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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. Chicken Run
    There's nothing paltry about its poultry.
    • Boston Globe
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    A transporting cinematic experience with a churl at its center, and how you feel about the movie may depend on how you feel about the churl.
  3. One Of Them Days
    At almost two hours, “One of Them Days” does lag a bit. But even when it gets sluggish, there’s still a sisterly moment to enjoy or a laugh to be had.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Graduation
    It’s the latest from Cristian Mungiu, one of the leading lights of the New Romanian Cinema and the director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” by general critical consensus one of the finest films of the new millennium. Graduation is a more quietly damning drama; it doesn’t eviscerate you like the earlier movie but instead sticks with you like a nagging doubt.
  5. The Wonders
    The Wonders evokes many other films, but is utterly unique. It is like being privy to a marvelous story that Rohrwacher is telling herself.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Big
    Big is an example of what has become rare in Hollywood -- a self-confident comedy that transforms an old gimmick into a new, vivid experience. It's as funny for the kids as it is for adults and, for that reason alone, can't be recommended too highly. [3 Jun 1988, p.33]
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  7. Point and Shoot
    Despite his neuroses, VanDyke displays self-awareness and humility, and a charisma that ranges from the goofiness of Owen Wilson to the grandiosity of his hero, Lawrence of Arabia.
  8. Six Degrees of Separation
    It's got sharp wit and a wise heart, and as good as it was onstage, it's even better as a movie. [22 Dec 1993, p.33]
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  9. Kandahar
    A bleak road movie that often ambles. But its many moments of poetic grace make this haunting and harrowing journey a rewarding one.
  10. Black Bag
    Soderbergh stages these games of one-upmanship as tight, dialogue-heavy scenes of discomfort and suspense.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goodbye Lenin!
    One of the most enjoyable movies I've seen lately, but it has a biting knowledge of that which history gives and history takes away.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    It’s all as entertaining as it is outlandish.
  13. Journey from the Fall
    Even when its wires are showing, the movie's soul is always evident.
  14. Oasis
    Oasis is that rare miraculous whirlwind romance that moves from attempted rape to reverence without kicking up a lot of dust.
  15. 21 Jump Street
    We have lots of terminology for what happens when two male stars appear to have the platonic hots for each other. The genre is called bromance. The feelings are bromantic. The orientation is bromosexuality. What Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum have in 21 Jump Street scrambles, transcends, and explodes all of that.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    Tommy Lee Jones makes his feature directing debut here, and the film is as weathered, subtle, and sympathetic as the actor's own face.
  17. Jauja
    Alonso sustains an atmosphere of otherworldly immanence in a vivid setting, with a style involving long takes with characters posed as if in tableaux vivants.
  18. All About Lily Chou-Chou
    Awash in strangeness, a poem that details what it's like to be 13 at the end of a millennium.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Winnipeg
    Maddin's Winnipeg is a rich, funky, funny stew of fears and desires, of mangled civic chronology mashed up with hothouse private emotions. This is a secret history, and it's a wonder.
  20. Love, Simon
    It’s not exactly like the novel, but it captures the best parts of it.
  21. Ruby in Paradise
    As quietly confident in its emotional grounding as any American film you'll see this year, and animated by a radiant debut performance from Ashley Judd in the title role, Ruby in Paradise is refreshingly removed from the usual strivings for effect. Part of its allure is that it plays out in what seems like real time. [12 Nov 1993, p.49]
    • Boston Globe
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hail, Caesar!
    There are the serious Coen brothers movies, like “No Country for Old Men” and, um, “A Serious Man,” and there are the not-so-serious ones. Hail, Caesar! is the opposite of their serious ones, and it is delightful.
  23. The Fearless Freaks
    An uncommonly intimate portrait, in large part because the filmmaker, Bradley Beesley, is a longtime neighbor, friend, and collaborator.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Capote
    Richly provocative entertainment, as heady as a cocktail party with the Manhattan literati and as vaguely troubling as the morning after.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    War Dance
    This War/Dance is among the most affecting films I've seen all year; it cuts to the core of being and gives individual faces to sorrow and to hope.
  26. The Little Mermaid
    The Little Mermaid is more than Disney Lite, as so many of the studio's animations of the last couple of decades have been. It offers a strong link to the classic Disney tradition while generating freshly hatched delights. And it puts Disney back in the animation game in a big way. [17 Nov 1989, p.85p]
    • Boston Globe
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Is Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets exploitative or enabling? On the contrary, it is friendly, clear-eyed, and wise — tender about our follies and unsentimental about where they lead us. A heap see but a few know, and the Ross brothers are among the chosen few.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    The movie's still a wickedly droll put-on. Better yet, beneath the fun lurks a dry and weary sigh at life's refusal to match the tidiness of art.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    3:10 to Yuma
    Both actors are among the best, most intuitively creative we have, and whatever transpires offscreen in Crowe’s case, onscreen they only serve their characters. Neither man showboats here, and it’s a thrill to watch them work.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Concert for George
    It's spookily touching to see this massed group of former rock gods gathered to honor one of their fallen. Bald spots and graying shags predominate; the giant velvet lapels of 1969 have given way to sensible sport coats; the granny glasses are for real.
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