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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dolemite Is My Name
    Murphy grounds the film, in part because the actor has the gift of motormouth hustle himself, but also because he gets the anger at the core of Rudy Ray Moore — the rage to be noticed that propelled Moore away from Arkansas, an abusive stepfather, and the life of a black sharecropper.
  2. Guardians of the Galaxy
    The motley crew’s repartee makes for comedy that’s surprisingly consistent, yet freewheeling and sharp enough to pinball from Kevin Bacon to Jackson Pollock and back.
  3. Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
    Unfortunately, Hatley chooses not to offer much context or background history regarding that or other aspects of Helm’s half-century career, other than archival footage of Helm and the Band in their prime, press clippings, and comments from the Band “biographer,” Barney Hoskyns.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lore
    I’m not sure Lore holds up to repeated viewings — Shortland’s style is so feverish it could quickly turn precious — but it demands to be seen at least once.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Carry You with Me
    I Carry You With Me is an act of memory, of romance, and of friendship all in one — a movie that takes the kind of undocumented immigrants’ saga we think we know and recasts it in a dreamy, bittersweet light.
  6. Jesus' Son
    It's often a downer, with a sweet but largely passive protagonist.
  7. In America
    It's hard to dislike a film that wants to say that the bereft have to move on with their lives, that death is part of living, and that poverty is a state of mind. But it's not impossible.
  8. Corsage
    Despite the film’s tendency to drag, Vicky Krieps remains compulsively watchable, as always. She almost saves the movie.
  9. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
    It's superb filmmaking, uncluttered and utterly assured. Miike places us in the household of Li, offering up rich, deep colors, with an almost painterly exploration of fields of depth and volume.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Machuca
    It's a tale powerfully told, nevertheless, with an unusual vantage point in its upper-class young hero.
  11. Red Rocket
    It’s no surprise that [Rex] gives Mikey everything he’s got. What is a surprise is how much he’s got to give. The performance is riveting until, like the movie, it just becomes too much.
    • 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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jane Eyre
    This may not be the greatest movie version of the novel, but it's possibly the truest.
  14. A Monster Calls
    A Monster Calls is a portrait of coping that’s both fascinating and heartbreaking.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Buck
    The man's mythology precedes him, and it's the movie's failing that we don't understand how or whether he uses that mythology because he knows it's good business.
  16. Shaun of the Dead
    Every moment... is a cleverly constructed live-action joke on aloofness: The world is ending, and these people are too self-centered to notice.
  17. And Everything Is Going Fine
    While the words belong to the storyteller, the story in And Everything Is Going Fine appears to be telling itself.
  18. Their Finest
    At its best, which is often, Their Finest by Danish director Lone Scherfig (“Italian for Beginners;” “An Education”) manipulates appearance and reality, relief and recognition, with exquisite finesse. As befits a film about making films.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The White Tiger
    Director Bahrani has always buried his social concerns in story and character; he’s one of the very few American filmmakers to pay attention to this country’s poor, and he applies his creativity to the paradoxes of India without missing a step.
  20. Syriana
    In its seriousness, Syriana has an absorbing, ominous roundness that plays even better with a second viewing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Silent Souls
    Silent Souls is a road movie, a guy movie, a treatise on burial customs in northern Russia. Mostly it's a sigh at the way entire cultures can slip away in the flow of time. It's lovely and slow and melancholic and short - 75 minutes, yet you feel you've been gone for an epoch or two.
  22. The Baader Meinhof Complex
    Swift, brutal, lurid, often overheated, and occasionally comical, but it’s also a serious, well acted, and unromantic exploration of the rise and demise of a terrorist gang whose radicalism ultimately reached beyond the young men and women who set it in motion.
  23. Intimate Stories
    A delightful road movie.
  24. Dreamgirls
    It's taken Dreamgirls 25 years and several false starts to get to the screen, so it's a shame to see what a rush job it feels like.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Dogtown and Z-Boys
    Does a terrific job of evoking the electric magic of an extraordinary era.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zappa
    Zappa also gently touches on Frank’s contempt for the general run of humanity, not just Tipper Gore and other members of the Parents Music Resource Center. He spoke witheringly of his appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” where the cast made fun of his lifelong no-drugs stance.
  27. Flight
    Flight is a so-so movie with Denzel Washington as a commercial-airline pilot who crash-lands a plane while drunk, high, hung over, and horny. It doesn't do much that you couldn't anticipate just by seeing the trailer - the trailer is more exciting than the movie itself.
  28. Tucker: The Man and His Dream
    It's also [Coppola's] most gloriously extravagant film since "One from the Heart." [12 Aug 1988]
    • Boston Globe
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    99 Homes
    The movie works as a twinned character study, a moral suspense thriller, and an indictment of an America stacked against its working classes.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Trial of the Chicago 7
    "Trial” is so inherently compelling — and so directly germane to an America where the government labels cities “anarchist jurisdictions” and states are drawing up laws against free assembly — that it doesn’t need the frills. Let the kids know what happened the way it happened. They can handle the truth.
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