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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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    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Way
    The Way is a good, cheap vacation. At times, you wonder if Estevez isn't creating a cracked therapeutic remake of "The Wizard of Oz.'' He's got the nerve and the heart, all right. I'm less sure about the brains.
  2. 1911
    It swoops, it pans, it noses around. The camerawork is almost as agitated as the editing. The directors seem to be trying to compensate for all the speechifying with as much random motion as possible.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ides of March
    The filmmaking is shallow but assured, the star charisma thoughtful but undimmed. As for the character, I'd vote for Mike Morris. Actually, I wish I could.
  4. Courageous
    For all Kendrick's stolidity, he delivers a couple of wrenchingly tender scenes.
  5. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
    It's an imperfect but ambitious film willing to confront an enormous, complex period in this country.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tucker & Dale vs Evil
    It's fast, it's funny, and it works.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Machine Gun Preacher
    Machine Gun Preacher is crude and ham-handed from its ridiculous title on down, but it still gets to some interesting places.
  8. Bunraku
    If Bunraku were serious about subverting or reinventing the genres it's cobbled together, Moore would play the gunslinger or the samurai or the crime boss. But no. All she gets are a couple of scenes that demonstrate that she still looks great soaking wet.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Restless
    A torpidly precious love story about death-obsessed adolescents, the film's becalmed and embalmed in its own sensitive self-pity.
  10. What's Your Number?
    It's that awkward, tedious monster mash of "chick flick'' and romantic comedy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    50/50
    Kendrick gives a truly bad performance here - she's a self-conscious actress playing a self-conscious person and getting her signals all mixed up - and it's unclear whether she has been hung out to dry by her director or if it's just that the character makes no sense whatsoever.
  12. Happy, Happy
    The movie attempts to both explain everything away and pat itself (and Norway) on the back once we see Noa watching President Obama deliver his Nobel Prize speech.
  13. Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
    It's slambang in pacing, bald in exposition, and offers cast-of-hundreds spectacle.
  14. My Afternoons with Margueritte
    The film isn't about the actor's intelligence. It's about his emotional radiance.
  15. Killer Elite
    Killer Elite is based on a true story and about a half-dozen Jason Statham movies.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dolphin Tale
    The dolphin is, quite simply, remarkable, and the unstated message of resilience and adaptation ripples easily off the screen to the smallest viewers.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Moneyball
    Moneyball is a hilarious and provocative change-up, entertaining without feeling the need to swing for the fences.
  18. Farmageddon
    The one-sidedness of Farmageddon isn't just an artistic failing. It's an argumentative failing, too.
  19. Rapt
    Rapt is smooth, cool, and efficient. It's a movie with very little wasted motion - or, for much of its length, wasted emotion.
  20. Gun Hill Road
    This is the first movie to make me equate coming home from prison with coming home from war.
  21. The Interrupters
    The immediacy and caprice of violence in The Interrupters are just as strong as in nearly every documentary I've seen about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  22. Straw Dogs
    It's a crude, queasy, ugly remake of a crude, queasy, ugly, yet artistically superior 40-year-old Sam Peckinpah movie.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    I Don't Know How She Does It
    Occasionally veers so far into absurdity that it manages to make its central character - capable, smart, working mom Kate Reddy - look like a nitwit.
  24. Drive
    The movie has you from its nearly wordless opening sequence.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Creature
    Deep in the swampy hearts and minds of some filmmakers, embarrassing stereotypes still fester, gathering moss and slime.
  26. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
    Never thought we'd say this about a movie, but Bucky Larson probably doesn't wring as much out of recurring bodily-fluid gags as it could.
  27. Mr. Nice
    There's too much narration and too many drug-movie cliches.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Higher Ground
    The end result's a muddle and a good argument for why actors shouldn't direct themselves first time out. Farmiga's a generous and observant performer, but she lacks a shaping hand, not to mention the ruthlessness that's probably a necessity for any director.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Circumstance
    A rhapsodic erotic romance that takes place in a cultural prison, and it pulses with a defiance that would be mischievous if it weren't so rip-roaringly angry.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bellflower
    Hardly a consistent piece of work, but even when it falls apart toward the end in a mess of bad acting and amazingly youthful pretentiousness, you may find it hard to look away. Handmade and helpless, it's nevertheless the real deal, an artful blurt of sensitivity and rage.
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