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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. Fifty Dead Men Walking
    A richer movie might speculate on McGartland’s life now. How does a local hero survive in an anonymous void?
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Broken Hearts Gallery
    A tart, eager-to-please screenplay by first-time director Natalie Krinsky and a cast skilled at verbal badminton hook a viewer from the start, and “Gallery” especially stands as a welcome showcase for Geraldine Viswanathan.
    • 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How I Live Now
    A meticulously observed, rapturously directed account of World War III and its aftermath as seen from the point of view of a spoiled young woman. The movie’s pretty fascinating before it goes bonkers.
  5. Kinky Boots
    Not since ''Mannequin on the Move" has a flamboyant black man brought so much fabulousness to stiff white heterosexuals.
  6. Our Kind of Traitor
    Whatever the turning point, his transformation from feckless academic to stalwart knight occurs too easily. It should be the heart of the story, but instead is just a troublesome detail in a hollow movie.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How to Live Forever
    A cheerfully rambling documentary that's much more thought-provoking than the sum of its parts.
  8. Smart People
    Mostly, Smart People is a failure of imagination.
  9. Candy
    Told in a serenely observational fashion.
  10. Bad Words
    Misogynistic, homophobic, scatological — none of these words come up in any of the spelling bees that take place in Jason Bateman’s directorial debut, but they apply to the film.
  11. Natural Selection
    The movie has elements of road picture, social satire, and odd-couple romance, but mostly it's about lack of pacing and tone. Somewhere very (very) deep in here is a whiff of "Citizen Ruth," and who knows what Alexander Payne might have done with this material. Instead we know what writer-director Robbie Pickering has done with it, and that ain't much.
  12. Uncle Drew
    Is the movie any good, and does Irving embarrass himself? The answers are: sort of, and nowhere near.
  13. The Fourth War
    It's intelligently crafted, above average for this presumably dying genre, and if you can get past a couple of potential credibility problems, you'll find it absorbing. [23 Mar 1990, p.45]
    • Boston Globe
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Katy Perry: Part of Me
    Part of Me is one aspect of Perry, but her fans may leave the movie wanting more.
  15. The Look of Love
    Although Raymond’s career extended over five decades of London sleaze, decadence, and celebrity, neither director nor actor provide much insight into the man or his times, not to mention the significance of Raymond’s prime product.
  16. Flesh and Bone
    Few directors lavish as much tenderness upon life's bruised survivors as Kloves does, and many a more prominent director has failed to find in the dust-choked West Texas plains the wistfulness with which Quaid and Ryan fill their most solid and shtick-free work yet. [05 Nov 1993, p.42]
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  17. The Grand
    A defective poker comedy where the poker is a lot more interesting than the people playing it.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Forbidden Kingdom
    Unashamed about giving its audience a good time, and the high spirits go a long way toward counterbalancing the cliches.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Albert Nobbs
    As the title character in Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close skulks through Edwardian-era Dublin like a eunuch on a stealth mission.
  20. What's Cooking?
    This good-hearted but undersupplied ensemble piece is only appetizer-deep.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Human Stain
    Benton has laid bare a great author's creaky plotting only to deliver a melodrama with bookish pretensions.
  22. All Together
    The comedy in Robelin's movie veers from wacky and overwritten to truly, beautifully sad, especially the whimsical final sequence, which is as apt an existential tribute to the afterglow of Fonda's fabulousness as you'll see.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chimpanzee
    In general, the more young people who see the film, the more who will be made aware of a fascinating, complicated near-relative whose numbers are dwindling rapidly.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Teen Spirit
    Very like a gummy bear, Teen Spirit gives you a nice little sugar rush until the lights come up and you realize you’re still hungry. Part of the problem is the script, which includes lines of dialogue so generic it’s as if Minghella is daring himself to squeeze a drop more juice out of them.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Southpaw
    This is a genre with especially sturdy bones, and when Southpaw connects, which is more often than you might expect, you feel it down to your toes.
  26. Extraction 2
    As per sequel rules, everything has to be bigger. But bigger doesn’t always equal better, as Extraction 2 proves.
  27. Shirley
    Despite an impressive pedigree in front of and behind the camera, “Shirley” fails to convey just how remarkable the career of Shirley Chisholm really was. The problem isn’t the narrow focus on one of her accomplishments, it’s the even narrower depiction of who she was as a person.
  28. Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
    The best thing about Money for Nothing is the many talking heads trying to explain what monetary policy is and what the Fed does: controlling the supply of money and, with any luck, guiding the economy.
  29. The Secret Life of Bees
    On screen something happens that goes beyond Monk's powers of description and Fanning's way of seeming 14 and 44 at the same time.
  30. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    The movie bogs down only toward the finish, when it turns into a metahuman free-for-all.
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