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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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    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Save Me
    An earnest drama about the futility of "rescuing" gay men back to Jesus, Save Me presents a paradox: It's an issue drama in which the most compassionately drawn character is on the other side of the issue.
  2. A Very Brady Sequel
    A Very Brady Sequel is a little like the meatloaf prepared by Alice, the Bradys' maid - padded, but palatable. It walks a line between evoking the old TV show and kidding it and it's as surprisingly lively a sequel as the original was for a big-screen treatment of an old TV staple. [23 Aug 1996, p.F4]
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  3. Mufasa: The Lion King
    The voiceover work is good and, as far as franchise entries go, it’s quite watchable.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Minions: The Rise of Gru
    The movie is fun: The music is unironically good...But with this many characters, the audience doesn’t spend enough time with any of them to allow for the emotional payoff the other movies in the franchise offer.
  5. Buffalo Soldiers
    For all the controversy surrounding Buffalo Soldiers, you'd think the film would at least be interesting.
  6. The Night We Never Met
    Despite the heavy-handedness of "The Night We Never Met," you feel there's a good New York comedy in Leight's future. "The Night We Never Met," although better than "Slaves of New York," isn't quite it. [30 Apr 1993, p.52]
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  7. Infinite Storm
    Not to get all Aristotelian about it, but for a plot to be more than just a succession of incidents, it needs some kind of mindful opposition to the protagonist’s efforts. This “Infinite Storm” lacks.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    Perfume is a pitch-black period epic of squalor and enterprise.
  9. Rising Sun
    The film doesn't match the novel's adrenaline level, but is in every other way more stylish and intelligent...Smart, sexy, provocative entertainment. [30 July 1993, p.25]
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  10. The Commuter
    Neeson’s financially strapped character might vent even more convincingly if he didn’t somehow still have a BMW parked back at the depot, but we’re on board with him all the same.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    So who am I to carp that the film trades in the amiable realism of the show for just another watered-down pop star fantasy? Heck, it beats the Olsen twins. But not by much.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Leaving
    The only reason to see Leaving - and it's not a bad reason at all - is for the sight of Kristin Scott Thomas in a rare happy mood.
  13. Die Another Day
    Die Another Day is still as professionally mediocre as its predecessors.
  14. Dark Blue World
    A bittersweet world, and it's frankly one to which we've been before, but seldom do we see it rendered with such exquisite, if pained, craftsmanship.
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  15. Breaking Upwards
    The film gets stronger and more involving as the drama gets heavier and the couple’s rift grows.
  16. Take Me to the River
    Flawed as it is, “River” reminds us where all the great music came from.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Vermeer
    It’s handsomely filmed, well-acted, and hollower than it wants to be, with a mid-movie revelation that rearranges the moral stakes in ways that dampen the telling.
  18. An Everlasting Piece
    A slight but diverting series of set pieces.
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  19. Scream 3
    A lame little flat liner.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Game 6
    It's an inside-the-park home run -- a small, lovingly overwritten comic drama about fate, failure, and primal longing. To put it in words a Sox fan would understand, the movie hurts good.
  21. Adrift
    As he did with his "Everest" cast, Kormákur draws a strong, pathos-rich performance from Woodley, filled with moments of her character confronting her own mortality and looking back on safe choices not made. It’s solid drama, but also very slow going.
  22. Fever Pitch
    Effortlessly entertaining romantic comedy.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Land of Blood and Honey
    Like Jolie's public persona, Blood and Honey is both strong and headstrong, equally invested in grit and glamour with a hazy understanding of the line separating the two.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monster
    It’s solid, well-acted, thought-provoking fare, if rarely rising to the level of inspired.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter Passing
    Winter Passing plays like two indie movies trapped in one film, and Zooey Deschanel is in the better of them. Will Ferrell is in the other one.
  26. Tag
    What’s most unexpectedly gratifying is how much energy veteran standup director Jeff Tomsic and his splashy cast pour into ensuring that this is legit entertainment, packed with gonzo wit and even some sentiment.
  27. Heart and Souls
    Heart and Souls is a sweet but wispy little comedy of ectoplasm that doesn't give its engaging stars quite enough to do. After a while, you're grateful for the special effects that let the film's quartet of suspended souls fade smoothly in and out while Robert Downey Jr. pretends to let them take turns inhabiting his body. [13 Aug 1993, p.45]
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  28. Migration
    Parents will be tortured by this film. If the whiny adult ducks and their even whinier kids don’t give them a headache, the garish animation will.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Across the Universe
    Hobbled by its vaguely insulting comic-book version of the '60s and by a humorlessness that can only come from talented people convinced they're creating work for the ages.
  30. Harsh Times
    The real problem with Harsh Times is Jim himself. Bale goes at the part with his usual intensity, but the character still seems like a psycho without psychology or a soul.
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