work in years - a stylish, violent, hallucinatory thriller with both a mean streak and a devilish sense of humor.
  24. Roll Bounce
    This nostalgic licorice whip of a movie assumes there's still an audience for a straight-faced, family-friendly salute to the 1970s heyday of competitive roller disco.
  25. Together
    Visually as well as emotionally, there’s more energy here than in some action movies.
  26. Molière
    Showing up for Molière eager for the story of one of the theater's greatest comedy writers would be unwise. It's not that kind of party.
  27. Mission: Impossible
    It'll be a test of whether Cruise's star power and De Palma's ability to seduce audiences with visual style can compensate for a fundamental hollowness at the center. Mission: Impossible plays like a project trying to become a movie and not quite making it. [22 May 1996, p.63]
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  28. Sliding Doors
    You're hooked enough to keep watching, even if the characterizations veer toward the two-dimensional.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Confidence
    Run the game, bow to the movies that did it better and before, keep the dialogue on the line between hard-boiled and hokey, and throw one last curveball before the lights come up. It's a con in itself, but the reward's in the playing.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    ''Bonjour" is especially lucky in having Shlomi Bar-Dayan, the 16-year-old misfit of the title, played by a young actor named Oshri Cohen, who's able to convey the impossibility of ever making sense of the world with a single bruised gaze.
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