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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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    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pirate Radio
    Writer-director Richard Curtis (“Love Actually’’) has made a party, not a movie, and if the party goes on much too long, at least the guests are great company and the host’s taste in music is impeccable.
  2. 44 Inch Chest
    It’s a stagy, half-entertaining, half-tedious acting competition between five excellent Englishmen.
  3. Zelary
    This is just humble, heartwarming storytelling with good acting and lush visuals.
  4. Cursed
    Marks a return to a not-so-distant time when horror movies weren't soul-rotting atrocities but just enjoyably bad.
  5. Crime Wave
    This one is a tensely clammy screw-tightener about an ex-con (Gene Nelson) pressured to become part of a bank heist. No cop ever chewed a toothpick better than Sterling Hayden does here. [07 Jan 1996, p.C31]
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  6. Trixie
    There are so many wonderful moments in Trixie and so few films like it that you wish Rudolph had given it a few more rewrites.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    It’s a secondhand vision, when all is said and done, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing when the craft is rapturous.
  8. Terraferma
    The story gets both complicated and predictable.
  9. 1408
    As thrillers go, 1408 leaves too much room for fun.
    • 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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Definitely, Maybe
    Maybe writer-director Adam Brooks has made a fluffy Woody Allen pastiche here, but it's arguably more pleasing than anything Allen himself has done lately.
  12. Alita: Battle Angel
    For all of Alita’s she-Pinocchio charm — and her Cameronian estrogen-charged badass-itude — she can’t quite carry the audience all the way across that pesky uncanny valley.
  13. Peeples
    Despite the derivativeness, Chism shows talent and shrewd instincts in the timing and direction of the comedy — she handles the requisite dinner table disaster scene with aplomb.
  14. A Walk in the Clouds
    It's a lyrical, gorgeous, big-budget follow-up to "Like Water for Chocolate," and it's easy to take. It's easier still to fall in with the movie's openheartedness, its generosity of spirit. [11 Aug 1995, p.45]
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  15. Kinky Boots
    Not since ''Mannequin on the Move" has a flamboyant black man brought so much fabulousness to stiff white heterosexuals.
    • 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.
  17. Fast X
    Fast X is watchable, and its car chases are often exciting, but it’s not as satisfying as the best F&F movies (“Fast and Furious 6,” “Furious 7,″ and the extremely ridiculous “F9″). Part of the problem is Dante.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Group
    Is it one of Oprah's book club meetings?
  19. To the Arctic
    More storytelling and less preaching would have served those messages better.
  20. Stargate
    It works not because ridiculousness is concealed, but because ridiculousness on this scale becomes something else. Don't let anyone tell you that Stargate, lifeless script and all, isn't clunky fun, proudly trembling on the brink of classic camp. [28 Oct 1994, p.48]
    • Boston Globe
  21. Think Like a Man
    It's not much of a part for Henson. None of these characters makes real-world sense. They're walking chapter outlines.
  22. Shelter
    Shelter is a gay movie like other American gay movies. Boy meets boy. Boy comes out. Boys fight opposition. Opposition caves. If there's life beyond the closet, too few movies know it exists.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kitchen Stories
    If you've ever staggered out of IKEA oppressed by the clean, inhuman lines of a thousand affordable dinette sets, you may get a kick out of Bent Hamer's comedy Kitchen Stories.
  24. Damsels in Distress
    These are women who seemed raised on Louisa May Alcott and might have been aspirationally besotted with Jane Austen. But you sense tragedy looming. They're hurtling, inexorably, toward Tennessee Williams.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist
    It’s a simple story, really, but Nair mucks it up with the hot-button suspense of the framing scenes: surging crowds and rooftop standoffs, panicky cellphone calls and crackling walkie-talkies.
  26. Sky High
    A squeaky clean, family-friendly comedy that merely sounds like an unreleased Cheech and Chong romp.
  27. Popcorn
    Popcorn is a "Phantom of the Shlopera" - the kind of corny B-movie midnight campers can sink their plastic fangs into. [01 Feb 1991, p.21]
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  28. Always at The Carlyle
    Though sometimes it seems like a promotional video, the film offers a glimpse into the vagaries of class, culture, celebrity, and social mores since the hotel was first established back in 1930.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young Journeys
    Neil Young Journeys is easily the least of the three documentaries director Jonathan Demme has made with the legendary rocker; but in its shaggy, eccentric way, it may be the truest.
  30. Terminator: Dark Fate
    What we’re left with, then, is yet another “Terminator” far easier to appreciate for isolated bits of inspiration than for any stroke of genius it manages overall.
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