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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Shadow of Women
    In the Shadow of Women, a portrait of a troubled French marriage, has the simplicity and subtle punch of a good short story.
  2. Wonder Boys
    A sweet screenful of quirky chaos.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
    Who’s the audience for this? Well, me and about five other movie junkies at the crossroads of history and art. Maybe you, too, even if your knowledge of Buñuel stops with the slashed eyeball of “Un Chien Andalou” (1929), still one of the most shocking images in all cinema.
  4. Mysterious Skin
    The film is actually a major artistic breakthrough for Araki, a onetime bad boy of independent filmmaking. Its psychological intelligence, attention to emotional currents, and humanity are surprises.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rush
    In a way, Howard has made a philosophical drama about the way men move through the world. It’s just a really, really fast drama.
  6. Mean Creek
    Adults should find its simmering drama at least as compelling as teens will, even if parental figures are only slightly more present here than in a " Peanuts" comic strip.
  7. Bully
    Bully contains some moments of real alarm and, in the school bus, one nightmarish motif.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Half of It
    The lead performers put it over, with Lewis very appealing as Ellie. She plays this small, fierce character as comfortable in her social invisibility yet increasingly exasperated by the insularity and ethnic slurs of her small town.
  9. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
    Even at the movie's most ridiculous (and Mongol is not without its ridiculous moments), this is a picture you laugh with more than laugh at.
  10. Winnie the Pooh
    Zooey Deschanel shows off her singing on a couple of generically pleasant soundtrack ditties.
  11. Armageddon Time
    The self-congratulatory, back-patting nature of this film is what makes it so insulting.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Munich
    The director can work wonders within his celluloid universe, but when the time comes to hand us back to reality, he stumbles. With this movie, that hurts.
  13. Thelma
    A moody, mannered, and lingering coming-of-age story with a Stephen King-like twist.
  14. Colette
    Westmoreland’s narrative is cluttered with undeveloped subplots and loose ends. He compensates by evoking the era with images drawing from painters like Gustave Caillebotte and Toulouse-Lautrec and soundtrack music that ranges from Strauss-like waltzes to Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédies.”
  15. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    The “Cowabunga” dudes have become “Cowa-boring.”
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Millions
    You really don't need to borrow someone else's kids to ponder and enjoy what Millions has to offer.
  17. Disobedience
    Ronit’s ebullient spirit spreads vivacity, discontent, and resentment. She offers the possibility of choice — between secular independence or religious tradition. But Lelio opts for an insipid neutrality that does a disservice to both.
  18. Judy Berlin
    It isn't often that lives of quiet desperation are served up with such pearly restraint.
  19. East Is East
    This engaging ensemble comedy that could have been called ''Father Doesn't Know Best.''
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  20. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Intoxicating fun.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love, Gilda
    With all that good will and with an abundance of source material, why does the documentary Love, Gilda feel like such a disappointment? It’s fine for casual viewers: you’ll come away reasonably satisfied if you want to catch up on the basics of Radner’s life and career while having your nostalgia gently stroked.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hidden Figures
    The film’s made with more heart than art and more skill than subtlety, and it works primarily because of the women that it portrays and the actresses who portray them. Best of all, you come out of the movie knowing who Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson are, and so do your daughters and sons.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sylvie's Love
    This is more than retro, it’s a re-imagination of the past, of the stories and role models that could have been available to Black audiences (and white ones) but weren’t. Better late than never.
  24. Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
    As a general survey of Williams’s life, as a collection of precious backstage outtakes, and as a nostalgic trip back into his comedy stylings, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind does the trick. It’s a sad, but satisfying, visit with a special man.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Higher Ground
    The end result's a muddle and a good argument for why actors shouldn't direct themselves first time out. Farmiga's a generous and observant performer, but she lacks a shaping hand, not to mention the ruthlessness that's probably a necessity for any director.
  26. Golden Door
    It's so hypnotically breathtaking, you don't realize you're not breathing. By the final shot, you don't realize you're crying either, but there go the tears.
  27. Stonewall Uprising
    "This was the Rosa Parks moment,'' another participant says, "the time that gay people stood up and said, 'No.' ''
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Town
    A pretty decent crime drama - not a patch on the best parts of his directorial debut, 2007's "Gone Baby Gone,'' but it's moody and grim and engrossing if you approach it with the right expectations.
  29. Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
    Tom Bean and Luke Poling’s documentary shows that its subject’s true talent may have been for an occupation no less rarefied than the ones he failed at: movie star.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    It’s a secondhand vision, when all is said and done, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing when the craft is rapturous.
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