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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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Music and Lyrics
    In the end, the movie's just the kind of enjoyably empty-headed fluff it celebrates and mocks. It sits up, it begs, eventually it plays dead, and still you want to pat it on the head. It's a good dog.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Black or White
    Despite the best of intentions, a career-best performance from Kevin Costner, and outstanding work by Octavia Spencer and child actor Jillian Estell, Black or White succumbs to some of the same stereotypes it tries to dispel.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Transit
    This is a movie that wants to reflect the limbo of war refugees and the greater limbo of life itself — the circles we run in while believing we’re walking a straight line. It does so with a precise, observant tone that’s cool, sometimes cruel, and ultimately coldly reductive.
  4. World's Greatest Dad
    It takes a while for the movie to build to its wicked possibilities and only a few scenes to squander them.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    IF
    IF is nonetheless an enjoyable watch, and a surprisingly gentle one, despite its bumbling cast of fiends, rascals, and other overlooked creatures.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Protocols of Zion
    May be the most successful forgery in the history of hate.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Le petit lieutenant
    You can sense Baye's struggling within the limits imposed on her. In her own way, she can convey the heat of a Penelope Cruz, the power of Mirren, the barely contained madness of Judi Dench -- but not here. They're just not on the beat she's been given.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    American Pie 2
    Is this movie over the top? Definitely. Better than the original? Definitely not.
  9. Henry Fool
    Writing ignites miracles in Henry Fool, and Hartley's exquisite control over his compositions and pacing makes the outrages, biological and otherwise, funnier than you might believe. [01 Jul 1998]
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  10. The Gentlemen
    It’s a diverting if slightly undercooked throwback that could offer more genuine intrigue, but that’s still worth it to see the cast gamely chuck out the window manners and vanity.
  11. Project Almanac
    One of the advantages of time travel in a found-footage film is that it makes the chronology and causality so confusing that the problem of who’s shooting what becomes secondary. On the other hand, it doesn’t allow fast-forwarding through all the boring bits. For starters, I could have done with far less Lollapalooza.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Aftermath
    Throughout, Knightley gives this genteel silliness conviction, grace, heart, and nerve. Sarsgaard gives it smolder and sex appeal. And sometimes, dear reader, that’s all a movie needs.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Devil's Rejects
    A blood-smeared and almost completely scurrilous love letter to anyone who ever appeared in the junk movies of the '60s through '80s.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bubble
    Bubble is a stunt in search of a movie, and it almost finds one.
  15. All the Pretty Horses
    To paraphrase Andre Malraux, it invokes but it doesn't always supply, doesn't course strongly enough with the book's themes of blood and earth and dislocation.
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  16. The Worst Person in the World
    Visually, it’s the experience of falling in love turned inside out. “The Worst Person in the World” is showing how it looks to feel like the only couple in the world.
  17. Outbreak
    it's an OK genre movie, providing an honest quota of scares and carried by Hoffman's way of alternating stoniness and warmth as the guy in the anticontamination suit. [10 Mar 1995, p.49]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Town
    Someone once said about W.C. Fields that he had the rare ability to despise amusingly. I can imagine no greater compliment than to say that Ricky Gervais seems, at his best, like a young Fields.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cote d'Azur
    A broad, bawdy, silly French farce set on the Riviera in high season, it's a diversion at best and a strained souffle at worst, but it rings enough Gallic changes on the old family-summer-gone-horribly-wrong genre to deliver some unexpectedly sharp laughs.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pick of the Litter
    “Pick” often feels like a project that has been overly groomed. Will you still be moved to tears? Most likely.
  21. Invincible
    Is a mellowed Herzog to be believed?
  22. XXY
    The grown-ups in Lucia Puenzo's XXY are a glum lot.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    About Adam
    In a moralistic time, About Adam is something of an anomaly, as it airily sticks to its pro-naughtiness agenda.
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Good, the Bad, the Weird
    It’s a lot of fun before it wears you out, and it wears you out sooner than it should.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Grace Card
    More drama than tract, it's a low-budget Christian indie that just clears the runway on the sincerity of its performances and inclusiveness of its message.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wackness
    Disappointingly, the movie runs along the track of many earlier coming-of-age dramas, with appointed station stops at Cynicism, Puppy Love, Puppy Sex, Puppy Heartbreak, and Greater Wisdom.
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  27. Risky Business
    Risky Business is the sleeper of the summer. It's a refreshing change from the usual dumb teenage ripoffs, the slickest American film since "Trading Places" and "War Games," and a strong directorial debut for Paul Brickman, who knows his way around teen fantasies. [05 Aug 1983]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Kite Runner
    I'm of two minds about this. A movie that held on to all the breathless tearjerkery of the novel would probably have to star Bette Davis as Amir, but as amended by Forster the story is now touching and somewhat dull.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsters vs Aliens
    If you have to see Monsters vs. Aliens - and if you're a parent, you will have to - make sure it's the 3-D version.
  30. Hail Satan?
    Goofy is easy. Earnest is easy in a different way. Disturbing is both easy and hard. They’re all dissimilar, and Hail Satan? has lots of all three.
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