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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. Sliding Doors
    You're hooked enough to keep watching, even if the characterizations veer toward the two-dimensional.
  2. The Concert
    A passable, sometimes skillful farce.
  3. Chris & Don. A Love Story
    As loving and welcome as Chris & Don is, it's not well enough conceived to create equilibrium among its many parts.
  4. Dangerous Animals
    Though Courtney and Harrison give their all, this is a slick-looking yet routine exercise that wastes an ideal premise.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Death at a Funeral
    The new version is completely unnecessary and sloppier than it should be. It’s also still funny, partly thanks to smart casting in a few key roles and partly because farce this ironclad cannot be denied.
  6. 24 Days
    As a suspenseful true crime story, 24 Days succeeds. As a warning against the ever present dangers of anti-Semitism, it is eloquent and disturbing. It’s in combining the two that Arcady mishandles the case.
  7. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
    You can picture the DreamWorks corporate confab: "OK, the kids respond to move-it, move-it repetition - give us something else repetitive, and let's get herding." It wasn't just desperate, it was insulting.
  8. The Way I See It
    What’s best about the documentary is all that Obama sun. It’s hard to come by these days, even in retrospect. The shade, however, and what occasions it, is all too available.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fury
    Ayer, who has dealt with charismatic bad boys before — he wrote the script for “Training Day” and directed the sharp police drama “End of Watch” — makes the paternal “Wardaddy” into a figure both monstrous and upstanding.
  10. Man of Tai Chi
    With his thoughtful exploration of the conflict between desire and responsibility, and his self-reflexive exploration of the themes of voyeurism, ambition, and personal identity, Reeves’s debut shows signs of a talented filmmaker.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Farewell
    It's a bizarre, provocative story and a moving one, but it doesn't access the richer levels and themes of the film the publicity campaign obviously wants you to think of: 2006's "The Lives of Others."
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    The movie's amiable, impulsive, intense, and scattershot, and since those are qualities associated with Vaughn himself, in the end it's a fair representation.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Army of the Dead
    Some films wear their length like an epic and some just wear you out; Army of the Dead tends increasingly toward the latter.
  14. Ballerina
    As a big fan of the franchise, I admit I had a good amount of fun watching “Ballerina.”
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Wright
    Just Wright is as formulaic as they come, but at its core is a surprisingly tender romantic drama.
  16. 5 to 7
    The film at times genuinely touches on the bittersweet magic of first love.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Take Me Home Tonight
    Completely unoriginal, sure, but watchable and even likable.
  18. Sgt. Bilko
    Martin makes Bilko's roguishness endearing, and entertaining enough to carry the film even if it is essentially an overextended half-hour sitcom episode. [29 Mar 1996, p.105]
    • Boston Globe
  19. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
    Gremlins 2 is one of the few sequels that improves on the original. [15 Jun 1990, p.33p]
    • Boston Globe
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mr. Brooks
    A fertile example of the Studio Film Gone Berserk, where too many characters and too many story lines geometrically progress until a level of blissful absurdity is reached.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    December Boys
    A problematic memory play, shot through with honey-colored nostalgia, that backs nervously into darker matters.
  22. Design Is One
    You may not recognize the Vignelli name, but you certainly recognize their designs.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Game Plan
    It's painless, especially if you have a small child in tow, and the Rock, bless his heart, acts like it's all new to him. The star should do more comedy - he's got quick reflexes and a face that lends itself to cartoon double takes, and he's not afraid to look completely ridiculous.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Get Low
    A charming, spiky period piece that might be called "Boo Radley: The Final Years."
  25. Spinning Plates
    So here’s a tip: Don’t desert this film before giving it a chance. You might not want seconds, but eventually it dishes up a satisfying slice of life.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
    A sequel that is noisy, fast, and pretty smart but that lacks the spark of gonzo originality that made the first movie an out-of-nowhere treat.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dream Horse
    Dream Horse is a very nice movie, about very nice people, but nice is rarely enough, and thank goodness Toni Collette knows that.
  28. The Man Who Invented Christmas
    Consistently intriguing as all the lit-process tidbits are, the film struggles to mesh footnotes and somber notes.
  29. Rise of the Guardians
    This does seem to leave room for bigger, bolder, more momentous adventures down the line.
  30. Water Lilies
    A distant thematic and artistic cousin of Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides" and Lucrecia Martel's "The Holy Girl."
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