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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsieur Lazhar
    There's a quiet metaphor here: How do you teach children without touching them - their minds, their souls, their sensitivities?
  2. The War Zone
    In all respects, from choice of material to fullness of execution on every level, The War Zone is an extraordinary piece of work.
  3. The Fire Inside
    What makes “The Fire Inside” so powerful is the uncomfortable questions it poses: How responsible is a person for their family’s well-being?
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Standard Operating Procedure
    In Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris does something inconceivable and, at first glance, ill-advised. He gives the US soldiers of Abu Ghraib back their humanity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    The real deal, an often awkward but nonetheless terrifically compelling high-stakes human drama.
  6. The Flower of My Secret
    In short, Almodovar opens some new doors to his artists here, and they respond in surprising, captivating ways. [29 Mar 1996]
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  7. The Underneath
    Soderbergh's sleekly malignant Underneath is a nasty little winner. [28 April 1995, p.81]
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  8. A Prophet
    It’s imperfect, but it’s daring, bold, and from a director who isn’t scared of anything.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Tropic
    Ghost Tropic is a slender 85 minutes, but it expands in your minds even as you watch it.
  10. The Spirit of the Beehive
    This is a modest marvel of grace and framing that unfolds with the patience of a cloud and is driven more by wonder than pure emotion. It doesn't have the exuberance of Francois Truffaut 's "Small Change." Instead, it's that movie's antonym, yet just as wondrous.
  11. Flamenco, Flamenco
    It is a delight for flamenco fans and provides a fascinating introduction for those unfamiliar with the music. But as cinema, despite the lush cinematography of Vittorio Storaro, it is lacking.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reprise
    Reprise is exceptionally smart about the crushing expectations brought to the table by those who love us.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Truth
    Using compassion and the slightest touch of syrup, Kore-eda brings his characters to a place where they realize with shock that they’re finally on the same page.
  14. Into the West
    There are a few tonal glitches, but Newell's hand is remarkably sure, the actors are winning, and Into the West is a treat. [17 Sep 1993, p.54]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
    The triumph of this fond, uncontainable documentary is that it lets you hear that voice again loud and clear.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nowhere in Africa
    The movie's strength is its refusal to offer easy answers.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Train of Life
    Another phantasmagorical tale of life among the Nazis, is upon us. This one works much better.
  18. Blackfish
    What’s on camera is both damning and expertly assembled, a filmmaking effort worthy of standing with 2009’s Oscar-winning documentary about dolphin abuse, “The Cove.”
  19. Closed Curtain
    The opening and closing scenes of this film evoke those in “Crimson Gold.” They are long shots of the outside as seen through a security gate. In “Crimson Gold,” the view is of a chaotic street in Tehran. Here, it is the empty sea. This difference demonstrates what Panahi has been deprived of, and what the world has lost because of it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sin City
    Tarantino may have nicked the title first, but this is the real ''Pulp Fiction," with all the drama and the dead ends that implies.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rich Hill
    Rich Hill might fairly be called “Boyhood: The Documentary,” and, not surprisingly, it offers a reality harsher than — if just as compassionate as — Richard Linklater’s dreamy time-lapse drama.
  22. Pacific Heights
    Pacific Heights is the hot fall thriller Hollywood has been waiting for. A slick, jolting successor to "Jagged Edge," "Fatal Attraction" and "Sea of Love," it beats the odds by inducing us to sympathize with a San Francisco yuppie landlord couple stuck with a tenant from hell. [28 Sept 1990, p.45]
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  23. As Good as It Gets
    Nicholson, Hunt, and Kinnear will win you over as they turn the film into a valentine to New York's walking wounded.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Luce
    Watts’s insistence on pursuing in secret the truth about her son, as opposed to asking him simple questions outright, doesn’t quite track. The questions echo long after the credits roll — which is either brilliant or maddening, depending on who you ask.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Land Ho!
    Land Ho! is a hot spring of a movie: It fizzes a lot, and you come out feeling better than you went in.
    • 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.
  27. Keane
    If Keane is a downer, it's a stupendously well-conceived one.
  28. A History of Violence
    The film has the perverse intelligence of Cronenberg's other movies. It's not his best, but it is certainly his most accessible, least stagy work, obeying the laws of chronology and serving up characters whom we recognize as people.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Humans
    Karam uses lingering closeups, off-kilter camera angles, and half-heard conversations from other rooms to heighten the film’s aura of free-floating dread.
  30. Bottoms
    Bottoms has a devil-may-care approach to its satire that might have made Jonathan Swift proud. Director Emma Seligman, who co-wrote the script with this film’s star, Rachel Sennott, are unconcerned about offending audiences. If you’ve seen their last film, the 2021 cringe comedy, “Shiva Baby,” you know what you’re in for here.
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