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For 7,949 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 0.9 points 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: 5,230 out of 7949
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7949
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7949
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Can Do Bad All by Myself
    It’s the best Tyler Perry movie to date - the writer/director/actor/mogul’s most confident and competent mixture of uplifting black middle-class melodrama and low-down comedy.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    Because its gaze is so level and so unyielding, it stands as one of the better dramatic films made on this subject (although it's not nearly as fine as Louis Malle's "Au Revoir les Enfants."
  3. The Truth About Charlie
    The closer you get to sorting out the truth, the less likely you are to believe it, let alone comprehend it. The latter half of this movie is as outlandish as a Mexican soap opera.
  4. Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin hardly trusts you to follow its story, opening with the murder, then a series of titles that explain what's to follow.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    P.S.
    Contains more than its share of implausibilities and absurdities.
  6. Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
    Brain Candy may be too safe a venture for the Kids in the Hall, but it still has more oddball charm than most Lorne Michaels-produced comedy on the big screen. [12 Apr 1996, p.68]
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  7. 8: The Mormon Proposition
    A deeply felt, and numbingly partisan, documentary about how the Mormon Church both bankrolled and masterminded passage of the initiative.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    2 Guns
    The movie has style but increasingly little sense.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Legend
    Legend is more than a gimmick, but not quite enough. The movie’s a testament to the Krays’ ability to get away with everything — for a while, anyway. But it’s better evidence of Tom Hardy’s ability to do just about anything.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Don't Come Knocking
    The finest scene in Don't Come Knocking is its quietest...The movie could have used a lot more of it.
  11. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    Maybe my priorities are wrong, but this inquiring mind wants to know when these two will find a movie entirely worthy of his understatement and her naughtiness. This one has its moments, but it's also littered with action-flick junk.
  12. Mao's Last Dancer
    The ballets are badly filmed. The camera shoots them often from the point of view of the patrons in the auditorium or in a way that dishonors the choreography.
  13. Safe
    Writer-director Boaz Yakin delivers his conflicting elements mostly as intended, and with obvious ambition. But he fails to take care of certain fundamentals - most problematically, coaxing out the emotion he's seeking from Statham and young newcomer Catherine Chan.
  14. The Visit
    It’s vintage Shyamalan, with a twist.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nim's Island
    8- to 12-year-olds will have a good time, and you'll have a good time watching them have a good time. Otherwise, the film's an oddity.
  16. Megalopolis
    That the director spent 40 years trying to make this worthless, 138-minute hot mess shocks me to no end. “Megalopolis” plays as if every iota of this once-great filmmaker’s talent got sold along with his vineyard.
  17. The Hundred-Foot Journey
    Unfortunately, this is one movie about food that I’m forgetting already.
  18. Darshan: The Embrace
    According to several sojourners who speak in the film, Amma is the embodiment of love. And according to her website, it's her religion, too.
  19. Aquaman
    Aquaman’s first glimpse of Atlantis is meant to convey wonder, but mostly there’s a sense of digitally over-busy déjà vu, as we’re reminded of more inventively designed fantasyscapes in “Thor,” “Avatar” and so on.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
    The lack of a credible external perspective beyond the narrative provided by Glass, his friends, family, and associates, makes the film feel too cozy.
  21. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
    As a movie, it’s a mess — and lazy, too.
  22. Irina Palm
    Doesn't deliver on a lot of fronts. But then again it gives us full-on Faithfull, who manages to bare herself completely without ever actually getting undressed.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Actually
    Charming, if terribly overstuffed, vision of romantic London gridlock.
  24. 3
    It's a funny, fearless, suspenseful sex comedy that, in drawing on science and philosophy and art and death, risks accusations of pretentiousness. But, even in its romantic idealism, the movie proceeds according to recognizable rhythms of how some people live.
  25. Viktoria
    Vitkova brings a distinct gender sensibility to her story, especially with her recurring imagery of milk and blood.
  26. The Gambler
    It’s just like the Kenny Rogers song says: “You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em.” It’s time for this Gambler to walk away.
  27. The Flash
    The action gets increasingly overblown, even by superhero-movie standards. Bad as smash-crash-bash can be, portentous smash-crash-bash is far worse.
  28. Casa de los babys
    Sayles seems to be trying, single-handedly, to correct centuries of First World self-centeredness in Third World contexts.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Starsky & Hutch
    Stealing the movie, however, is rapper Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear, the pimp/informant originally portrayed by Antonio Fargas on the TV show.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beloved
    At 40, Mastroianni is looking more and more like her father, Marcello Mastroianni. She has his eyes and that air of existential befuddlement, and she's beginning to suggest the magnificent ruin he became in his later career.
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