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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. The Infiltrator
    The movie’s best moments illustrate the lines that Mazur won’t cross, plus a few that he will.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Notebook
    An elegantly made, almost unbearably depressing tale of WWII-era deprivation and survival.
  3. A Cure for Wellness
    It is at least 10 movies in one, some of them ingenious parodies, but all adding up to a cluttered, confused anticlimax.
  4. Corpus Christi
    Even when events get intense, even violent, and they do, there’s nothing abrupt. Corpus Christi never erupts. It unfolds.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Man Who Copied
    What could have been an effervescent 90-minute experience is so in love with the sound of its own voice that it develops genre trouble and piddles on for two-plus hours.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghostbusters
    The movie is genial, sloppy, slightly above average summer movie fun.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On the Rocks
    It’s an agreeable diversion.
  8. Allied
    What Allied increasingly offers is insincere sincerity: As the emotional quotient rises, so does the phoniness.
  9. Teeth
    Teeth is the "Incredible Hulk" of sex satires.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    True History of the Kelly Gang
    He (Kurzel) wants this “true history” to be a Rorschach blot of Australia’s national psychology, but he’s made something closer to splatter art instead.
  11. Beast
    To the movie’s credit, it tries to balance action and thrills with domestic conflict. Perhaps not surprisingly, the family stuff feels seriously subsidiary to the scary stuff. Beast is going through the motions with father-daughter tension. The humans-as-prey tension, that’s a different story.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsters
    Monsters is a genuine curio: a moody, low-budget road-movie romance that takes place against a background of alien invasion.
  13. Lbs.
    The movie Bonifacio and Famiglietti have made is much better as a bittersweet family portrait. But those in search of a mirror for their own weight issues will find a deluxe one here.
  14. Bears
    As with all of Disneynature’s features, there’s astonishing documentary work on display in Bears — but a leaner, less conspicuously structured view of the wild might have had even greater impact.
  15. Hands of Stone
    The highlight is Duran and Arcel’s bonding in the corner between rounds. We’ll take more of this revealing brand of drama anytime.
  16. The Wicker Man
    As it is, LaBute has cleverly repurposed his creepy source material. This Wicker Man, which wasn't screened for critics, is a nutty atonement for the gender assaults of his filmmaking and playwriting past, including "In the Company of Men," "Your Friends & Neighbors," and "The Shape of Things."
  17. Annihilation
    As a portfolio of visionary images of surreal landscapes and hallucinatory flora and fauna, the movie sometimes dazzles. But as a metaphorical narrative, it often fizzles.
  18. The Indian Runner
    It's got flaws, but, more important, it's keenly felt and it boils off the screen with urgency. [13 Dec 1991, p.66]
    • Boston Globe
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Little
    It’s silly-sweet rather than silly-stupid, the script has enough snap to count, and – really, now – it allows us to spend time with Issa Rae.
  20. Remembering Gene Wilder
    The documentary really lays on the praise and sentiment. That may not be unusual in such an enterprise, but it gets tired sooner rather than later.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Tale of Love and Darkness
    She (Portman) has filmed the book according to its emotional meaning to her, and that’s fine. What she hasn’t done is whip it into shape as a compelling movie.
  22. The Captain
    The Captain pretends to be a serious movie about the banality of evil; sometimes, despite itself, it is.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    For Ellen
    It has a sense of drift that both vexes and beguiles.
  24. Seasons
    The voice-over narrator (Perrin) recites environmentally pious platitudes that offer little enlightenment about what’s on the screen. This is annoying when something strange and unfamiliar is being shown.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Two Lovers
    The storytelling here is at times as awkward as its hero, and since it is a Gray film Two Lovers takes itself dreadfully seriously. Yet it's one of the few movies I've seen recently that improves on a second viewing, in part because Phoenix does such remarkably subtle work.
  26. Finding Vivian Maier
    The chief problem is the documentary’s misapprehension of the artistic personality.
  27. The Matador
    Shepard's Matador demonstrates what an Almodovar picture would feel like without his gonzo sensibility. It's Almodovar for heterosexuals.
  28. The Darjeeling Limited
    You have to admire that someone thought it’d be cool to assemble three of the movies’ most fascinating noses for a 90-minute romp.
  29. 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]
    • Boston Globe
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    Just rent the kid ''National Velvet" when you get home. That movie's proof you don't need a true story to be inspired.
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