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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. Baby Mama
    In this era of Apatow and Ferrell and Rogen and Wilson, of men monopolizing movie comedy, Baby Mama feels absurdly momentous, and even political. Fey and Poehler aren't just taking back control of their bodies. They're taking back control of their profession.
  2. Remember
    Egoyan ekes out an engaging and meaningful potboiler.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    King Kong
    It's not so much a remake as it is a loving re-creation of the 1933 original on extra-strength steroids, with a side order of Botox. You've seen it all before but most assuredly never like this.
  4. Edmond
    In Mamet's understanding, straight white maleness is the most powerful weapon such men have. It can also be illusory, which is why the last scenes of Edmond are so touching.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Drinking Buddies
    Drinking Buddies is further evidence that Wilde has more depth and ambition than mainstream Hollywood can currently handle, and it marks Swanberg as one of the subtler talents of his generation — a deceptively casual moralist whose films observe their characters without judging them yet whose conclusions are unmistakable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Vengeance
    In “Vengeance,” Novak proves his chops both as an adept filmmaker and skillful satirist of contemporary mores.
  7. The Baader Meinhof Complex
    Swift, brutal, lurid, often overheated, and occasionally comical, but it’s also a serious, well acted, and unromantic exploration of the rise and demise of a terrorist gang whose radicalism ultimately reached beyond the young men and women who set it in motion.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    An Education
    Best of all, An Education isn’t alarmist. It knows other people can’t seduce us if we don’t seduce ourselves first and that Jenny is level-headed enough to handle it and learn.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    It Came from Kuchar
    The movie makes the case that the best American filmmakers may be the uncelebrated ones who helplessly turn life into art simply as a means to get out of bed every day.
  10. Sir! No Sir!
    Zeiger's movie is a timely salute to the risky and brave men and women who had the temerity not only to think for themselves but to speak their minds.
  11. Meet the Patels
    What Meet the Patels could use is a little more meat.
  12. Chevalier
    Though it occasionally pulls its punches, the blows Chevalier does land sting and leave a mark.
  13. Gridiron Gang
    The movie's inevitabilities (the humiliating loss, the ebb and flow of camaraderie, the triumphant finale) have deep resonance.
  14. Mondays in the Sun
    Loach makes a working metaphor of the old ant-and-grasshopper story, but the film's images are what echo the loudest.
  15. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    As ambitious as this may be, however, the movie's objectives tax its energy even as the girls' plight tears at your heart.
  16. Waiting for 'Superman'
    This is a patient, simmering movie. It's contemplative but without his usual smitten indulgences.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Brink
    The Brink shows a salesman tirelessly peddling poison door to door and knowing it’s only a matter of time before someone lets him in.
  18. NASCAR: The IMAX Experience
    It is at least an "experience" that has to be labeled exhilarating.
  19. Confess, Fletch
    The journey is always more entertaining than the destination, and this one’s a lot of fun.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Synchronic
    Opens itself up to some splendid drive-in philosophizing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Scanner Darkly
    There's conspiracy here, as there is in all of Dick's books, and it wraps the film up with a moving but somewhat neat bowtie.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Moves the franchise even closer to Indiana Jones territory, with bloodcurdling action scenes and a passel of climactic computer-generated slime beasties unparalleled in their potential ability to -- I'm quoting from both book and film here -- '' rip, tear, rend, kill. ''
  23. Shazam!
    Shazam! is pretty entertaining. It’s a lark that aims to distinguish itself from too-familiar DC dourness a bit like “Guardians of the Galaxy” playfully tweaked Marvel’s formula.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Rescuers Down Under
    Unlike The Rescuers of 1977, which was flat and negligible, this sequel features full-bodied images and a number of distinctive, memorable characters. It also features an adventure plot that serves as a wry, environmentally conscious allegory while it entertains the kids. [06 Nov 1990, p.77p]
    • Boston Globe
  25. Things Never Said
    In a year when black filmmaking has surged with Oscar-touted films such as “The Butler” and the upcoming “12 Years a Slave,” Murray’s Things Never Said has a quiet eloquence of its own.
  26. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    Garlin's movie is beautiful in its own way. It also suggests that David's show would still be brilliant without the aggravation. I'm not saying that David should renounce misanthropy. But maybe he could curb less of Garlin's apparent enthusiasm for people.
  27. Love and Other Catastrophes
    Filled with fun, style, and ensemble give-and-take, the peppy Love and Other Catastrophes restores one's faith in sex, lies, and videotape. [11 Apr 1997, p.C7]
    • Boston Globe
  28. Avengers: Endgame
    The movie is ludicrously long, clocking in at three hours and one minute, but surprisingly satisfying.
  29. Caught by the Tides
    While I was never bored, I felt somewhat disconnected from this movie. It’s not that I wasn’t engaged or involved — I enjoy when a movie makes me work for its pleasures — it just felt like I was missing so much and left me wishing I’d seen more of the director’s movies.
  30. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    Assassination reminds you that Penn can be very funny.
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