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For 7,949 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 0.9 points 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 7949
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7949
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7949
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wolfpack
    The movie only looks like a coming-of-age freak show from the outside; in reality, it’s unexpected proof that flowers can grow even in a prison.
  2. Meru
    Much of Meru is about that second attempt, filmed with such grandeur and intimacy that sometimes attempting to figure out how they made the incredible shots almost spoils them.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Victoria
    It’s a showcase for an actress who wins us over by degrees and a reminder that there are no new stories — only fresh ways of telling them.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snowden
    As always, it’s a good idea to do your homework before or after seeing an Oliver Stone movie. You may come out convinced of his point of view and still feel hustled by how he got you there.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lady in the Van
    The Lady in the Van ultimately presents a number of facts that would seem to “solve” Mary Shepherd. I’d like to think Smith knows better than that. In her hands, the lady in the van remains complex and unknowable — a mystery to the end. And that, friends, is acting.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Free State of Jones
    The result is rather a mess, but it’s an honorable one, and very much worth wrestling with.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trumbo
    Cranston’s performance is the motor that runs Trumbo, and that motor never idles, never flags in momentum or magnetism or idealistic scorn. At its entertaining worst, the movie’s a high-spirited game of Hollywood dress-up.
  8. Experimenter
    Despite this labyrinthine self-consciousness, the film, like its subject, keeps careful note of dates and places.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Founder
    The Founder is a solid, smart, worthwhile film and the only remaining mystery is why the Weinstein Company is burying it with a quiet January release rather than pushing its much-loved star into the awards race with the usual fanfare.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Suffragette
    The movie, which is both formulaic and powerful, dramatizes a paradigm shift that has been largely smoothed over by history (which is hardly the same as saying all the battles have been won).
  11. Eddie the Eagle
    Inspiring, or amusing? Appealingly, Eddie the Eagle invites both tags.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lambert & Stamp
    A documentary lovingly and somewhat shambolically directed by James D. Cooper, gives the duo their due and in so doing opens up a singular view on an era, its energy, and its excesses. For fans, it’s a must-see; for others, a slightly overlong tour of a seminal pop explosion and the men who made it.
  13. Dior and I
    So despite Tcheng's effort to add a metaphysical layer to the film, it pretty much repeats the narrative seen in many other documentaries about the fashion world, from Wim Wenders's “Notebook on Cities and Clothes” (1989), to “Unzipped” (1995), to “Valentino: The Last Emperor” (2008).
  14. The Gift
    In addition to directing outstanding performances, Edgerton also suggests psychological processes by means of space, architecture, and décor, exploiting the walls, doorways, windows, and mirrors of the new house to indicate the status of a relationship or self-image.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Live From New York!
    There’s no backstage dirt, then — for that, pick up the 2002 “uncensored history” written by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller — but there is an honest appraisal of the show’s peaks and valleys over the years.
  16. Black Souls
    Related with stolid majesty, with long shots of brooding landscapes and close-ups of opaque faces, the film provides poor preparation for the subversion of genre conventions to follow.
  17. All Things Must Pass
    Lively and loving documentary.
  18. The LEGO Batman Movie
    The movie is sufficiently in touch with current comic books that it’s keen to explore Batman’s psychology — breezily, but still.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
    There is a surprise waiting in Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten, a labor of love that Pirozzi painstakingly assembled over a span of close to a decade, although the story it tells holds no mystery.
  20. Storks
    The result is a story that’s awfully scattered thematically, but one with such inventive wit and screwball-quick pacing that issues like spongy motivation hardly seem to matter.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Made
    American Made really does deserve to be on a double-bill with “Top Gun,” and I’m betting Cruise knows it. The first film embodies the glorious shallowness of the Reagan Era. The second wallows in that shallowness while hinting at everything it cost.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dark Star: HR Giger's World
    The film captures both the claustrophobic and melancholic mood of Giger’s house, and also, perhaps, his mind.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    He Named Me Malala
    We may someday look back on He Named Me Malala as a film that told us much about a future world leader — or one that told us surprisingly little.
  24. The Fate of the Furious
    Polar chaos notwithstanding, “Fate” delivers action with more consistent visual precision than in the last couple of films, as newly enlisted director F. Gary Gray accesses the flair he brought to 2003’s “The Italian Job.”
  25. The Farewell Party
    A bittersweet, wryly comic, keenly observed look at senescence.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hitchcock/Truffaut
    It’s largely successful, if by nature all over the map.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Shadow of Women
    In the Shadow of Women, a portrait of a troubled French marriage, has the simplicity and subtle punch of a good short story.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Assassin
    The Assassin achieves a pitch of the cinematic sublime of which very few filmmakers are capable, but it doesn’t make much traditional sense. Hou could do that, if he wants, but he’s after more rarefied game.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dheepan
    The quiet strength of Dheepan is how it shows these lives — the people in our midst we never see — rolling on forever, adapting, struggling, and finding their way.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rams
    If you can adjust to its rhythms, which move according to the seasons and to long-held family grudges, you’ll find it quietly funny, sometimes quite sad, and ultimately rather profound. If you can’t, you’ll be left in the cold with the sheep.
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