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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
    Apres Vous (After You)
    The movie is largely set in a busy Paris restaurant, and, not surprisingly, the food looks terrific. You may come out hungry for poached sea bass and a little starved for drama.
  2. Amateur
    Except for a few coups de style, Amateur is a screenful of cool nothingness. [05 May 1995]
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  3. Hamlet
    It's acceptable Shakespeare - no more arbitrary than most stage productions, especially the willfully anachronistic ones, or the ones with political agendas thrust upon them. [18 Jan 1991]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hysteria
    The problem with Hysteria is that it keeps patting itself and us on the back for knowing better.
  5. We Are Marshall
    The actor's (McConaughey) lovable exuberance is exactly what this heartsick movie needs.
  6. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    The Dawn Treader, like its predecessors, has no real struggle or drama. We're dealing with kids for whom everything comes too easily for us to care.
  7. Penguins of Madagascar
    It’s a movie content to stay within the show’s comfort zone, changing things up mainly with flashier, 3-D visuals, a couple of which are dazzlers, and a theme that doesn’t connect in any notable way.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fatherhood
    Almost as generic as its title, Fatherhood is made real enough to matter by the strength of its performances and the sincerity of its makers.
  9. The Hudsucker Proxy
    The movie seems destined to win a place in the nocturnal-cityscape-hell hall of fame. Its externals are brilliant, but The Hudsucker Proxy is virtually nothing but externals. [25 Mar 1994, p.52]
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  10. The Better Angels
    Humorless, pretentious black-and-white tone poem about a very young Abe Lincoln.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    I'm still not convinced we needed a new Spider-Man series, but at least this installment is interestingly mediocre instead of actively bad.
  12. Focus
    Seems embalmed in its own time, an earnest and handsomely crafted museum piece, not an urgent transposition of Miller's moral outrage to the new century.
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  13. Passionada
    A cheery version of a darker, grislier movie, one in which people like Daniel beat up people like Charlie, girls like Vicky end up in far more compromising positions, and women like Celia turn to Scotch and prescription drugs to cope with their pain.
  14. Enemy at the Gates
    It's too circumscribed and polite for the story it's telling, curiously deficient in the unexpected.
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  15. The Journey
    It is a contrived, bombastic, well-intended failure.
  16. Rent
    It's pedestrian.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Free State of Jones
    The result is rather a mess, but it’s an honorable one, and very much worth wrestling with.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sharp Stick
    Sarah Jo is a slippery protagonist, an oddball, and an enigma. But perhaps tucked within her pure, dovelike disposition is a message about the ways women’s desire can be flattened or overlooked.
  19. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    This is a flavorless adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater's 73-year-old children's book.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Good Woman
    A Good Woman is pretty to look at and fakes witty elegance passably, so consider it a diversion -- a movie that might have been in the Oscar race if the elements had jelled but has instead been properly hung out to dry in February.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Killer Inside Me
    The film is crisply shot, expertly paced, solidly acted, and it gets a goose when Bill Pullman shows up in the late innings as a good-old-boy lawyer. (By contrast, it’s never convincingly explained what stake the union official played by Elias Koteas has in the drama.) All that’s missing is a reason.
  22. The Rocker
    A grubby little redemption comedy that in every way feels like a consignment-shop Jack Black vehicle.
  23. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
    As tiresome as the relentless, indulgent inscrutability and lack of story momentum can be, it says something for the movie’s visceral power that there isn’t an urge to quit on it.
  24. The Tender Bar
    It’s amiable and unpretentious, if also slack and diffuse.
  25. Bachelorette
    Dunst is the realest, rawest thing in the film.
  26. On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
    The fundamental value put forth in Brown’s “Sunday” sequel is not fearlessness but “family.”
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gnomeo and Juliet
    It has its own bizarre charms and a breezy confidence that renders it the very definition of a simple pleasure.
  28. Wanderlust
    This movie has no teeth. It does not want to say anything, other than the unprintable word for penis, over and over.
  29. The Moment
    Unfortunately, director Aidan Zamiri and his co-writer Bertie Brandes are equally bad at mockumentaries and generating suspense.
  30. Deep Water
    For a stylish thriller to work, it needs to be at least a little bit stylish and offer an occasional thrill. Deep Water does neither.
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