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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Heaven
    It's maddeningly chowderheaded, simplistic, pretentious, and not a little silly. You can't take your eyes off it.
  2. Flight
    Flight is a so-so movie with Denzel Washington as a commercial-airline pilot who crash-lands a plane while drunk, high, hung over, and horny. It doesn't do much that you couldn't anticipate just by seeing the trailer - the trailer is more exciting than the movie itself.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    French Exit
    French Exit allows Pfeiffer free rein to play, and her performance is glorious in a major key of scornful hauteur and a minor key of self-pity.
  4. Girls Will Be Girls
    The performances by Plotnick, Leupp, and Roberson comprise a jarring special effect.
  5. The September Issue
    What the movie unfolds is how the magazine is inextricable from Wintour’s vision of it.
  6. Sidewalks of New York
    The film's flaws seem unimportant, and it passes the big test, making you want to find out what happens to these characters, even when what does happen is predictable.
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    A gracefully subtle metaphor about life's Deep Magic has become a war film; what was a one-chapter battle toward the end of the book is now a ripsnorting Armageddon that looks like something Hieronymus Bosch might dream up after a heavy meal.
  8. Moving On
    It’s a worthwhile alternative to the comic-book movie opening this week, provided you’re open to a dark comedy that teeters precariously on the edge of the abyss.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Queen of Katwe
    Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”) finally gets a movie role worthy of her status as an Oscar winner. She isn’t hidden behind pixels, as in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” or “The Jungle Book.” You can see her. She’s magnificent.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lost in La Mancha
    It is an honest, dumbstruck, not particularly deep demonstration of how insanely difficult it is to make a movie, any movie, no matter how blithe the end result may appear on screen.
  11. Wild Tigers I Have Known
    Archer isn't necessarily taking us anywhere new, but his movie's rapture is beautiful inside and out.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Concrete Cowboy
    The film is a shrine to a hardy subculture, its people, and the animals they love. Long may they run.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hotel Rwanda
    I wish Hotel Rwanda felt like something more than a very, very good TV movie.
  14. The Little Stranger
    Wilson gives a performance that in its own way is as striking as Gleeson’s.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    World Trade Center
    One reason World Trade Center is such a good, healing cry is that it absolves us of the discomfort of thinking about everything that has happened since.
  16. Remember the Titans
    Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes.
  17. Doc Hollywood
    Despite the fact that Doc Hollywood isn't exactly brimful of surprises, it's awfully easy to take because it seems a throwback to the kind of formula movies studios used to grind out by the bushel in the '30s and '40s, relying on a squad of accomplished secondary and character roles to flesh them out agreeably. [02 Aug 1991, p.41]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Babyteeth
    Under Murphy’s direction, the tone is darkly comic — not what you’d expect given that plot synopsis but to which the actors respond with deftness and creativity, like downhill skiers facing a challenging slalom.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    A slow-burner — deadpan and mysterious, funny and sad — about a young Japanese woman obsessed with a pot of gold no one else knows is there. The fact that it doesn’t really exist has no bearing on the matter.
  20. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    The movie reaches its emotional climax with the signing of the accords. But even under the best of circumstances, climate change offers no quick solutions. “This is a mission I have dedicated myself to,” Gore says, a mission that remains “a constant struggle between hope and despair.”
  21. Red Rocket
    It’s no surprise that [Rex] gives Mikey everything he’s got. What is a surprise is how much he’s got to give. The performance is riveting until, like the movie, it just becomes too much.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Superman Returns
    A generally thrilling entertainment that's not quite the grand slam you want it to be.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    Juxtaposes slice-of-life tales with hints of worldly conflict to delightfully comic effect.
  24. Show Me Love
    Charming and, compared with most Hollywood films like it, refreshing.
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  25. The Lost Boys
    The Lost Boys is schlock, but it's juicy schlock. [31 Jul 1987, p.34]
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  26. The Doom Generation
    Slick and outrageous and subversively funny, Doom Generation is the kind of date movie that will tell you perhaps more than you want to know about your date. [03 Nov 1995, p.46]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Top Five
    It’s a slap-happy movie and often scurrilously funny — the sound of a gifted comic mind finally finding its onscreen voice.
  28. Babe: Pig in the City
    Miller is going to take some heat for making this new film inhabit a cruel world. But better that than sugarcoating the story. He's found a way to recycle a popular film - choppily perhaps, episodically perhaps, but provocatively. [25 Nov 1998, p.C1]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
    So spectacularly bent that it exudes a contact cough-syrup high all its own.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Manchurian Candidate
    The first "Candidate" was inspired pop art, a two-dimensional coloring book about 1962 America's subterranean political fears. Demme's film is more nuanced, less crazy-brilliant and, yes, probably less necessary, but it's still a confirmation of all the anxieties out there on the table and festering in our heads.
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