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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
    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.
  2. 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.
  3. Monte Carlo
    Honestly, the whole movie is from 1960-something.
  4. 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!
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  16. Bride Flight
    Bride Flight is pretty predictable once the basic situation gets established.
  17. 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Stake Land
    This doomed world may feel familiar, but Stake Land remains one of the genre's smartest entries in years.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Submarine
    Submarine has its own specific miseries and darkly funny vibe. It makes quirkiness briefly seem like a good thing again.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Trip
    What on earth is The Trip, besides hugely enjoyable?
  22. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    This is a flavorless adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater's 73-year-old children's book.
  23. Green Lantern
    The film is remarkably stunted.
  24. Beginners
    The movie is foggy with reverence and uncertainty. This is the passive work of a man nervous to touch the third rail of his parents' discontent.
  25. Nostalgia for the Light
    What starts out as a beautifully depopulated filmic exercise - it's 14 minutes into the movie before Guzman introduces any people - becomes toward the end a nearly unbearable examination of good and bad in the human heart.
  26. Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    Mosteller might be the movie's real discovery. He twists his lisp and slurry speech around the dialogue in a way that exudes far less attitude than the kids.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The First Beautiful Thing
    The First Beautiful Thing is the kind of movie - that escapes the sick room to cavort at carnivals and eat cotton candy until the inevitable relapse.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Super 8
    There's a thin line, though, between honoring what came before you and replicating it, and Super 8 occasionally wobbles over that line into predictability.
  29. The Tree of Life
    The movie is church via the planetarium. It's as if Malick set out to paint the Sistine Chapel and settled for a dome at the Museum of Natural History.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Louder Than a Bomb
    Think of it as "Glee" without music. Without a net, too.
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