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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Safe Conduct
    Essentially a dramatic reenactment of a generation's coping strategies.
  2. Maiden
    Unless you’re familiar with the various particulars, you’ll likely find yourself experiencing the film in aptly wavelike fashion, cresting with optimism about the crew’s prospects before plunging into apprehension, again and again.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    War for the Planet of the Apes
    War for the Planet of the Apes plays like a mash-up of about five different movies, but at least one of them feels like a masterpiece.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Duma
    An exquisitely filmed, emotionally transfixing epic about a white South African boy's journey to return his pet cheetah to the wild.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Constant Gardener
    A predictable conspiracy thriller that somehow ends up diminishing the real urgency of the West's humanitarian disconnect from Africa. If it sends audiences home to log on to the Amnesty International website, terrific -- but that still doesn't make it a very good movie.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Short Term 12
    He (Cretton) just loves this place and these people so much, he wanted to give us more of them. For that, we should be grateful.
  7. Parenthood
    Funny, gritty, filled with surprising stabs of feeling, Parenthood is a stretch for Ron Howard, its director. This new adult comedy has the generosity of "Cocoon" and "Splash," but it takes Howard into deeper, darker, messier territory. [2 Aug 1989, p.57]
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  8. A History of Violence
    The film has the perverse intelligence of Cronenberg's other movies. It's not his best, but it is certainly his most accessible, least stagy work, obeying the laws of chronology and serving up characters whom we recognize as people.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sugar
    In its unhurried fashion, Sugar can take its place with the best baseball movies. Where most focus on the grand slam, this one's about the life that surrounds the game and everything that comes after.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Marwencol
    A strange and very beautiful documentary about the gray area between obsession and art.
  11. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    The historical scope of this story, as well as Loach's interest in absolute fairness, seems to have drained some of the life from its telling.
  12. The Lobster
    Another thing that might bug people is the acting. The roles are performed almost devoid of affect, something like the characters voiced by Tom Noonan in “Anomalisa.”
  13. The Nightmare Before Christmas
    The Nightmare Before Christmas is the black diamond of family films, brilliantly conceived, touchingly pure of heart, much more endearing than scary. [22 Oct 1993, p.55]
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  14. Paris Is Burning
    With unpatronizing empathy, Paris Is Burning beckons us into a subculture. [09 Aug 1991, p.39]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Squid and the Whale
    This is one cinematic novella that stays with you for quite a while.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winged Migration
    If it were any more real - if it were Imax, say -- the audience would be molting.
  17. Rebels of the Neon God
    Despite the self-conscious derivativeness and allusions, Tsai’s debut already demonstrates the contrariness and motifs that have distinguished him as a unique, difficult, and transcendent filmmaker.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    School of Rock
    Utterly adorable.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Star Trek
    In the pop high it delivers, this is the greatest prequel ever made.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Quiet Place
    The smarter, scarier horror movies know it’s not how much you show an audience but how little. A Quiet Place takes that maxim in a surprising direction: The tension in this movie — and it’s nearly unbearable at times — comes from how little we hear.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Namesake
    The Namesake has a deep, alluvial poetry to it, like a mighty river reaching the sea. It's mysterious and ordinary, insightful and banal, rambling and precise, and it is altogether unexpected.
  22. C'mon C'mon
    Anyone who’s been a parent will find C’mon C’mon memorable, even transporting. Anyone who’s ever thought about being a parent might find it even more so.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hunger
    So what is Hunger? Unexpectedly, a visually ravishing tour of hell and a meditation on freedom that at best is wordlessly profound and at worst interestingly obscure.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Howl's Moving Castle
    The filmmaker's obsessions have got the better of him. That said, I can't recommend the film highly enough, since bad Miyazaki is still leagues better than anyone else.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Hijacking
    A Hijacking tells a simple story whose ripples ultimately turn into tidal waves.
  26. Crimson Gold
    This is the first beautiful performance in the year's first great movie.
  27. Small Things Like These
    This is a master class in quiet acting, one that’s hard to shake once the credits roll.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anvil! The Story of Anvil
    Anvil! is one of the sweetest, funniest films I've seen this year. Also the loudest and most foulmouthed.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Trip
    What on earth is The Trip, besides hugely enjoyable?
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Marty
    Marty is one of those films that appear every few years or so -- a picture so sensitively acted, so tenderly written, so human in its appeal, that it has the utmost distinction, no matter what kind of audience is in the theatre. [04 Aug 1955, p.21]
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