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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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  1. 5B
    Haggis and Krauss’s desire to use the ward as a vehicle to tell a much larger and more complex story makes sense. Yet it ultimately takes away from the truly remarkable story they have to tell, a story that may actually be more complex than matters of government policy and public opinion.
  2. The Matchmaker
    How does a filmmaker tell a Holocaust story that hasn't been told before? The Matchmaker does it by weaving fable with realism, coming-of-age innocence with adult grief, and guilt with romanticism.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Venus in Fur
    “Venus in Fur,” the 2010 David Ives play that conquered off-Broadway in 2010 and Broadway in 2011, has been thoroughly and maliciously Romanized.
  4. Nurse Betty
    It's lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances, and offbeat fun.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Imelda
    Imelda is at its most acridly useful when comparing the former first lady's recollections with others' less sanguine memories.
  6. Antarctica: A Year on Ice
    Powell never achieves the absurdist, uncanny poetry of that scene in Herzog’s film where a “demented” penguin marches into oblivion, but he does arouse wonder at nature’s sublimity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Hardcore
    A sloppy mosh note to the genre, with its own excesses and oversights. It's like a flier for a band you've never heard of: torn, soaked with beer, itchy with aggression.
  8. Oh Lucy!
    The message is clear, if not original: stray from the herd and you’re dead. What makes Hirayanagi’s iteration of this familiar theme appealing are the quirky characters, the nuanced performances, and the curious cultural topography of Tokyo.
  9. Zero Motivation
    Talya Lavie’s Zero Motivation has more substance than a sitcom, even though it’s broken down into three TV series-like episodes. But it’s no “M*A*S*H” — a film to which some have compared it — either.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Bodies Bodies Bodies
    Capturing today’s twenty-somethings is tricky enough even with a tight script (“You’re a spreadsheet with a superiority complex”), but making Zoomers realistic and ridiculous is all up to the delivery. And the cast of “Bodies” does not disappoint.
  11. Joshua
    Joshua is the sort of movie in which nobody does what you would do: like spank or demand an extra-strength time out.
  12. The Piano Lesson
    This Denzel Washington family affair (Washington and his daughter, Katia, produced it, his son directed it, and his other son plays the lead) is well worth watching. It captures the spirit of Wilson’s magnificent prose, moving the audience the way the author intended.
  13. Octubre
    Octubre is a quick, quiet movie that distills Lima, Peru, to a downtrodden version of its more dynamic current self.
  14. The Last September
    A gorgeous autumnal period piece that catches a vanishing proprietary class on the eve of its extinction in Ireland in 1920.
  15. Horns and Halos
    The film means to provoke a closer look at the faces of good and evil. It questions whether we really live in a world that can be divided neatly into black hats and white hats.
  16. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    Like watching somebody else's flashback and wondering what you were doing then instead.
  17. The Trip to Greece
    What makes Steve and Rob so funny is that they’re so human: petty, insecure, rivalrous, as well as charming and hilarious. Nothing’s more human than sadness, not even laughter, and laughter The Trip to Greece has to offer in plenty. What’s their next destination? Wherever it is, the important thing is that there be one.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chronicle
    Chronicle will never be mistaken for an artistic breakthrough, but it has a solid gimmick and pieces of it are brilliant.
  19. Arthur Christmas
    The film's indefatigable holiday spirit is infectious.
  20. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
    Gilliam has a vision and a viewpoint, and he puts it on screen with an extravagance, a humanistic generosity and a visual imagination that make it a standout in 1989's virtual cinematic vacuum. [10 Mar 1989, p.32]
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  21. Beautiful Darling
    As fascinating as the material is, like so much of popular culture it doesn't hold up well out of context.
  22. The Other Dream Team
    Clearly, there's a story here. The documentary The Other Dream Team tells it in a smart, lively, if somewhat hectic fashion.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Into the Woods
    Into the Woods is forced in some places but exquisitely right in others, and it gains strength as it goes.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    What They Had
    Can a vastly talented cast raise a heartfelt but banal screenplay on their own? The verdict is mixed, to put it kindly.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Leto
    Little of this comes through in the film, which is about the mayfly moment and three people at its center. For those who don’t have enough information to connect the dots, that may not be enough. Maybe you had to be there, but it’s a movie’s job to take us, and this one gets only partway.
  26. I Used to Be Darker
    This sounds like it could be austere and schematic, but the affecting, authentic performances from the first-time actors make these characters thoroughly authentic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Great Ziegfeld
    A tremendously decorative picture. [13 Apr 1936, p.21]
    • Boston Globe
  28. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
    In short, the film owns its immaturity. And the argument it appealingly offers in defense is that it’s healthy, even vital, to be able to laugh at scatological silliness, adults included.
  29. Predestination
    His (Hawke) subtle performance also draws attention away from the creaky plot machinery, as does the Spierig brothers’ eye for the seemingly throwaway but pregnant detail.
  30. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
    Gremlins 2 is one of the few sequels that improves on the original. [15 Jun 1990, p.33p]
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