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For 7,948 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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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  1. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Frankly, the story isn’t remotely as interesting as Cage. Nothing is. In Ferrara’s movie, Keitel emptied himself out. But there’s a hellion’s joy in Cage’s cop.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unstoppable
    Unstoppable is edited for maximum impact without showboating. The central situation sustains the drama and the way it's filmed, and when that situation is over, so's the movie. More films should be this enjoyably functional.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brave
    Eventually it straightens out into a fast, funny, emotionally resonant story about mothers and daughters, but it takes a while to get there and it's never less than weird.
  4. Girlhood
    Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus spent three years shooting two teenagers living in a Maryland juvenile detention center. The completed film is called Girlhood and it feels as much a work in progress as its two troubled subjects do.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Undercover Brother
    Tries to wring laughs from just about every dusty stereotype about blacks and whites imaginable. But it's all cheap, lazy, and unoriginal.
  6. Dung che sai duk
    "Ashes of Time" was always more a work of philosophy than pure entertainment, and a decade and a half later it still is.
  7. Eating Animals
    Though not as graphically powerful as other documentaries on similar subjects, such as Fredrick Wiseman’s “Meat” (1976) or Georges Franju’s “Les Sang des Bête” (1949), the emphasis on the disastrous global impact of these practices is more disturbing .
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Revolutionary Road
    Maybe it's a cheap shot to call Revolutionary Road "American Beauty" without the laughs, but it gets to the heart of the problem.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Live Free or Die Hard
    Sorry, boys. After two decades, the first film still does more with one skyscraper than Live Free or Die Hard does with an entire country.
  10. Up for Grabs
    A rarity for documentaries. The movie is a full-tilt farce, and were it not completely true, it'd be a piercing satire that Preston Sturges might have polished into a resonant screwball.
  11. The Dead Zone
    It never really chills you, but then it never insults you, either, and it's more affecting than you expect any film based on a Stephen King novel to be. [22 Oct 1983]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Palo Alto
    It’s a solid debut, and it gets to the heart of suburban adolescence in ways that slicker, more ostensibly mature movies don’t. That includes Aunt Sofia’s “The Bling Ring.”
  13. Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
    The documentary, like the series, is haimish in the extreme - cozy, warm, homey.
  14. Romeo and Juliet
    Franco Zeffirelli's reputation as a popularizer of Shakespeare stems from this gusty swirl of a 1968 production built around - and aimed at - teens. The uncomprehending looks on the faces of Leonard Whiting's Romeo and Olivia Hussey's Juliet only increase the film's demographic pull, as poetry is replaced with prettiness. [18 Jan 1991, p.32p]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lion
    Lion is shameless and heartfelt and you’ll probably have a good, happy cry at the end. When a story pushes buttons so deeply wired into our consciousness...craft seems almost beside the point.
  16. The September Issue
    What the movie unfolds is how the magazine is inextricable from Wintour’s vision of it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beeswax
    It all feels studiously artless - some people huffily insist that Bujalski’s movies aren’t movies at all - but the more you contemplate his landscapes, the more his control over their various elements is revealed. He’s the real deal: a maturing artist obsessed with how and why - and if - his generation will mature.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cinderella Man
    A broad, foursquare piece of populist filmmaking that happens to be tremendously moving.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Lions
    The film is an astonishing visual experience and at times almost profoundly suspenseful.
  20. I Went Down
    I Went Down is an offbeat Irish gangster movie that overcomes its meandering nature with engaging performances, an avoidance of formula, and, above all, its characters' way of making us take everything personally - as they certainly do. [1 July 1998, p.F4]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    In its tactful, observant way, the film is unrelenting in assessing the damage that blind faith can wreak on its children and heartening in showing how those damaged find strength in each other.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rocketman
    As long as Rocketman is charting the jet-propelled rise of Elton John in the early 1970s, it is an absolute gas. As soon as it plunges into the burnout years — addictions, betrayals, diva fits — it plays like every other rags-to-rock-to-riches saga you’ve ever seen. Especially “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Cooler
    Looks brilliant while you're watching it and stands revealed as counterfeit only in the strong light of day. What Baldwin does, though, is the stuff of supporting actor Oscars.
  24. Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
    When the film ends, we're haunted. We've been driving with a ghost.
  25. Giorni e nuvole
    In American movies, the iconic question usually is, can men and women be friends without the sex part getting in the way? Here it's, can a husband appreciate his wife as a woman? The movie's success in Italy is partly a matter of frustration: Women need their men to grow up.
  26. Frontrunners
    The movie doesn't know what it wants to say about the election or the people who run in it.
  27. Hannah Arendt
    A film that ultimately says more about banality than evil.
  28. The Little Hours
    The film manages to be both crudely hilarious and bluntly satiric while also establishing sympathetic characters, a sharp contemporary wit, a sly, dry absurdism.
  29. Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
    The documentary variously consists of archival performance footage, home movies, photographs, pointlessly flashy graphics, and many, many talking heads.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsoon
    A delicate, observant, and rather too quiescent drama of coming home to a strange land, Monsoon is an interesting change of pace for star Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians”) and another musing on diaspora by the Cambodia-born British filmmaker Hong Khaou.
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