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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Coco
    Coco is a day-glo firecracker celebrating a country and a culture that has been (and continues to be) much maligned, and it’s at its most vibrant when it journeys into and beyond the shadow of death. That’s a paradox I can live with.
  2. Little Richard: I Am Everything
    By the end of this extremely entertaining and informative documentary, the one thing you will come away with is that Little Richard always presented himself the way he wanted us to see him. And, yes, he was indeed as influential as he always said he was.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bridge of Spies
    Most bewildering of all, Bridge of Spies is a moral drama driven by an insurance lawyer. That it works at all is a miracle — or would be, if anyone other than St. Steven were involved.
  4. Driving Miss Daisy
    Driving Miss Daisy, about the deepening relationship between a Jewish matron in Atlanta and her black chauffeur, is a luminous joy of a film, heartbreakingly delicate, effortlessly able through indirection to invoke the civil rights era without ever once slipping into portentous pronouncements. [12 Jan. 1990, p.35]
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  5. Shaun the Sheep Movie
    Like a great silent movie, it creates its pathos and comedy out of the concrete objects being animated, building elaborate gags involving everyday items transformed into Rube Goldberg devices that sometimes entrap the characters, or, when properly manipulated by them, provide a means of achieving their goals.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Bombshell
    It's loud, abrasive, and as soothing as a slug of battery acid. This crackling 1933 satire directed by Victor Fleming skewers the Hollywood star system with saber-sharp precision. [23 Nov 2006, p.5]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Material
    What sustains the film is its tone of almost hallucinatory foreboding. White Material isn't about the calm before the storm but the seconds before the deluge.
  8. The Station Agent
    Mercifully, The Station Agent is not about how these misfits heal one another -- they're not that miserable, for one thing. It's about the unlikely ways proximity, need, and coincidence create friendships.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Foxcatcher
    The movie’s tone is hushed, restrained; emotional damage is crammed way back where no one can see it yet defines everything through a murky prism.
  10. Bamako
    As demonstrated in his previous film, a plangent snapshot of subsistence called "Waiting for Happiness," Sissako is a poet, and the filmmaking in this new picture is stuff of a deserving laureate.
  11. Autumn Tale
    Few, if any, films this year will approach, let alone equal, Autumn Tale in its subtle sparkle.
  12. Beginners
    The movie is foggy with reverence and uncertainty. This is the passive work of a man nervous to touch the third rail of his parents' discontent.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bright Star
    Bright Star is a thing of beauty and a joy for a movie season that needs it.
  14. 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jackie
    Jackie is a chamber drama rather than an epic; an impressionistic work of emotional opera rather than a chronological parade. What is this movie trying to do? Simply dramatize everything that can go on inside a woman simultaneously marginalized and revered.
  16. Weekend
    One of the truest, most beautiful movies ever made about two strangers.
  17. Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
    Turn Every Page — The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is commendable for not only being entertaining but for also shining a light on a crucial process we don’t hear much about outside of certain professions.
  18. Raw
    When Ducournau keeps the viewer off balance and doesn’t lose her own, she shows signs of being an outstanding stylist and storyteller, balancing mood, composition, startling images, slow-burning suspense, and sardonic humor.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    It’s all as entertaining as it is outlandish.
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Three Identical Strangers
    One of the more entertaining yet profoundly disturbing documentaries of this or any year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tina
    Tina is celebratory and glossy, with no mention of her recent health issues, her son’s 2018 suicide, or other painful subjects. The life is still more than eventful enough.
  23. American Fiction
    The satire isn’t as brutal as it could have been — and perhaps needed to be — but overall, I thought “American Fiction” was a rousing success that got me thinking about my own experiences.
  24. Il Divo
    Il Divo is showboat moviemaking, but the opulence is of a piece with the film's damning assessment of the durable Italian elder statesman Giulio Andreotti.
  25. Leviathan
    It is part Rorschach test and part theme park ride as the filmmakers shoot from the strangest places and from such odd perspectives that much of the film consists of trying to figure out what the heck is going on.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fish Tank
    Fish Tank should be seen for what it does well and for what it hints may come, if Andrea Arnold and her audiences are lucky.
  27. 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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Little Shop of Horrors
    Obviously, it wasn't the plot that has given Little Shop such a long life. In the case of this film, it's the music, the sets and the comic sketches that make this remake mostly successful. [19 Dec 1986, p.77]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    No
    No is a comedy, but of a dangerous sort. Its eyes are open and the laughs tend to stick in your throat.
  30. The China Syndrome
    This thoroughly stripped-down thriller simmers in a way that's still unsettling 25 years later. [24 Oct 2004]
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