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For 7,964 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    Rise is very consciously a drama about a Simian Spring, and it's close enough in its details to a recent documentary to be thought of as "Project Nim: The Revenge."
  2. A Little Help
    It's not that Jenna Fischer is miscast in A Little Help. It's that she's mis-everything else: misused, misdirected, misanthropic.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Smurfs
    The bottom line: Any movie that gives Jonathan Winters work is doing something right.
  4. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
    The problem is that the heart of the movie is McGowan. He's just not a very compelling figure. He's a bit doughy and inert.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Another Earth
    Another Earth is being sold as an indie sci-fi drama, but that does both the movie and its proper audience a disservice. This muted story of atonement, forgiveness, and parallel universes is more of an extended metaphor - a work of earnest poetry rather than science.
  6. Love Etc.
    In an age in which it feels as if seemingly pure intimacy no longer exists, this film thrives on nothing but intimate moments.
  7. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    The fun is in watching these robustly generic people trip over and pinball off of each other, seeing them eddy around Carell, who as the straight man here is getting dangerously close to Greg Kinnear's territory - where comedy is too self-serious to laugh at.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cowboys & Aliens
    A hell-for-leather action film with a healthy serving of scares. It really is "Aliens" on the open plains, "Independence Day" for the nation's centennial, and what the movie lacks in originality and stick-to-your-ribs Western authenticity, it makes up for in pell-mell multiplex entertainment.
  9. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    It's hard to tell whether this is a tribute to female solidarity or a lamentation.
  10. The Tree
    This is an easy movie to watch. If only Julie Bertuccelli had more trust in her most interesting stuff.
  11. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    On the one hand, welcome to the music business. On the other, if A Tribe Called Quest can't stay together who can? It's a worry that eventually gets at the eccentricity of both the music and the movie.
  12. The Arbor
    An innovative hybrid of documentary, staged reading, fictional feature, and confessional, The Arbor defies categorization not merely for art's sake - although its artistry is without question - but because conventional forms seem inadequate for such a harrowing story.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Friends with Benefits
    That it works like a charm - that it mostly keeps its manic energy in check, and that it plays to chick-flick formulas without ever groveling - is due almost entirely to the leads.
  14. Captain America: The First Avenger
    This is what the ongoing onslaught of comic book movies lacks: stars. Real stars. Robert Downey Jr. is the exception when he should be the rule. It's possible we take these movies for granted because the marketing tells us we should.
  15. Vincent Wants to Sea
    This is a bright, broad, silly, harmless movie whose sweetness is a means to an end.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Terri
    The movie struggles to find its shape throughout. Jacobs favors observational moments rather than linear narrative, and that's fine, but you still sense he's drifting toward a point that never quite coheres.
  17. Septien
    A microscopic piece of shoestring weirdness-slash-hipster regionalism that the actor Robert Longstreet delivers into some odder, funkier, altogether mysterious place. I don't know what he's doing or what he's going for. But unlike the rest of the movie, his bizarreness seems authentic rather than forced or put on.
  18. A Better Life
    This isn't a case of a liberal-minded movie inflicting goodness upon a character but a man radiating goodness because, well, he is good.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tabloid
    It's a guaranteed good time at the movies.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Project Nim
    An engrossing and enraging drama of one chimpanzee and his life's journey across a landscape of human folly.
  21. Winnie the Pooh
    Zooey Deschanel shows off her singing on a couple of generically pleasant soundtrack ditties.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    A fitting, expertly made final chapter, freighted with hard-won emotions, shot through with a sense of farewell, and fully aware of the epic stakes involved.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Viva Riva!
    Writer-director Djo Tunda Wa Munga deplores the corruption, gunplay, and oversexed misogyny plaguing his country - and he's going to show you as much of it as possible before the end credits roll.
  24. Just Like Us
    The idea that self-mockery makes people relax is tricky. One man's disarmament is another's minstrelsy, and the fine line is well worth another documentary.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ironclad
    As history it's bunk; as inappropriate historical fiction, it's awfully close to comedy.
  26. The Ward
    Even by the standards of mental-institution-movie misogyny, what an accidental but predictable creepshow this is.
  27. Zookeeper
    As for other voices, the most notable are Adam Sandler, whose capuchin monkey wears out his welcome pretty quickly; Maya Rudolph, whose jivey giraffe comes perilously close to aural blackface; and Nick Nolte's gorilla.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Horrible Bosses
    I say kill off everybody else and bring back Farrell for the sequel.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trollhunter
    What Trollhunter isn't is particularly scary, but in its defense, it's not trying to be.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
    A fond, uncomplicated love letter to two irrepressible good-time Charlottes.
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