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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. Mama
    The frustration, though, is how much the movie leans on made-ya-jump scares and contrived plot devices when its quieter chills and already fraught setups are so potent.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Company You Keep
    LeBeouf may yet mature into an American James McAvoy — a charismatically spineless leading man — but Sarandon and her character have him and his character for lunch.
  3. Not Without My Daughter
    Not Without My Daughter creeps up on you like an icy chill. Not since Midnight Express in 1978 has imprisonment in a foreign country been so alarmingly and intimately conveyed on film. [11 Jan 1991, p.69]
    • Boston Globe
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Everything's Gone Green
    It's a charming disappointment that retains the elements that make the writer's novels so good without ever bending them into cinematic shape.
  5. Forks Over Knives
    The film delivers a concise history of Western eating habits, with graphs and charts punctuated by entertaining real-life experiences.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Them That Follow
    The snake stuff is riveting — how could it not be? But Poulton and Madison Savage’s treatment of the rural community tilts toward the anthropological: A few corny bits of dialogue can make the parishioners feel like types instead of characters.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One from the Heart (re-release)
    The movie looks great and sounds better, and its status as a pioneering work of cinematic eye candy seems secure. For one thing, it's hard to imagine ''Moulin Rouge'' without it. As a movie about recognizable human beings, however, One From the Heart remains a failure.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark Blue
    In the end, the problem with movies like Dark Blue is that they willfully ignore the systemic, historical, cultural, and class causes of racism in favor of pinning it all on a few bad apples. Sure, that's entertainment. It's also a lie.
  9. Bread and Roses
    The reason Bread and Roses works as well as it does is that as didactic as it sometimes gets, its heart is always bigger than its ideology.
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flash of Genius
    The problem with Flash of Genius isn't that the subject is dull but that the movie is.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brother to Brother
    A very good drama about the difficulties of being young, black, and gay. With a bigger budget and a sharper focus, it might have been a great one.
  12. You've Been Trumped
    The biggest problem with the documentary, besides the overexposure of its namesake, is length.
  13. It's Complicated
    Streep is in movie star mode, and she’s irresistible. But Baldwin achieves something not many men have been able to with Streep: You notice him.
  14. Back to the Future Part II
    The sequel goes down the tubes by spreading itself across four time zones and inviting comparison to the original by spending most of its time back in 1955, where another mess must be set right. [22 Nov 1989, p.35]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Origins
    As a director, Cahill’s a capable and sometimes breathtaking stylist, and he accomplishes remarkable things on a modest budget, topping up the visuals with patterns, rhymes, and concordances.
  16. Unfinished Song
    [Terence Stamp] and Vanessa Redgrave, as well as supporting actors Christopher Eccleston and Gemma Arterton, raise Paul Andrew Williams’s entry in the golden age genre from mawkish to genuinely heartwarming.
  17. Casanova
    The movie treats trysting as comedy and yet is stingy with the laughs.
  18. War Dogs
    Hill’s braying-bro performance is indelible. Unfortunately. Go ahead, try to forget his more-more-more grin as he fires away, testing those Chinese bullets. He’s so grotesque you can’t take your eyes off of him. He’s also so grotesque you really want to.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rubberneck
    What’s good about Rubberneck is also what makes it tough to watch: Karpovsky burrows under the skin of this repressed romantic nebbish until the frame seems ready to burst.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Equalizer
    This Equalizer is a brooding, brutal origin tale, one that starts well but steadily caves into genre clichés. It’s a B-movie sheep in A-movie clothing, acceptable meathead mayhem as long as you know what you’re paying for.
  21. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Slick, loud, assured, overplotted (way overplotted), fairly diverting, and pretty much empty.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sherlock Holmes
    It pleases me to report, then, that Downey brings his brain, his wit, and his gift for intelligent underplaying, even as he understands he has been hired to play Sherlock Holmes, action hero.
  23. Skins
    Maybe the redemptions offered are simplistic in the context of this place, but they make for a dramatic (if heavily foreshadowed) conclusion.
  24. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    A zestful genre outing, and then some, right up its final overkill.
  25. Cecil B. DeMented
    It's the cinematic equivalent of one of those prop guns where you pull the trigger and a little flag comes out of the barrel, waving gaily.
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  26. The First Grader
    You marvel all the more at Litondo's and Harris's performances, considering how much claptrap Ann Peacock's script requires them to put up with.
  27. Dogfight
    At times, there's no escaping the schematic nature of what's unfolding - such as the buddies' horseplay, and an ending that seems tacked on. But Savoca makes it all happen with a charm that overcomes the lapses in the script. [04 Oct 1991, p.44]
    • Boston Globe
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Opal Dream
    The film squeezes out its feel-good messages like toothpaste from a tube.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Kingdom
    The movie ends on a plaintive can’t-we-all-get-along note, but at heart it’s a Charles Bronson flick. It mashes the revenge button the real world won’t let us push.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Extraction
    A meat-and-potatoes action movie that manages to extract the charisma from one of our most likable sides of beef.
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