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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
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
    Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Time is a lovely visit to a Budapest that yields its secrets more willingly than the sad, repressed woman at the story’s center.
  2. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    A long, warm, satisfying farewell encounter.
  3. Rain
    Affecting, troubling, dazzling film.
    • 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.
    • 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.
  6. Blitz
    The actors turn in great work, but the true stars of “Blitz” are the production design by Adam Stockhausen and the cinematography by Yorick Le Saux. Collectively, they put you inside the Tube stations and shelters that were occupied by Londoners trying to escape the Blitz.
  7. Letters from Baghdad
    Swinton’s vocal performance as Bell is so vivid and absorbing it could be entered as evidence for the defense. Swinton makes Bell so compelling it’s easy to overlook what a paradoxical figure she was.
  8. Donnie Darko
    The debut feature from 26-year-old director Richard Kelly shows plenty of promise, but it's somewhat self-involved and won't appeal to audiences who like a straightforward -- even if fantastical -- narrative.
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Great Buster: A Celebration
    The stone-faced silent comedian’s influence on every possible aspect of physical comedy is wide and deep, attested to in this movie by entertainers old (Bill Irwin, Paul Dooley, Richard Lewis), ancient (Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner), youngish (Bill Hader, Quentin Tarantino), and random (Cybill Shepherd, Werner Herzog).
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Brink
    The Brink shows a salesman tirelessly peddling poison door to door and knowing it’s only a matter of time before someone lets him in.
  11. Shazam!
    Shazam! is pretty entertaining. It’s a lark that aims to distinguish itself from too-familiar DC dourness a bit like “Guardians of the Galaxy” playfully tweaked Marvel’s formula.
  12. The Evil Dead
    Although idiotic, The Evil Dead at least is propelled by energy and enthusiasm. It's scarier than many a more pretentious effort, and not everything in it is borrowed. [8 Oct 1983, p.Arts1]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Our Brand Is Crisis
    It’s a galling and provocative experience to viewers of any political persuasion, and a reminder to the left of how easily idealism can run amok.
  14. Crime Wave
    This one is a tensely clammy screw-tightener about an ex-con (Gene Nelson) pressured to become part of a bank heist. No cop ever chewed a toothpick better than Sterling Hayden does here. [07 Jan 1996, p.C31]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mrs Henderson Presents
    Mrs. Henderson Presents is a very old hat, and Judi Dench wears it beautifully.
  16. Into the West
    There are a few tonal glitches, but Newell's hand is remarkably sure, the actors are winning, and Into the West is a treat. [17 Sep 1993, p.54]
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  17. The Room Next Door
    This dramatic two-hander partners one of the cinema’s greatest talkers with one of its best listeners, Julianne Moore.
  18. Light Sleeper
    For a while, Light Sleeper hangs together promisingly. But when Dafoe's character meets old flame Dana Delaney, the plot spirals into preposterousness involving a sinister Eurotrash client, and the film also gets away from Schrader, who isn't a deft enough director to conceal or minimize the flaws in his script. [15 Sep 1992, p.71]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
    A fascinating shambles of a documentary - fascinating because its subject is so influential and so deranged, a shambles because its filmmaker can't decide which approach to take and so takes all of them.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Double Dare
    Focuses on a parallel universe that moviegoers rarely consider: that of the invisible, hard-working craftspeople who put the illusion together.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Motel
    Kang balances the uproariously comic with the profoundly sad, and the two tones amplify each other with subtlety.
  22. Yossi & Jagger
    What the movie lacks in ambition, originality, and grit, it makes up for in pure feeling.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prisoners
    As gripping as it is grueling, with performances that swing for the fences and a central mystery that seems an unresolvable tangle of knots until those knots come undone in a somewhat forced final act.
  24. Year of the Dog
    Shannon gives the movie its inner life. Maybe the movie will give her back her comedy career.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Batman Begins
    In Batman Begins, Christian Bale gives us the best Bruce Wayne that has ever graced the screen.
  26. Earth Days
    The rare ecological documentary that doesn’t nag us to run out of the movie theater and change the world.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bad Company
    As a tale of adolescent sexuality warped by passion, though, Bad Company is less compelling and more exploitative than its makers think.
  28. The Tao of Steve
    One of the year's most winning performances, Logue's Dex will grow on you as he stumbles toward emotional fullness.
  29. Hamlet
    This is a sizzling, invigorating Hamlet.
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  30. Quills
    A witty yet fiery and, in the best sense, provocative play of ideas about freedom of expression.
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