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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. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
    The animals are so magically entertaining to watch here (helped by some gently mischievous narrative assists), the educational treatment is a fun time in its own right.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Black Is King
    Even when the meager story line falters — more on that in a bit — the music and visuals mesh into a dazzling whole.
  3. Parents
    It's a wickedly inventive blend of revisionist history and childhood dread. [17 March 1989, p.45]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Under the Silver Lake
    The dread in Mitchell’s film never cuts to the bone, because we never really care about his characters.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Mother's Smile
    It's a bit of a mess but strong stuff nevertheless -- a mournful, often wickedly funny religious satire that suggests what Kafka might have come up with had he been raised Catholic.
  6. Robots
    Isn't as trippy, scary, handmade-looking, or environmentally aware as some of Miyazaki's pictures. But it shares their dreaminess. Even at its most ingenious, not even Pixar does that.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Proof
    Proof is proof that you can drain most of the juice out of a play and still have an enjoyable night at the movies.
  8. In a World...
    In addition to being very funny, In a World . . . also makes a case for women to be, well, heard. But in terms of cohesion and narrative, it doesn’t quite come together as a movie.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hot Fuzz
    It's to the "Lethal Weapon" movies what left-hand driving on a country lane is to a freeway chase: pokey, more than a little daft, but with a bloody surprise around every hedge.
  10. Waste Land
    Waste Land is just what the film's website says it is: "stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit."
  11. Maiden
    Unless you’re familiar with the various particulars, you’ll likely find yourself experiencing the film in aptly wavelike fashion, cresting with optimism about the crew’s prospects before plunging into apprehension, again and again.
  12. Spoiler Alert
    Just in time for the holidays, director Michael Showalter has gifted viewers with a good old-fashioned tearjerker, one that earns its tears without resorting to a brute force assault on your heartstrings. Spoiler Alert operates with a lot of humor and more than a little grace.
  13. A Dry White Season
    Here's a good, honorable, but not great anti-apartheid movie, the first directed by a black woman. A Dry White Season unravels when it opts for a wrap-up-the-loose-ends thriller finish, but there's no faulting the level of acting or the level of commitment in it. [17 Sept 1989, p.B4]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Grandma
    It’s predictable in many places and acerbic in others, sentimental when you expect it and poignant when you don’t. But it stars Lily Tomlin, and that’s all you really need to know.
  15. Changing Times
    Another gorgeous and immensely satisfying reminder that there are few better directors than Téchiné when it comes to capturing the vagaries of the heart.
  16. Superstar
    Part of the reason for the comic surehandedness is the obvious chemistry between Shannon, Ferrell, and director Bruce McCulloch.
  17. Fireworks
    Fireworks is anything but the usual cop thriller. It's a piercing meditation on mortality, with a heartbroken tough guy at its center. [20 Mar 1998, p.C8]
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  18. The Paperboy
    I've never seen a movie like this. Not on purpose. Daniels isn't saying he's tasteful. He's just saying that his tasteless trash is as deserving of our attention as the tasteful trash we feel like we have to see. The whole thing's a crazy fantasy, like watching a porno dream it can win the Oscar.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Darker, leaner, less expansive , and meaner, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is all business, and it casts a spell utterly unlike the first four films.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Piglet's Big Movie
    If you've got some very small fry on your hands and 75 minutes to kill, this is as bright, colorful, and fuzzy as you're going to get.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lemon Tree
    Referencing the popular song, the movie's title reminds us that "the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat." That, in a rind, is Riklis's deeply frustrated view of his country's stalemate, but you can only take a metaphor so far before it falters in the face of endless geopolitical complexity.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prodigal Sons
    There’s still enough to chew on to recommend the movie, not least the oddly touching sight of two siblings whose very identities have been altered by surgery.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    Vol. II is less focused than “Vol. I” — less funny, too, although there are a few dank laughs — and you feel Von Trier’s inspiration and energy start to flag during the final laps.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beautiful Country
    The filmmakers bank against their impulse toward melodrama and deliver a reconciliation that is heartbreakingly understated.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Forty-Year-Old Version
    All in all, quite impressive for a debut. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait another 40 years for the next one.
  26. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Intoxicating fun.
  27. Open Range
    A patient, suspenseful exercise in genre craftsmanship
  28. Persuasion
    The solid cast cements over the more noticeable cracks in the story. The result is a pleasant diversion that’s worth a rental.
  29. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    For a studio so clearly willing to take risks with so many of its movies, this particular movie has a whiff of exploitation. Rowling wrote one epic funeral that Warner Bros. requires us to attend twice.
  30. Soul Power
    The idea is to share with us that this show happened. But gluttons for these artists and for music festivals in general might wonder, as I have, whether there's any way the filmmakers might share more of the remaining 123 1/2 hours.
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