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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
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Squid and the Whale
    This is one cinematic novella that stays with you for quite a while.
  2. Margaret
    Who knows what movie Lonergan was searching for in all that footage? But what emerges from the tinkering and legal skirmishes is an occasional marvel, a kind of everyday highbrow social X-ray, Paul Mazursky by way of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Real Women Have Curves
    I have seen the future of Hollywood movie stardom, and its name is America Ferrera.
  4. Ridicule
    Loaded with heart, wit, originality, juicy performances and contemporary relevance, Patrice Leconte's Ridicule is one of the most rewarding costume dramas in years. [06 Dec 1996, p.C6]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vera Drake
    The film is startlingly even-handed.
    • 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.
  7. Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
    Bindler's recognition of the rich and intense human drama boiling away beneath the laconic surfaces and underplayed verbalizations turns Hands on a Hardbody into a surprisingly affecting metaphor for American life as an ongoing exercise in endurance. [30 Jul 1999, p.D7]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pursuit of Happyness
    I don't think I've seen a mainstream movie get fatherhood so right since "Kramer vs . Kramer": the fear, the indulgence, the snappishness, the pre-occupied "uh-huhs" as a child natters about his day, the steamrolling waves of love.
  9. The Cider House Rules
    It's filled with vivid characters and action. Beneath its modesty of gesture, it's one of the year's richest, most humane films.
  10. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    While it preserves his baseball feats, it looks beyond them to clarify Greenberg's place in American culture.
    • 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.
  12. Ballet 422
    In a way, Lipes’s documentary resembles Jonathan Demme and David Byrne’s “Stop Making Sense” (1984) — in which Byrne goes on stage solo with a beat box and the rest of the Talking Heads gather one by one — as much as it does Wiseman’s films.
  13. Annabelle: Creation
    If some light deja vu is the price horror fans must pay for a mainstream offering this spine-tingling, most will still come away feeling spooked and satisfied.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Much Ado About Nothing
    Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing is just about the sloppiest Shakespeare ever put on the screen. It may also be the most exhilarating — a profound trifle that reminds you how close Shakespeare’s comedies verge on darkness before pirouetting back into the light.
  15. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Each installment saw an increase in runtime, and “Chapter 4″ clocks in at a massive 169 minutes. Not one second of it is wasted; this is wall-to-wall carnage of the finest, most entertaining order.
  16. The Scent of Green Papaya
    The Scent of Green Papaya is an astonishingly rich evocation of maternal energies and gestures, expressed in lovingly lingered-on images. [25 Feb 1994, p.47]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lincoln
    It makes politics exciting again.
  18. Che
    The labor applied to Che is apparent, but it would be wrong to characterize the movie as laborious the way it was in, say, 2006's "The Good German," where Soderbergh took great pains to re-create 1940s Hollywood wartime glamour.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Nine 1/2 Weeks
    This rather simple story, played with stunning conviction by Rourke and Basinger, achieves its apex through director Adrian Lyne's steamy direction. Yet, it's not nasty enough. [14 Mar 1986, p.11]
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  20. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    Magically transports the viewer across time and space. As it does so, it becomes a humbling reminder of the universality of the human experience.
  21. Cobb
    You keep watching Cobb waiting for the usual lulling cliches of the sports world to arrive, but they never do. Cobb is seething and bleak and unsparing, with a blast-furnace performance by Jones, and there isn't a placating moment in it. [06 Jan 1995, p.52]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    God Grew Tired of Us
    Seesawing between despair and soul-affirming inspiration, God Grew Tired of Us is a documentary to make you proud of what America offers to the rest of the world and worried that it can't keep its promises.
  23. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    He even calls the majestic view from one of the hospital landings his Cinecittà, after the legendary Italian film studio. The movie is a Cinecittà of the mind.
  24. Their Finest
    At its best, which is often, Their Finest by Danish director Lone Scherfig (“Italian for Beginners;” “An Education”) manipulates appearance and reality, relief and recognition, with exquisite finesse. As befits a film about making films.
  25. 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.”
  26. 42: Forty Two Up
    A miracle of data retrieval as the grown schoolchildren are measured against their footage from the earlier films.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Night of the Kings
    A tribute to the power of imagination and storytelling, and it’s like nothing you’ve seen before.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shine a Light
    Shine a Light did something I didn't think was possible. It got me caring about the Rolling Stones again.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut
    The director's cut has been getting a much warmer critical reception than the original release, but not necessarily because it's significantly better.
  30. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
    In his three-decade run, Rogers touched millions of souls. But the film is honest in questioning whether, in the end, he really made a difference.
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