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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 point 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. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
    As in Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993), about the last day of school and first night of summer vacation in a Texas town in 1976, Apollo 10½ maintains a wondrous balance between Lone Star specific and anywhere-in-America general.
  2. Iron Monkey
    They're as special as special effects get.
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  3. An Angel at My Table
    Dodging the pitfalls of making a film about a writer is no small challenge, but Campion succeeds unforgettably in Angel at My Table. [14 Jun 1991, p.31]
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  4. Monster
    It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a movie so fully collapse in its third act as this one does, and it does so without warning.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    The movie’s dramatically uneven, as anthology movies tend to be, but is it worth watching on the big screen? If the idea of Monument Valley peopled with classic Coen misfits hits your sweet spot, by all means go.
  6. Godzilla
    A definitive, low-tech stomping of every sci-fi clone that has sprung up in the original's wake.
  7. The Visitor
    This is a film of our times - paranoid, heartbroken, disillusioned - and the rare recent American movie whose characters react the way actual people might.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Green Room
    Violence in Green Room is just bad. Unfortunately for its heroes and for us all, it’s also sometimes inevitable.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
    There is a surprise waiting in Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten, a labor of love that Pirozzi painstakingly assembled over a span of close to a decade, although the story it tells holds no mystery.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Colliding Dreams
    Directed from the center-left with an ear to parties on both sides of the West Bank separation barrier, it’s knowledgeable and unhysterical, openhearted without seeming naïve. Those on the extremes will probably hate it.
  11. Iron Man
    Downey appears to like all this make-believe. Even the clunky dialogue sounds witty out of his mouth. This is not a part that makes great demands on his talent, and his slummy approach to it is amusing.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Control Room
    About the search for common ground, among journalists on all sides of the conflict and, through them, between viewers in America and the Arab world. Only within that common ground, Noujaim believes, can something like a workable, personal truth be found.
  13. Salaam Bombay!
    Nair, to her credit, doesn't succumb to any special pleading, which deepens her film's impact. Time and again, you sense that she and her subjects come from a place that believes in film, as "Salaam, Bombay" specifies its world and compels us to inhabit it. [15 Sep 1988, p.68]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Only Lovers Left Alive
    Disarmingly direct and charmingly directed; it’s a bona fide love story, if an exhausted and occasionally thin one.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    So Much So Fast
    It is harrowing, heartbreaking, cheering, and unforgettable.
  16. Ju Dou
    Ju Dou is far richer and more jolting than "The Postman Always Rings Twice," which it suggests. When it comes to film noir entrapment, we have nothing on the Chinese. [05 Sep 1990, p.63p]
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  17. In a World...
    In addition to being very funny, In a World . . . also makes a case for women to be, well, heard. But in terms of cohesion and narrative, it doesn’t quite come together as a movie.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Selma
    Selma is at its very best when it gets into the nitty-gritty of the SCLC’s arrival in Selma amid colliding factions and forces.
  19. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    It’s a mechanical exercise that lacks suspense, is too long (at 148 minutes, it’s the franchise’s lengthiest film), and is so chockfull of exposition that I took more notes than I’ve done in years.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tabu
    A black-and-white fever dream, and, like all dreams, its meanings are elusive. It’s opaque, maddening, often pretentious, yet the pretensions may be on purpose, to push us away from the adulterous colonials at the story’s center and reveal the Africa they’re too obsessed with each other to see.
  21. Thieves
    There's a grim fatalism in Les Voleurs, with more than a few pangs of resignation and a melancholy respect for the problematic nature of life. But it's also bold and powerful and totally unpredictable as it draws its narrative strands together to conclude that the human heart can be the biggest thief of all. [17 Jan 1997, p.D5]
    • Boston Globe
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Assistant
    The Assistant is a stealth bomb of a movie: It barely makes a noise but it leaves a crater in your heart.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Visually, this movie is big, bold, often awe-inspiring.
  24. IMAX: Hubble 3D
    Is it being a spoilsport to suggest that the Hubble’s original 2-D images are a lot more stupendous than all the IMAX 3-D hurly-burly?
  25. Trolösa
    Ullmann's film is an achievement of heart and consequence, as full of integrity as Bergman, yet demonstrating more mercy.
    • Boston Globe
  26. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Movingly recounts a hitherto untold story in the voices of the people who lived it.
    • Boston Globe
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    The filmmakers are smart to cut between their primary interview and later footage of Junge watching that interview and offering further commentary -- living footnotes, as it were.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Let the Sunshine In
    Plays a little like “Sex and the City” as reconceived by a Minimalist composer. That makes the movie sound like a threat, when actually it’s a dry, lightly sad, and very French comedy of romantic neurosis, brought to us by two great artists, director Claire Denis (“Chocolat,” “Beau Travail,” “White Material”) and star Juliette Binoche.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Life of Pi
    Reducing Life of Pi to a homily does it a disservice. Lee gives the framing story short shrift and concentrates on visualizing the inner tale with as much detail and power as possible.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Let Me In
    It's an honorable attempt, but there's still no genuine need for this film to exist.
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