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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. F/X2
    Brown and Dennehy aren't teen-age, they're not mutants, they're not ninjas, they're not even turtles, but they're just as entertaining the second time around, and of how many sequels can that be said? [10 May 1991, p.30]
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  2. The Gift
    In addition to directing outstanding performances, Edgerton also suggests psychological processes by means of space, architecture, and décor, exploiting the walls, doorways, windows, and mirrors of the new house to indicate the status of a relationship or self-image.
  3. Things Change
    Most of the time Things Change makes you marvel at how fresh a mob comedy can seem in the right hands. [21 Oct 1988, p.49]
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  4. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    The historical scope of this story, as well as Loach's interest in absolute fairness, seems to have drained some of the life from its telling.
  5. Creed II
    At its best moments, Creed II manages a feat nearly as striking as anything that Michael B. Jordan’s Rocky Balboa protégé pulls off in the boxing ring: It doesn’t play all that much like a sequel.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Demonlover
    Expect Demonlover to become a midnight-movie staple in the coming years. And expect shards of it to roil your dreams for weeks.
  7. Infinite Football
    Even if the number of ideas he has to improve the sport don’t quite live up to the title of Infinite Football, Corneliu Porumboiu’s documentary about Ginghina, there certainly are a lot. The fact that they’re all either unworkable, ridiculous, or both simply adds to the charm of this extremely low-key film.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Traitor
    The film's a propulsive international espionage thriller, built on the hurry-scurry bones of the "Bourne" movies.
  9. Sunset
    Oblique, often beguiling, and portentously cryptic.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wonder Woman
    The first two hours run the gamut from interesting to delightful. The final 20 minutes are roaring, ridiculous business as usual. We should be thankful the tide of mediocrity is held back as long as it is.
  11. Intimate Stories
    A delightful road movie.
  12. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
    The script by Paul Fisher and Tommy Swerdlow is very silly, to be sure, but everything works. The animation is well done, the music has a lovely Spanish flair, and the cast does an excellent job bringing the characters to life.
  13. It: Chapter Two
    The character-isolating bits furnish us with immolating heroines and dread-laden glimpses of Pennywise unmasked — you know, stuff to fill the quiet moments between arachnophobe nightmares and a predatory scene even more perverse than the saga-opening storm-drain vignette.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Isle of the Dead
    "Dead" isn't a horror film but a study of human character under pressure, with Karloff's flawed, imperious General Pherides torn between rationalism and a homicidal belief in elder gods. [23 Mar 2014, p.N]
    • Boston Globe
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Son's Room
    A triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos.
    • Boston Globe
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Quiet Place
    The smarter, scarier horror movies know it’s not how much you show an audience but how little. A Quiet Place takes that maxim in a surprising direction: The tension in this movie — and it’s nearly unbearable at times — comes from how little we hear.
  17. Flawless
    A smartly crafted throwback to the gritty Manhattan crime melodramas of the '40s .
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Loggerheads
    Slow, unadorned, compassionate, and earnest, Loggerheads is a low-fi throwback to the independent films of the 1980s and '90s.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Get On Up
    A triumph — a messy, qualified triumph that even at 138 minutes makes an incomplete case for Brown’s meaning to American life and culture, but a triumph nevertheless.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thirteen
    Would it be rude to suggest that your time might be better spent with your own children?
  21. Heist
    Not only reminds us that there's a little larceny in all of us, it reminds us how much fun it can be to commune with our inner thieves.
    • Boston Globe
  22. Bad Boys II
    Bay's movie is also a confident mega-production that feels it doesn't need to lean on its visual frills if it has Smith and Lawrence -- it's a natural-born buddy flick.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White God
    What saves the movie are those sequences of massed animals running riot through Budapest, overwhelming squadrons of police sharpshooters, and taking over a student performance of Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.” Hardly subtle, yet the scene yields one shot — of dogs glaring down from the box seats of a fancy concert hall — that’s nearly worthy of Buñuel.
  24. Sky Blue
    This is one beautifully drawn, frequently lifelike piece of anime.
  25. Cocaine Bear
    This is an unapologetic audience-pleaser, though it’s not for the squeamish. Say no to drugs. Say yes to “Cocaine Bear.”
  26. The Walk
    A narrative feature can do what the documentary couldn’t: re-create the tightrope act in full, glorious motion, rather than editing together surreptitiously snapped photos. These dizzying IMAX 3-D visuals truly are big-screen magic.
  27. The Green Mile
    There's almost too much there, but the three-hour-plus film permits the kind of detailing that not only brings the storytelling to life, but sometimes persuades us we're breathing to its rhythms.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Revenant
    Iñárritu has his eye so firmly on the myths of America that he loses sight of the men who made them. But he’s hardly the first person to do that.
  29. Enchanted
    The sight of Adams gliding and beaming and chirping in this movie - a self-mocking cartoon that transforms into an inspired live-action musical farce - is just about the happiest time I've had watching an actor do anything all year.
  30. Hart's War
    Reminds us that the human dynamic can do a lot that explosions can't, even when the film flirts with formula.
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