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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. The Meddler
    The Meddler is a disappointment after the talent Scafaria demonstrated in her 2012 feature debut “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.”
  2. The World's Fastest Indian
    The film is at its best in Utah, both because in David Gribble's exhilarating cinematography we finally get to feel the full power and intoxication of the sport.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
    Leave it to James to sum up a legendary, culture-altering talent: “She turned her lack of self-awareness into a triumph.” Both sides of that coin live on in our modern culture, and Kael’s voice fills every self-satisfied corner of the Internet. Two decades after her death, she’s still the ghost in the machine.
  4. Ask Dr. Ruth
    [A] peripatetic and ultimately poignant documentary.
  5. A Place at the Table
    As morally engaged as the movie is, it’s also argumentatively slack. Precisely because it’s so easy to agree that hunger is bad, it’s hard to agree what to do.
  6. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Brims with forboding, but it pulses with candy colors and the hum of neon signs.
  7. $9.99
    A movie that entertains and enlightens without being preachy - in fact, most of its beliefs are strenuously ambiguous; that’s a key part of the joke.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paul Goodman Changed My Life
    As documentaries go, it's an able introduction that doesn't make its subject nearly as relevant to our current discontents as it could.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Homesman
    This odd, ungainly western is harsh in its details, wayward in the telling, yet increasingly powerful as it wends its way back East toward civilization.
  10. And Then We Danced
    The best thing about Akin’s film is the dance stuff. The movie begins with arresting black-and-white archival footage of Georgian dancing. The rehearsals in the dance studio come alive, thanks in no small part to the drum-and-accordion accompaniment. Kinetically, the style of dance is percussive and assertive. It doesn’t so much flow as boil.
  11. Henry Fool
    Writing ignites miracles in Henry Fool, and Hartley's exquisite control over his compositions and pacing makes the outrages, biological and otherwise, funnier than you might believe. [01 Jul 1998]
    • Boston Globe
    • 68 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Ramsay delivers an overdirected, conceptually obnoxious art film that's torture to sit through, listen to, and think about.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    Australian rocker Nick Cave talks of how discovering Cohen during his small-town youth "just changed things." Bono calls the singer "our Shelley, our Byron."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Watermark
    Watermark feels less focused than “Manufactured Landscapes.” While it presents us with awful and/or awe-inspiring images and ideas, the movie lacks the tightening grip that made the earlier work so unforgettable.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Early Man
    Honestly, the chilly dog days of February are crying out for a good, smart, silly stop-motion family film, the kind you can fully enjoy under the pretext of spending an afternoon at the movies with your kids.
  16. Batman Returns
    The new film is simply more confident, more idiosyncratically dark, weird, gnarled and twisted than "Batman." And because it's more obviously permeated by Burton's style and sensibility, it's also more fun. [19 June 1992, p.47]
    • Boston Globe
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monster House
    Monster House is the first horror comedy made exclusively for fourth-graders.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Black Mass
    It’s a solid if not stellar crime drama, well put together, very well acted, and lacking only a genuine reason to exist.
  19. The Wave
    It follows the lead of more recent Hollywood disaster movies like “2012” and “The Impossible.” It features just one family; everyone else is part of the scenery.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Edukators
    There's an evenhanded humanism flowing through The Edukators that may strike doctrinaire viewers on either side of the divide as mushy, but it's tough enough for the rest of us to chew on for a long time.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Off and Running
    A patient, slightly stiff, often intensely moving portrait of a girl who believes her choices are literally black and white.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Mule Skinner Blues
    Earnhart's fundamental compassion toward his subjects elevates a riveting work that feels like a hybrid of ''Crumb'' and ''Nashville,'' with maybe a side of ''King of the Hill'' tossed on the barbecue.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Babí léto
    This wistfully charming slice-of-life comedy celebrates an elderly man defiantly thumbing his nose at old age.
  24. Shaolin Soccer
    As goofy action comedies go, Shaolin Soccer is one of the best.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Noi the Albino
    The film's comic observations are rich, droll, and more than a little sad: Everyone in this isolated community seems beaten down by life.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Goodbye Lenin!
    One of the most enjoyable movies I've seen lately, but it has a biting knowledge of that which history gives and history takes away.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hateful Eight
    This is a movie that’s 168 minutes only because Quentin Tarantino is an uncontainable Rabelasian. He believes that more is more. And sometimes it is. But a truly great craftsman knows where to locate the line.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deerskin
    This tale of a leather coat that wants to be God may not be the director’s finest work, but it’s certainly more than a fringe benefit.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Illusionist
    Illusionist is like an overupholstered wing chair in the corner of a men's club -- you settle in only to be startled by how ridiculously comfy you are.
  30. Pulse
    Where the average Japanese horror flick is petulant and nasty, Pulse is dolorous, shivery, and surreal.
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