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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. Hold Your Fire
    There are many twists and turns to the story, and the documentary is consistently surprising.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sicario
    The dark nihilism of Sicario masks a reliance on easier solutions, ones we’ve been fed by decades of genre films and that feed our need for justice dispensed with violent, vengeful directness. The movie promises to clear the fetid air around the drug wars. In the end it’s just another drug.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bacurau
    There’s a reason this movie was a critical and popular success in Brazil: It resonates. And despite the beauty of the weathered local faces this movie celebrates, it resonates for anyone, anywhere, watching it. “What do they call the inhabitants of Bacurau?” a young boy is asked. “People!” he responds. Just so.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
    Grueling yet ultimately exhilarating.
  5. No Home Movie
    The rest of the film consists mostly of Akerman talking with her mother, blithely and lovingly, about everyday ephemera and about the past (Natalia was a survivor of Auschwitz), both via Skype and at her mother’s genteel home in Brussels.
  6. Another Year
    Like "Life Is Sweet," "Secrets & Lies," and yes, 1971's "Bleak Moments," to name but three of Leigh's 10 semi-improvised character studies, Another Year is another frowning comedy.
  7. At Berkeley
    The observations coalesce into a cogent whole, providing insights that are never overtly stated.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blade Runner 2049
    So swollen with purpose, so titanically self-conscious in its mythmaking, that at times its nearly paralyzes itself with solemnity.
  9. Step
    Step, the African-American competitive art that is the subject of Amanda Lipitz’s taut, intimate, passionate, and celebratory documentary of the same title, is not to be confused with its Irish namesake in “Riverdance.”
  10. Experimenter
    Despite this labyrinthine self-consciousness, the film, like its subject, keeps careful note of dates and places.
  11. Eden
    Unlike “Something in the Air,” or even “Saint Laurent,” Eden is utterly apolitical.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
    Mao had it wrong; in ''Revolution,'' political power comes out of the barrel of a TV tube.
  13. A Mighty Wind
    Full of redeeming throwaways.
  14. The Damned United
    Hooper, the director, doesn’t include lots of amazing football sequences to upstage his star. He just moves everyone out of Sheen’s way. It’s about time.
  15. Georgia
    It's one of the great sister movies and one of the great performance movies. [26 Jan 1996]
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  16. Wadjda
    The world of cinema is richer for the voice of Al Mansour; she speaks for the women of her country, and for people everywhere.
  17. Fresh
    Fresh is urgent, impressively thought out, tightly coiled. Written, directed and acted with invigorating subtlety, there's nothing stale about Fresh. It's an original, and it's terrific. [31 Aug 1994, p.27]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Arrival
    Arrival would be nothing without Adams.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Juno
    That smart, hip, human comedy you've been waiting for all year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Fly
    The Fly is that rare species of movie - a remake that far surpasses the original and, quite frankly, all expectations. [15 Aug 1986]
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  21. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    This is movie as inundation. It’s daring, dashing, often delirious — except that the writer-director team of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (the Daniels, as they like to bill themselves) keeps the delirium under just enough control.
  22. Blue Valentine
    All the movie's good style goes to waste on a not terribly compelling conceit and loosely sketched characters.
  23. Chocolat
    In the crowded landscape of anti-imperial and anti-colonial film, Claire Denis' Chocolat is a standout. Never raising its voice, avoiding the usual didacticism, Denis brings subtlety, sensitivity and an uncommonly clear personal vision to her memories of colonialism in Africa, where she spent her youth. [31 Mar 1989, p.34]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    The opening 15 minutes of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World are so well crafted that they restore your faith in commercial cinema.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Secret of Kells
    A visually overwhelming labor of love, a hand-drawn medieval adventure tale that seeks and finds cosmic connections.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Top Five
    It’s a slap-happy movie and often scurrilously funny — the sound of a gifted comic mind finally finding its onscreen voice.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
    So there's a hole at the center of "Pete Seeger" that the movie fills with loving remembrances, testimonials, and new interview footage of the singer at his hand-built cabin in upstate New York.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Katyn
    A history lesson for a country and a people forced to forget at gunpoint.
  29. Coming Home
    After a period of creative drought, Zhang’s homecoming is a cause for celebration.
  30. Living in Oblivion
    Living in Oblivion needs more shoot-the-works outrageousness. But even if it thins out, it has an engaging spirit, bright energies and a wry feel for the clashing agendas on the set filled with edgy, starry-eyed pit bulls trying to convince themselves that what they're doing is a career move. [21 July 1995, p.46]
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