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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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    • 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.
  3. 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.
  6. 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.
  8. The Ward
    Even by the standards of mental-institution-movie misogyny, what an accidental but predictable creepshow this is.
  9. 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
    As eye-opening as this movie is, the real story is outside the Times building, in the browser windows and iPads of me and you and everyone we know.
  14. Larry Crowne
    Larry Crowne isn't a movie for adults. It's a movie for adults who don't like things with screens and keyboards.
  15. Monte Carlo
    Honestly, the whole movie is from 1960-something.
  16. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    He concocts a climactic war that flattens downtown Chicago. Bay is such a little boy's director. You know he picked that city because it's the one with the best rock-'em-sock-'em street names. Wacker! Wabash!
  17. Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?
    The first step in getting beyond preaching to the converted is letting the other side show how wrong it might be.
  18. The Last Mountain
    The Last Mountain is that sort of movie, the sort that sends a Kennedy into the West Virginia wilderness to press for change. It's sincere. It's misguided. It feels like a stunt.
  19. Armadillo
    Metz is another artist more interested in war's side effects than combat itself, although he and his crew are embedded for battle.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
    The movie clips are luscious, as you'd expect, and Cardiff's own "home movies," shot on various movie sets with a 16mm camera, catch the gods during downtime.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Buck
    The man's mythology precedes him, and it's the movie's failing that we don't understand how or whether he uses that mythology because he knows it's good business.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    Too much of the show, though, feels like frenetic movement for its own sake, as though Conan were one of those cartoon characters who runs off a cliff and stays in the air through the ceaseless pumping of his legs.
  23. Cars 2
    This is an action movie that nods to Hayao Miyazaki and those sleeky dumb European chase thrillers with guys like Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson.
  24. Bad Teacher
    You don't want to think, what would Preston Sturges or Alexander Payne do with this material? But there is a seed of satirical cynicism in this movie that a smart, clear mind could have finessed. Jake Kasdan is not that director. He doesn't appear to know what to do.
  25. Beautiful Boy
    There's just very little in Beautiful Boy that feels fresh or new or truly raw. The houses, that title, every emotion, even the false moves: They're all generic.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Art of Getting By
    If the director had brought any toughness of perspective - or at least the self-lacerating humor of 2002's "Igby Goes Down,'' still the reigning champ of screwed-up-Manhattan-prepster films - we might be able to digest George's follies without cringing.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mia and the Migoo
    Where Mia and the Migoo triumphs is in the art department alone, with rich brown charcoal outlines, majestic pastel washes that give depth to the landscapes, and riotous colors that are more vivid than the story line.
  28. Bride Flight
    Bride Flight is pretty predictable once the basic situation gets established.
  29. Jig
    Jig is involving, if at times overly slick.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    !Women Art Revolution
    It's affecting, and the tone, which is polemical, is also rueful and realistic.
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