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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ajami
    It’s much too easy to call Ajami an Arab-Israeli “Crash,’’ but it’s a pretty good place to start.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    No One Knows About Persian Cats
    Whenever a band plays in “Persian Cats,’’ the director treats us to a fast, vibrant montage of Iranian faces and street scenes -- as if to say, look, this is who we REALLY are.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Please Give
    Please Give is a moral comedy that feels at times like one of the late Eric Rohmer’s deceptively breezy miniatures, or a mid-period Woody Allen movie minus the fussiness.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Oath
    The hidden message of The Oath is so inescapable as to be Shakespearean: Character will out.
  5. Predators
    Antal is a professional who respects your dollars. In a season where the blockbusters are as flat as month-old soda, that’s the most romantic gesture a commercial filmmaker can make.
  6. Cropsey
    A chillingly effective documentary.
  7. Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
    A remarkable look at the people behind an organization that understands its limitations.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Am Love
    If you're not in the mood, the whole thing will probably seem pretty silly. But if you are -- oh, if you are -- I Am Love may be the richest, tastiest truffle you're likely to savor all summer.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Toy Story 3
    It’s when Toy Story 3 becomes a jailbreak movie that it comes into its own.
  10. Stonewall Uprising
    "This was the Rosa Parks moment,'' another participant says, "the time that gay people stood up and said, 'No.' ''
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lebanon
    Lebanon gives us viscerally violent, intensely distressing glimpses into war's annihilation of people, places, and communities.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Tillman Story
    As taut and suspenseful as any fictional mystery.
  13. Secretariat
    Grace is grace, and however it arrives, there's no denying its presence.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Machete
    The movie's an unexpected end-of-summer tonic: a trash guilty pleasure with a healthy (if really violent) sense of outrage. It's also Rodriguez's freest movie yet, and possibly his best.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Train Home
    A miniature masterpiece of documentary observation.
  16. Jackass 3-D
    What's astonishing is that the movie is not a half-baked production. The spectacle now LOOKS spectacular.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    127 Hours
    The scene appalls but doesn't offend; it's a "Worst-Case-Scenario Survival Handbook'' nightmare that resonates on the metaphysical level.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Carlos
    Carlos moves like a greyhound out of the gate, fleet and assured and focused on the business at hand. It's a subtle, ultimately staggering portrayal of a bloody-minded ideologue who convinced only himself.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fighter
    The Fighter is this close to a triumph: a movie that steeps us in the grit of its time and place - Lowell, Mass., in the 1990s - and electrifyingly dramatizes Ward's battles with the family that almost loved him to death.
  20. 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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rabbit Hole
    Rabbit Hole is a personal project for Kidman - she produced the film after falling in love with the play - and it seems to have revived the quickness in her. That ice-blue gaze has found its focus again, and it looks deep into the one thing none of us want to face.
  22. Boxing Gym
    Wiseman has made several films about both disability and dance, but this new one might be his most hypnotic, rhythmically assembled observation of corporeal expression.
  23. Poison
    Poison is at once disturbing and beautiful, a cereus blooming in the darkest of night. Uncompromising and heady with ambition, Haynes likes to make his audiences think. Poison succeeds in this goal, and increases in power the more you look back on it. Like the most potent movies, it creeps on you. [19 Apr 1991, p.41]
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    • 99 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shoah (re-release)
    Why revisit Shoah 25 years after it was first released? Because it matters more a quarter century on, just as it will matter even more in a hundred years, and 200, and - if it and we survive - a thousand.
  25. Nénette
    The movie isn't a critique of zoo life. But it's possible we have on our hands, in Nénette's captivity, a microcosm of celebrity star-gazing.
  26. The Strange Case of Angelica
    "Angélica" feels most like the film that argues Oliveira is this close to the beyond without ever bothering to knock first at death's door.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    13 Assassins
    Epic in scope, ambition, and execution, it's a classic swords-and-samurai film with postmodern blood and guts, and it's completely satisfying.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cold Weather
    This is a slacker detective story, emphasis on the slack, and if you can downshift into its loping rhythms, it's pretty wonderful.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    A fitting, expertly made final chapter, freighted with hard-won emotions, shot through with a sense of farewell, and fully aware of the epic stakes involved.
  30. The Muppets
    I've never seen a movie so perfectly balanced between unabashed nerdiness and hipness.
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