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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 Song of Sparrows
    The images in The Song of Sparrows have a poetic grace that's to be desired in storytelling. You feel Majidi's hand much more than you do God's.
  2. Linda Linda Linda
    As directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita , the sluggish haze between extracurricular activities is exquisitely captured and framed, then patiently edited. Every shot feels like a gift.
  3. La faute à Fidel!
    Brilliantly, the movie becomes a double coming-of-age story. The parents' political awakening parallels their daughter's.
  4. Thor: Ragnarok
    Thor’s bloodsport detour diverts an inordinate amount of the filmmakers’ attention, and ours, from the whole end-of-days buildup. Hopkins gets short shrift, as does Idris Elba’s returning interdimensional gatekeeper, Heimdall.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Teacher's Pet
    Barrels along on a diverting enough sugar high, but in the hangover that follows you may wonder where the wonder was.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lemon Tree
    Referencing the popular song, the movie's title reminds us that "the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat." That, in a rind, is Riklis's deeply frustrated view of his country's stalemate, but you can only take a metaphor so far before it falters in the face of endless geopolitical complexity.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Queen & Slim
    It’s a tale as old as time and a story ripped from the news feed; a dream of connection and an anvil to the heart. See it for the arrivals of a directorial talent and a stunning young actress, and see it to remind yourself of this country’s ancient and eternal sins.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Breach
    A compelling and eerily effective little drama.
  9. Tully
    The film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths. Entirely appropriately, the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn. That's not just a farm movie, that's life.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Japanese Story
    Best taken as a dazzling showcase for Collette, an actress who fits none of Hollywood's ideas of glamour or artistry, yet who grows like a beautiful outback weed with each new role she takes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    28 Days Later...
    A damn-near great end-of-the-world zombie movie, terrifying on the basic heebie-jeebie level, respectful toward its B-movie forebears, and all the more unnerving for coming out in this fretful era of SARS and germ warfare.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Novitiate
    By turns strikingly original and dramatically slick, deeply felt and a little cooked up. It’s well worth seeing, though.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On the Rocks
    It’s an agreeable diversion.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Road
    The movie trades the paranoia of modern omni-cam culture for a tighter, more personal drama, and while it sticks with you, you feel the missed opportunity like a phantom leg.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fantastic Planet
    Some will say weird is fun for its own sake, but we say weird does not equal cinematic satisfaction. [05 Mar 1999, p.C6]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Into the Wild
    One such paradox, which Into the Wild doesn't note, is that those who flee civilization more often than not bring it with them. The bus in which Christopher McCandless died is now a tourist destination.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Miss Juneteenth
    Miss Juneteenth is a simple story but a resonant one: modest but impactful, focused on one woman’s pride and her daughter’s future while unfolding in the bedrock of a known and loved environment. You can feel the history coming up through its pores.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Party
    The new film is a lightly poisoned amuse-bouche that’s made with tasty high-end ingredients, but at 71 minutes it leaves you hungry for more.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Scanner Darkly
    There's conspiracy here, as there is in all of Dick's books, and it wraps the film up with a moving but somewhat neat bowtie.
  20. Cropsey
    A chillingly effective documentary.
  21. The Great Man
    It takes a woman to make a great film about the all-male bastion of the French Foreign Legion. Claire Denis did so in her elliptical desert updating of Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd” in “Beau Travail” (1999), and her fellow French director Sarah Leonor nearly equals that feat in The Great Man.
    • 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.
  23. The Iron Claw
    Unfortunately, Durkin’s script is so shallow that every character is reduced to a simple sketch.
  24. Red Cliff
    Even at 148 minutes (and viewed twice!), you still feel as if you’re watching the longest coming attraction ever for a John Woo movie.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cool and Crazy
    Jensen's charming film, is perhaps one of the first in which the actors are credited not by the size of their salaries and egos, but by their vocal ranges.
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  26. The Limey
    Can't outrun its very visible limits.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Behind the Sun
    This is a deeper film, delving into the twisted motives that rule lives, the lethal cycles that shackle progress, and, ultimately, the courage it takes to choose life.
  28. Show Me Love
    Charming and, compared with most Hollywood films like it, refreshing.
    • Boston Globe
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rust and Bone
    The leads save it, particularly Cotillard, who once again subverts her own glamour with ferocious lack of ego. The movie itself only occasionally matches her intensity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inland Empire
    Inland Empire may be the most aggressively surreal feature film ever released to movie theaters in this country, and it's possibly close to the movie David Lynch carries around in his head.
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