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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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  1. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rite
    The movie's primary pleasure is Hopkins, who manages to take the role of Father Lucas seriously without being serious about it at all.
  14. The Mechanic
    An intermittently arresting, mostly standard action entry that deals death noisily more than cleverly - a lot like the original.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shoah (re-release)
    Why revisit Shoah 25 years after it was first released? Because it matters more a quarter century on, just as it will matter even more in a hundred years, and 200, and - if it and we survive - a thousand.
  16. Nénette
    The movie isn't a critique of zoo life. But it's possible we have on our hands, in Nénette's captivity, a microcosm of celebrity star-gazing.
  17. Another Year
    Like "Life Is Sweet," "Secrets & Lies," and yes, 1971's "Bleak Moments," to name but three of Leigh's 10 semi-improvised character studies, Another Year is another frowning comedy.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Way Back
    It's earnest and well-acted and sturdily filmed: We're in good hands and we know it.
  19. No Strings Attached
    The film is also packed with enough sharply scripted screwiness from Adam's roommate (Jake Johnson), Emma's roomie (Greta Gerwig), and others to keep viewer impatience to a minimum.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Company Men
    The result is, like its characters, a good and decent film in a world that rather heartlessly demands more.
  21. Johnny Mad Dog
    Basically, talented French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire has too much style on his hands. His film isn't as amorally grandiose as "City of God." Nor does it achieve the hulking tragedy of "Gomorrah."
  22. My Dog Tulip
    Many of the backgrounds look like watercolors that are either drying or dying.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Leaving
    The only reason to see Leaving - and it's not a bad reason at all - is for the sight of Kristin Scott Thomas in a rare happy mood.
  24. The Dilemma
    Howard never decides on tones that complement each other, and the dissonance is jarring.
  25. And Everything Is Going Fine
    While the words belong to the storyteller, the story in And Everything Is Going Fine appears to be telling itself.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Green Hornet
    It's off-putting, rude, misshapen, and more often than not hysterically funny. The second half, sadly, is an ear-splitting train wreck.
  27. Season of the Witch
    After a while, the movie tires of the witch business and trots out a plot twist that permits the effects department to spend money. Some moviegoers might find the bait-and-switch funny.
  28. Country Strong
    Paltrow makes the part look natural. She's not impersonating an actual singer, so she seems merely like a twangy, alcoholic version of herself. She should be stopped from dancing in enormous arenas, but her thin voice is rather pretty.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casino Jack
    Glib, fast-paced entertainment that barely leaves a mark - which, given the subject, is just plain wrong.
  30. Blue Valentine
    All the movie's good style goes to waste on a not terribly compelling conceit and loosely sketched characters.
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