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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. The Bob's Burgers Movie
    At 102 minutes, The Bob’s Burgers Movie feels more like five continuous episodes stitched together than something new that’s been abstracted from its origins. The one place it dares to outshine the show is in its emotional moments, where it allows the heart that has always been beating under its surface to grow three sizes bigger.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Treeless Mountain
    Feels both masterful and hesitant - it’s the work of a born filmmaker who’s still not quite sure what she wants to say.
  3. The LEGO Batman Movie
    The movie is sufficiently in touch with current comic books that it’s keen to explore Batman’s psychology — breezily, but still.
  4. A Prairie Home Companion
    Kline's combination of pratfalls and urbanity is funny, but it rubs against the rest of the movie's effortless rustic charm. He's like Errol Flynn on a hayride.
  5. Mid-August Lunch
    The movie is a perfect blend of calm execution and uninflected farce.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Microbe and Gasoline
    Charming, melancholy, and, in the end, not terribly memorable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Baadasssss!
    A much better movie than the one it honors.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trainwreck
    A very entertaining romantic comedy, conventional on the surface while standing all sorts of genre clichés and gender assumptions discreetly on their heads. Its subversions are lower-case, embedded in the laughs, but they’re there and they matter.
  9. Secret Ballot
    Ride it out, and you will find the rewards modest but meaningful.
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  10. The Believer
    An amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    About a Boy
    Renders what should have been a wholly entertaining film into a timid, soggy near miss.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In This World
    A tremendous human drama, with each stage of its characters' journey a white-knuckle thriller in miniature.
  13. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    It does manage to put a somewhat complex human face on the domestic troublemakers, if not their exploits.
  14. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    The filmmaker doesn't exactly let anyone off the hook.
  15. Origin
    It’s not a fun time at the movies, but it’s an informative and worthy one.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bastard Out of Carolina
    Huston's direct style and subtle touch keep Bastard from becoming a sociological treatise. Not for a moment can we forget that these are people hurting people. [13 Dec 1996, p.C28]
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  17. Peace Officer
    Lawrence is an impeccable, commanding subject, not just because of his credentials but because of his presence and demeanor.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Point Blank
    What the movie doesn't do, oddly, is leave much of an impression after it's over.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
    In its occasionally over-gentle way, the documentary testifies to the ego necessary to be a great star and to live a great life.
  20. Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
    Perhaps Fiennes’s intent is to draw the viewer into the solipsistic intensity of what it is to be Grace Jones. It is a bracing experience, because she is hedonistic, exultant, funny, and fierce.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A House of Dynamite
    Despite its intent to scare viewers into thinking about the possibility of a nuclear attack on a major American city, the screenplay structure of “A House of Dynamite” robs most of its power. The same events are seen from three different perspectives, a narrative device that becomes an instantly forgettable gimmick.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Okja
    No one, but no one, makes movies like Bong, a South Korean master who combines baroque concepts, epic visuals, international casts, and a sense of humor that can make you laugh out loud in the middle of the darkest doings.
  23. The Great Flood
    At its best, The Great Flood is hypnotic — at its worst, numbing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Omar
    The movie lands like a punch.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Maurice
    The team of producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory has created another classy film of a classic novel with their stunning adaptation of E.M. Forster's Maurice. [24 Sep 1987]
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  26. Titane
    Titane is deeply unpleasant, and its narrative borders on the inexplicable — not just the sex and pregnancy — but Ducournau knows what’s she’s doing, even if the audience doesn’t know why she’s doing it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    Rogue Nation unfolds with fluid, twisty, old-school pleasure — you settle into it like a favorite chair.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Purple Rose of Cairo
    The Purple Rose of Cairo, Woody Allen's tender Valentine to the movies, features poignant performances by Jeff Daniels and Mia Farrow. In the critical rush to canonize Allen, it's easy to forget how far Farrow has come as an actress. [31 May 1985, p.27]
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  29. Frozen
    Frozen could also leave its mark as the next step in the Disney Princess feminist revisionism championed by last year’s “Brave.” Where that film staunchly pushed a men-don’t-define-me theme throughout, here it’s the requisite fairy tale ending that gets tweaked.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On the Run
    This payback-revenge storyline, told mostly at night with minimal dialogue, is tense but familiar, and Bruno's quick-draw costume changes are fun to watch.
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