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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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    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beguiled
    For all its smarts, however,the film feels the slightest bit impersonal and risk-free. Coppola has been faulted in various quarters for dropping a female slave from her remake.
  2. The Mustang
    These men tend to be laconic, tormented, tattooed, impenetrable, usually bearded, potentially or actively violent, with screwed-up families and traumatic pasts. Nothing that a good horse couldn’t cure, or a talented female director.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Somers Town
    Somers Town, is a trifle: A short black-and-white lark with sharp edges and a soft center. It has its raptures, though, and then some. A disarmingly slight tale of adolescent friendship, Somers Town is one of those rare movies that seems to discover itself as you watch it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Scratch
    An illuminating and entertaining study of an underground culture that has become part of the American mainstream.
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  5. Shanghai Noon
    There's plenty of invention and exuberant vigor in the chopsocky, and Wilson's cool, ironic drollery provides the perfect foil for Chan's heroics.
  6. Daughter from Danang
    That commendable sense of balance, which Dolgin and Franco use to approach this family reunion, ultimately makes the finished product devastating.
  7. Under the City's Skin
    More a bleak docu-melodrama than an esoteric morality play.
  8. Presenting Princess Shaw
    Just when you were about to give up on the Internet as a swamp full of trolls, bullies, and liars, along comes a documentary like Ido Haar’s Presenting Princess Shaw.
  9. The Holy Girl
    A collection of beautifully acted encounters, conversations, symbols, and vignettes woven into an evocative and unforgettably surreal garment.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Philomena
    Philomena is a tearjerker of rare honesty and craft.
  11. First Love
    So expect the upending of expectations: visual, emotional, tonal, generic. Especially generic. Is First Love a comedy? A crime thriller? A love story? An advertorial for subscriptions to Guns and Ammo?...Yes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Get Low
    A charming, spiky period piece that might be called "Boo Radley: The Final Years."
  13. 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.
  14. The Immigrant
    The characters look as if they’d be more comfortable with intertitles than spoken dialogue. And the faces — Marion Cotillard as Ewa, the beleaguered Polish immigrant of the title, holds a close-up as well as Lillian Gish or Louise Brooks.
    • 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.
  16. The Best Intentions
    As anyone who saw Pelle the Conqueror remembers, August is great with landscapes, but perhaps because he was telling Bergman's story here instead of his own, he seems on this occasion too reverent. Considering the fierce emotions that are the film's subject, The Best Intentions is too hushed, decorous, solemn. [14 Aug 1992, p.43]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Detroit
    Lines are drawn and connections are made. The intentions are pure. The results are enraging, often in accordance with the filmmakers’ hopes, sometimes against. Personally, I came out of Detroit angrier than I’ve been at a movie in ages, and not entirely the way director Kathryn Bigelow probably wants.
  18. The Edge of Seventeen
    This is less a throwback to cutely misunderstood Molly Ringwald than to “My So-Called Life” — but with our high-school heroine stuck in a spiral like Claire Danes never knew.
  19. Brooklyn Castle
    The biggest complaint about Brooklyn Castle is that there's not enough of her. A presence as magnetic as Vicary's demands more screen time. How did she come to chess (a notoriously male-dominated game)? How did she come to 318?
  20. Logan
    Jackman and Stewart’s fond, easy dynamic helps to balance some very provocative brutality, as the movie pushes Wolverine’s berserk nature to graphic new extremes.
  21. Circo
    Circo offers a fascinating mix of backstage drama and family dynamics.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    28 Years Later
    28 Years Later isn’t sure what kind of movie it wants to be: Action-comedy? Gory grindhouse? Serious family drama? Despite some interesting concepts and commendable lead performances, its identity problems alienate. It seems like the years have finally caught up.
  23. Stephanie Daley
    Tamblyn's surprisingly measured performance commands attention.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Water
    Succeeds in its central goal: to turn a forgotten class of women into real, memorable human beings who deserve a different life.
  25. The Rape of Europa
    Here the result is often disjointed and frustrating. That 2,000 people lived in the cellars of the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad is certainly remarkable but not altogether germane to the fate of art during the war.
  26. Italian for Beginners
    It's the kind of romantic comedy that doesn't cheapen the word ''heartwarming.''
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bukowski: Born into This
    Wants to claim Bukowski (1920-1994) as a 20th-century West Coast Walt Whitman -- a people's poet of modern degradation. Through a selective presentation of his writing and a reverently crass treatment of his life, it makes a funny, often intensely moving case, and you're having such a good time that you're glad to let it.
  28. Monsoon Wedding
    The film's bountiful warmth and gusto do their work. By the end, we feel part of the family, too.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    High Ground
    A less than inspiring documentary about extremely inspiring individuals, High Ground is worth seeing for what it shows rather than how it shows it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Louder Than a Bomb
    Think of it as "Glee" without music. Without a net, too.
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