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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bigger Stronger Faster*
    A hugely entertaining personal documentary about what steroids mean to American pop culture.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kill List
    A scuzzy little cross between a crime movie and a horror freak-out that gets under your skin and stays there, even if you can't understand half of what the characters are saying.
  3. Decision to Leave
    Decision has real velocity without in any way feeling hectic or rushed.
  4. Major Dundee (re-release)
    Expanded, Major Dundee is still a mess of great scenes sprinkled among some fairly monotonous action.
  5. Dr T and the Women
    A comedy of chaos, an ensemble comedy, with characters swirling around one another unaware, in their uniform desperation, of how funny they are.
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  6. Rat
    Rat may be lightweight, but it's never cheesy.
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  7. Phat Girlz
    This is a disarming and, in its own way, delightful vehicle for its star and executive producer, the comedian and actress Mo'Nique. Who could hate this movie?
  8. Free Solo
    Go figure that the year’s most outrageously harrowing action movie turns out to be an arthouse doc from National Geographic.
  9. The Protector
    The Protector is about 84 minutes long, and only four of those minutes are devoted to plot.
  10. Switch
    It's thoughtful as well as funny, and you never want to take your eyes off Barkin. [10 May 1991, p.27]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Meet the Robinsons
    Almost as funny as it is hyperactive, the new computer-animated family comedy is luscious to look at and as fizzy as a can of soda popped open in your face.
  12. 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."
  13. My Brother Is an Only Child
    Ripe, ferociously acted comic drama.
  14. The Girl Cut in Two
    It's intriguing. To be honest, though, there is less to it all than meets the eye.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In Darkness
    In Darkness is a disaster movie, and the disaster is the Holocaust. In the space between the two halves of that sentence, you have what works about the film and what's a little creepy.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hotel Artemis
    High-concept, low-budget, proudly set-bound, Hotel Artemis shouldn’t work at all. Somehow, miraculously, it does.
  17. Little Odessa
    A rich mood piece, a study in bleakness, spiritual exhaustion and death. [02 June 1995, p.56]
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  18. Love & Sex
    Brightly sidesteps the cliches that cling to the genre like barnacles and reinvents a lot of the old moves.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pride
    The film’s energy is contagious.
  20. Sexy Beast
    Slightly misshapen and unbalanced, with a few loose ends, a few extraneous dream sequences. But there's something going on all the time.
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  21. A Man Named Pearl
    This is moviemaking that honors the craftsmanship of its subject.
  22. Air Doll (2009)
    For 75 minutes or so, Air Doll is the lightest of Kore-eda’s movies, which include the superb “Nobody Knows’’ (2004) and “Still Life’’ (2008). Gradually, though, the tender music-box score — by one-man Japanese band world’s end girlfriend — is tinged with foreboding.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Asako I & II
    The movie keeps you guessing, mostly in pleasure, at both its meanings and its methods.
  24. Mysterious Skin
    The film is actually a major artistic breakthrough for Araki, a onetime bad boy of independent filmmaking. Its psychological intelligence, attention to emotional currents, and humanity are surprises.
  25. The Trigger Effect
    The Trigger Effect is a smarter-than- average thriller that proves David Koepp can direct films as well as write them. [30 Aug 1996, p.F1]
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  26. The Desert of Forbidden Art
    In The Desert of Forbidden Art, documentarians Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev offer some background on the late Savitsky, a painter who initially collected ethnic folk art quashed by the Stalin regime.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brittany Runs A Marathon
    Thankfully, the movie approaches this subject the way one might a used car, with suspicion and an extra helping of mordant humor. It just folds in the endorphins gradually, until you understand why audiences voted it their favorite film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    A celebration of a time when secret agents dressed impeccably, bantered with style, and had exceptionally cool toys. That the movie is almost instantly forgettable is part of the pleasure.
  29. Spider-Man: No Way Home
    No Way Home is overlong and its various temporal loop-the-loops start to wear out their welcome...All that said, there’s an imaginativeness to No Way Home, along with a ton of energy, that makes the viewer cut it a lot of slack.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tsotsi
    It's a solid, earnest drama of moral redemption that places old cliches in an unfamiliar setting.
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