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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 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Indignation
    Despite the material’s fit, the story’s relentlessly downbeat tone is challenging. Strong performances by Logan Lerman (“Fury”) and Sarah Gadon (Hulu’s “11.22.63”) can’t keep the film from feeling like exhaustingly slow going.
  2. Black Knight
    It's hard to find the movie unpleasant, but it's hard to imagine it causing any strong reaction at all.
    • Boston Globe
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Griff the Invisible
    As the romance blossoms, our hero is vindicated when Melody accepts his quirks, even enables his fantasy life. But the touches of magical realism begin to feel gimmicky. By the final frame, this romance never feels real enough.
  4. Premium Rush
    Premium Rush has a lot of energy - too much, it's kind of exhausting.
  5. Escape Plan
    In one amusing bit of dialogue, Stallone and Schwarze-negger kid each other about being smarter than they look. For a little while at least, we thought we might be able to say the same about Escape Plan.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    El cantante
    Ideally, it would give you a sense of an entire people knocking the planet off its axis with a shake of their hips. If only El Cantante were that movie. Instead, it's a curiously sludgy cross between a Doomed Star biopic and a J. Lo vanity project.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shutter
    If Shutter is any indication, the reputation of professional photographers is still on the wane. Not only are photographs creepy, the film suggests, but so are photographers.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Four Lions
    Real satire must be savage, and Four Lions, for all its daring, finally doesn't dare enough.
  9. 47 Meters Down
    Not that the movie’s various shortcomings are all on Moore. British genre director and co-writer Johannes Roberts (“Storage 24”) gives her nothing but trite drama to work with in setting up the story, and an overload of distracting, reductive prattle once she hits the water.
  10. Inside Deep Throat
    It's an unfocused overview that intersperses choppy interviews and observations with clips from "Deep Throat," including some of its most notorious and explicit scenes.
  11. Chasing Madoff
    Chasing Madoff is mostly that sort of movie, the kind you make when all you've seen is other movies and television shows about crime, when you want someone to know what you can do with a juicy story that takes some effort to ruin.
  12. The Gods Must Be Crazy II
    No less than the first film, this new effort is both disarmingly sweet and politically appalling. [13 Apr 1990, p.48p]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fifth Estate
    The Fifth Estate is itself the response of an entrenched and corporatized information system toward something it barely comprehends. It makes a media format that has sustained us for decades — the two-hour movie — feel like a 20th-century dinosaur.
    • 58 Metascore
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      Ty Burr
    Sisters
    When the new movie wings it, it sputters but clears the runway. When it sticks to the script, it crashes and burns.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Skyscraper
    You’ve seen almost all of this before, with more wit and a better villain.
  16. Brighton Rock
    Joffe's biggest mistake isn't visual, it's chronological. What makes Pinkie so terrifying in the novel is that he's just 17.
  17. Cosmopolis
    The novel is extremely funny. It's hilarious as well as horrific (all sorts of bad things are going on outside the limo - and a few inside of it, too). Yet whenever the movie is funny, it feels like a mistake. Comedy has never been a Cronenberg strength.
    • 56 Metascore
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      Ty Burr
    Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived
    Most useful and enlightening as a historical tour through the major crises of the Kennedy administration.
  19. Robot and Frank
    Robot & Frank isn't sure whether it's a comedy or drama, buddy movie or sci-fi fantasy, family melodrama or social satire.
  20. Tales of the Rat Fink
    To those filmgoers who wouldn't know Rat Fink from Barton Fink, this reviewer's advice is: Pass. The latest counterculture tribute by Mann, director of 1988's "Comic Book Confidential" and 1999's "Grass," is as proudly silly as it is informative, and it can't help that a critical amount of brand coolness gets lost in the translation.
  21. Deep Water
    For a stylish thriller to work, it needs to be at least a little bit stylish and offer an occasional thrill. Deep Water does neither.
  22. Bitter Harvest
    As the film darkens, it intensifies its focus on tragedy and atrocity and begins to do some justice to one of the largest and least known genocides in history.
  23. Hard Ball
    Ultimately, the kids carry this manipulative tear-jerker. They're warm, lively charmers.
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  24. The Last Word
    If “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) had mean Mr. Potter standing on the bridge ready to jump, rather than James Stewart’s beaten down hero George Bailey, it still would not have been as namby-pamby as Mark Pellington’s treacly and bromidic The Last Word.
  25. Wish
    Though the visuals are often quite stunning, you’ll wish that “Wish” had a better story. Not even Magnifico is powerful enough to make you forget.
  26. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Banshees is like a short story trying to be a novel. The extra pages get filled with the postcard views. There are bits of wit — again, this is Martin McDonagh we’re talking about — but overall “Banshees” is lugubrious and slow.
  27. Goya in Bordeaux
    Rich as it looks, it lacks the feverishness of Goya's art.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Only God Forgives
    Only God Forgives is the kind of remarkable disaster only a very talented director can make after he finds success and is then allowed to do whatever he wants.
  29. Mr. Nice
    There's too much narration and too many drug-movie cliches.
  30. Maria
    As the plot swings haphazardly between drug-induced hallucinations and reality, we lose trust in what we are seeing.
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