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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. Full Time
    From the opening credits to its last shot barely 90 minutes later, the film never eases up on its intensity. Fans of relentless rollercoaster rides like 2019′s “Uncut Gems” and 1998′s “Run Lola Run” will find much to enjoy here.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Project Nim
    An engrossing and enraging drama of one chimpanzee and his life's journey across a landscape of human folly.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young Trunk Show
    The movie’s not all glorious noise.
  4. The Lighthouse
    Pattinson and Dafoe dig into their roles, all right, with both actors crazily, mesmerizingly toggling from workaday to recriminating to maniacal and on and on. Together with Eggers they deliver a masterful study of souls trapped on a rock alone, but also trapped together, with all the twisty complexities involved.
  5. Spider-Man 2
    Raimi seems more comfortable being his outlandishly jokey, B-movie self, letting entire sequences play on the line between carefree schlock and Hollywood blockbusting.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    20 Feet from Stardom
    20 Feet From Stardom may possibly be the happiest time you’ll have at the movies all summer, but it comes with a heavy load of frustration. The joy...is in the sound of women singing their big, beautiful hearts out. The pain comes from the anonymity they’ve spent their lives working under and fighting against.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Avatar
    An entertainment to be not just seen but absorbed on a molecular level; it's as close to a full-body experience as we'll get until they invent the holo-suits. Cameron aims for sheer wonderment, and he delivers.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    20th Century Women
    A fairly standard coming-of-age saga on its face, with an effectively pained performance by 15-year-old Lucas Jade Zumann holding center stage.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pina
    Where Pina excels - where it resembles no previous dance film - is in the staging of several of Bausch's signature works for Wenders's cameras.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Animal Kingdom
    You probably won't see a better directorial debut this year than David Michôd's Animal Kingdom.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hugo
    An exhilarating tale of magic, machines, memories, and dreams, Martin Scorsese pulls off the neatest trick of all. He marshals the marvels of modern movie technology - up to and including the dreaded 3-D - to create a love letter to the earliest of movies and, by extension, to every movie from then to now.
  12. Wild Reeds
    Wild Reeds is not only Andre Techine's best film in a decade, it's one of France's, too. [22 Sep 1995, p.57]
    • Boston Globe
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The LEGO Movie
    The first great cinematic experience of 2014.
  14. Ladybird Ladybird
    Ladybird, Ladybird is full of heart and compassion, but it's also uncompromising and unconsoling. [10 Mar 1995, p.52]
    • Boston Globe
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gloria
    If the movie’s about anything, it’s about the tension between what we owe our families and what we owe ourselves.
  16. Drag Me to Hell
    Working with his brother Ivan, Sam Raimi is laughing with us - and often louder than we are.
  17. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    A portrait of two different men whose compulsion for Donkey Kong is hilarious.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spider
    It's Cronenberg's finest film, it's star Ralph Fiennes's riskiest role, it's a tour de force for actress Miranda Richardson.
  19. The Day He Arrives
    The verb in the title of The Day He Arrives doesn't refer so much to a traveler reaching a destination as to a man finding himself - or hoping to.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Come from Away
    All drama asks you to suspend disbelief, but Come From Away asks you also to suspend cynicism, aiming to move and uplift you. It’s not a bad bargain, and Come From Away holds up its end.
  21. Evil Does Not Exist
    The ambiguous finale provides neither certainty nor respite, and may prove frustrating for some. I had no idea where Hamaguchi’s cautionary tale was taking me, but I remained intrigued until the bitter end.
  22. Seymour: An Introduction
    Whether or not Hawke got any answers to his questions about the purpose of being artist, seeking them under the guidance of a teacher like Bernstein resulted in this work of art.
  23. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    The magic of their perfectly shaded performances is that you always have to wonder ... Is she really that bad?
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    56 Up
    The attitude of many “UP” fans hovers between voyeurism and concern, between cherishing these people as distant friends and as extensions of ourselves. They’re canaries in the coal mine of human existence.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Triad Election
    Set two years later, the sequel's the better film.
  26. Up in the Air
    At its best, Up in the Air invents new realms for old Hollywood sophistication.
  27. Milk
    By nearly every measure, Milk is a beautifully made, far less conventional movie biography than most.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lilya 4-Ever
    Doesn't derive its power from the turning wheels of plot suspense but from the simple act of looking and not blinking.
  29. Grey Gardens
    Truly, there is no looniness like looniness with lineage.
  30. Cutie and the Boxer
    In this alternately whimsical and grim documentary, Zachary Heinzerling relates the couple’s down-and-out, inspiring saga, which slyly comments on the evolution and ironies of the past half century in contemporary art.
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