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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. Despicable Me 2
    The scope of the ’toon espionage-adventure goings-on is surprisingly limited. But the filmmakers so clearly love working on these characters, their creative joy is infectious.
  2. No Hard Feelings
    Ultimately, No Hard Feelings is the story of two people who are afraid of life for different reasons, and how they help each other lose that fear. I’ve heard complaints that it sacrifices filth for feelings. To those folks, I say — you can always watch “Porky’s” instead.
  3. Wattstax (re-released)
    Wattstax is a disorienting and ironic moviegoing experience. It's a film about the curative powers of rhythm-and-blues music that sets out to frustrate your sense of rhythm in its insistence on the blues.
  4. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
    “Happy” isn’t meant ironically. Herzog, who narrates, clearly loves, and envies, the trappers’ elemental existence and connection to nature.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Runaways
    In rock, it's about the attitude as much as the music. In some cases, more so. And the Runaways were all attitude.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Being Julia
    You can feel her (Bening) drag Being Julia uphill for an hour and a half until the final 15 minutes, when the ground finally levels out and the picture becomes fine, vengeful fun.
  7. Passing
    This is a double debut for Hall, as director and screenwriter both. She’s long been known as one of our most gifted actors. So the quality of the performances she’s gotten from her cast is little surprise.
  8. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    A train worth catching.
  9. Liberty Heights
    Both a lovingly crafted remembrance of things past and a deliberate broadening and darkening of the canvas Levinson previously filled in "Diner," "Tin Men," and "Avalon."
  10. Simon Magus
    An odd but original, at times even poetic, film about a vanished world.
  11. 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.
  12. Old School
    It's also a message movie, about as weighty as Lara Flynn Boyle and twice as absurd. But I'd like to report that I had an excellent time.
  13. Spy
    The character is sweetly sympathetic — less “Tammy” than “Mike & Molly” — and the laughs and chaos are all the more infectious for it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Atomic Blonde
    It’s film noir meets Jason Bourne with a dash of John le Carré, and its chief claim to your attention is our reigning lady badass at its center.
    • 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Maze Runner
    Using a refreshingly gentle FX touch, Ball has successfully transposed the decaying, vine-covered concrete jungle look of his short onto this gorgeously-designed feature. The neophyte knows how to direct heart-pumping chase scenes and has coaxed surprisingly solid performances from his young ensemble cast, especially O’Brien and Poulter.
  17. Pressure Cooker
    The movie's sense of inspiration is realistic. It never implies a future of glamour, only hard-won success.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Dragon
    As Hopkins's Lecter is concerned, it's official: He's Freddy Krueger.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sherlock Holmes
    It pleases me to report, then, that Downey brings his brain, his wit, and his gift for intelligent underplaying, even as he understands he has been hired to play Sherlock Holmes, action hero.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Crazies
    Does what an exploitation movie should: It gets in, it scares you silly, and it gets out, all while playing fair by the audience.
  21. Pauline and Paulette
    Sentimental and has its heart on its sleeve, but never heavy-handedly so, and its delicacy and tenderness will get to you if you give it half a chance.
    • Boston Globe
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
    The movie clips are luscious, as you'd expect, and Cardiff's own "home movies," shot on various movie sets with a 16mm camera, catch the gods during downtime.
  23. Appaloosa
    A warmly made, slightly offbeat movie about friendly devotion. It also happens to be a western, and every man in it is grizzled or wizened or both.
  24. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Brims with forboding, but it pulses with candy colors and the hum of neon signs.
  25. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    The movie could also teach something to the makers of "Pirates of the Caribbean" about delivering a story quirky enough to actually stick with you.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sasquatch Sunset
    Consistently weird and frequently wonderful, “Sasquatch Sunset” uses its high-concept premise to consider a host of themes: collective living, coexistence with nature, longing stirred by seclusion.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sausage Party
    All right-thinking minds will properly detest the movie. I have to admit I laughed my asparagus off.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Russian Dolls
    The film isn't especially deep, but it's mostly delightful.
  29. Kurt Cobain About a Son
    A lovely piece of filmmaking, a gripping, minimalist marriage of sound and image.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beowulf
    Not all of it works - and not all of it works the way the target audience of jacked-up young males might want it to - but the movie is hugely provocative fun, and I'm pretty sure that's on purpose.
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