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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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beyond the Hills
    It’s a deceptively impersonal style, because Beyond the Hills seethes with astonishment and rage at a broken society marooned between the 21st century and the 16th.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Working Woman
    Without stooping to the uselessness of style, Working Woman makes its points simply by staying with Orna as she proceeds through stages of shock, humiliation, self-loathing, self-censorship, all emotions her husband finds difficult to understand and which the Bennys of the world rely on.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sessions
    The achievement of this simply told, exceptionally fine film is the clarity with which it portrays the drama of a good soul in an inert body.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mank
    Mank is one of the year’s best movies if you’re the kind of person who genuinely loves movies and damn close if you’re not.
  5. March of the Penguins
    Touching and brisk.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
    Harrowing and inexorable, the film recaptures the progressive insanity of Jim Jones and the hundreds of worshipers in his thrall, and it certainly gives you willies to last for days.
  7. Two Family House
    Worth staying with for the respect it pays to its characters' emotions.
  8. Oasis
    Oasis is that rare miraculous whirlwind romance that moves from attempted rape to reverence without kicking up a lot of dust.
  9. Annihilation
    As a portfolio of visionary images of surreal landscapes and hallucinatory flora and fauna, the movie sometimes dazzles. But as a metaphorical narrative, it often fizzles.
  10. City of God
    Full of action, but no soul.
  11. Pariah
    This is a movie that feels in all its vividness, specificity, and honesty - and in its amateurish screenwriting, too - like something found from the early- to mid-1990s, when American independent moviemaking encouraged far more conversations about the sexuality of young, brown girls in movies like "Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.'' and "I Like It Like That.''
  12. Red Rock West
    Red Rock West is one of the ongoing reasons noir is a genre that just won't say die. It's one of the most deviously entertaining detours since, well, Detour. [20 May 1994, p.53]
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  13. Stray Dog
    Immersive, enlightening documentary.
  14. Downeast
    An elegy for a vanishing emblem of what once characterized this country's vitality.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pride
    The film’s energy is contagious.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hotel Rwanda
    I wish Hotel Rwanda felt like something more than a very, very good TV movie.
  17. Babygirl
    I must give credit to Reijn’s screenplay for including scenes where Romy and Samuel work out the kinks in satisfying this particular kink.
  18. Eureka
    Quiet, powerful, contemplative, respectful of stillness, Eureka is the first film this year in which there is obvious greatness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Midnight Traveler
    Midnight Traveler unfolds in many kinds of limbo, and the one between living a disaster and recording it for the world to see is the least problematic. Like its makers — all four of them — the movie is flawed, human, hopeful, and desperate for a place to land.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Whose Streets?
    Whose Streets? gives us more than enough stories from people not often enough heard, and their refusal to remain silent is invigorating.
  21. Cyrano de Bergerac
    Depardieu and Rappeneau have not so much revived Cyrano as restored it. [25 Dec 1990, p.87p]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    One of the smarter, more unexpectedly touching documentaries of the year, and I recommend it to you whether you love Rivers or loathe the very thought of her.
  23. The Christophers
    McKellen and Coel give a master class in line readings throughout “The Christophers.” It’s a real pleasure watching two seasoned actors bounce off each other in service to creating their characters. It’s even more delightful to see this in a film made for adults that has plenty to say about human nature, love, and the inspirations that fuel our lives.
  24. Baran
    Simple, but loaded. It celebrates the humanity and humanism at the heart of Iran's remarkable flow of films, but it's also more of a rebuke to materialistic values than any ideologue could ever hope to be.
  25. Chunhyangdyun
    It's sweeping yet intimate, stately yet impassioned, stylized yet immediate.
    • Boston Globe
  26. High Fidelity
    Sad, funny, brilliant.
    • Boston Globe
  27. Terms of Endearment
    It rates a resounding yes because it doesn't insult our emotional intelligence. [23 Nov 1983]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Coriolanus
    Coriolanus leaves an acrid, unfinished taste. Fiennes, making his directorial debut, gets into the meat of the thing, and he takes advantage of the bluntness of the text; even Shakespeare newcomers will be able to follow along.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Most Violent Year
    A Most Violent Year, then, is something of a science experiment, with Abel the good rat trying to make it to the other side of the maze, uneaten and in full possession of the cheese. In its weaker moments, the movie struggles to get out of the lab. At its best, it reminds us that the maze is as big as the world and as timely as today.
    • 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.
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