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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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    • 88 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Diva
    What has aged well in Diva is the grave beauty of that aria and the wry, painterly camera shots - you should see the new print for the colors alone - conceived by Beineix but executed by the great French cinematographer Philippe Rousselot. They're enough to tide us over and maybe convince the kids that hip date movies existed back when their parents and dinosaurs roamed the earth.
  2. Normal
    Normal, as you’ve no doubt gathered by now, is pretty abnormal, and the extended reveal of the abnormality wastes much of what was good about the first half of the movie.
  3. Hamlet
    Ahmed gives his all, but it’s not enough to elevate this version above near-miss status.
  4. Obsession
    The screenplay tries to say something about female autonomy and male selfishness, yet the film plays like an overlong, 108-minute riff on the old reliable stand-up routine subject “girlfriends be crazy” that never subverts the trope.
  5. H Is for Hawk
    The flashbacks and overbearing music serve as this film’s emotional core, and the result rings false and superficial.
  6. 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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  7. I Swear
    Along with an equally superb Scott Ellis Watson, who plays Davidson as a teenager, Aramayo is the best thing in this movie. Unfortunately, the rest of it is Biopic 101, which at times makes the story feel too simplistic and thin.
  8. Undercard
    It’s the kind of movie my 2½-star rating was invented for; that is, a movie that’s interesting enough to put me on the ropes for several rounds before dropping its hands and getting knocked out.
  9. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    Very little of it is as persuasive or enveloping as its beloved English counterpart. But it works very hard to distract 11-year-olds from thinking about the November arrival of “The Deathly Hallows.’’
  10. From Paris with Love
    This is the sort of asinine action exercise that needs a star to blow up cars and leap from rooftop to rooftop with gusto.
  11. Dear John
    Unfortunately for Tatum and Seyfried, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams did a far more convincing version of this same basic dance in “The Notebook.’’
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Book of Eli
    The Book of Eli is “The Road’’ with twice the plot, four times the ammunition, and half the brains; it’ll probably make 10 times the money.
  13. Darkness Falls
    So much schlock and melodrama find their way into Darkness Falls that when an exasperated character shouts near the end ''All this over a [expletive] tooth!,'' you know how he feels.
  14. Nine
    The movie is full of risible pontifications about the nature of art but falls well short of capturing the angst of creative frustration.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    2012
    The result is a state-of-the-art multiplex three-ring circus whose special effects stagger the senses and play like a video game, whose human drama aims for the cosmic and lands waist-deep in the Big Silly.
  16. The Idiots
    Von Trier's The Idiots is both lively and juvenile.
    • Boston Globe
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Surrogates
    A reasonably watchable sci-fi B movie, a case of a good director and some intriguing ideas struggling to overcome formula plotting, limp dialogue, and a serious case of the sillies.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Men Who Stare at Goats
    You can’t make this stuff up, but you can botch the telling of it, and that’s what sinks this satiric drama.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Invention of Lying
    With The Invention of Lying, the British comic actor Ricky Gervais has come up with a wickedly funny idea for a movie - and then purged the wickedness right out of it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Paranormal Activity
    Even at 85 minutes, the movie contains maybe 50 minutes that scare.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    The result isn’t art but it is an improvement: a scurrilous, lowdown, sub-Tarantino action comedy that, unlike the original, doesn’t make you want to claw your eyes out. How’s that for praise?
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Where the first film’s director, Catherine Hardwicke, plugged into Meyer’s vision of supernatural teenage lust with abandon, Chris Weitz is stuck with a sequel that’s a morning-after mope-fest.
  23. Brothers
    This is a corny tale, told with both generous helpings of deli-sliced cheese and a brief stretch of chilling tumultuousness.
  24. Saint John of Las Vegas
    The best thing about Saint John of Las Vegas is that it makes you really appreciate guys like David Lynch and Joel and Ethan Coen.
  25. New York, I Love You
    New York, I Love You wants us to know that the city is a sexy, romantic, thrillingly random place where anything can go down. Sadly, two of those things are your eyelids.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Public Enemies
    The parts, in other words, promise a brilliant whole. So why is this movie one of the signal disappointments of the year? You have to go back to the basics: Public Enemies has everything going for it except a reason and a script.
  27. Cop Out
    Cop Out seems aptly named. It’s not personal. It’s barely even a movie. It’s a fire hydrant that the director and his stars use for exterior shots.
  28. Adventureland
    Harmless enough, but "indie comedy" sounds like something better seen at Urban Outfitters than at a movie theater.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Funny People
    What’s best about Funny People, actually, is Sandler, who takes the weird, resentful anger that has always coursed beneath his comedy and puts it right on the surface.
  30. Everybody's Fine
    Once it’s clear the movie won’t be deviating at all from its formula, Frank’s journey gets tedious.
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