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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 1.1 points 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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Colossal
    About halfway into Colossal you may experience the novel vertigo that comes when you genuinely have no idea where a movie is taking you but understand you’re in competent creative hands. That sensation holds until you’re deposited, happy and a little worse for wear, at the end.
  2. The Fate of the Furious
    Polar chaos notwithstanding, “Fate” delivers action with more consistent visual precision than in the last couple of films, as newly enlisted director F. Gary Gray accesses the flair he brought to 2003’s “The Italian Job.”
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Quiet Passion
    No matter how you feel, we still get the poetry, stitched throughout the film and occasionally soaring above it like an uncaged bird: hard, far-seeing, and waiting for the day it will be understood.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Queen of the Desert
    In no way, shape, or fashion does Queen of the Desert qualify as a good movie, but for fans of Werner Herzog — those of us who have followed cinema’s Teutonic imp of the perverse since the 1970s, when he was staging all-dwarf fables and sending conquistadors across mountains — it is fascinating and something close to a must-see.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After the Storm
    A small-scale, satisfying human drama that backs gradually into larger matters.
  6. Smurfs: The Lost Village
    Entertainment so generically gentle, it doesn’t compare to last year’s similarly themed, tonally looser “Trolls.”
  7. Your Name.
    Being cluttered isn’t the only problem with Your Name. It also features insipid characters and dippy montage music from the J-pop band Radwimps.
  8. Gifted
    You may find yourself wishing that Webb (“500 Days of Summer”) would just power through court. We’d gladly watch more of Grace and Evans silhouetted against the sunset, their connection evident in his indulgent posing as her makeshift jungle gym.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Going in Style
    The 1979 film was both more casual and much darker about the realities and infirmities of old age, and it had one of George Burns’s better performances. It was a funny, touching experience, and it was a bitter pill. The new movie is a placebo, with Hallmark emotions put over by a cast of solid-gold professionals.
  10. Ghost in the Shell
    Or maybe Major, like Oedipus, is really searching for herself? Do people even have selves? Are identities and souls just a bunch of clichés spun out by teams of screenwriters? If these questions interest you, do yourself a favor and watch the 1995 original movie.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Zookeeper's Wife
    And there you have the problem with The Zookeeper’s Wife: Dialogue and plotting that keep this inspirational, mostly true story earthbound by hitting every note with a hammer.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Frantz
    Frantz is pleasurable slow going, developing its themes at an amble but with a measure of suspense, sympathy toward its characters, and a lasting faith in filmmaking craft.
  13. The Boss Baby
    At least a plot point about “secret formula” is sort of clever. The rest comes across as gibberish.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Personal Shopper
    Personal Shopper is as coolly, beautifully ambiguous as we’ve come to expect from France’s Olivier Assayas, and it contains the kind of mysteries that can leave adventurous audiences tingling pleasurably while others spit out their gummi worms in frustration.
  15. Wilson
    A lot of talent gets wasted in Wilson: not just Harrelson, Dern, and Clowes.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Song to Song
    At times in Song to Song, the effect is mesmerizing, mostly when Mara is onscreen in all her tremulous bioluminescence.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    T2 Trainspotting
    T2 Trainspotting wears out its welcome slowly, like a group of old men running out of stories to tell in an afternoon pub.
  18. Saban's Power Rangers
    Power Rangers might be the only movie that directly pays homage to “Transformers.” Sadly, it suffers by the comparison.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Life
    Like Life itself, this alien is nasty, brutish, and short.
  20. Raw
    When Ducournau keeps the viewer off balance and doesn’t lose her own, she shows signs of being an outstanding stylist and storyteller, balancing mood, composition, startling images, slow-burning suspense, and sardonic humor.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neruda
    Neruda is a dream of Chile, of what it was and might have been, brought to the screen by a master dreamer.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beauty and the Beast
    In short, there’s plenty of spectacle in Beauty and the Beast, which will be enough for many if not most young audiences. But there isn’t much magic, and what there is coasts on 26-year-old fumes.
  23. The Last Word
    If “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) had mean Mr. Potter standing on the bridge ready to jump, rather than James Stewart’s beaten down hero George Bailey, it still would not have been as namby-pamby as Mark Pellington’s treacly and bromidic The Last Word.
  24. Mr. Gaga
    Slowly it emerges that Gaga is Naharin’s “dance language,” a way of expressing one’s inner being through external movement. Gaga is dada — for dancers.
  25. The Lure
    There is no continuity in narrative or character and it’s all shot in an elliptical, heavily stylized, gaudily lit (much of it looks like it’s shot through an algae-filmed aquarium) collage.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kong: Skull Island
    Kong: Skull Island isn’t a remake or a reboot or a re-anything. It’s just a Saturday matinee creature feature with a smart, unpretentious script, a handful of solid supporting players, and a digital Kong who feels big enough and real enough to provoke the necessary awe. This is all to the movie’s credit.
  27. Land of Mine
    One appreciates the desire of the filmmaker to let the audience fill in the back story, but Rasmussen’s behavior reflects badly on the Danish and heightens sympathy for the POWs.
  28. XX
    The creepiest part of XX, a quartet of short horror films by women, might be the Jan Svankmejer-like stop-action segments between each of them. Sofia Carrillo’s animated antique dolls and little furniture walking on stilt-like legs are the stuff of nightmares.
  29. Table 19
    Kudrow and Robinson are intriguing casting and they get some sharp Bickersons material, but the movie unconvincingly shorthands how they got together. And Revolori’s horndog just feels like the film coasting on his quirky persona from “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Life as a Zucchini
    It’s well worth seeking out for older kids who don’t mind reading subtitles, their parents, and any adults who can appreciate a good story movingly and creatively told.
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