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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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Molly's Game
    It’s tempting to think of Molly’s Game in poker terms: Sorkin’s holding a queen, a king, and at least a couple of aces, but the tell is that he talks too much, and in the end you realize he’s bluffing.
  2. Beyond the Gates
    Sadly, this is the sort of movie in which the white Europeans do all the talking and worrying with each other. The Africans, for the most part, are either terrified, cowering, wincing masses or corpses strewn in the dirt.
  3. Training Day
    Even when it falls back excessively on coincidence and contrived set pieces, even when it gushes irretrievably over the top in its final act, Washington makes Training Day sizzle.
  4. Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
    Filmmaker Joe Berlinger isn’t so much inspired as disgusted by the notorious gangster in his newest documentary.
  5. Strongman
    By the end, you don't entirely understand either of these people, but you come to understand why they need each other.
  6. Aliens of the Deep
    Stirs excitement about exploration of all kinds.
  7. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    Ultimately, Bingenheimer seems underwhelmed with himself. The people who know him say, in the movie, that he's a relic. Mayor of the Sunset Strip makes heartbreakingly clear what a glorious relic Bingenheimer is.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blinded by the Light
    The movie’s sentimental, predictable, fairly sloppy. It’s also a thoroughgoing joy — a cherry popsicle for the end of summer. If certain elements seem familiar from the recent “Yesterday” — classic rock and a South Asian lead character, primarily — “Blinded” is the better bargain: less slick, more cliched, but also more genuinely felt.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Picture
    The movie feels loose and unpredictable. You're never sure where Paul or the story is going, and while that makes The Big Picture unexpectedly gripping for much of its running time, the shapelessness ultimately wins out.
  10. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
    Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander's dark-comic expansion on his cult Internet shorts, in which he crafts a back story for Santa that's as black as stocking coal.
  11. The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
    The documentary loses a bit when Dagg returns home, and an alarmingly perky score doesn’t help. Late in life, after her tenure struggles, she published a new edition of her dissertation and found herself rediscovered.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Yes, God, Yes
    Flatly filmed, drably lit, and sluggishly paced, Yes, God, Yes takes a cheeky premise and slowly lets the air out of it.
  13. Bob Trevino Likes It
    Through Ferreira’s skillful navigation of her character’s growth, and Leguizamo’s preternatural ability to show kindness in earnest, the film worked its way around my defenses and hit me square in the tear ducts more than once.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In July
    Sweet little crowd-pleaser.
  15. Tape
    Smart, unpredictable, and alive with the energies of actors who clearly are enjoying being stretched by their material.
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Black Book
    Black Book takes the conventions of the WWII epic -- the prison breaks, the interrogation scenes -- and undermines them with craft and muscle and the ripe lack of restraint we've come to expect from this director.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lucky Grandma
    She (Tsai Chin) and she alone makes the movie worth your time. Written by Angela Cheng and Sasie Sealy and directed by Sealy, Lucky Grandma is a low-budget labor of love that’s very funny until you realize it has no idea where it’s going.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Girls Trip
    Girls Trip is a hilarious reminder that we all need a Flossy Posse to make us laugh until our sides ache and give it to us straight when no one else will. Black girl magic, indeed.
  19. The Way He Looks
    As for the performances, only homely Giovana has heart and depth. The two boys lack chemistry, even in chemistry class, due in part to the trite dialogue, or at least as it is translated in subtitles.
  20. What Happened Was...
    What Happened Was nails contemporary isolation as few films do. It's filled with acute insights and observations of the wary yet hopeful circling that people do in conversation on a first date. It's a gem of a chamber play. [17 Sep 1994, p.37]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Florence Foster Jenkins
    [A] stagy, troubling, bizarrely entertaining movie.
  22. The Farewell Party
    A bittersweet, wryly comic, keenly observed look at senescence.
  23. Francofonia
    Sokurov’s elegy for Europe — and for art — is eloquent, sorrowful, and challenging.
    • 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Theory of Everything
    The Theory of Everything, in other words, is Jane’s movie as much as it is Stephen’s, and while Eddie Redmayne’s performance deserves every bit of praise and statuary it will get, Felicity Jones has the subtler, less showy role to play and matches him frame for frame.
  26. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    The title is Portuguese for "send a bullet" and the clever American tag line is "the rich steal from the poor; the poor steal the rich."
  27. The Descent
    A cult classic is born.
  28. Rana's Wedding
    An invitation to see something a little less pretty, and potentially more enduring.
  29. A Perfect World
    In short, it's a gripping film with some surprises that emerge from around the edges. [24 Nov 1993, p.39]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dogman
    The movie convinces us that the hero sees and understands Simone’s evil even as he continues to enable it — even as he allows his own life to be ruined. Dogman ends with a paroxysm of cathartic violence and an eerie echo of Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (also with Mastroianni).
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