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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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    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Book Club
    This feeble excuse for a comedy made me angry, and if you have any cherished cinematic feelings for the quartet of actresses at its center, you may feel angry, too.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beowulf & Grendel
    The film is very near a comedy, and I'm not sure that's on purpose.
  3. Alpha Dog
    As it escalates to a nasty conclusion, Alpha Dog doesn't have the moral or emotional weight of tragedy. These aren't the psychologically exploded youths of "Rebel Without a Cause," or even "The Outsiders." They're characters in a long, violent, unbleeped episode of MTV's "Cribs."
  4. Anemone
    Pain plus impatience does not make for a favorable review, even if the film marks the return of one of our greatest living actors.
  5. Mister Lonely
    Korine is finding his way toward artistic greatness by searching his soul. It's possible that the man in the mirror is him.
  6. Ha-Hesder
    Time of Favor, which boasts a haunting score, is an unflinching, complex portrait of a modern Israel that is rarely seen on-screen.
  7. Save the Last Dance
    The most traditional of Hollywood romances, in that it's resolutely about nice people with nice problems.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ella Enchanted
    The producers of Ella Enchanted probably assume, correctly, that many more kids haven't read the book than have, and they're out to give that audience a slick, shallow good time.
  9. The Blind Side
    Bullock’s levelheaded acting frequently saves the movie from emotional garishness.
  10. Soul Surfer
    The best moments come when Robb's all-purpose toughness experiences vulnerable doubt. These moments are flickers, but they're bright and human.
  11. Bad Shabbos
    Thank goodness for Method Man, who understood the assignment and made the film watchable and fun whenever Jordan showed up. When he isn’t on screen, “Bad Shabbos” is a mediocre movie.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey
    In the end, that debate might not matter, anyway. What makes Don’t Stop Believin’  work is that we’re along for every step of Pineda’s journey, from his not-so-stunning first day of auditioning to his performances in front of huge crowds to his backstage massages from a masseuse (presumably the band’s).
  13. 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Book Thief
    The film is unobjectionable, sentimental, and not a little dull.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Delicacy
    "Unpredictable'' is one adjective you could use to describe the new Audrey Tautou movie, Delicacy. Others might be "charming,'' "offbeat,'' "droll.'' "Unfocused'' and "underwhelming'' also apply.
  16. In the Mouth of Madness
    In the Mouth of Madness is firmly lodged in the armpit of boredom. [03 Feb 1995, p.55]
    • Boston Globe
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nancy Drew
    The movie's fodder for tweener girls with indiscriminate Nick TV addictions, but there's just enough wit on display to make you realize it could have been worse.
  18. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    “Axel F” is a joyless affair, a mediocre simulacrum that made me long for the original.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Knight of Cups
    Lubezki is arguably this movie’s secret star, and he invests the movie’s Los Angeles settings with the strangeness and newness of a NASA rover traveling across Mars.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    30 Days of Night
    A proficient, atmospheric fangfest that does nothing you haven't seen before but still does it passably well.
  21. Irrational Man
    In the end, this feeble effort remains tainted, however unfairly, by the creator’s personal life. Maybe Allen should have titled it “Rationalizing Man.”
  22. Sex and the City
    For the moment, King has restored women to their rightful place in a genre that is nothing without them. But, sadly, that genre isn't romantic comedy. It's the chick flick.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goal! The Dream Begins
    Handsomely shot and with a likable lead in Kuno Becker, it also suffers from a script so outrageously generic you could buy it at Costco.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Promise
    Has a daft sweep, and if you're in the mood for empty swordplay in baroque settings, purple dialogue delivered with straight faces, and romantic yearnings that never, ever resolve, The Promise may be your cup of oolong.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
    Arriving with a blockbuster sound and fury that has been dialed up to 11, the movie is a dismayingly safe act of franchise closure. In terms of pure narrative, it’s satisfying. What it very rarely is is inspired.
  26. The Handmaid's Tale
    Dutifully bleak, suitably oppressive, the film delivers Atwood's desolate who-owns-our-bodies? indictment with intelligence and probity. [09 Mar 1990, p.25p]
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  27. The Color Wheel
    You can feel the movie building away from the whiny comedy and toward something more emotionally raw then something sexually weird.
  28. Balloon
    Balloon manages to combine slickness and sentimentality, predictability and implausibility. The fact that it’s based on a true story — the closing credits include photographs of the actual families — does not make up for the amassing of red herrings, close calls, and occasions for head-scratching.
  29. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    This is by far the most embarrassing of his seven movies.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Quarantine
    Like "Blair Witch," Quarantine uses the conceit of a movie-within-a-movie to give documentary immediacy to its assorted grotesqueries.
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