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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
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Match Point
    The question that should be asked is whether Woody Allen has made a good movie this time out, and the honest answer is "almost."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Still Alice
    At its best, Still Alice is a moving inquisition into the emotions and memories and connections that make us us and how we might cope when they’re taken away with slow, impersonal cruelty.
  3. Siddharth
    Though at times Siddharth can resemble a well-photographed report on India’s social and economic ills, Mehta subtly employs different styles to sustain the poetry, poignancy, and drama.
  4. Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
    With this entertaining, funny, and informative movie, McKenzie can add documentary filmmaker to his CV. I doubt it will convince anyone who has bought into the legends of cryptocurrency to change their outlook, but skeptics will definitely get a kick out of this three year journey, which started during the pandemic in 2020.
  5. Truly Madly Deeply
    There's enchanting delicacy and irresistible quirkiness in Anthony Minghella's allegory of grief. And humane comedy, too, in this fable about a woman flattened by inconsolable loss, then rejoining the world. [24 May 1991]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
    According to the closing credits, My Entire High School was six years in the making and is clearly something that Shaw felt he had to get out of his system with his feature film-directing debut. Mission accomplished, and very stylishly, too.
  7. Surfwise
    The movie feels exhaustive in its loaded 90-something minutes, showing and telling us much while leaving the meaning of the tangles and twists in this family open to interpretation. For once, the tip of the iceberg is enough.
  8. Step Into Liquid
    Serves up enough action and passion to stay afloat, but at the end of the day it's just not the perfect ride those earlier films were.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Despicable Me
    Despicable Me has enough visual novelty and high spirits to keep the kiddies diverted and just enough wit to placate the parents.
  10. The Silence
    The Silence is a victim of over-plotting, clunky narrative, gratuitous stylization, and too many points of view. When any character quirk or story turn shows promise, depend on some ill-considered directorial decision to put a stop to it.
  11. In the Intense Now
    Holding it all together is his voice-over narration: always intelligent and thoughtful, sometimes wistful, occasionally navel-gazing annoying. Even when annoying, the narration sounds great, thanks to the murmury musicality of Salles’s Portuguese.
  12. The Year of the Everlasting Storm
    Poitras includes screenshots, Zoom sessions, surveillance footage, even voice mails. The overall effect is both hypnotic and deeply unsettling, like watching a real-life William Gibson novel.
  13. Eileen
    Ultimately, I respected the dramatic destination at which the film arrived, but I kept asking myself if the trip was really necessary. Sometimes you admire a movie more than you like it.
  14. Kiss of Death
    With keen-edged direction by Barbet Schroeder and a Richard Price screenplay loaded with venomous savvy, Kiss of Death is the most high-powered and brutal New York gangster movie since "GoodFellas." [21 Apr 1995, p.41]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Double Hour
    What appears at first to be a Euro variation on David Lynch's patented mind games, though, ultimately settles for more conventional pleasures. The movie makes sense, more's the pity, although you may need to see it twice to figure out how.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    12
    The new film's not only almost double the length of the original, it's four times as ambitious - a sprawling, surrealist, ultimately disturbing portrait of a society lurching uncertainly toward democracy. What's really on trial in this movie? Just the Russian soul.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Invisible Man
    It’s a sly, twisty little chiller, not ashamed of its B-movie bona fides and better for it.
  18. The Batman
    The Batman doesn’t plod, but it sure lacks a spring in its cinematic step.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tuya's Marriage
    The film has an ending that anyone who has watched a movie in the last 15 years will see coming half an hour into the film. But even with that, the weight of the performances from Yu Nan and Bater is enough to make for a satisfying, if uneven, film.
  20. Undefeated
    The movie charts its nine-game winning streak and post-season. If there's a problem, it's that there are too few moments like that one with Chavis in the locker room.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Darker, leaner, less expansive , and meaner, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is all business, and it casts a spell utterly unlike the first four films.
  22. Fed Up
    Like “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006), the Oscar-winning film about climate change, it is a call to action. As a screed, it builds a credible, engaging argument, presenting evidence, statistics, talking-head testimony, whimsical charts, poignant personal stories, and animated illustrations of digestive processes to make its case.
  23. Smashed
    The most interesting thing about Smashed is the way Kate, the movie's alcoholic schoolteacher, never looks drunk - at least, not the way drunk people do in the movies.
  24. Paradise Now
    It doesn't take its ideas or its audience far enough. The result is a humanist potboiler.
  25. Swimming
    A rarity among modern movies: a coming-of-age tale without cliche or sentimentality. Bolstered by a luminous lead performance from Lauren Ambrose.
  26. Manito
    Because Manito is really just an opera without the violins or Viking hats, you probably don't need to have everything spelled out. Its Spanish-English script is secondary to the universal language and timeless drama of family, community, dreams made and dreams dashed.
  27. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    These children are indeed the faces of war. It's just harder to recognize them because they're the ones someone cared enough to save.
  28. Land of the Dead
    Looks and feels like someone else's better-made schlock.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Boss of It All
    The Boss of It All finds the common ground between business and acting -- panicky improvisation -- and wonders whether applause or an executive comp package is the greater reward.
  30. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
    The most interesting part of this lively, likable documentary is the journey.
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