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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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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  7. 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.
  9. 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."
  10. 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.
  12. The Dilemma
    Howard never decides on tones that complement each other, and the dissonance is jarring.
  13. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  18. Blue Valentine
    All the movie's good style goes to waste on a not terribly compelling conceit and loosely sketched characters.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Summer Wars
    In Summer Wars, it's what's old that's made to seem refreshingly new.
  20. Gulliver's Travels
    A migraine inducement that you'd think Jack Black had gotten out of his system years ago. Yet he still finds an excuse to wear a blazer and shorts and fling his bodily orb like Angus Young on Guitar Hero night at the neighborhood bar.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rabbit Hole
    Rabbit Hole is a personal project for Kidman - she produced the film after falling in love with the play - and it seems to have revived the quickness in her. That ice-blue gaze has found its focus again, and it looks deep into the one thing none of us want to face.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Legend of Pale Male
    It's notable for some astounding urban wildlife footage and for the way it unintentionally reflects the giddy narcissism of the primate known as homo sapiens.
  23. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
    Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander's dark-comic expansion on his cult Internet shorts, in which he crafts a back story for Santa that's as black as stocking coal.
  24. Somewhere
    I can't say why Coppola wanted to spend time with this man. It's like following someone on Twitter who fails to generate many compelling tweets.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All Good Things
    Jarecki's not remotely in Scorsese's league yet, but he knows New York and he has seen the dark soul of man. Maybe next time he won't blink.
  26. True Grit
    This isn't a rousing movie as much as a reassurance. The brothers (Coens) prove they can play it straight, but they're preferred, for better and worse, at a sharp angle.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Little Fockers
    Is there a statute of limitations for how many good actors can be wasted in a bad movie?
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bhutto
    People called the Bhuttos "The Kennedys of Pakistan" and, in a parallel with our losses, the Pakistanis suffered the untimely deaths of Benazir, her father, and her two brothers.
  29. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
    Not only does the movie look like it's set somewhere, it feels, cinematically, to have arrived from someplace - early John Cassavetes, the French New Wave, Eastern Europe.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The King's Speech
    The movie isn't badly done, just overdone - a cozy art-house crowd-pleaser coasting on the expectations of its genre.
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