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For 7,947 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 1.1 points 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Kings & Queen
    The film is a tower of literary and cinematic references, tangential yet somehow essential characters, and one fantastic performance after another. It's a simple movie yet is anything but.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Girlhood
    The movie captures that heady adolescent sense of time stopping and the moment mattering while standing far enough back to let us acknowledge all the pitfalls Marieme is moving too fast to see.
  3. Let's Get Lost
    The miraculous thing about Let's Get Lost is that Weber has managed to create something that's both impossibly stylized and unmistakably moral (not judgmental, moral).
  4. Offside
    As funny as it is sharp.
  5. A Nice Indian Boy
    What makes “A Nice Indian Boy” shine are the performances and the sharp writing by Eric Randall.
  6. Knocked Up
    Debbie gets away with being such a cauldron of extremes because the airy-voiced Mann is extremely good at playing them. She happens to be Apatow's wife (the kids in the movie are theirs), and with the possible exception of Téa Leoni , it's hard to imagine who else could get away with this combination of needling and affection.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Turtles Can Fly
    Ghobadi shows us a world where a village pond can hold both rare goldfish and unforgivable evil, and where every step is onto booby-trapped terrain.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Departed
    When The Departed roars to life, as it does in so many of its scenes, you feel like nobody understands movies -- the delirious highs, the unforgiving moral depths -- as well as this man does. Welcome back, Marty.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Festival Express
    Extraordinary.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    The film is as spare and unvarnished as a wooden temple floating on a lake, but its reflections run deep, and it can ripple your thoughts for months.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    April and the Extraordinary World
    A delightfully deranged steampunk adventure.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    In its attention to detail and awareness of betrayals both political and human, "Tinker Tailor'' is a movie for grown-ups.
  13. The Wild Robot
    It’s rare that a movie fires on all cylinders as this one does. The jaw-dropping animation tells a bittersweet and lovely story. The voice work is stellar, and the score sweeps you along on a wave of excitement. Fans of the books will not be disappointed.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Support the Girls
    Herein lies the quiet magic of Support the Girls — the reason to see it, the reason that keeps it coming back from the recesses of a reviewer’s psyche: Lisa is kind. That’s the secret, the reason the film is a little diamond.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Half Nelson
    Gosling may be the soul of Half Nelson, but Epps is the film's heart.
  16. Vincere
    Setting aside, just for a moment, his general loathsomeness, there is a case to be made for a less apparent aspect of Benito Mussolini: He was once really hot.
  17. The Fabulous Baker Boys
    From the first bracing hint of self-mockery in its title to its smoky, after-hours resolution, it's a grabber and a delight, constantly surpassing our expectations. [13 Oct 1989, p.35]
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  18. The Insider
    A big, dark juggernaut of a movie about a big, dark juggernaut of a subject.
  19. The Sun
    This emperor verges on dementia, having no apparent clue how to function.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Street Fight
    Properly told, political underdog stories are as compelling as pratfalls from banana peels are funny. Each is timeless and carries an integrity impervious to cynicism.
  21. Love and Diane
    fully devotes itself to painting a family portrait seldom allowed such rich cinematic detail.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    About Schmidt
    How you feel about About Schmidt may depend in large part on how you feel About Jack.
  23. Hero
    These people may be really, really dangerous, but they're also really, really polite.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Shane
    Shane symbolized America during a time when the country was struggling to evolve from a nation of rugged individualism into a country of community and cooperation. [20 Aug 2000]
    • Boston Globe
  25. The Taste of Things
    One of 2023′s best films, “The Taste of Things” is achingly romantic and devastatingly sad. You’ll spend the first two-thirds of this movie salivating, and the last third of it sobbing.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    That film remains an electrifying testament to pop music as a communal creative act.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mudbound
    Mudbound is four-square and unshowy, and you might mistake it for old-fashioned. But the presence of an African-American director behind the camera affects everything in front of it.
  28. Passing
    This is a double debut for Hall, as director and screenwriter both. She’s long been known as one of our most gifted actors. So the quality of the performances she’s gotten from her cast is little surprise.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Life as a Zucchini
    It’s well worth seeking out for older kids who don’t mind reading subtitles, their parents, and any adults who can appreciate a good story movingly and creatively told.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Honeyland
    A documentary about a Macedonian beekeeper doesn’t sound like one of the best films of the year, does it? But few movies capture the great wheel of nature turning with as much beauty and empathy as Honeyland, and fewer still show how easily the wheel can slip its track and come crashing to pieces.
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