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For 7,945 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: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Puss in Boots
    The movie has a devilish wit that works for parent and child alike, and it moves like a bobsled. It's funny and fun, and if it's not up to Pixar level, it still represents the best of what the competition has to offer.
  2. The Skin I Live In
    The Skin I Live in is Almodóvar reaching back to his sickest, kinkiest self, and it's nice to see him trying to luxuriate in sleaze again.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
    Inventive and enjoyable but ultimately shallow.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Norman
    Norman gets most of its punch from two terrific performances.
  5. Anonymous
    The moviemaking is proficient, if unremarkable. I like the idea of an Elizabethan action movie apparently more than I enjoy watching one.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Puncture
    This story of how corporate interests collude against the common good is surely worthy. But you might ask if the facts of the case might have made a better documentary, not a drama.
  7. In Time
    The movie tries to do for forearms what the loosely similar science-fiction romance "The Adjustment Bureau'' attempted for men's hats: make them chic.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rum Diary
    The Rum Diary has been retroactively Hunter S. Thompson-ized. And not for the better.
  9. The Mill and the Cross
    The Mill and the Cross captures the wish that some of us have had while standing in front of a great painting. What hangs before us is so striking, beautiful, strange, vast, horrifying, ethereal, lifelike - so alive - that we're desperate to enter the other side of the canvas, to be inside the painting.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Take Shelter
    Take Shelter plays Curtis's unraveling at daring length. The film will be too slow and dark for some, and it's definitely overlong.
  11. Margin Call
    In the case of Jeremy Irons playing the aloof English billionaire who owns the bank, that's dinner theater. But it's of the highest caliber.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Mighty Macs
    The Mighty Macs sticks so closely to the underdog-sports-movie playbook that it's practically generic.
  13. Johnny English Reborn
    After a fast, funny start, the new sequel, Johnny English Reborn, proves to be more of the same.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paranormal Activity 3
    Co-directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman cut their teeth on 2010's glib social-media mystery "Catfish,'' and since they're clever boys, they make the most of the series' new toy. Otherwise, Paranormal Activity 3 is almost identical to, and just as eerily effective as, the first two films in its alternation of cheesy "boo!'' tactics and genuine scares.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Woman on the 6th Floor
    The Women on the 6th Floor is delicate and sensitive and utter bollocks - a bourgeois wet dream made to soothe the souls and stir the loins of powerful men in midlife crisis. But some of us wish we could see this movie told from the maids' point of view.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Toast
    I could pile on the cooking metaphors until you cried "uncle," but the fact remains that there's a very good movie in here that its makers have failed to bring off.
  17. Weekend
    One of the truest, most beautiful movies ever made about two strangers.
  18. Trespass
    One of those movies that an audience knows is terrible the minute it starts.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blackthorn
    Blackthorn is less interested in realism than in elegy, and in bringing this American folk hero in line with the Latin American places and people with whom he ended his days. Given a choice between the legend and the facts, Gil and Barros make up a new legend - and then gild it with light.
  20. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    Really, all Six is going for, with the generous application of both hardware supplies to the skin and feces to the camera, is a tired commentary on his shallow talents: They're excremental.
  21. The Thing
    The basic story is identical, and when there are fraught, climactic opportunities for the movie to make a gutsy departure, it passes up the chance.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Year
    If anything, The Big Year plays like Ron Howard's "Parenthood'' with birds instead of children.
  23. Footloose
    This remake does something less organically fun. It makes kids nostalgic for something they never experienced.
  24. 3
    It's a funny, fearless, suspenseful sex comedy that, in drawing on science and philosophy and art and death, risks accusations of pretentiousness. But, even in its romantic idealism, the movie proceeds according to recognizable rhythms of how some people live.
  25. Margaret
    Who knows what movie Lonergan was searching for in all that footage? But what emerges from the tinkering and legal skirmishes is an occasional marvel, a kind of everyday highbrow social X-ray, Paul Mazursky by way of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Curling
    A bleakly allusive look at frozen lives, Curling is very much a specialty item - a movie that goes nowhere slowly.
  27. Littlerock
    They're not looking to say anything grand. What they do say - and what we see - is smart and true.
  28. Real Steel
    The movie is corny enough to remind you that boxing rings are square.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mozart's Sister
    It's a lovely dream that, in the end, feels too dreamlike. The director coaxes an intentionally passive performance from his daughter Marie, so that Nannerl's eventual waking to cold patriarchal reality doesn't sting as it might.
  30. Love Crime
    This is a ridiculous movie - a thriller so indifferent to suspense, so above mystery that one character literally stabs another in the front.
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