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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unmistaken Child
    Unmistaken Child stands as a window on a beautiful and mysterious world. The questions it leaves hanging are for us to untangle.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flame and Citron
    Through a fluke of release-schedule timing, it arrives as the anti-“Inglourious Basterds’’ - a story about heroic Nazi-killers in which heroism itself sinks under bewildering crosscurrents of motive and uncertainty.
  3. Still Walking
    There’s nothing static about Still Walking.’ The presence of three kids sees to that, as does the eloquence of Kore-eda’s framing and compositions.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mesrine: Killer Instinct
    The enjoyment of the film comes from watching Mesrine's ambitions grow slowly but exponentially; the shock is in being reminded and re-reminded of his sadism.
  5. Wolke Neun
    This isn't just physical love, warts and all, but warts, liver spots, saggy parts, and all. Still, the thing that ultimately keeps your head turned is how persuasively filmmaker Andreas Dresen ("Summer in Berlin'') argues that desire can create just as much emotional tumult in golden years as in youth.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In Search of Beethoven
    Grabsky’s goal appears to have been more circumscribed: an introduction to the composer that speaks to both the classical newcomer and someone who has loved this music for years but pieced together its back story only from hundreds of disconnected program notes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Maid
    It’s rooted in observed reality and idiosyncratic individuals. It’s possible, Silva is saying, to live among people and still be terribly, crushingly isolated.
  8. The Way We Get By
    Watching them issue hugs produces an involuntary response. You want to hug them, too.
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  9. Home
    Meier’s soft touch with the offbeat material is surprisingly mature, to the point of maybe being a bit too reserved.
  10. In Search of Memory
    There are many indicators of star power. Not the least of them is unforgettability. On screen, no less than in the laboratory, Eric Kandel has star power.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ghost Writer
    In Polanski’s hands, it’s an unholy pleasure: a diversion that stings.
  12. Phyllis and Harold
    Phyllis and Harold is really about Phyllis and how discontent has a way of spilling, then spreading. Kleine never quite says so, but her mother’s life was a tragedy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prodigal Sons
    There’s still enough to chew on to recommend the movie, not least the oddly touching sight of two siblings whose very identities have been altered by surgery.
  14. Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess
    For a few years, Veit Harlan must have felt he was the right filmmaker at the right place at the right time. Did he ever stop to think that his luck also meant the doom of millions? Moeller’s documentary can’t supply an answer. It does, however, make the rest of us wonder.
  15. Children of Invention
    This is not “Death of a Salesman’’ or “Save the Tiger’’ (in the case of the latter, thank God). But how refreshing to see a movie about a mother’s struggles that doesn’t culminate in her lying on her back to make ends meet.
  16. Everyone Else
    Everyone Else is not about hurricanes and earthquakes and knives in the back. It's about private, emotional phenomena: the tiny tremors and imperceptible shifts that bring a couple closer together or drive them apart, almost without their noticing.
  17. The Square
    The surprise here is how thrillingly bad things get.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Women Without Men
    Shirin Neshat's film, a magical-realist cry from the heart, is as up-to-date as last year's pro-democracy protests.
    • 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.
  20. Best Worst Movie
    It captures a version of our best worst selves.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casino Jack and the United States of Money
    Abramoff may be in prison but the mindset that produced him -- and the pay-to-play government it needs to survive -- is triumphant.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Expendables
    Expendables is the closest thing to movie Viagra yet invented. It's reprehensible. It's stoopid violent. It's a lot of unholy fun.
  23. Babies
    I don’t think the movie is looking for answers; it isn’t asking any questions. But by its very nature, this is both an experiment in ontology (do babies know they’re babies?) and existentialism (are they thinking about who to be?).
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Looking for Eric
    Eric begins this story as a sad-eyed cipher and ends it as a whole man, and maybe that’s structure enough, and reason enough, for one film.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Solitary Man
    Too shapeless and cursorily plotted to fully work as a story, but Koppelman and his co-director, David Levien, generously surround the hero with reliable actors doing solid work; if you can get past the catastrophe of Ben’s behavior, the film’s a genuine pleasure.
  26. Two in the Wave
    The documentary is primarily a work of whimsy.
  27. 45365
    For such a small place (officially a city, Sidney sure feels like a town), it's strikingly diverse.
  28. Dogtooth
    Dogtooth is slightly less self-congratulatory than the average Dogme movie, a few of which belong to Lars von Trier. This feels, instead, more like an extreme summer at a Dadaist acting camp.
  29. Restrepo
    The movie puts us so close to so much yet keeps its emotional distance -- as if to say, no matter how much we see, we'll never truly know.
  30. The Law
    The opportunity to see what Lollobrigida could do with a crooked smile or a roll of her eyes -- let alone a simple street dress -- is well worth the price of entry.
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