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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rudo y Cursi
    Rudo y Cursi is a grave and calculated affront to the men of Mexico, and that's the source of its roistering charm.
  2. Pressure Cooker
    The movie's sense of inspiration is realistic. It never implies a future of glamour, only hard-won success.
  3. Tetro
    A family melodrama with charm.
  4. $9.99
    A movie that entertains and enlightens without being preachy - in fact, most of its beliefs are strenuously ambiguous; that’s a key part of the joke.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chéri
    What makes Cheri’ worth your while is that its true subjects are women and age, and its observations apply to both 19th-century France and the modern film industry.
  6. 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.
  7. Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
    It’s as slickly enjoyable as anything you’d see on VH1.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bandslam
    Bandslam is “Camp’’ with rock ’n’ roll instead of show tunes, but its roots go back to the Busby Berkeley backstagers and Mickey-and-Judy let’s-put-on-a-show musicals of the 1930s.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beeswax
    It all feels studiously artless - some people huffily insist that Bujalski’s movies aren’t movies at all - but the more you contemplate his landscapes, the more his control over their various elements is revealed. He’s the real deal: a maturing artist obsessed with how and why - and if - his generation will mature.
  10. Earth Days
    The rare ecological documentary that doesn’t nag us to run out of the movie theater and change the world.
  11. The Baader Meinhof Complex
    Swift, brutal, lurid, often overheated, and occasionally comical, but it’s also a serious, well acted, and unromantic exploration of the rise and demise of a terrorist gang whose radicalism ultimately reached beyond the young men and women who set it in motion.
  12. The September Issue
    What the movie unfolds is how the magazine is inextricable from Wintour’s vision of it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Live in Public
    Fascinating, like a car wreck seen through a rearview mirror.
  14. Amreeka
    It’s one of the richer movies you’re likely to see about average Arabs in America.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    No Impact Man: The Documentary
    It’s like Sinatra said: If you can make (do without) it there, you can make (do without) it anywhere. The movie leaves it up to you.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crude
    So, yes, something needs to be done, and if it takes Sting reuniting the Police in-concert to sing “sending out an SOS’’ on behalf of the plaintiffs (among other worthy causes), so be it.
  17. Splice
    The movie begins to run out of gas as it racks up a body count, but even the mad-scientist and I-created-a-monster clichés are contorted satisfyingly enough.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Disgrace
    It’s a harsh experience, at times engrossing, at other times stiff and unconvincing, but it asks a necessary question: What happens to the country’s whites after white rule is gone?
  19. (Untitled)
    Walking the line between the movie’s broad strokes and its near-perfect pitch is the art itself, which has been designed and constructed by a team of smart designers.
  20. Good Hair
    There’s a lot of Michael Moore’s ambulatory spirit in this film, which the comedian Jeff Stinson directed. There’s also a lot of the damning comedic commentary that made Rock’s old HBO series so urgent.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The House of the Devil
    An almost fetishistic re-creation of a horror-suspense movie from around 1978.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Christmas Carol
    Shockingly, the new film turns out to be very good, at times close to brilliant: a darkly detailed marvel of creative visualization that does well by Dickens and right by audiences - when it’s not trying to sell them a theme park ride.
  23. William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
    This engrossing and provocative documentary is also about a tragic kind of liberal guilt.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Defamation
    In its sneaky, cheeky way, Defamation is a mitzvah, an act of kindness.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Karate Kid
    The one thing that should have been changed but hasn’t is the title, which makes no sense at all in a movie about kung fu.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Off and Running
    A patient, slightly stiff, often intensely moving portrait of a girl who believes her choices are literally black and white.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Yellow Handkerchief
    The performances are what put it over -- that and the observant camera of director Udayan Prasad.
  29. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The movies rarely gives us a woman as fascinatingly complex as Lisbeth Salander, and the happiest news about the two sequels is that she’ll be back.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Greenberg
    Noah Baumbach makes nature documentaries disguised as indie comedy-dramas.
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