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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. Anna and the King
    A big, handsome throwback to star-powered historical costume movies.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Danny Deckchair
    What you might call conditional whimsy, predicated on the audience overlooking so many plot implausibilities that it might get tuckered out from all the charity.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wagner & Me
    To truly appreciate Wagner & Me, a BBC documentary getting a spotty theatrical release in this country, you have to cherish the music of Richard Wagner with the same quivering intensity as host Stephen Fry.
  4. Sabrina
    Sabrina is a nice try that doesn't quite strike the romantic pay dirt it's after, but you won't walk away from it empty-handed. [15 Dec 1995, p.61]
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  5. The Arrival
    A few of the sequences are bad enough to be funny, especially the ones involving Sheen skulking around alien central in a red jump suit, falling down a lot, as if directed by Ed Wood. [31 May 1996, p.52]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    A celebration of a time when secret agents dressed impeccably, bantered with style, and had exceptionally cool toys. That the movie is almost instantly forgettable is part of the pleasure.
  7. The Brave One
    The movie itself isn't nearly as interesting as whatever it is Foster is trying to work out for its two hours.
  8. Wolf Creek
    Wolf Creek is ultimately all about the torture and the trauma. Happy holidays.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    39 Pounds of Love
    '39 Pounds of Love is a heartwarmer that looks away from darker, deeper, and more troubling matters.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Miss Julie
    It’s a handsomely mounted, intentionally claustrophobic film; too claustrophobic over the long haul, with relentless close-ups that constrict the galvanic emotions on display.
  11. Minions
    You’ll have to appreciate what fleeting cleverness you can here.
  12. Wall Street
    Oliver Stone's Wall Street plays like "Platoon" in civvies. It's a good bad movie, unable to muster the moral firepower of the earlier film, but entertaining on the level of a big, bold, biff-bam-pow comic strip that likes high-profile high-rolling more than it perhaps realizes. [11 Dec 1987, p.45]
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  13. Real Steel
    The movie is corny enough to remind you that boxing rings are square.
  14. For No Good Reason
    One of the best things about the documentary is their interaction, as Depp visits Steadman at his home in the English countryside — surely, it has a garden? — watching him draw and paint (and splatter) in his studio while asking him questions about his life and work.
  15. Unknown
    Neeson is much better suited to the loneliness and self-doubt of Martin's crisis than he was for the thuggery of the previous movie.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived
    Most useful and enlightening as a historical tour through the major crises of the Kennedy administration.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rum Diary
    The Rum Diary has been retroactively Hunter S. Thompson-ized. And not for the better.
  18. Ramona and Beezus
    Ramona and Beezus the movie, should not be confused with "Beezus and Ramona'' the book.
  19. Breaking and Entering
    Breaking and Entering is a bourgeois movie full of bourgeois problems presented bourgeoisly.
  20. Bamboozled
    Ends with a fizzle, not a bang.
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  21. Tommy's Honour
    A climactic contest takes place in arctic weather that would rival any New England Patriots playoff game. Had the filmmakers drawn more on this rowdy, hardy spirit, not to mention the hirsute gravitas of Peter Mullan, it might have done justice to its legendary subjects.
  22. Doc Hollywood
    Despite the fact that Doc Hollywood isn't exactly brimful of surprises, it's awfully easy to take because it seems a throwback to the kind of formula movies studios used to grind out by the bushel in the '30s and '40s, relying on a squad of accomplished secondary and character roles to flesh them out agreeably. [02 Aug 1991, p.41]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hereafter
    A multi-character melodrama about the supernatural that's affecting both in spite of and because of its flaws.
  24. Death Becomes Her
    In short, the film lacks the social context that would have enabled Death Becomes Her to take on invigorating breadth and bite. It needs more of the malicious zest that Streep's character has. Its last half is as hollow as its first half is funny. [31 July 1992, p.33]
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  25. The Minus Man
    The sly and subtle Minus Man is a wicked little sidewinder of a black comedy.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    CQ
    Triumphs over its own trendiness only by being vapid and superficial.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    Pure bangers-and-mash realism: a spotty yet ingratiating working-class farce that suggests a Mike Leigh movie with opera buffa tendencies.
  28. Men of Honor
    Just what Gooding needed to restart his stalled career.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Phone Booth
    Short, suspenseful, funny, and profane, the film's a throwback to the neat little B-level thrillers the entertainment industry used to crank out by the dozen in the post- World War II era and the early days of TV.
  30. The Anniversary Party
    Isn't what you'd call a probing film, but it's a slick and savvy one.
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