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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In My Skin
    In My Skin takes that pain/pleasure principle and magnifies it until you're either dumbstruck or running screaming from the theater.
  2. The Yes Men
    This movie could have been a nagging, preachy headache had either man exhibited a tendency for self-righteousness. But both are friendly, almost humble about their mischief.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jump Tomorrow
    The movie feels padded. And Hopkins's deft touch as a writer and director leaves him when it comes to casting.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Così ridevano
    A film of great ingenuity and imagination, full of suggestive power, and it deserves to be seen.
  5. Step Up To The Plate
    The movie's patient in the way of "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress" or "Jiro Dreams of Sushi." That's where culinary nonfiction is now - sleepy, observant. And, for the most part, that's OK.
  6. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    The decadence is obvious. But true to the Valentino prerogative, it's beautiful - sad, too: a dream life moving into the unknown.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Somewhat Gentle Man
    For a passive-depressive Norwegian crime drama with not a lot in the way of plot, A Somewhat Gentle Man has a charmingly fluky sense of humor.
  8. Moscow, Belgium
    I wanted to keep watching. I wanted to leave. In between, I prayed for the piano-accordion soundtrack to silence itself for just one scene (it's like being trapped in a little French restaurant that refuses to close).
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casino Jack and the United States of Money
    Abramoff may be in prison but the mindset that produced him -- and the pay-to-play government it needs to survive -- is triumphant.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bhutto
    People called the Bhuttos "The Kennedys of Pakistan" and, in a parallel with our losses, the Pakistanis suffered the untimely deaths of Benazir, her father, and her two brothers.
  11. Babe: Pig in the City
    Miller is going to take some heat for making this new film inhabit a cruel world. But better that than sugarcoating the story. He's found a way to recycle a popular film - choppily perhaps, episodically perhaps, but provocatively. [25 Nov 1998, p.C1]
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  12. Addiction Incorporated
    Once it finds its footing in old-fashioned journalism, the film packs a wallop.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pierrepoint
    Like its hero, the movie doesn't flinch for most of its running time.
  14. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    The fun is in watching these robustly generic people trip over and pinball off of each other, seeing them eddy around Carell, who as the straight man here is getting dangerously close to Greg Kinnear's territory - where comedy is too self-serious to laugh at.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deepwater Horizon
    A taut, engrossing action movie about real-life heroes, so why is it a disappointment? Because director Peter Berg is telling the wrong story.
  16. Limbo
    Until it goes off course, Limbo not only is up to Sayles's high standard, but extends it. [04 Jun 1999, p.C4]
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  17. Fighting with My Family
    It’s the mark of many a standout sports movie that you don’t necessarily have to be a fan to enjoy the story. The real-life pro wrestling portrait Fighting With My Family is a hugely entertaining case in point.
  18. End of Watch
    The camera is just everywhere, from the point of view of everything. When I left the movie the other night, people complained of seasickness.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Apocalypto
    Say what you will about Gibson, but he's a genuine filmmaker, and Apocalypto gallops along the thin line between the deluded and the inspired with such conviction that you're yanked into its wake.
  20. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels essentially remains a duet of exquisitely turned gestures exchanged by Martin and Caine. It isn't killer comedy. Sometimes its leisurely pace veers dangerously close to slackness. But it's as close as Hollywood comedy comes to chamber music. [14 Dec 1988, p.77]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Potiche
    What the movie utterly fails to resolve is what François Ozon is up to here and where he's going next.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Girls Can't Swim
    While not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught, there's much truth and no small amount of poetry in Girls Can't Swim.
  23. Alice et Martin
    Richly compelling.
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  24. Burnt Money
    Hopped up on standard action riffs, most of the film feels like hand-me-downs purchased from the John Woo outlet.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Yet for all the gags that fall flat and scenes that don’t quite play, there are enough that fuse shock humor and sly moral commentary to combust in your face.
  26. Chopper
    Too quick to uncritically and unthinkingly accept its subject's rollickingly self-mythologizing take on himself.
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Adventures of Tintin
    Quite simply, The Adventures of Tintin is a model of modern movie craftsmanship. It's also, I'm afraid, rather dull.
  28. Becket (re-release)
    The one thing going for Becket is actually two things: Burton and O'Toole.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Conjuring
    The Conjuring digs up no new ground — indeed, it seems almost proud of its old school bona fides — but it plows the classic terrain with a skill that feels a lot like affection. The ghost that’s really haunting this movie is nostalgia.
  30. Bopha!
    In Bopha! the usual apartheid-struggle elements never thin out into abstractions. They're elemental, encapsulating a country's tragedy resonantly and powerfully in a single family's. [24 Sept 1993, p.51]
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