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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lookout
    Promises minor pleasures and delivers them. In the process, it's gracious enough to kick in a few extras: a nifty central gimmick, a self-effacing lead performance, and a big slice of ham from supporting actor Jeff Daniels .
  2. Moonlight Mile
    The first half of Moonlight Mile feels like the runaway trailer for a movie that can't wait to jerk your tears. But to quote Joe in a moment of epiphany, there's a ''truth enema'' out there, and, boy, it really brings this movie around.
  3. Paranoid Park
    Slight but fascinating.
  4. Down in the Delta
    Down in the Delta, Maya Angelou's film-directing debut, strongly establishes her ability to command emotional authenticity and fashion-rich, beautifully wrought images that tap into the stabilizing dignity of family life. [25 Dec 1998, p.C7]
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  5. An Angel at My Table
    Dodging the pitfalls of making a film about a writer is no small challenge, but Campion succeeds unforgettably in Angel at My Table. [14 Jun 1991, p.31]
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    • 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.
  7. The Lair of the White Worm
    The film belongs to Donohue's cool, toothy slinker, who sports instant fangs when she lures a pimply student into her bath and later shimmies deadpan out of an art nouveau urn when the snake-charming record starts its amplified grooving. [11 Nov 1988, p.61]
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  8. Willard
    Wonderfully deranged.
  9. Plunkett & Macleane
    Scott makes it easy to overlook the conventionality beneath his sometimes overdone but almost always enjoyable combination of atmosphere and propulsiveness.
  10. Home Movie
    Suffice it to say that Chris Smith's Home Movie is the most bananas episode of ''Cribs'' ever. The film is Smith's ballad of the wacky homeowner.
  11. Girlhood
    Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus spent three years shooting two teenagers living in a Maryland juvenile detention center. The completed film is called Girlhood and it feels as much a work in progress as its two troubled subjects do.
  12. The Corporation
    At its most effective, the movie is a chastening, sobering, and thorough work of film journalism, however shortsighted.
  13. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
    For all her “Clueless” comedy cred, Silverstone just might be at her best conveying a mother’s special knack for witheringly guilting her boys.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
    A hardly fair, not especially balanced broadside that has the advantage of being correct.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Robin Hood
    This Robin Hood is mostly a smart, muscular entertainment; it doesn’t breathe new life into a genre as did “Gladiator,’’ Scott’s first pairing with Russell Crowe, but it’s a brawny reimagining of a beloved old myth, a period popcorn movie turned out with professionalism and gusto.
  16. To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
    Tone is everything here, and the film never loses the smiling poise and benevolence that help you buy its gauzy plot as the three sashay through it. Douglas Carter Beane's script is witty as well as buoyant, which is a big help. [08 Sep 1995, p.99]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
    There is a surprise waiting in Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten, a labor of love that Pirozzi painstakingly assembled over a span of close to a decade, although the story it tells holds no mystery.
  18. Transamerica
    It's debatable whether watching Huffman get dressed, take hormones, and learn to use a more feminine diction could sustain an entire movie, but the character is certainly a creation more original than a lot of the film itself.
  19. Erleuchtung garantiert
    Likable, go-with-the-flow comedy.
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  20. Boynton Beach Club
    Cannon actually is funny -- not to mention funny-looking. Plastic surgery has left her physically absurd, like a vaguely glamorous R. Crumb cartoon.
  21. Holy Motors
    The film has sprung from the mind of the Frenchman Leos Carax and ought to be seen to be believed, on the largest screen you can find, and probably sober, too, since it becomes its own narcotic.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Matrix Reloaded
    The thrill isn't gone from the sequel, but the surprise is, and it hurts more than you'd think.
  23. Exiled
    This intriguing story, like many tales of mid-20th-century American art, is fueled by testosterone.
  24. Pandas
    After watching David Douglas and Drew Fellman’s visually spectacular, technically amazing, and occasionally cutesy documentary, Pandas, you’d think that IMAX 3-D was invented solely for close-ups of adorable panda cubs, their giant doleful, domino faces peering out with cuddly curiosity.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Midnight Special
    The truth is that this is a mystery movie, and the mystery is trying to figure out exactly what the heck is going on here.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Live in Public
    Fascinating, like a car wreck seen through a rearview mirror.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tuck Everlasting
    These actors offset the modern-day ordinariness of the leads -- Jackson, especially, seems as if he's just driven over from a mall tour -- and so, ultimately, does the exquisite moral dilemma of Tuck Everlasting.
  28. We Are Marshall
    The actor's (McConaughey) lovable exuberance is exactly what this heartsick movie needs.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    About Schmidt
    How you feel about About Schmidt may depend in large part on how you feel About Jack.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The House I Live In
    I'm wary of implying that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but - guess what - it is. And see it with someone whose views are different from your own. We're going to need everyone to help get us out of this mess.
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