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For 7,947 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 1.1 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. McQueen
    Bonhôte and Ettedgui leave viewers winded from the pace of the ascent. But much the way we know that there was a rise, we also know a fall is imminent. This is where McQueen wobbles.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Black Stallion
    Generations from now, when people talk about horse movies, they won't be talking about "National Velvet" or "My Friend Flicka," they'll be talking about the majestic beauty of Carroll Ballard's The Black Stallion. [07 Feb 1980]
    • Boston Globe
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Booksmart
    Booksmart registers as an instant classic that doesn’t reinvent the genre so much as refurbish it from within, and it matters very much that the writers, director, and stars are all women. Also that they’re having a hell of a good time.
  4. Lantana
    Haunting, powerfully acted, penetratingly written, it's about people coming home -- and not coming home -- to their marriages.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    Remembered for being the best Boston movie of all time. [27 Feb 2005]
    • Boston Globe
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Séraphine
    What Moreau does with this role is as inscrutably moving as anything Séraphine Louis painted.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    49 Up
    No matter their wealth or social status, these people share disappointments and elations and a sense that life, in the end, may be what life is about.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    The movie’s a social history, a love story, and a call to arms. It’s very sad and it’s very good.
  9. The Joy Luck Club
    The Joy Luck Club is "Terms of Endearment" in quadruplicate, aimed at the heart and right on target. [24 Sept 1993, p.47]
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  10. American Beauty
    Spacey is diamond-brilliant in a role that plays as if custom-made for him.
  11. Far From Heaven
    This is a love letter from one auteur to another that doesn't feel like a term paper. Instead, Far From Heaven is an honest-to-God drama with resonance all its own.
  12. No Man's Land
    From beginning to end, it bristles with ironies in classic Eastern European absurdist style.
    • Boston Globe
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    An epic film in every respect.
  14. Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
    Another complex and magnificently acted melodrama.
  15. Is God Is
    [Harris’s] Southern Gothic story of domestic violence, and the repercussions of revenge, has the aura of Greek tragedy and the darkest heart of neo-noir. Its soul is an unapologetic howl of Black female rage represented by the superb lead performances of Kara Young and Mallori Johnson.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    War Witch
    War Witch deals with a reality so horrific that the film’s touches of magical realism are welcome, even necessary — the only way to retain one’s bearings and sanity in a world without signposts.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Toy Story 4
    A hugely entertaining and emotionally resonant pleasure for audiences of all ages.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Winnipeg
    Maddin's Winnipeg is a rich, funky, funny stew of fears and desires, of mangled civic chronology mashed up with hothouse private emotions. This is a secret history, and it's a wonder.
  19. The White Ribbon
    The ends remain loose in The White Ribbon.’ But that lack of closure is thrilling. Haneke lays his movie and its mysteries at our feet, leaving us to ask, “What in tarnation?’’
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Heights
    Like a cool lemon ice on a blistering summer day, In the Heights feels like a reward.
  21. Fire of Love
    A remarkable subject, the Kraffts cry out for a remarkable filmmaker.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Oslo, August 31st
    The surface of Oslo, August 31st is as cool and crystalline as a Scandinavian lake, but at its core is a benevolence for the life we all share and tears for the man who can no longer share in it.
  23. Hamnet
    Love it or hate it, “Hamnet” will get a response out of you that you won’t easily shake. I was equally moved and horrified, and I loved every minute of it. As Hamlet would say, the rest is silence.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Witch
    This startling, assured feature debut from New Hampshire-born, Brooklyn-based writer-director Robert Eggers has one foot in early American history and another in legend and fairy tale.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Looper
    With Looper, Johnson proves he can finesse the most complicated notions and visual setups his mind can imagine. It's the simple things that still elude him.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Graduation
    It’s the latest from Cristian Mungiu, one of the leading lights of the New Romanian Cinema and the director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” by general critical consensus one of the finest films of the new millennium. Graduation is a more quietly damning drama; it doesn’t eviscerate you like the earlier movie but instead sticks with you like a nagging doubt.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kubo and the Two Strings
    The movie is genuinely creative, genuinely outside-the-box, and often genuinely scary; parents of toddlers and nightmare-prone children are herewith warned.
  28. The Other Side of Hope
    More than an hour passes before Khaled and Wikström’s stories intersect, and though it would be an exaggeration to say each redeems the other, in this film the other side of hope is not despair, but decency.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Vast of Night
    Yet not only does this bares-bones “Close Encounters” make a virtue out of found locations and empty night-time streets, it has the confidence of a story sure in its telling. It feels original.
  30. Old Joy
    Kurt and Mark's trip to those hot springs is a figurative return to Eden. Anyone who's had a disillusioning reunion with a moony old friend knows what Mark discovers: They're too old to stay that innocent. None of this hit me until after the movie ended. But it hit me hard: You can't go home again.
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