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For 7,948 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: 5,230 out of 7948
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7948
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7948
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Creation
    There are good performances and fleeting moments of exquisite moviemaking, but the experience as a whole is an evolutionary dead end.
  2. Father of the Bride
    Martin is lots of friendly fun, proving once again that he is an actor with untapped range and style. Without him, the movie would deflate. [20 Dec 1991, p.54]
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  3. Look Who's Talking
    Before long, it runs out of steam, playing like the pilot for a TV sitcom called "Baby Knows Best." [13 Oct 1989, p.37]
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  4. A Man Called Otto
    As with so many foreign films that get the Americanized treatment, A Man Called Otto is completely defanged, eliminating the dark humor that made the original successful enough to command a remake.
  5. Me Before You
    What’s somewhat unique about Jojo Moyes’s weepie, which the writer scripted from her 2012 bestseller, are the provocative dilemmas it explores to coax those tears.
  6. Free Zone
    A minor movie on a major subject, a drama with an almost unbearable lightness.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fountain
    A noble, shipwrecked folly.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Moog
    For every insight, there are a half-dozen meandering conversations and unguided reminiscences.
  9. Karate Kid: Legends
    Even at a mercifully short 94 minutes, this movie is exhausting. That would be fine if it weren’t also overly sincere, familiar, and dull.
  10. All the Little Animals
    Involvingly acted, surehandedly crafted.
  11. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Sequels and fun don't often coincide, but this time they do.
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Accountant
    The Accountant keeps you hanging on all the way to the looney-toon ending, well past the point where your higher brain functions have called it a night. It’s not a good movie but it’s not a bad way to kill a few hours.
  13. Trolls World Tour
    Fatiguing for grown-ups, “TWT” may well scare, or at least unsettle, kids under 6. And kids much over 6 are likely to tire of the unrelenting cutesiness.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Blueberry Nights
    Music and nostalgia are what fuel all this filmmaker's movies, though, even a half-baked translation like this one.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Bird in a Blizzard
    Only Jane, as the cop who knows exactly what Mrs. Collins’s wayward daughter needs, has the sense of threat the movie is seeking. His and Woodley’s scenes together are dirty and alive.
  16. Broadway Idiot
    This movie doesn’t make the case. In fact, had they upped the absurdity a notch, it would rival the comedy of Christopher Guest’s let’s-put-on-a-show mockumentary, “Waiting for Guffman” (1996). As it stands, it plays like an infomercial.
  17. Fear
    Fear is a formulaic thriller that is like "Cape Fear" meets "Fatal Attraction," or "Splendor in the Grass" on crack, but without a hint of those movies' psychological complexities and camp moments. [12 Apr 1996]
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  18. Yves Saint Laurent
    Frustratingly elusive and seductively louche, Lespert’s “Yves” probes a cryptic myth and a fragile soul, penetrating neither, but conjuring up a taste of Saint Laurent’s suffering, genius and style.
  19. A Little Chaos
    The film is engrossing and entertaining if sometimes trite and manipulative and totally bogus.
  20. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    Good enough, but only just. It's got the hardware, but neither the characters, the imagination, nor the resonance one had hoped for.
  21. Popcorn
    Popcorn is a "Phantom of the Shlopera" - the kind of corny B-movie midnight campers can sink their plastic fangs into. [01 Feb 1991, p.21]
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  22. Predators
    Antal is a professional who respects your dollars. In a season where the blockbusters are as flat as month-old soda, that’s the most romantic gesture a commercial filmmaker can make.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hotel for Dogs
    Hotel for Dogs is agreeable Saturday afternoon multiplex piffle - friendly, formulaic, completely harmless.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Wright
    Just Wright is as formulaic as they come, but at its core is a surprisingly tender romantic drama.
  25. Morning Light
    A fluffy piece of Disney nonfiction.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Program
    The Program is much better than its limited commercials suggest. There are so many ways this film could be awful, a minefield of potential trite plot lines and character-development lapses. Director/co-screenwriter David S. Ward evaded most like a punt returner weaving through would-be tacklers. [24 Sept 1993, p.49]
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  27. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    It plays like a pilot for what I imagine will be network TV's first all-gay sitcom.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Assassination Tango
    Since its maker is one of the least vain of Hollywood actors, it's one that is worthy of indulgence and respect.
  29. The Transporter
    The best movie Steven Seagal never made. Except that Statham, while just as marked for death, is harder to kill.
  30. My Mother Likes Women
    We do learn that love heals and that the movie's title makes a terrifically lewd little rock song. (Thank you, Sol.) But that's about it.
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