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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Lions
    The film is an astonishing visual experience and at times almost profoundly suspenseful.
  2. Kaboom
    Kaboom lets Araki play with carnality as opposed to cautioning against it.
  3. Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia)
    An ambitious mix of politics, religion, art, and human drama.
  4. Poetry
    This is a movie whose power comes from the alignment both of Mija's discovery with ours and of a tremendous writer and director with his star.
  5. Beastly
    The characterization couldn't be more flagrant if the soundtrack creaked out an oldie by a certain ancient pop quintet: You're a candy girl.
  6. The Adjustment Bureau
    Whether this movie works for you largely depends on whether you're willing to work for it. To which I say: Bring your gym clothes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rango
    You can feel the actors tossing energy, one-liners, and limbs off each other with gusto.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Take Me Home Tonight
    Completely unoriginal, sure, but watchable and even likable.
  9. Drive Angry 3D
    Drive Angry is something new for Cage - a movie that feels like it's straight FROM cable.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Somewhat Gentle Man
    For a passive-depressive Norwegian crime drama with not a lot in the way of plot, A Somewhat Gentle Man has a charmingly fluky sense of humor.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Grace Card
    More drama than tract, it's a low-budget Christian indie that just clears the runway on the sincerity of its performances and inclusiveness of its message.
  12. Hall Pass
    Hall Pass is the brothers' 10th movie, and their most gangbusters since "Me, Myself & Irene."
  13. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
    Fresh or not, creatively merited or not, here it comes: the third installment of Martin Lawrence's big, dopey franchise.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Housemaid
    Gorgeously shot (by Lee Hyung Duk) and well worth seeing for Jeon's deceptively simple performance. Unlike its heroine, though, it gets away without a scratch.
  15. Cedar Rapids
    The movie shouldn't work, yet it does.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Am Number Four
    A well-made, reasonably diverting night at the multiplex that will seem overly familiar to everyone except teenage girls.
  17. Unknown
    Neeson is much better suited to the loneliness and self-doubt of Martin's crisis than he was for the thuggery of the previous movie.
  18. The Strange Case of Angelica
    "Angélica" feels most like the film that argues Oliveira is this close to the beyond without ever bothering to knock first at death's door.
  19. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    The movie usefully, carefully, and cogently argues that Bieber is more than his hair. He is his hoodies. He is his pop-hooks. He is his many handlers.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gnomeo and Juliet
    It has its own bizarre charms and a breezy confidence that renders it the very definition of a simple pleasure.
  21. The Eagle
    Part of the trouble is casting. This is a movie that needs a great or gonzo performer to give it depth or heft.
  22. Just Go with It
    Seeing her (Kidman) in junk like this is a bit like watching the Queen of England eat a Taco Bell chalupa.
  23. The Roommate
    It's the latest in the blank-from-hell genre, in which misogyny and entertainment are made to seem indistinguishable while the blank makes life hell for someone who then is cornered into striking back.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Barney's Version
    A smart, well-acted two hours at the art house, full of witty observations and fellow feeling. But, really, it has no business being a movie.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
    A breezily stylized, very enjoyable trot through the writer's life, theme by theme, era by era.
  26. Undertow
    Like most films about gay men, Undertow can't envision a normal life of couplehood. But Fuentes-Léon works in a blithe and breezy magic-realist manner that fends off attendant feelings of depression.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sanctum
    A muscular Australian B-movie down to the thin characters and boilerplate dialogue.
  28. Biutiful
    The movie wails in pain. And it's that sort of grand empathy that makes Iñárritu both impossible to dismiss and impossible to live with.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
    A fascinating shambles of a documentary - fascinating because its subject is so influential and so deranged, a shambles because its filmmaker can't decide which approach to take and so takes all of them.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Illusionist
    A handcrafted jewel of a movie, The Illusionist understands the illusions that sustain us in youth and that we have to let slip in the end. It's the rare work of art that cherishes both the magic and the trick.
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