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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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    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Letters to Juliet
    The larger problem is that the central duo is just plain dull.
  2. The Island
    Bay's strength as a filmmaker, the reason his superficial yet entertaining productions can never be completely ignored, is that he appears to lack shame. He'll blow anything up and run anybody over. The moral complexities don't matter to him. He just wants to stage spectacles, appreciate very good-looking people, and assert his cowboy aesthetic.
  3. Lottery Ticket
    There are some amusing looks at the elation - and panic - that come with winning big, from the praise-Jesus swooning of Kevin's grandma (underutilized Loretta Devine).
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ten
    The Ten is a virtually snicker-free exercise in audience pain. It's less a movie than an endurance test.
  5. You People
    Director Kenya Barris, who also co-wrote the script with Jonah Hill, intended to make an edgy, race-based cringe comedy; the result is afraid of its own shadow. This Netflix release commits an even bigger sin by wasting the considerable comedic talents of former “Saturday Night Live” castmates Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Salinger Year
    My Salinger Year isn’t much, but it isn’t phony.
  7. My Super Ex-Girlfriend
    Runs out of fresh ideas about how to make its heroine look nuts.
  8. Step Up 2: The Streets
    The current, much better Canadian movie "How She Move" has a more realistic grip on the racial politics of hip-hop-dance.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Welcome to the Rileys
    All three actors come at this gloomy, borderline-preposterous tale from different directions; that they meet up at all - and they do - is a tribute to sincerity and craft.
  10. My Mother's Wedding
    My Mother’s Wedding neatly juxtaposes its subplots with the joyous event that serves as its centerpiece.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Deterrence
    There is a palpable edge-of-the-seat tension and a number of complex ethnic issues that linger after the movie ends.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Home on the Range
    Even older kids will understand that Pixar does it so much better, not because of their computers but because of an intelligent attention to script and character and craft. If the people running Disney don't understand that much anymore, maybe they should turn out the lights and go home.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Poseidon
    Maybe it's the era we're living in, but the new film is as much fun as a shroud.
  14. Now You See Me
    The editing of the action sequences is an insult to the idea of narrative clarity.
  15. Wide Awake
    Daring to be low-key and even a little old-fashioned, Wide Awake is a well-intentioned film that steers clear of cheap sentimental miracles and reassuringly holds out a vision of growth and healing measured in small steps. [27 Mar 1998, p.D8]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Other Boleyn Girl
    Not good enough to take seriously and, sadly, not bad enough to be any fun.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    Stitched together from so many other movies that it plays like an attack of multiple déjà vu. Stray bits of “Star Wars,’’ “Pirates of the Caribbean,’’ “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,’’ and “Robin Hood’’ pass by like flotsam, and the overwhelming tone is good-natured but alarmingly generic.
  18. Sugar Hill
    This ponderous, mostly empty exercise at least has ambition. It wants to be more than the usual gangsta zap. But about the best that can be said for it is that it dresses well. [25 Feb 1994, p.48]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elles
    Both provocative and muddled, the film's a moody, passive-aggressive tract that's buoyed by superior performances and sunk by its own uncertainties. An alternate title might be "The Joylessness of Sex."
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cowboys & Aliens
    A hell-for-leather action film with a healthy serving of scares. It really is "Aliens" on the open plains, "Independence Day" for the nation's centennial, and what the movie lacks in originality and stick-to-your-ribs Western authenticity, it makes up for in pell-mell multiplex entertainment.
  21. The Purge: Anarchy
    Give credit to writer-director James DeMonaco for at least attempting to give his action thriller some heft with a plot that concerns our obsession with violence, ham-fisted as it is. But The Purge: Anarchy is still just an excuse to bombard us with high-powered weaponry, armored vehicles, vigilantes, and masked marauders in creepy Joker-like makeup.
  22. Blonde
    A lot of skill and imagination went into making Blonde. It’s just that they’re misplaced. The movie has its own cracked integrity. That long runtime allows Dominik to give it a slow, inexorable rhythm. Everything has a slightly underwater quality. Stardom here has more to do with miasma than glamour.
  23. Mickey Blue Eyes
    It brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision.
  24. Where the Money Is
    The film never drags, but one of the enjoyable things about it is its way of taking its time letting us get to know and savor the characters.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Four Feathers
    Still as moth-eaten as a Bengal tiger rug on the floor of a London men's club.
  26. The Crimson Rivers
    The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness.
  27. Alfie
    Shyer's version is a thing of infinite emptiness and nauseating vanity. It's not funny, alluring, affecting, or erotic, just conceited.
  28. Behind Enemy Lines
    As it is, Behind Enemy Lines will satisfy only those in search of a rousingly, if simplistically, patriotic bloodbath.
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The NeverEnding Story
    The Neverending Story, Wolfgang Petersen's sophisticated fantasy film, is so wonderfully appropriate to children that it seems to have been made by kids. But there is enough artistic merit in the tale to enchant adults equally. [20 Jul 1984, p.1]
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  30. DragonHeart
    Dragonheart has what it needs at its heart - namely, the dragon. The rest of its story, about a disillusioned knight joining forces with the world's last dragon to help peasants overthrow a tyrannical 10th-century king, has a warmed-over quality. [31 May 1996, p.47]
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