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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. Monkey Kingdom
    New rule: All Disneynature films must be narrated by Tina Fey.
  2. Bugonia
    Working from a script by Will Tracy, Lanthimos creates a realistic ridiculousness, and trusts his leads to walk the tightrope with him.
  3. Brewster McCloud
    As Altman misfires go, Brewster McCloud is one of the better ones. [25 Jul 2010, p.12]
    • Boston Globe
  4. Harry and Tonto
    Has a pleasantly freewheeling, European art film feel to it, a welcome reminder of the New Hollywood of the '70s. [04 Sep 2005]
    • Boston Globe
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Author: The JT LeRoy Story
    These are some of the questions raised and left on the table in the fascinating but frustratingly murky Author: The JT Leroy Story, a documentary by Jeff Feuerzeig that’s worth seeing if only to argue with the movie and with yourself.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bellflower
    Hardly a consistent piece of work, but even when it falls apart toward the end in a mess of bad acting and amazingly youthful pretentiousness, you may find it hard to look away. Handmade and helpless, it's nevertheless the real deal, an artful blurt of sensitivity and rage.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    50/50
    Kendrick gives a truly bad performance here - she's a self-conscious actress playing a self-conscious person and getting her signals all mixed up - and it's unclear whether she has been hung out to dry by her director or if it's just that the character makes no sense whatsoever.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Super 8
    There's a thin line, though, between honoring what came before you and replicating it, and Super 8 occasionally wobbles over that line into predictability.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    War Horse
    War Horse is the best film of the year. The year, unfortunately, is 1942.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Aristocrats
    The Aristocrats -- the movie, not the joke -- is a working demonstration of the pleasures of the profane.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Lake Tahoe
    In the end, the sparse dialogue and lengthy scenes make the film feel as leaden and listless as Juan's sputtering engine.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Easy A
    Until it spins manically out of control in the last act, Easy A is a charmer: a high school satire with a lethally sharp script and a big, smart, adorable star performance from Emma Stone.
  13. The Eagle Huntress
    An opportunity to capture on film a unique cultural enclave is reduced to a Hollywood pastiche.
  14. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
    El Camino is enjoyable as a kind of epilogue to “Breaking Bad.” It’s unnecessary, but it’s good enough to offer two solid hours of pleasure to anyone who loved the mother ship.
  15. Zheng hun qi shi
    A subtly comic, ultimately moving film about modern adult relationships.
    • Boston Globe
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Mother
    In reality, it's messy in the way that life is, and with a rare and welcome obstreperousness.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Oath
    The hidden message of The Oath is so inescapable as to be Shakespearean: Character will out.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Priceless
    Priceless is a bauble - an art-house diamond made of paste that somehow still gives you good glimmer for the money.
  19. Transsiberian
    Unfortunately, there's never a moment where you can't see Anderson and his co-writer, Will Conroy, yanking on the strings.
  20. Armadillo
    Metz is another artist more interested in war's side effects than combat itself, although he and his crew are embedded for battle.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beauty Is Embarrassing
    An amiable if not especially urgent celebration of the life and work of Wayne White.
  22. Candyman
    Acute and skillfully made, Candyman is also pointedly political.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    First Position
    Because its subjects are so driven and so talented, First Position, which is about ballet, is more gripping than the norm.
  24. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    The screenplay, by directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and co-writer Michael Gilio, tries to evoke the feeling that “D&D: HAT” is being written on the fly as the movie unfolds. While their attempt is valiant, it takes away from the task of creating a world that we’ll want to revisit or see again (you know there will be sequels).
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pusher
    Refn's direction in Pusher exhibits an uncanny prescience for techniques that would peak a decade later as reality TV -- low-budget, digital video; the use of a tipsy, peripatetic camera; and a wide-angle lens to engulf all the action.
  26. The Final Master
    Visually, this translates into thrilling action sequences of lone knife-wielders hewing down ranks of adversaries with balletic precision. If preserving this means sacrificing a scruple or two, it’s worth the trade.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gimme Danger
    If Gimme Danger never quite solves the secret of Iggy’s onstage atavism — how he pushed the myth of sheer, unhinged rock ’n’ roll abandon until he embodied it better (or worse) than anyone else, ever — it reminds us of when he was, verily, the velociraptor of popular music.
  28. Arco
    This is a time travel fable that feeds the heart as much as the brain, tipping its hat to sci-fi favorites as well as masters of animation from Walt Disney to Hayao Miyazaki. It’s an imaginative treat.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Life of Reilly
    This charming, bittersweet 90-minute monologue consists of the actor telling tales of his childhood and early years, when he was an ugly duckling from an uglier family. The anecdotes are bruisingly funny and delivered with clarity and light mockery.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Served the King of England
    A charming, damning portrait that has been stinging audiences in the Czech Republic since its 2006 release. In any language, what the movie says about surviving fascism by rolling with it speaks loud and clear.
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