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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. A Self-Made Hero
    Ingeniously rising above the ongoing culture war between France and the United States, Jacques Audiard's A Self-Made Hero piquantly offers a distinct subtext for each country. [3 Oct 1997, p.D7]
    • Boston Globe
  2. Norte, the End of History
    Some might find the dual conclusions too blunt in their irony, but “Norte” does not try to be consoling. Crazy as Fabian’s ideas seem, they might be the ones that prevail.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
    She’s a diva — she knows it, we know it, the director knows it — but over the years Stritch seems to have learned that the only way to deal with that is honestly. So she’s a paradox: a diva with no illusions about herself.
  4. Waiting for 'Superman'
    This is a patient, simmering movie. It's contemplative but without his usual smitten indulgences.
  5. A Thousand and One
    A more fleshed-out character might have grounded a last act burdened by an unconvincing plot twist, an odd moment of wish-fulfillment, and an over-reliance on the clichés that befall Black people in urban-set films.
  6. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    Fiennes has an excellent rapport with Lewis-Parry, making their scenes as compelling and moving as anything “28 Years Later” had to offer. It’s too bad that every time the Samson-Kelson plotline gets good, we’re yanked back to dopey Jimmy’s goofy gang and its religious mumbo jumbo.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Encounters at the End of the World
    Does Antarctica attract dreamers or create them? It's a thread that runs throughout the film.
  8. The Turin Horse
    The Turin Horse is in a very gray black and white. It looks the same way it feels: bleak, pure, forbidding, transfixing. Watching it, frankly, can be a bit of an ordeal. There's hardly anything in The Turin Horse you would describe as entertaining, but there is a very great deal that's beautiful and absorbing.
  9. The Proposal
    Magid has made a film that’s cool, assured, and understated. Someone should sign her up to direct a techno-thriller. In which case, she should collaborate again with T. Griffin, whose stripped-down score never calls attention to itself even as it propels and enhances what we watch.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    It's an account of what helplessness does to a man whose philosophy of life has been founded on decisive action.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Waves
    Is it worth crawling across the broken glass of the initial hour to make it to the balm of the second? That’ll be up to you, as will the incantatory visual style of Waves — a powerful artistic undertow that sucks viewers in and spits them out gasping.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Martian
    The Martian really, truly works — not as art, necessarily, but as the sort of epic, intelligent entertainment the mainstream film industry has supposedly forgotten how to craft. All that, and the movie’s a valentine to creative collaboration as well as an example of it. It’s enough to make you almost grateful.
  13. The Last Temptation of Christ
    It could have been shorter, some of its exchanges misfire, but I respect The Last Temptation of Christ, and I'm much more for it than against it. It's the most spiritual biblical movie of our times. [2 Sep 1988, p.25]
    • Boston Globe
  14. Nowhere Special
    The film is essentially a two-hander between Norton and Lamont, both of whom give excellent, complementary performances. They feel like father and son from first frame to last.
  15. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    Wake Up Dead Man is one of the year’s best movies. I’ve enjoyed all three movies, but this one is the best of the “Knives Out” mysteries so far.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    On the Ropes
    Has the impact of a left-right combination to the chin.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
    Sometimes it gets into arcane talk of equipment that makes more sense for a Berklee College of Music engineering class than for a mass-market movie -- but as a probing look at a really nice-guy genius in the studio world, it succeeds admirably.
  18. 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]
    • Boston Globe
  19. Wendy and Lucy
    Wendy Carroll is a character we rarely see in movies anymore, a woman left alone with her thoughts. That a moviegoer would care what she's thinking testifies to the power in Williams's brand of solitude.
  20. The Testament of Ann Lee
    Once again, Fastvold and Corbet have crafted a movie I admired more than I liked.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sparks Brothers
    Now “the best British band to ever come out of America” gets the documentary treatment from director Edgar Wright, himself a cheeky bugger (Sean of the Dead, Baby Driver), and it is superbly entertaining whether you love Sparks, hate them, or just have never heard of them.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wrestler
    The Wrestler is a character study, no more and no less, yet it's open-ended enough to function as many things.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hours
    Still: The Hours is a book about people writing, reading, and living another book, and that literariness makes the movie resist itself.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Junebug
    A textbook case of filmmakers who can't make up their minds about their characters; it's a failure of nerve disguised as dramatic ambiguity.
  25. Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
    After watching the movie, its relentlessly catchy numbers might keep playing for you; as one of the interviewees says, “You’ll be singing these songs for the rest of your life, whether you like it or not.”
  26. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    So “Marcel” is sweet, it’s charming, it’s clever. It’s also about as long an 89 minutes as you’re likely to spend in a movie theater this summer.
  27. Promises
    Beautifully crafted and brutally honest.
  28. The Secret in Their Eyes
    The secret here is that the movie is rather tasteless. It has the high, slightly nauseating stink of perfume on garbage.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Good Time
    Good Time is a prime example of what the cynical or the uninterested might dismiss as “feel-bad cinema” — low budget, kitchen-sink realism about unpleasant people in worse situations. It also happens to be one of the most uncompromising movies I’ve seen all year: vibrant and desperate and alive, it’s a work hanging on by its fingernails.
  30. Food, Inc.
    The whole thing is as subtle as a watermelon in a bowl of Cheerios but necessary, nonetheless.
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