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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. U2 3D
    They may not be as cool as Bono's fly shades, but the plastic yellow glasses required for viewing U23D supply an amazing fly-on-the-amp view of the Irish rockers in their natural habitat.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One Night in Miami
    To be successful and Black in America, this movie says, is to tell your own story even as you live it, in the pages of a book or the grooves of a record, in the end zone of a football field or the battleground of a boxing ring. To understand the weight and importance of having to be an example. And to understand when being an example just isn’t enough.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    The result is insanely good, and the best time I've had at the movies in ages.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vera Drake
    The film is startlingly even-handed.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Private Life
    A modern comedy-drama in the Woody Allen-Noah Baumbach mold — urban intellectuals talking their lives in circles — but what keeps it from being a live-action New Yorker cartoon is the heart beating away in the script and the performances. At over two hours, it’s long but it’s true.
  6. Moonage Daydream
    Morgen’s immersive, sometimes convulsive, visual approach justifies the format. This is filmmaking that’s anything but chaste. Intentionally overwhelming, “Moonage Daydream” is indulgent and overproduced — which suits its subject.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    BlacKkKlansman
    A ferocious mix of prankishness and cold fury that is one of the director’s strongest yet most entertaining works in years.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lake of Fire
    After 152 epic minutes, ‘Lake of Fire’ comes down to this: If you’re not living this woman’s life, maybe you shouldn’t tell her what to do.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Under the Skin
    What’s under the film’s surface is intriguing enough, but it’s the surface itself that holds you in a dark trance. A portrait of alienation filmed from the alien’s point of view — or is it just a woman’s? — the movie’s a cinematic Rubik’s Cube that snaps together surprisingly easily, yet whose larger meanings remain tantalizingly out of reach.
  10. Red Army
    Fetisov, who looks like a cross between Sam Neill and Klaus Kinski, is a compelling figure. He has an unmistakable gravitas. He’s just a hockey player in the way that Reagan was just an actor. In fact, Fetisov is a member of Russia’s parliament and previously served as minister of sport. If all that weren’t enough, he has a winningly dry sense of humor.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Post
    As a movie, The Post is engrossing and enjoyable, if falling slightly short of “All the President’s Men” and “Spotlight.” As a period piece, it couldn’t feel more eerily of the moment.
  12. The Flat
    There's something touching about the way Goldfinger obeys his moral compass. He doesn't seem at all happy with that luxury. It's a burden by a more extravagant name.
  13. Cunningham
    “[Dance] gives you nothing back,” says Cage. “No manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.” Kovgan’s film comes close to capturing that moment.
  14. Fireworks
    Fireworks is anything but the usual cop thriller. It's a piercing meditation on mortality, with a heartbroken tough guy at its center. [20 Mar 1998, p.C8]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Magdalene Sisters
    Blistering and brilliant work.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tyson
    Terrifically compelling and, more than that, unexpectedly moving.
  17. Henry V
    One of the things that make [Branagh's] Henry V so thrilling is his audacity in trying to turn it into an antiwar play - a view that would have astounded Shakespeare. Astonishingly, he pretty much brings it off, emerging with steadily growing power as the young king who isn't afraid to bloody his hands. [15 Dec 1989]
    • Boston Globe
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eastern Promises
    This is the first time, though, his (Mortensen)performance seemed so much bigger than the film surrounding it. That he manages the feat with so few wasted gestures puts him in line with the greats.
  19. Footnote
    Footnote culminates with stirring gravity that you wish Cedar had the confidence - in himself, his material, and us - to sustain. Both Uriel's dilemma and his father's are unenviable, even as you understand the deep guilt, sense of conflict, and hubris this mix-up provokes.
  20. Being 17
    The performances are meticulous and passionate, the narrative low-key and obliquely sensitive enough to conceal, until the traumatic incidents keep piling up, the film’s contrivance.
  21. Free Solo
    Go figure that the year’s most outrageously harrowing action movie turns out to be an arthouse doc from National Geographic.
  22. Trouble the Water
    The film is so immersed in Roberts's life that it becomes easy to think that most of what the camera sees is also from her perspective. It's actually too seamless.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saint Maud
    A startling psychological horror story with a breakout performance by Welsh actress Morfydd Clark.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mustang
    Mustang is a damning portrait of the lot of women in rural Turkish society, but its outrage and empathy spill over the sides of the movie to embrace the planet as a whole — anywhere a woman is condemned for all the thoughts others have about her.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Palm Springs
    What makes the movie fly are the interlocking energies of its leading players, Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    It Follows
    Low-budget, sure of itself, and creepy as hell, the film actually scores quite low on the gore meter. Like the best nightmares, though, it proves nearly impossible to shake.
  27. Is That Black Enough for You?!?
    Black Enough is smart, lively, and sprawling.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Driveways
    Dennehy had completed two more films before dying, at 81, on April 15, but Driveways is coming out on streaming platforms closest to his passing and it is the one to raise a glass to and maybe shed a tear over.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Don't Think Twice
    Don’t Think Twice is comedy inside-baseball, and it’s pretty delicious.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Sweeney Todd comes as close to raging at normalcy as Burton has dared. It's no coincidence that the rage is borrowed from a greater artist.
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