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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. A Nice Indian Boy
    What makes “A Nice Indian Boy” shine are the performances and the sharp writing by Eric Randall.
  2. Sweetie
    Every frame in this comic horror story of two unstable sisters tingles with an arresting mix of deadpan humor and yawning dread. [21 Sep 1989, p.60]
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  3. The Headless Woman
    This is also the first of Martel’s films to build in a direction other than up. The film’s lateral movement continues a kind of class commentary.
  4. High Hopes
    Never settling for mere irony, High Hopes becomes a small banner of sanity and good humor among the social ruins. Leigh never shies away from his unflinching dead-end class view of contemporary London. Nor does he wallow in '60s nostalgia. Which is part of the reason his passionate, life-embracing High Hopes is so exhilarating. [31 Mar. 1989, p.30]
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  5. Girlfight
    A terrific little uppercut of a boxing movie and close to a perfect one.
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  6. The Fall Guy
    The Fall Guy isn’t just a throwback to the 1980s television show that inspired it; it’s an old-fashioned romp that knows how to build on its gags.
  7. Predator: Badlands
    Most franchises use a cookie-cutter approach to their entries, so it’s refreshing when a sequel tells its story in a different tenor than its predecessors. On that note, “Predator: Badlands” is a rousing success.
  8. Closer
    From Marber's fiercely polished writing, Nichols wrings every drop of acid, yet it's a show of the director's goodness that a movie fundamentally preoccupied with interpersonal ugliness is allowed to end on a convincing note of beauty.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    The film confirms director Audiard as a master of visual mood, in this case one of barely expressed emotional panic.
  10. The Turandot Project
    Miraculously, the opera comes off, simultaneously ridiculous and thrilling, in a blaze of pageantry.
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Filth and the Fury
    This is a warts 'n' all portrayal - there's no dodging the feelings of both disgust and amusement.
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    That film remains an electrifying testament to pop music as a communal creative act.
  13. Bubot Niyar
    Heymann's film was originally a six-part series for Israeli TV. The feature he and his crew have made smoothly truncates those three hours into a rich, discretely damning 85-minute portrait of intolerance.
  14. Every Body
    Julie Cohen’s Every Body is a master class in how a documentary should be done. It packs a lot of information into a briskly paced runtime of 91 minutes, and its use of clips and talking heads doesn’t distract or feel extraneous. The
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saraband
    Builds slowly and naturally to an unbearable personal crisis.
  16. Eden
    Unlike “Something in the Air,” or even “Saint Laurent,” Eden is utterly apolitical.
  17. Mid-August Lunch
    The movie is a perfect blend of calm execution and uninflected farce.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    Stylish and only superficially superficial, Happily Ever After plunks us down with three male friends as they dance on the edge of their 40s.
  19. Nuremberg
    Rami Malek and Russell Crowe lead a cast of actors doing excellent work in this large scale, old school ensemble piece.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    United 93
    The movie is hard going, not least in the sense of powerlessness it leaves in an audience that knows exactly what will happen. And yet you come out feeling that the filmmakers have done the right thing by these people, and by this day.
  21. 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]
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  22. Ran
    In Ran, color plays a role not unlike that of language in "Lear": a kind of ground bass of beauty, a product of pure imagination, that both affirms life and surpasses it. Yet Kurosawa uses that beauty more as negation: a reminder not of what man is capable of but how puny he is in comparison.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Three Identical Strangers
    One of the more entertaining yet profoundly disturbing documentaries of this or any year.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
    This is art paying homage to art.
  25. The Emperor's New Groove
    A lively, invigorating comedy: a near-perfect mix of fresh characters, well-cast voices, superb visuals, and a fast-paced, fantasy-adventure plot.
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inherent Vice
    After a while, you may suspect that things aren’t adding up. Later still, you begin to realize they may never add up.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Coriolanus
    Coriolanus leaves an acrid, unfinished taste. Fiennes, making his directorial debut, gets into the meat of the thing, and he takes advantage of the bluntness of the text; even Shakespeare newcomers will be able to follow along.
  28. A Hero
    Farhadi’s artistry is what makes the details so important, both his selection of them and their handling. In much of “A Hero,” one simply has a sense of watching lives being lived.
  29. Nurse Betty
    It's lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances, and offbeat fun.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dunkirk
    Taken as a whole, Dunkirk invites comparisons to the works of Kubrick and Spielberg, but it’s neither as scalding as “Full Metal Jacket” nor as clear-eyed, as aware of war’s terrible randomness, as “Saving Private Ryan.” Instead, a streak of honest sentiment, earned under the most hellish of circumstances, courses through this movie and provides it with spine and a soul.
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