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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. Tony Takitani
    The film itself is also a beautiful work of art, exquisitely framed and precisely envisioned.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Everlasting Moments
    Quiet, observant, and intensely moving whenever Heiskanen is on screen, and it has a valedictory sweep that feels like a summing up.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Secret World of Arrietty
    At the technical level, The Secret World of Arrietty isn't as ambitious as the studio's finest work, and the animation is stronger on texture than detail.
  4. The Mastermind
    If only this movie weren’t as slow as a sleepwalkng turtle. The story is constructed like one big, dark joke whose punchline isn’t worth sitting through 110 minutes to hear.
  5. We Come as Friends
    A fascination with serendipity, irony, and absurdity like that in Werner Herzog’s documentaries propels “Friends” into unexpected territory.
  6. Passages
    If you can admire a movie’s technique (and its hotness) above all else, you’ll enjoy Passages. For me, it’s an intriguing near-miss.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Queen of Versailles
    Queen of Versailles is still worthwhile, not because it questions all-American entitlement but because it prompts us to think hard about what, exactly, we believe we're entitled to.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Theeb
    A mesmerizing coming of age adventure in an elemental setting, Theeb becomes both more allegorical and more specific to our historical moment the more you think about it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Incendies
    A mystery, a melodrama, a prison film, and a love story, Incendies is foremost a scream of rage at a society destroyed by religion and by men.
  10. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    Judy Irving's terrific documentary 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is ostensibly about birds, but only in the way that a game of Scrabble is about tiles.
  11. The Color of Paradise
    The story is spun forth ravishingly, tenderly, and urgently, with a captivating mix of beauty, spare sophistication, and profound humanity.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Nine Queens
    Elaborately layered movie about schemes and more schemes that pile up faster than chips on a blackjack table. The other half is realizing, about halfway through the film, that you won't figure it out until it's over.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Incredibles 2
    The result is a clattery, unfocused affair that at times is more irritating than fun.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Totally Under Control
    The movie is enraging, necessary, and above all, useful.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    She's Beautiful When She's Angry
    The word “feminism” itself has become toxified. For young women who might be despairing as they fight the good fight, this film provides context, roots, and the wisdom of elders.
  16. Gleason
    Tweel has edited this material into a complex and emotionally exhausting vérité-like tapestry.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casino Royale
    If you miss the old cliches, consider whether, after 21 Bond films and countless parodies, your response is simply Pavlovian.
  18. Much Ado About Nothing
    When Branagh's camera soars above the final celebratory dancing and choral anthem, you'll soar, too. [21 May 1993, p.23]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saraband
    Builds slowly and naturally to an unbearable personal crisis.
  20. Ad Astra
    Ad Astra is moody, meditative, and slow (though not the knife fight or rover demolition derby).
  21. The Secret of Roan Inish
    There's wonder and mystery in "The Secret of Roan Inish," a handful of utterly convincing characters, knit together by Sayles' ability to freight their naturalistic moves with larger, deeper meanings. [24 Feb 1995, p.71]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nine Lives
    Not all of Nine Lives clicks, but at its best it finds an inarticulate sisterly solace that makes you want to see what this director could do with one life per film.
  23. A Bronx Tale
    A Bronx Tale is a joy, a film that comes unerringly from someone's heart and experience, and not from a power lunch of agents with clients to be packaged. [1 Oct 1993, p. 49]
    • Boston Globe
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love & Mercy
    Despite the lumps in the batter, Love & Mercy ends up involving and affecting, because the performances are honest and the stories it tells are inherently dramatic.
  25. Bugsy
    Just when you thought gangster movies had peaked, here's Warren Beatty in Bugsy, a film so suave, outrageous, flamboyant, knowing and above all playful that you're liable to overlook the fact that it's more loaded with American resonances than any three pop culture courses you could sign up for. [20 Dec 1991, p.53]
    • Boston Globe
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Honey
    Ironically, the film itself is as gentle and unexploitative as they come. Yes, it deserves the rating, and yes, it depicts teenagers doing things the grown-ups would rather not admit they actually do, but it does so with a poetic curiosity and a sense of what it’s like to be young, poor, and rootless — both future-less and free.
  27. You Hurt My Feelings
    The summer season rarely has room for a nice, adult comedy like You Hurt My Feelings. It is counter-programming of the finest order and one of the year’s best films.
  28. Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
    Jenkins has given the documentary a structure that’s largely chronological but primarily thematic. The shifting around makes for a nice flow. The film moves along crisply without ever feeling hectic or rushed.
  29. True Grit
    This isn't a rousing movie as much as a reassurance. The brothers (Coens) prove they can play it straight, but they're preferred, for better and worse, at a sharp angle.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Hidden Life
    The movie takes its place alongside Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” (2016) as a work of true solemnity, one that wonders what we owe the divine in our worldly life. If the Scorsese film is arguably about the profoundest of doubts, A Hidden Life is something different. It’s an act of faith. Maybe Malick knows we’ll be needing it.
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