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For 7,948 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: 5,230 out of 7948
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7948
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7948
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  1. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    A grand, dark, grave, severe piece of first-rate cinema.
    • Boston Globe
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ray
    He (Ray) was, a more complicated man than this film, or perhaps any film, dares allow. Foxx is not at fault here.
  3. The Inspection
    Bratton’s unique perspective is so much more interesting when you hear him talk about The Inspection that you often wonder where it is when you’re watching it.
  4. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Thompson - his brilliance, his self-destruction, and the ground he broke - is always at the center, but the film occasionally loses its focus.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    It's a merry deconstructive delight and easily the best party in town.
  6. Crossing Delancey
    In short, "Crossing Delancey" is a joy of a romantic comedy. It's got warmth, brains, heart and humor. So what's not to like? [18 Sep 1988, p.96]
    • Boston Globe
  7. Zootopia 2
    I couldn’t help but see a parallel between the De’Snakes’s plight and numerous historical atrocities where minorities were slandered, brutalized, and robbed of their rightful property. That Disney somehow manages to deliver this message, Trojan-horse style and without heavy-handedness, in an entertaining feature for all ages, is the true success of “Zootopia 2.”
  8. Bowfinger
    Just enough laughs to keep you watching.
  9. One Of Them Days
    At almost two hours, “One of Them Days” does lag a bit. But even when it gets sluggish, there’s still a sisterly moment to enjoy or a laugh to be had.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The New World
    The New World is something I don't think I've ever seen before on a movie screen: an epic lyrical dialectic. Self-indulgent, gorgeous, maddening, grueling, ultimately transcendent, it's a Terrence Malick movie all the way, and possibly the director's most sustained work since 1972's "Badlands."
  11. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    A lot of the credit for what's right with 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin goes to the screenplay, which Carell and Apatow wrote. They like these characters and, when it matters, they dare to give them feelings, none truer than Andy's.
  12. In This Corner of the World
    The painterly beauty of anime detaches the viewer from the terrible events depicted, but it also makes these cataclysms more accessible to the imagination.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Royal Affair
    A Royal Affair is tosh but it's ripely entertaining tosh, with emotions as flamboyant as the window treatments. There is nothing like a Dane.
  14. The Cats of Mirikitani
    It takes a special first-time director to stick her neck out, personally as well as professionally. As much as anything else, The Cats of Mirikitani is a testament to good breeding.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Puffy Chair
    Ostensibly a road-trip farce, Chair really depicts the highway to man-child hell: The laughs come from the gulf between how mature the characters think they're being and what emotional toddlers they are.
  16. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Not only exhilarating and cathartic. It's too funny to be ignored.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
    As charming as Dunn's kid-in-a-candy-store exploration is at times, it's apparent that his ''anthropological" take on the scene isn't much more than the love letter he always dreamed of writing to his headbanging pals.
  18. Innocence
    Films that achieve the dimension of seraphic embrace achieved by 'Innocence, as it explores a return to first love, are the rarest of the rare.
    • Boston Globe
  19. Shattered Glass
    Shattered Glass, with its dumb title, is smart about good vs. evil. Incidentally, the good is Lane, who now works at The Washington Post and was a consultant on this picture.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    War of the Worlds
    War of the Worlds pushes some of the right buttons and enough of the wrong ones to make you wish that Spielberg would move on from aliens already and use his unparalleled talents to focus once more on earth.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    The film's slick and entertaining, an obvious must-see for musical hounds.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Knuckleball!
    The movie's a must for baseball fans in general and Red Sox fans in particular - if nothing else, it will help remove the battery-acid taste of the season now stumbling to a close.
  23. Love & Basketball
    The cinematic equivalent of a high, arching rainbow of a three-pointer from midcourt.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thirst
    Thirst is deliriously bonkers and keeps getting more so; you watch it holding your breath, waiting to see where Park will zigzag next.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Notes on a Scandal
    Notes on a Scandal is a nice mug of poisoned eggnog for the holiday season -- a movie so smart and entertaining you almost don't feel its chill sicken your bones.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Dig
    This is still a rich and worthy journey, comfort food that’s also food for thought. It invites us to consider timelines longer than a day, a year, a war, and a life, and to tread carefully on the kings and commoners who might lie beneath our feet.
  27. Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
    Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President isn’t a political documentary, but it is a civics lesson.
  28. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
    It's an imperfect but ambitious film willing to confront an enormous, complex period in this country.
  29. The Blue Room
    Though engrossing and aesthetically admirable, at times the humorless artiness verges on absurdity. It’s hard to take a film too seriously when plum jam and Bach’s “Chaconne” vie for equal cinematic significance.
  30. Amreeka
    It’s one of the richer movies you’re likely to see about average Arabs in America.
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