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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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    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thor: The Dark World
    Has its moments of visual invention and self-aware humor — mostly when the hero’s trickster brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is around — but otherwise it’s an awkwardly plotted extravaganza.
  2. 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.
  3. Stuart Saves His Family
    Franken's feel-good inanities make you laugh, but the insipid script in which they're embedded lacks the courage of its satiric convictions. [12 Apr 1995, p.90]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lonesome Jim
    Humor in 'Jim' is a little too dry.
  5. The Last Stand
    Kim doesn't sweat interweaving his story threads in any tightly controlled way. Just when the need-for-speed stuff really starts to gain traction, he'll shift for a surprisingly lengthy stretch to comic relief with the deputies and local wacko Johnny Knoxville.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thanks for Sharing
    See Steve McQueen’s “Shame” (2011) if you want a sense of how destructive this sickness can be to the soul. See Thanks for Sharing if you want to know what people can do about it.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
    Captures a shadowy scene.
  8. Angela's Ashes
    While the film dutifully reproduces many incidents from the book, it lacks the spirit and vitality of its source. And - no small problem - it lacks McCourt's voice knitting the vignettes together.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zack Snyder's Justice League
    Is all the sound and fury worthwhile, the four years of championing, the four hours up on the screen? To the fans who’ve been in it for the long haul, of course. To HBO Max executives, you bet. To casual moviegoers, probably not.
  10. Joe Bell
    The movie’s heart is completely in the right place, which, frankly, can make it a bit of a chore to watch. Moral righteousness makes the world a better place, but filmic it’s not.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    One roots for Lucas to get the next film sorted out, and to resurrect the humanity and soul that first made so many fall in love a long time ago with that galaxy far, far away.
  12. Kung Fu Panda 4
    I enjoyed the first three adventures of the Dragon Warrior, but the best thing he can do now is to give this series a much needed skadoosh, sending it to rest in the cinematic spirit realm.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Battle in Seattle
    The chief culprits are Townsend's TV-movie characterizations and a very muddled message.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jersey Boys
    Behind the familiar hits, Jersey Boys is a story about the pressures and rewards of professionalism. Far too little of that has made it into this biopic. It’s just too mediocre to be true.
  15. Effie Gray
    Though programmatic in its plotting, “Effie” does aspire to obliqueness in its imagery. In “Mr. Turner,” Leigh evokes the painter of the title in the film’s stunning visuals. In “Effie,” the pseudo-medieval lushness and literalness of the Pre-Raphaelites permeates much of cinematography by Andrew Dunn.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    The film version of Memoirs of a Geisha is very like a geisha itself: a thing of exquisitely refined surfaces beneath which beats an ordinary heart.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Battle for Terra
    Please, moviegoers, time is running out for us. Our civilization (and bottom line) depend on fast-food kiddie meals stuffed with toys. In this way, we conquer the solar system.
  18. Hidalgo
    Like most movies about men and horses, Hidalgo spares no expense in matters of corniness. Set in the 1890s, it's sort of a throwback movie, executed with the boyish kick of dusty old cowboy matinees.
  19. The Brady Bunch Movie
    The genius - and there is a cockeyed genius permeating "The Brady Bunch" - is that it nails the entrapment and anxiety beneath the happy faces as unmistakably as the films of Douglas Sirk did the decade before. [17 Feb 1995, p.41]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Art School Confidential
    Zwigoff's overdue for a turkey, in other words. Art School Confidential is it.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ricki and the Flash
    Because Demme genuinely likes people and is interested in them, Ricki and the Flash feels like “Stella Dallas” as remade by Jean Renoir — it’s a humanist suburban fable.
  22. So I Married an Axe Murderer
    The buzz was negative on So I Married an Axe Murderer, but the buzz was wrong. Mike Myers' new comedy isn't quite as fresh and bubbly and goofy as "Wayne's World," but it's hip, lively fun, with only a slight bit of sag. [30 July 1993, p.29]
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  23. Sparkle
    It's a better movie than what's inspired it, but that fails to explain much. It's like preferring the line at the concession stand to the one for the bathroom.
    • 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.
  25. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
    It’s the kind of outrageous comedy that you might even take your folks to, though probably not your kids. Say what you will about Harmony Korine and his demented geriatrics, at least they take their trash seriously.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    10 Items or Less
    10 Items or Less is nearly an acting class exercise, except for the fact that these two have long since graduated.
  27. 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goodbye Christopher Robin
    A stuffy, treacly, overproduced slab of High British twaddle, it nevertheless reduced most of a recent preview audience to what the film itself calls “blubbing.” Even a flinthearted movie critic could be seen to dab his eyes from time to time.
  29. 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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  30. 12 Strong
    Danish photojournalist-turned-director Nicolai Fuglsig channels his experience into a credibly stark snapshot of war, one that helps audiences further grasp why the region has been so hellishly problematic for American troops.
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