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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. Ip Man 3
    Returning director Wilson Yip commits to this tone too late, getting lost in tangential conflict and stunt casting — in this corner, Mike Tyson! — at the expense of the drama and even the action.
  2. Born in China
    Monkeys end up supplying the movie’s real drama. While parentally overlooked mischief-maker Tao Tao gets up to the requisite, well, monkey business, he’s also witness to a stunning snatch-and-fly attack by an opportunistic goshawk. It might not be nature on demand, but it’s some scene.
  3. The World Is Not Enough
    This 19th Bond installment is passable, but only just.
  4. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
    Despite the artful, passionate performances by the cast, his experiment comes across more as contrivance than a work of thoughtful, aesthetic detachment.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Ragtime
    Except for the evocative sets and Randy Newman's upbeat musical score, Ragtime is better read than seen. [18 Dec 1981]
    • Boston Globe
  6. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    It's more like a cartoon with a body count.
  7. Dicks: The Musical
    Dicks: The Musical is a three-star movie with a midnight crowd and a two-star movie when viewed at 3 p.m. My star rating splits the difference.
  8. Flicka
    The best parts of Flicka are its pinch-me optimism and its old-fashioned-movie flourishes.
  9. Mifune's Last Song
    The liveliest, most original family values film of the year so far.
  10. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    Intermittently engaging but inescapably overextended.
    • Boston Globe
  11. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    In a summer in which every blockbuster is zealous to be a video game, Rodriguez, with a wink, has produced his own.
  12. The Intouchables
    This tired little movie got on my last nerve. If Driss is so charismatic and so full of ingenuity, why isn't he using any of that skill to help lift up his family?
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thor
    For a holding maneuver, Thor itself turns out to be diverting enough - not close to a sharp-edged romp like "Iron Man" but not the B-movie roadshow some of us were expecting.
  14. Permanent Midnight
    In short, Permanent Midnight is about what you would expect from a mild-at-heart movie that wants to titillate with a fallen artist story that has a wholesome outcome. [18 Sep 1998, p.D9]
    • Boston Globe
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Body of Lies
    It's a genre film - the action is fierce and nonstop - with a brooding undercurrent of unease that aims for the complexities of John le Carre.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Towelhead
    Ball's trying to be honest about adolescent coming of age, but since he's dishonest about everything else, the movie collapses in on itself.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Notebook
    An elegantly made, almost unbearably depressing tale of WWII-era deprivation and survival.
  18. Teeth
    Teeth is the "Incredible Hulk" of sex satires.
  19. The Grand Seduction
    Charming, but not seductive.
  20. Space Jam
    Exuberantly mixing live action and animation, it's a high-energy dream teaming that shrewdly takes advantage of the chance to goof on Jordan's temporary retirement from basketball and unsuccessful fling at baseball, and even more winningly exploits the antic wildness that always distinguished Warner Bros.' bouncy Looney Tunes. [15 Nov 1996, p.D1]
    • Boston Globe
  21. Adult Beginners
    A sometimes clever but ultimately clichéd comedy.
  22. Little Buddha
    For all its Himalayan aspirations, "Little Buddha" is shallow and superficial.[25 May 1994, p.69]
    • Boston Globe
  23. Happy Endings
    The cast is strong. Kudrow and Gyllenhaal provide the movie's emotional center.
  24. Kodachrome
    The pervasive, absorbing bitterness and hurt falter only when the story eases off its characters’ cynical insistence that people don’t change. Sudeikis knows how to play jarringly nasty — see “Colossal,” for one — but choked-up can be a reach here.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Boys Are Back
    Tidily arranges its raw feelings about fathering and manhood into a decent, intelligent melodrama meant to soothe audiences and provoke no one.
  26. Bossa Nova
    One of the most warmly beguiling romantic comedies the Southern Hemisphere has sent our way in ages.
  27. Mr 3000
    Mac's TV show seems to have trained him to settle for feel-good tack-ons that cut against the prickly nature of Mr. 3000. The actor has such a serious and wise bearing that it's hard to believe Stan as a shallow jackass, which is why several of his scenes with Boca seem phony.
  28. 13 Going on 30
    It's looking for comedy and romance in the obvious places.
  29. Sacrifice
    Sacrifice wants to have it both ways. It's willing neither to give itself up to the goofy sincerity of genre conventions nor to make the demands on viewers that serious drama requires. The sacrifices Chen's characters make would signify that much more if he'd made a sacrifice or two himself.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    The movie plays like a global-political farce made by people who’ve never left the Upper West Side.
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