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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gangs of New York
    Scorsese and his team of Grade A talents are working on an operatic scale here, and like many operas, this is long, overwrought, sprawling, and more than frequently brilliant. It also hits just enough discordant notes to keep it from greatness.
  2. Felicia's Journey
    Has more ambition than the usual serial killer film, but curiously less urgency.
  3. The Rookie
    It's not afraid to play cornball when it isn't playing baseball, but The Rookie gets away with it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nowhere in Africa
    The movie's strength is its refusal to offer easy answers.
  5. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
    Made of a serene dynamite that's all but unknown to American film audiences.
  6. A Beautiful Mind
    The film makes more apparent than ever that Howard is quite underrated as a filmmaker, possibly because he's been hidden in full view in the mainstream for so long.
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Slow West
    Slow West doesn’t really go anywhere we haven’t been, but because Maclean is discovering the genre for the first time, we see through his fresh yet jaundiced eyes.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
    It’s a long, jangling, melodious soak, rich with backstage incident and wall-to-wall hits.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Midsommar
    Much of the horror in Midsommar unfolds in bright sunlight; it’s the star who really takes us into the dark.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Woodsman
    An honest, honorable indie chamber drama that, if anything, errs on the side of caution. It benefits from a scrupulously observed performance by Kevin Bacon.
  11. Is This Thing On?
    Dern is excellent, as usual, and her scenes with Arnett feel realistic. The screenplay by Cooper, Arnett, and Mark Chappell is really thin, however, and I didn’t find any of these people compelling.
  12. Shame
    There's a misery in Fassbender that's spellbinding. I rolled my eyes for most of Shame. But never at him. That face tells the story of addiction: the joylessness of sex.
  13. Akeelah and the Bee
    All the gears, in fact, are shamelessly visible, yet they lock smoothly and resonantly into place. If Akeelah and the Bee is a generic, well-oiled commercial contraption, it is the first to credibly dramatize the plight of a truly gifted, poor black child.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crazy Horse
    His abiding interest is in the ways that human beings work together, his famous fly-on-the-wall shooting style revealing the constant struggle to connect and create. Wiseman's are the movies to show to the aliens when they arrive.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brick
    Brick is Bogart goes to high school, in other words, but that thumbnail description doesn't begin to convey the lasting pleasures of Rian Johnson's directorial debut.
  16. Doctor Strange
    The upshot: The movie develops a distinctively trippy identity.
  17. The Suicide Squad
    The addition of Gunn, like the addition of a definite article to the title, means more of the same: a baroquely nasty, flauntingly mean two-plus hours of superhero action that is also (a much greater sin) noisily tedious.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Town
    Someone once said about W.C. Fields that he had the rare ability to despise amusingly. I can imagine no greater compliment than to say that Ricky Gervais seems, at his best, like a young Fields.
  19. Pressure Cooker
    The movie's sense of inspiration is realistic. It never implies a future of glamour, only hard-won success.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tiny Furniture
    Dunham has been justly praised for her determination in getting Tiny Furniture made, but the movie itself has been overpraised as a result.
  21. Bringing Out the Dead
    While heartfelt and beautifully crafted, Bringing Out the Dead is too freighted with its protagonist's failed savior complex and is surprisingly lacking in primal impact.
  22. Air Guitar Nation
    A semiserious documentary about a cult of performance art that until recently was never meant to be taken seriously.
  23. The Closet
    Perhaps not the most uproarious of Veber's farces, but entertaining and emotionally satisfying all the same.
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  24. Mostly Martha
    If there's nothing here for romantics, there's even less for gourmands. Nettelbeck fails to produce a good food metaphor, let alone an impressive, palate-aching preparation montage
  25. Walk the Line
    The film sends you home moved and in a tuneful mood.
  26. Six Degrees of Separation
    It's got sharp wit and a wise heart, and as good as it was onstage, it's even better as a movie. [22 Dec 1993, p.33]
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  27. When Marnie Was There
    Though the narrative of “Marnie” bogs down toward the end, this does not diminish its spell.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Control
    Takes your angriest thoughts about urban public transportation and magnifies them into a grubby and rousingly antisocial fantasia on post-communist breakdown and bureaucracy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Terri
    The movie struggles to find its shape throughout. Jacobs favors observational moments rather than linear narrative, and that's fine, but you still sense he's drifting toward a point that never quite coheres.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Obit
    Vanessa Gould’s charming and soulful documentary Obit should convince the doubters and cheer those who already know. As someone who takes great pleasure in both reading and writing valedictions to the recently deceased, I can personally attest that the movie’s dead on.
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