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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
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Being Flynn
    Mostly, though, Being Flynn is memorable for the sight of a once-great actor rousing himself to a performance the movie itself isn't prepared to handle.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lucky Number Slevin
    The most original thing about Lucky Number Slevin is that it lets Lucy Liu play a screwball heroine.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shooter
    A stylish but essentially businesslike smash-and-crasher.
  4. Killing Kasztner
    There’s no question that Kasztner has vastly more significance for the historian. Eckstein, a grim footnote to history, has much more for the artist.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Robin Hood
    This Robin Hood is mostly a smart, muscular entertainment; it doesn’t breathe new life into a genre as did “Gladiator,’’ Scott’s first pairing with Russell Crowe, but it’s a brawny reimagining of a beloved old myth, a period popcorn movie turned out with professionalism and gusto.
  6. The Tigger Movie
    If a long, chilly afternoon needs to be filled, The Tigger Movie won't hurt. But neither will it enchant.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Group
    Is it one of Oprah's book club meetings?
  8. Flightplan
    Doesn't have its heroine's conviction. It'd be better if it had.
  9. RocknRolla
    It's fun to see Tom Wilkinson, for instance, with a massive bald spot virtually eating scenery with a knife and fork.
  10. In Too Deep
    Invigorating excellence.
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  11. Grumpy Old Men
    The trouble with Grumpy Old Men is the patronizing attitude -- ageism, really -- that takes a too-broad approach to their geriatric world and renders it plastic. It is too cute and sanitized to allow its performers much in the way of opportunity.
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Mauritanian
    As directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), it’s a steady, compelling accounting of events that intends to leave you infuriated and succeeds.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Imaginary Heroes
    Weaver's randy, impatient, very funny performance is the main reason to see Imaginary Heroes.
  14. Trolls Band Together
    Though Trolls Band Together mercilessly beats its familiar, tired message about the importance of family into the ground, it’s still surprisingly watchable with plenty of voice and singing talent.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aladdin
    Here’s the thing about Disney’s “live-action” remakes of its animated classics: The new versions may be bigger, louder, and more lavish, but they’ll never be original. The thrill of first impact is gone.
  16. Keeping Mum
    The movie is another of those harmless and politely made dark comedies that the English seem incapable of doing without.
  17. Piranha 3-D
    The film's centerpiece is a massacre at a wet T-shirt contest, which the horror director Alexandre Aja has a good time staging (yes, Eli Roth, we see you with the water gun). But it feels like an imitation of B-movie beach schlock and John Waters. The visual humor lacks wit or nerve.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    John Dies at the End
    This loopy slacker horror farce is so intent on playing with your head — and time, and space, and paranoid conspiracy theories — that it doesn’t care about making sense. Which doesn’t stop the film from being a pretty good bad time.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert
    The point of "the official Muslim comedy tour" is that these guys are ordinary Americans just like you and me. Unfortunately, that extends to a lot of the jokes.
  20. Emancipation
    Had “Emancipation” shaken off its Oscar-baiting “slave movie” shackles and instead gone full-tilt into a vengeance-laden “freedom movie,” it might have worked.
  21. Ma
    This time, the over-the-top craziness that Spencer slyly serves up fills more than just a pie plate.
  22. Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
    If there is potential in a film that ridicules the John Singleton-styled black-men-are-doomed movies like Poetic Justice, Jungle Fever and Straight Out of Brooklyn, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood squanders it on a series of repetitive gags and sexist jokes. [13 Jan 1996, p.28]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vanity Fair
    She has been made lovable -- and a Vanity Fair with a lovable Becky Sharp has no reason to exist. It's as if Shakespeare had put Hamlet on Prozac: What's the point?
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    De-Lovely
    Turns out to be thoughtful, creative, and generally worthy of its subject, with sins that are more of ambition and miscalculation than of execution.
  25. Johnny Suede
    Johnny Suede is too devoid of content to sustain our interest. [19 Sep 1992]
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  26. Monster Hunt
    He (Hui) does not achieve the surreal grandeur of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films, but he has enough imagination and talent to engage his audience on its own level.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Palindromes
    What makes Palindromes bearable is that Solondz has yet to come up with an answer.
  28. We Have a Ghost
    At an outrageously over-long 127 minutes, writer-director Christopher Landon’s adaptation of Geoff Manaugh’s novel “Ernest” feels like a different movie every 15 minutes.
  29. Lilo & Stitch
    Even if I like the film, as I did with “The Little Mermaid,” I still conclude that corporate greed is the sole reason for its existence.
  30. Narrow Margin
    Narrow Margin isn't awful. It's solid and adult, but plodding and dull, rather like a living room filled with the last generation's furniture - not old enough to be considered an interesting antique, yet fundamentally out of touch with the present. It's too reasonable for its own good. [21 Sep 1990, p.44p]
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