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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. Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
    A rousing, sometimes funny, frequently depressing documentary.
  2. Araya
    While it insists that everyday lives in Araya are full of drudgery and toil, the film fails to produce a single ugly image.
  3. Urbania
    It plays like Scorsese's ``After Hours,'' but for higher stakes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cuban Rafters
    A heart-rending account of people trying to dodge the hurdles that politics puts in front of them. By the end of this humanist epic, some are ennobled by their struggle. Most are exhausted.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Something Wild
    After an hour of biting charm, Something Wild turns into something else. In a twist that turns the movie into a silly story of violence, Demme surrenders his style to a stupid plot. [7 Nov 1986]
    • Boston Globe
  6. Strange Fruit
    The film spends its first half explaining the song -- famously and vividly about the cycle of Southern lynching. Its better second half-hour unmasks its composer as a compassionate Jewish guy from the Bronx.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    The cast is earnest and they almost convince us they’re doing important rather than self-important work.
  8. Wind River
    All three actors are excellent. So’s Gil Birmingham, as the victim’s father.
  9. Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
    A description of Davis’s post-trial life would have been welcome. Twice Communist Party candidate for vice president, she now teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz. That raises one more question. Santa Cruz is less than a hundred miles away from San Rafael. How many lifetimes away does it feel like?
  10. Air
    As a star-studded (and highly fictionalized) history lesson, Air is massively entertaining and one of the best films of 2023 so far. It also works as a nostalgia piece for people like me who, in their youth, lusted after the pricey footwear.
  11. Black Cat, White Cat
    The gusto in the flying bullets, the fleeing lovers, and the flowing music will make you want to hang around until the party is over.
  12. Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
    Bernstein communicates Ungerer’s manic spirit and his irrepressible creativity by punctuating the conventions of talking-head interviews and archival footage with animated snippets of Ungerer’s thousands of illustrations.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Spider-Man
    Raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings. That said, we could use some moxie in the sequel.
  14. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    Compared to a second installment that expanded the established Keanuscape in ways the “Matrix” sequels only wish they had, “Wick 3” fumbles for compelling, organically incorporated territory to explore.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Raid: Redemption
    Poised at the midway point between an ultraviolent video game and a neo-classic dance musical. As midnight-movie mash-ups go, it's pretty amazing.
  16. Sonatine
    Sonatine is less stylish and affecting than Fireworks. Its deadpan satire becomes indistinguishable from numbing slack as the waiting game is played out.[17 Apr 1998, p.F7]
    • Boston Globe
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    This is music to gorge on, raw ethnic survival in the form of sound.
  18. Sunset Song
    Has its moments of grace, but too often resorts to conventions and a tone of high lugubriousness.
  19. The Memory of a Killer
    Entertaining.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Supernova
    McQueen has matters of life and death on his mind, and the final act of “Supernova” puts them on the table with a frankness that’s admirable without wholly succeeding as drama; the script’s schematic nature shows through the cracks even as the actors themselves can’t be faulted.
  21. Meet the Parents
    Distress of Parents is a real pleasure.
  22. Beyond the Lights
    Unfortunately, as the story builds toward tenderness, it’s undercut with slathering tongues and bare-chested stud-muffin shots.
  23. The Matrix
    Snazzy visuals, of which she (Moss) is one, carry The Matrix past its klutzy script.
  24. Lucy and Desi
    Overall “Lucy and Desi” is very much a valentine.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Impossible
    An earnest, extremely grueling, prodigiously crafted true-life drama that takes one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history and reduces it to a bad day at Club Med.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After the Life
    A straight-up drama and thus the only film in "The Trilogy" not forced into a genre straitjacket -- suspense thriller ("On the Run") or farce ("An Amazing Couple") -- "Life" is also the finest of the three. This isn't a coincidence.
  27. Big Animal
    Gathers a sort of darkness as it comes to its oblique conclusion.
  28. Last Life in the Universe
    There is no plot in Pen-ek Ratanaruang's exceedingly mellow situation comedy, and that's preferred, frankly.
  29. I'm Not Scared
    Watching it is like being lost in somebody's richly moody campfire story -- it's so good, in fact, that only once it's over do you realize you've been holding your marshmallows too close to the flame.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Super Size Me
    I don't usually make recommendations of this kind, but if you or your kids have gone to a burger joint in the last few weeks, you really do need to see this movie.
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