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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fan-Fan the Tulip
    What played as glorious period tomfoolery to European festival juries and discerning U S audiences in the early 1950s now just seems quaintly pleased with itself.
  2. Kings of Pastry
    Kings of Pastry, goes inside an intense event that few Americans know much about - a kind of tradesmen's Olympics.
  3. Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
    The best thing about Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone is that it really is the story of Fishbone. It's a hearty, thoughtful, smartly assembled, vaguely complete documentary about a rock band that, even by the standards of out-there musical acts, seemed out there both in the mid-1980s and even now.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Asako I & II
    The movie keeps you guessing, mostly in pleasure, at both its meanings and its methods.
  5. The Underneath
    Soderbergh's sleekly malignant Underneath is a nasty little winner. [28 April 1995, p.81]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Absolute Wilson
    Absolute Wilson may not be original, but Wilson absolutely is. And for the glimmers of that originality that shine through here, the film is worth watching.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Winter
    The Last Winter sounds like a genre-movie platypus - a little bit of this, a little piece of that - but it stops short of laying an egg. In fact, it works eerily well.
  8. Chicken with Plums
    Chicken With Plums has Iran in common with "Persepolis," but little else. Largely, though not entirely, live action, it's a fairly traditional story about thwarted love - a kind of fairy tale for grown-ups.
  9. Tenet
    Moviemaking doesn’t come any tauter or with more velocity. But that confusion is a warning. It’s going to apply to the entire movie; and the longer “Tenet” lasts, the more of an issue confusion becomes.
  10. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    A lively and affectionate cross between an infomercial and a genuflection.
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  11. Le bossu
    The story is a mess. But On Guard was directed by the reliable Philippe de Broca, who imbues the whole affair with high-calorie silliness.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sunshine State
    There is almost no drama, nor any surprise, in this long effort.
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  13. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    A clever and satisfyingly abundant entertainment.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Climax
    Climax is the first Noé film, though, to flirt with the novel sensation of boredom.
  15. 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Solitary Man
    Too shapeless and cursorily plotted to fully work as a story, but Koppelman and his co-director, David Levien, generously surround the hero with reliable actors doing solid work; if you can get past the catastrophe of Ben’s behavior, the film’s a genuine pleasure.
  17. Shallow Grave
    Black comedy and film noir are around one another smartly and wickedly in Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave, a tense, twisty Scottish-made thriller that's going to break out of Glasgow in a big way. [24 Feb 1995]
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  18. The Bank Job
    The movie doesn't hang together as a thriller, and the characters don't hang together as interesting people.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Talk to Me
    Especially wonderful is Taraji P. Henson as Petey's longtime girlfriend Vernell , a vision in Foxy Brown period clothes with a pixie smile, lollipop legs, and a filthy mouth. After "Hustle & Flow ," this is at least the second movie Henson has stolen, and will Hollywood please do something about it?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Birth of a Nation
    Produced, co-written, and directed by its star, The Birth of a Nation is very much a first film, its hesitancies disguised as bluntness, and the best things about it are Parker’s acting and his ambitions.
  21. Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia)
    An ambitious mix of politics, religion, art, and human drama.
  22. Blink
    There’s a bittersweet poignancy in watching the children bond with animals and people during their travels before beginning the next leg of their journey.
  23. William Eggleston in the Real World
    The documentary is elliptical, with a slow, drifty rhythm. It presents an up-close but impersonal view of Eggleston.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spider-Man: Far from Home
    Spider-Man: Far from Home isn’t really a superhero movie. It’s a wholesome teen comedy disguised as a superhero movie.
  25. Friday Night
    Has a sultry and complex psychological intent all its own, yet it's reminiscent of some earlier Denis works, including ''Nenette and Boni.''
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zero Day
    Without even trying, Coccio may have stumbled over the truest metaphor for Columbine yet.
  27. The Elephant in the Living Room
    The movie effectively rids you of any notion that owning a cougar or a python is a good idea.
    • 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.
  29. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
    Strauch’s orotund prose sounds much like that of Werner Herzog, but without the irony. Herzog’s sensibility is missed here; he could have made a masterpiece about the absurdity of these deluded seekers of Eden.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Patriots Day
    At best, it's unnecessary. At worst, it's vaguely insulting.
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