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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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  1. Bolt
    This stuff is clever, in the reflexively satirical, self-aware way that many animated films are. It's not until the dog is accidentally shipped off to New York City that the movie lets you in on an altogether more interesting idea: It doesn't want to be that cool.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In Search of Mozart
    Most of the color and zest among the movie's many talking heads comes from the refreshingly irreverent opera director Jonathan Miller.
  3. The Well Digger's Daughter
    Say this for Auteuil: He has a sense of movie history. The closing credits include the equivalent of an Easter egg for lovers of film and especially for lovers of French film.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    T2 Trainspotting
    T2 Trainspotting wears out its welcome slowly, like a group of old men running out of stories to tell in an afternoon pub.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is the End
    [A] crass, patchy, often shamelessly funny farce.
  6. My Old School
    Cumming’s performance, or presentation, is at once casual and assured, which makes it all the more compelling.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Door in the Floor
    A stunningly well-acted drama for grown-ups.
  8. Sound of My Voice
    It's as much a satire as a mystery, a film as much about art as it is about faith.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    It Came from Kuchar
    The movie makes the case that the best American filmmakers may be the uncelebrated ones who helplessly turn life into art simply as a means to get out of bed every day.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Fatal Attraction
    Adrian Lyne pulls out more manipulative nonsense than Machiavelli ever thought of. Lyne stops at nothing to provoke artificial sentimental feelings from the audience. Like the movie itself, the audience's reaction is only skin deep. [18 Sep 1987, p.58]
    • Boston Globe
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steel City
    Steel City may be the only movie released this year that's so observant you can hear what the characters AREN'T saying.
  12. Mondovino
    The movie feels incomplete and uncentered. It's like a grand magazine profile that's all reportage and absolutely no prose.
  13. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    Only loosely concerned with behind-the-scenes gossip and is squarely focused on the nature of Fellini's insatiability.
  14. Stir of Echoes
    Needs less down-to-earth flavor and more unearthly force.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fahrenheit 9/11
    One last thought: Fahrenheit 9/11 is many things, but for pity's sake let's not call it a documentary.
  16. Die Hard 2
    It's not quite as jolting as the high-impact original, but it's got enough explosiveness to blow away the other sequels in this summer's parade of high-body-count blockbusters. [4 July 1990, p.29]
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  17. Blaze
    If Blaze is a bit mushy, it's also more than skin deep. It's the kind of film whose shortcomings are easy to minimize. It's a muted last hurrah for a departed and worthy brand of populism, but a hurrah all the same. [13 Dec 1989, p.66P]
    • Boston Globe
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Wall
    Bleak and beautiful, harrowing yet also curiously stirring, The Wall (“Die Wand”) is a stunning tale of isolation and survival that unfolds in a wild and silent world.
  19. The China Hustle
    At a time when financial regulations have been gutted, stock market indexes reel, and trade wars threaten, Jed Rothstein’s slick and revealing documentary The China Hustle should only add to the anxiety and gloom.
  20. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
    There are unexpected things in “Magician,” such as Puck’s presence. Welles’s first screen test, from 1937, and an appearance on “I Love Lucy” are others. But even the expected things, such as the numerous Welles clips, are consistently unexpected.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Halloween
    As franchise reboots go, the new Halloween is top shelf. Jamie Lee Curtis returns with a vengeance to the role of Laurie Strode.
  22. Synecdoche, New York
    I can't pretend to know fully what Charlie Kaufman is up to in Synecdoche, New York, with all the doubled characters, dreamy reenactments, comical minutiae, and personal unhappiness. But I got a great deal of pleasure out of watching him mount his fantasia about an artist suffering not simply for his art, but because of it.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Edge of Seventeen
    More than any other teen movie of recent memory, Edge of Seventeen captures the uncertainty, awkwardness, and pains of adolescence, further complicated when grappling with questions of sexual identity. [02 Jul 1999]
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  24. Charlie Wilson's War
    Is, in its way, an apolitical comedy about politics. Or at least a naïve one, since those weapons likely eventually made their way into the hands of Al Qaeda.
  25. Alive Inside
    Unfortunately, though, Rossato-Bennett and Cohen seem to think that the technique is a panacea. In fact, it is not even original, as music therapy in nursing homes has been around for some time.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    This adaptation feels like a soap opera made by someone who has seen too much late-stage Woody Allen and flounders with the self-importance of a director unable to read either text or city.
  27. The Little Stranger
    Wilson gives a performance that in its own way is as striking as Gleeson’s.
  28. Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
    The whole thing ends with an urgent plea to visit the movie's site, which is partially devoted to The Issues, which involve such topics as "overmedication," "overtreatment," and "reimbursement."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Armstrong Lie
    The Armstrong Lie is one for the time capsule, because it preserves for future generations a very particular modern response to scandal: confession without remorse.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ambassador
    A sociopolitical prankumentary in which the prank blows up in the filmmaker's face, exploding-cigar style.
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