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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 0.9 points 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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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Serious Man
    It’s a work of cruel comic genius, in some ways even crueler than “No Country for Old Men.’’
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Capote
    Richly provocative entertainment, as heady as a cocktail party with the Manhattan literati and as vaguely troubling as the morning after.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Death of Stalin
    Buscemi is magnificent, but all the players rise to the occasion; you may especially cherish Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) as Stalin’s demented alcoholic son Vasily and Olga Kurylenko (“Quantum of Solace”) as pianist Maria Yudina, the film’s elegant and only note of genuine conscience.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tulpan
    In the tradition of ethnographic dramas from "Nanook of the North" to "The Fast Runner," Tulpan drops us in the middle of a godforsaken nowhere and marvels at the people who live there.
  5. Hard Truths
    Hard Truths is a definitive work in Leigh’s canon.
  6. Manuscripts Don't Burn
    The government, even under the new, more moderate leadership of President Hassan Rouhani, has reason for concern. Unlike Rasoulof and Panahi’s previous, more metaphorical films, this one confronts its subject head-on with unflinching candor.
  7. In Transit
    Mostly people talk. Lovely to look at, In Transit is even better to listen to. The documentary tells us straightaway that what we hear matters just as much as what we see.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    The script is pungent and profanely funny while remaining rooted in strong and serious emotions.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Film Unfinished
    It's the only film that exists of the Ghetto, and it's both revelatory and profoundly suspect.
  10. Things to Come
    Cinematic rarity — a genuinely philosophical film.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    What does it add up to? What’s it all about, Wes? In a word: evanescence.
  12. Train Dreams
    This is a gorgeous movie to look at, to listen to, and to experience on an emotional level.
  13. Winter Sleep
    Such miserable people; why should we care? Maybe because Ceylan does. By staging this petulant misery in a snow-filled world of melancholy, unearthly beauty, he underscores their tragedy.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Star Is Born
    The latest update, directed by Cooper and built on the sturdy bones of William Wellman’s and Robert Carson’s 1937 script, has heart, soul, and sinew. Above all, it has Lady Gaga, both before and after her character’s transformation from an outer-borough duckling into a superstar swan.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Citizenfour
    Citzenfour is prosaic in its presentation and profoundly chilling in its details, and if you think Snowden is a traitor, you should probably see it. If you think he’s a hero, you should probably see it. If you haven’t made up your mind — well, you get the idea.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Time Out
    Cantet's script and direction are flawless, and, matched step-for-step by Jocelyn Pook's mournful score, he builds the tension to near unbearable levels.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Away from Her
    With a tranquil fearlessness, it goes beyond the death of memory, to see what might be found in the unexplored country beyond. The answer is both frightening and comforting: More love. Unspecified love. Universal love.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hamilton
    Hamilton stands as a reminder of how hard it is to get a democracy right, and how necessary it is to keep trying, as long as it takes.
  19. Mafioso [re-release]
    Mafioso is the missing link in the mob movie arc.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fallen Idol (re-release)
    Formally, the movie's a lasting pleasure: Reed's incisive direction; Greene's easy yet weighted dialogue; the farseeing deep-focus photography of Georges Perinal; Vincent Korda's luxuriant sets.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Father
    As Anthony, a blustery London widower whose grip on reality slowly comes unglued over the course of the film, Hopkins does it again. This is a magnificent and harrowing performance: A lion in winter slowly coming to ground.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Foxtrot
    Writer-director Maoz is best known for his 2009 film “Lebanon,” based partly on his own experiences as a tank gunner during the 1982 Lebanon War. Like that film, Foxtrot brings a coolly critical, occasionally surrealist eye on the assumption that Israel’s military efforts have made for a better, wiser people.
  23. Inside Job
    The result is a masterpiece of investigative nonfiction moviemaking - a scathing, outrageous, depressing, comical, horrifying report on what and who brought on the crisis.
  24. Chicken Run
    There's nothing paltry about its poultry.
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut
    The director's cut has been getting a much warmer critical reception than the original release, but not necessarily because it's significantly better.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The King's Speech
    The movie isn't badly done, just overdone - a cozy art-house crowd-pleaser coasting on the expectations of its genre.
  27. Parallel Mothers
    The heroine of a woman’s picture is almost always a victim, a practitioner of redemption through suffering. Janis is no victim, and Cruz’s performance makes that very plain. In revisiting the genre, Almodóvar, with Cruz’s help, is also subverting it.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hell or High Water
    The dialogue is terse and funny while hinting at much larger matters, such as the way poverty can be handed from generation to generation like a bad gene or a disease.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Up
    On the most basic level the new film is pure vaudeville: a loopy flyaway fantasy that's hysterically funny if only to keep the darkness at bay.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Poor Things
    Through it all, Bella claims center stage; and whether she’s acting as an innocent or a sophisticate, Stone has no problem anchoring the chaos.
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