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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Potiche
    What the movie utterly fails to resolve is what François Ozon is up to here and where he's going next.
  2. The Elephant in the Living Room
    The movie effectively rids you of any notion that owning a cougar or a python is a good idea.
  3. Bill Cunningham New York
    It's as much a portrait of a kind of artist as it is a document of a city's evolving sense of style.
  4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    As Apichatpong erases, once again, the barriers between the celestial and terrestrial, he also does away with the cordons between film genres - this is sci-firomancefamilyreligiousthrillercomedyporn. No video service has a section for that. The only suitable shelf is the one in your soul.
  5. My Perestroika
    Offers a surprising and revealing look at Russia's past and present.
  6. Born to Be Wild
    Ironically, Born to Be Wild banks solely on its tameness to captivate and inspire, aided by an upbeat, sometimes incongruous soundtrack.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Your Highness
    The most painful movie so far in a year that's already scraping the bottom of the barrel, Your Highness is a tedious, dung-colored misfire that sullies the genre of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "The Princess Bride."
  8. Soul Surfer
    The best moments come when Robb's all-purpose toughness experiences vulnerable doubt. These moments are flickers, but they're bright and human.
  9. Arthur
    The new remake of Arthur is a thin copy of the 1981 original. But it has a few things going for it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hanna
    It rockets along entertainingly enough for most of its running time - only that it's made with a self-importance the story itself doesn't warrant.
  11. I Am
    Shadyac doesn't film how his change inspires more change, or showing him, say, starting a school for destitute orphans. All we see him give is this movie. It's not much of a contribution.
  12. Happythankyoumoreplease
    The movie is generic and shallow in its glimpse of the love and sex lives of a handful of young New Yorkers.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    When We Leave
    As powerful as the movie is, it stays on the outside of a culture looking in.
  14. Miral
    Miral feels like gastric bypass moviemaking. It's a miniseries awkwardly stuffed in the body of a two-hour drama about the Palestinians' long struggle against the Israelis.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Super
    Smart, sick, and subversive, Super gives you what you want only to make you wonder why you want it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Music Never Stopped
    A drably directed yet terrifically affecting drama about family bonds, classic rock, and the human brain. It's sentimental, yet so honest and eccentric that it rises above schmaltz.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cold Weather
    This is a slacker detective story, emphasis on the slack, and if you can downshift into its loping rhythms, it's pretty wonderful.
  18. Certified Copy
    You can see her (Binoche) effect on Kiarostami's filmmaking: She brings out something new in him, too.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Insidious
    The crazy train of Insidious runs fully off the rails when the filmmakers go logical and some of the strange gets explained away as a double shot of demonic possession and astral projection.
  20. Hop
    Hop may have taken years to design and animate, but it feels as if minutes were required to compose it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Source Code
    I'm still not sure what "source code" means here. I suspect the actors, the director, and the screenwriter haven't a clue either. But the thing keeps you watching.
  22. Strongman
    By the end, you don't entirely understand either of these people, but you come to understand why they need each other.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sucker Punch
    It's a surprisingly joyless mash-up of every bit of fanboy flotsam floating around in its maker's cranium.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Irish Drinkers
    All the good intentions in the world can't save White Irish Drinkers from playing like the baldest of retreads.
  25. Orgasm Inc.
    Canner is either overwhelmed by so much impressive access to so many alarming business opportunities or lacking the investigative rigor to drive home the moral problems of these drugs and the existential problems of these women.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monogamy
    Monogamy sets up a nifty idea that it doesn't follow through.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Win Win
    Confident enough to simply go with the exotica of average middle-class Americans who are well-intentioned, flawed, and dog-paddling like crazy to keep their heads above water. There's nothing at all unusual about them, and that's unusual.
  28. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    Credit Bowers and company, finally, for making some good calls about where to follow the leads furnished to them by the book and the first movie, and where to get creative.
  29. I Saw the Devil
    But that ending is a whopper all the same: a heartless blast of tragedy, exploitation, amusement, and general flagrance.
  30. Kill the Irishman
    The best thing about the picture (unless you like exploding cars, in which case the rest of the movie is just so many interruptions between getting to see all these big old '70s boats going boom) is its proudly hammy supporting cast.
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