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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. Harrison's Flowers
    A powerful portrait of modern journalism and the nobility -- and futility -- of chronicling modern war.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cats Don't Dance
    With its bonus points for campy fun, Cats Don't Dance is an all-around winner for all ages. [26 Mar 1997, p.D8]
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  3. Sidney
    Combining as it does great admiration with an acknowledgment of flaws, “Sidney” is like Ethan Hawke’s recent HBO Max documentary about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, “The Last Movie Stars.”
  4. Children of Invention
    This is not “Death of a Salesman’’ or “Save the Tiger’’ (in the case of the latter, thank God). But how refreshing to see a movie about a mother’s struggles that doesn’t culminate in her lying on her back to make ends meet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dheepan
    The quiet strength of Dheepan is how it shows these lives — the people in our midst we never see — rolling on forever, adapting, struggling, and finding their way.
  6. Turn Me On, Dammit!
    What's refreshing about the Danish movie is how direct the girls are.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Despicable Me
    Despicable Me has enough visual novelty and high spirits to keep the kiddies diverted and just enough wit to placate the parents.
  8. The Goebbles Experiment
    Weirdly enthralling film.
  9. Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
    Silva doesn’t resort to any fancy tricks to depict his characters’ inner experiences. But something happens nonetheless, a bonding of sorts that is almost, if not quite, convincing.
  10. Drowning Mona
    Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us.
  11. John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
    So it’s a sort of grace note that Julien Faurat’s unusual and absorbing documentary, John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, includes a snippet from the soundtrack of “Raging Bull,” probably the greatest and certainly the fiercest and most aestheticized of boxing movies.
  12. Toy Story 2
    Everything you could want in a sequel. It satisfyingly regenerates the characters and qualities that made the first film so popular. And then it moves them forward into newer, fresher, more elaborate, more involving territory.
  13. The Plot Against Harry
    As narrative, the film doesn't quite work, but as a pungent ethnic scrapbook filled with eccentricity and deadpan humor, The Plot Against Harry is a treasure chest of quirkiness. [20 Sep 1989, p.82]
    • Boston Globe
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zack Snyder's Justice League
    Is all the sound and fury worthwhile, the four years of championing, the four hours up on the screen? To the fans who’ve been in it for the long haul, of course. To HBO Max executives, you bet. To casual moviegoers, probably not.
  15. Dark Horse
    But when Dark Horse leaves the feel-good realm to show news footage of a failed miners’ strike, or to have the camera linger on the impoverished surroundings where Dream Alliance’s owners still dwell, it suggests that it will take more than a few fairy tale finishes for their reality to change.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Merchant of Venice
    The reason to see The Merchant of Venice is Al Pacino.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Other Side of the Street
    Don't see the movie if you can't handle two rather sexy senior citizens threatening to meet in body and mind.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
    Part of the shoujo genre of gently fantastic romantic dramas about and for young teenage girls, it's also funny and creative enough to charm parents, brothers, cousins, and anyone else looking for an openhearted fable.
  19. The Blood of My Brother
    Combines an insider's perspective with what can only be described as gutsy cinematography.
  20. Life and Debt
    Employs both eloquent and down-to-earth methods to explain the complex reasons why so many of the world's developing countries remain caught in an economic quagmire that prevents them from becoming self-sufficient.
  21. Day Watch
    Anyone looking for sleek futuristic action and production design should keep walking.
  22. Chaos
    The best that can be said of the men in Coline Serreau's Chaos is that some of them are pimps.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cartel Land
    Behind the cool, nonjudgmental gaze of Cartel Land is a despair that never comes to terms with itself.
  24. King Richard
    King Richard is a movie, not a miniseries; and part of what makes Baylin’s screenplay so effective is his knowing what to leave out as well as what to put in.
  25. The Substance
    Had it been 90 minutes, we might be talking about a classic here. If there’s anything that was in dire need of a shot of The Substance to bring out a leaner, tighter version of itself, it’s this film’s Cannes-award-winning screenplay.
  26. The Truth About Charlie
    The closer you get to sorting out the truth, the less likely you are to believe it, let alone comprehend it. The latter half of this movie is as outlandish as a Mexican soap opera.
  27. The Little Vampire
    Sweetly macabre charmer.
  28. Postcards from the Edge
    With its wry take on the manic triviality of the industry, it's not only the most sparklingly jaundiced showbiz entertainment since "All About Eve." It's also the gutsiest mother-daughter story since "Terms of Endearment." Call it "Terms of Endurement," plan on laughing a lot, and you won't be far off. [13 Sep 1990, p.97]
    • Boston Globe
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Armstrong Lie
    The Armstrong Lie is one for the time capsule, because it preserves for future generations a very particular modern response to scandal: confession without remorse.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Can Do Bad All by Myself
    It’s the best Tyler Perry movie to date - the writer/director/actor/mogul’s most confident and competent mixture of uplifting black middle-class melodrama and low-down comedy.
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