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For 7,950 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: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dirty Pretty Things
    This is the meatiest role Tautou has had post-''Amelie'' and she drops the zombie-pixie act for once, giving us a character who's caught in a daily dance between propriety and abandon, and who can only dance faster as desperation sets in.
  2. The Grandmaster
    Who knows what they’re fighting about, but given the ecstatic ballet of fists and water, tossed bodies and smashed decor, centered by Leung’s majestic impassivity, it doesn’t really matter.
  3. Searching for Ingmar Bergman
    Von Trotta comes closest to the object of her search when she looks at images from his movies. Especially images of the seashore.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    The Japanese animation is beautiful, and the script adaptation for the English-speaking audience is well-paced, clever, and absorbing enough to keep parents from squirming.
  5. 45365
    For such a small place (officially a city, Sidney sure feels like a town), it's strikingly diverse.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ginger & Rosa
    In Fanning, Potter has found the perfect vessel, and the miracle is that the actress doesn’t even seem to be trying. She just is.
  7. Shaun of the Dead
    Every moment... is a cleverly constructed live-action joke on aloofness: The world is ending, and these people are too self-centered to notice.
  8. The Lost Leonardo
    Really, The Lost Leonardo is a detective story. Like any good detective story, it’s also a morality tale. Or maybe immorality tale better describes these goings on.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Touch of Sin
    The time for poetry is past, the director seems to say, as his camera looks deep into the eyes of the mob in the film’s final image. The chaos may be just be getting started.
  10. Cosmos
    The result is nonstop, epistemological slapstick.
  11. Lady Vengeance
    For most of Lady Vengeance, Park is playing with us. But the jokey atmosphere dissipates and the fun turns inside out in the movie's last act.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Surf's Up
    The most colorful of the penguin 'toons to date, both figuratively and literally.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue Is the Warmest Color
    If you don’t really understand women — or don’t even want to — it’s easier to just call them a mystery and let it go at that. For all the close-ups, that may be why Blue Is the Warmest Color never gets close enough.
  14. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    The movie's glee is contagious.
  15. Kings of Pastry
    Kings of Pastry, goes inside an intense event that few Americans know much about - a kind of tradesmen's Olympics.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alien Trespass
    It's pretty endearing - a low-budget labor of schlock.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On the Road
    A straightforward and rather sane version of the events described in the book and, against all odds, a surprisingly effective movie.
  18. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The movies rarely gives us a woman as fascinatingly complex as Lisbeth Salander, and the happiest news about the two sequels is that she’ll be back.
  19. Upgrade
    Upgrade, Whannell’s second outing behind the camera, is yet another top-notch repair job, this time a kinetic sci-fi riff fashioned from scrap metal and human entrails, nervily updating Cronenbergian body horror for the iOS era.
  20. Together
    Visually as well as emotionally, there’s more energy here than in some action movies.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Red One
    There are sequences in The Big Red One that you can't forget, and every one of them could have been made better with a bigger budget and a realism that was beyond Fuller's grasp at the time.
  22. The Girl
    Somewhat overstylized and deliberately enigmatic, The Girl won't appeal to everyone. But its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blaze
    The movie is Hawke’s fourth and best feature as a director; it’s immensely touching, and only deceptively shapeless.
  24. An Inconvenient Truth
    In an eco-horror show that politely masquerades as a documentary, the former vice president effectively warns of man-made cataclysm.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Inheritance
    The Inheritance is a welcome reminder of film’s flexibility as a medium of protest, a vessel of cultural history, and an agent of change.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Scandal
    Of all the "Liaisons" adaptations, this may be the most sentimental.
  27. Zero Days
    There’s one NSA staffer in particular — seen in shadow, her voice altered — who’s the real star of Zero Days. Her reveal is at once solid journalism and dramatic tour de force. It’s a challenge Gibney meets with ease.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Green Fog
    The Green Fog is a cinephile’s mash note — and a glimpse of the beautiful film library of Babel that lives in Guy Maddin’s head.
  29. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
    It’s like a collection of short stories — most dystopian, some not — trying to pass itself off as a novel.
  30. 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.
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