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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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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stop-Loss
    Heavy metal, alt-pop, southern rock, orchestral swells, wailing Middle Eastern tunes all vie for our attention, but none of this noise drowns out the sound of good intentions twisting themselves into an impotent knot.
    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    RoboCop
    The film doesn't embarrass itself or dishonor its predecessor, which is something.
  4. Pavarotti
    The best part of Ron Howard’s long-winded and fitfully moving Pavarotti occurs at the beginning with footage from 1995 of the world-famous tenor — who died in 2007, at 71 — visiting an opera house built in the middle of the Amazon jungle. The legend has it that Enrico Caruso had performed there 100 years before.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Yes, God, Yes
    Flatly filmed, drably lit, and sluggishly paced, Yes, God, Yes takes a cheeky premise and slowly lets the air out of it.
  6. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    It’s a daring choice to force audiences to spend 2 hours with someone they won’t like, but “If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You” is more of an experiment than an empathy machine. It overstays its welcome by at least 30 minutes.
  7. Lucy in the Sky
    It’s a deep-thinking character study that’s provocatively if imperfectly presented — at least until the story devolves right along with its subject’s state of mind.
  8. Wendigo
    Ultimately, this film is only scary if you're afraid of artfully self-conscious, grainy cinematography.
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Leaving
    The only reason to see Leaving - and it's not a bad reason at all - is for the sight of Kristin Scott Thomas in a rare happy mood.
  10. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    "Wolverine" feels enslaved to its many masters - Marvel Comics, Hollywood, and the young men who devour their products - never sidestepping the déjà vu it inspires.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Central Intelligence
    The film itself is painless, strained, occasionally amusing, and utterly disposable — just another studio buddy comedy/action movie that forgot where it put the script.
    • 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Puncture
    This story of how corporate interests collude against the common good is surely worthy. But you might ask if the facts of the case might have made a better documentary, not a drama.
  14. The Last Showgirl
    The movie is big and ostentatious when its delicate, sad story needed to be more quietly told. Anderson definitely understands this idea; despite playing a chaotic and unlikable character, she’s the most stable element here.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rebecca
    Everyone behaves themselves in this Rebecca, whereas the point of the book and the first movie is that our worst behavior is always floating just below the waterline, ready to bob to the surface at the wrong moment.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Confetti
    A good-natured but terminally mild British mockumentary.
  17. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    Despite moments of black comedy and some memorable images, this “debut’’ doesn’t offer a lot to love.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    Stands to delight small children while probably causing their parents' heads to cave in.
  19. Brick Mansions
    The thematic stuff, while well-intentioned, is also clunky, and ultimately beside the point. Action, obviously, is what you’re after.
  20. The Roost
    Keep your big-budget horror movie expectations locked away in a separate crawl space, because this grainy feature debut from writer-director Ti West demands that you buy into the silliness, and the cheese.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bee Season
    Here the foundation has been miscast. That's M-I-S-C-A-S-T.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    The result is a formulaic, underwhelming set-up for another era of Transformers movies.
  23. Anonymous
    The moviemaking is proficient, if unremarkable. I like the idea of an Elizabethan action movie apparently more than I enjoy watching one.
  24. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
    The title might trumpet Harley Quinn’s emancipation, but she again feels like a character trapped in a movie that’s mediocre at best.
  25. Better Than Sex
    There are many things that Better Than Sex is better than, although sex is not among them. It is better than a root canal, an IRS audit, or a rained-out ballgame.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    It's an enjoyably demented meta-finale, the rivals showing what they could do if they ever bothered to actually do it.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Easy Virtue
    iIf you can ignore a ridiculously overbearing soundtrack - a big if - the film's a pleasant bauble. Still, those coming in cold may be forgiven for thinking they've wandered into "Atonement" remade as a farce.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    September Tapes
    The film eventually collapses under the weight of its no-budget arrogance, but it goes some interesting places beforehand.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sanctum
    A muscular Australian B-movie down to the thin characters and boilerplate dialogue.
  30. Walking with the Enemy
    Does not sink to the bathos of Roberto Benigni’s Oscar-winning film (“Life Is Beautiful”), but it does reduce a period of irredeemable horror to the heroics of a single person.
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