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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
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Where the Wild Things Are
    This version of Where the Wilds Things Are isn’t about childhood at all but about childhood’s end and what’s gained and lost by it. That’s why very young kids, dull Disney princesses, overprotective parents, and self-serious grown-ups should probably stay away.
  2. Shadow Magic
    Shadow Magic isn't interested in psychology or character study. It's a series of tableaux and on that level succeeds admirably.
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  3. The Tavern
    A steadily engaging and winningly humane film that loves its characters.
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
    As eye-opening as this movie is, the real story is outside the Times building, in the browser windows and iPads of me and you and everyone we know.
  5. Harry and Tonto
    Has a pleasantly freewheeling, European art film feel to it, a welcome reminder of the New Hollywood of the '70s. [04 Sep 2005]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
    The admirable feminist agenda occasionally trips up the narrative, but the film's performances keep it on track.
  7. Exit 8
    Exit 8 is based on a best-selling video game released in 2023. I have not played it, but if it’s anything like director Genki Kawamura’s adaptation, I’d say it’s enough to drive a person crazy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spider-Man: Homecoming
    Spider-Man: Homecoming, a superhero movie is adolescent in all the right ways: limber, reckless, full of youthful brio and uncertainty. Trying on new identities, overreaching, doubting, starting over again.
  9. Pulse
    Where the average Japanese horror flick is petulant and nasty, Pulse is dolorous, shivery, and surreal.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nine Lives
    Not all of Nine Lives clicks, but at its best it finds an inarticulate sisterly solace that makes you want to see what this director could do with one life per film.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Way, Way Back
    The movie’s a minor pleasure rather than a major work. But minor pleasures have their place, especially in summertime, and at its best The Way, Way Back goes down like a popsicle on a hot July day.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Names of Love
    Leclerc and company manage to raise serious points and deliver intelligent laughs at the same time, which is no small feat.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Conversations with Other Women
    The charm of Conversations With Other Women, a gimmicky but oddly moving two-character drama that flies in from who knows where, is its intelligentknowingness.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Wash
    This real-life alliance is part of what makes the slice-of-life comedy The Wash work as well as it does, despite a somewhat skimpy though often crassly amusing script written by the film's director, D.J. Pooh.
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  15. The Boondock Saints
    (Duffy) navigates the twisted collision of religious faith and the thrill of the kill, altruism and brutality, with an ingenious mix of humor, horror, mysticism, and just plain hipness.
  16. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    The film does not offer an optimistic view of relationships.
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  17. Rush Hour 2
    It hasn't got a brain in its body, but it's fun to watch.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lost City of Z
    The movie is 141 minutes long but you rarely feel its weight; that’s how confident a filmmaker Gray has become. All The Lost City of Z lacks is a great leading actor, someone magnificent and flawed like a Peter O’Toole.
  19. I Love You Phillip Morris
    The performance often errs on the side of cartoon, but it's laced with flashes of remorse and chagrin, with sincerity. When Carrey tries to do "dramatic acting'' the life always goes of out him.
  20. 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.
  21. Bombshell
    If there’s any way that Roach slips back into a creative pigeonhole, it’s by being overly keen on sticking his actors in prosthetic makeup. Richard Kind’s Rudy Giuliani, for one, elicits an unintended chuckle. And while Theron’s makeover is, again, uncanny, Kidman’s cleft chin is needlessly distracting. We’d buy her performance without it.
  22. Shrek the Third
    The journey is not very exciting, but the destinations are inspired.
  23. You, Me & Tuscany
    Soft girl era is something the socialmedialites are desperately in search of, and so am I. “You, Me & Tuscany,” takes us there.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Must Be the Place
    This isn't a great movie, but it is a special one. And Penn is something to see.
  25. The Great Debaters
    For a film about the power of speech, it's the quiet moments of rapture that say everything.
  26. Born in China
    Monkeys end up supplying the movie’s real drama. While parentally overlooked mischief-maker Tao Tao gets up to the requisite, well, monkey business, he’s also witness to a stunning snatch-and-fly attack by an opportunistic goshawk. It might not be nature on demand, but it’s some scene.
  27. Wendell & Wild
    Fans of “Key & Peele” will love their latest duet. Much of their dialogue sounds improvised, and the pair work off each other like the pros they are.
  28. Wind River
    All three actors are excellent. So’s Gil Birmingham, as the victim’s father.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dark Star: HR Giger's World
    The film captures both the claustrophobic and melancholic mood of Giger’s house, and also, perhaps, his mind.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elling
    Touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes, not least the notion that the marginal members of society - the ones who get spit out on the sidewalk with no idea of how it happened - might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants.
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