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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. The Losers
    The amusement it provides is cheap, disposable, and hardly worth the number of quarters you fed into the slot in a frenzy not to go home empty-handed.
  2. Best Worst Movie
    It captures a version of our best worst selves.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Good, the Bad, the Weird
    It’s a lot of fun before it wears you out, and it wears you out sooner than it should.
  4. Oceans
    Unlike in “Winged Migration,’’ the majestic imagery fails to tell a story or advance a message.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D
    In occasional vignettes voiced over home movies and old photos, Chesney talks with humble conviction of reaching people in the cheap seats.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Death at a Funeral
    The new version is completely unnecessary and sloppier than it should be. It’s also still funny, partly thanks to smart casting in a few key roles and partly because farce this ironclad cannot be denied.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kick-Ass
    Fusing teen comedy, bad-boy raunch, Tarantino-style gonzo mayhem, and tossing in a bloodthirsty little girl vigilante who swears like Steve Buscemi in a Coen brothers movie, the film has its moments of high-flying, low-down style. It’s also nowhere near as subversive as it thinks it is.
  8. The Joneses
    It’s cute and clever to a point -- especially if you don’t know much about the film’s premise going in -- but then the cleverness runs on like the one-note punch line of an interminable “Saturday Night Live’’ sketch, sponsored by Audi.
  9. The Cartel
    Actually, everything in Bowdon’s rant about America’s woeful public school system is important, including Bowdon.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The City of Your Final Destination
    What was intended as a tart elegy for a vanished way of life becomes a valedictory to a certain kind of filmmaking: beautifully appointed, intelligently played, and civilized into inertia.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Exit Through the Gift Shop
    One of the best, most karmically satisfying comedies of the year, much to the chagrin of the people who are in it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    No One Knows About Persian Cats
    Whenever a band plays in “Persian Cats,’’ the director treats us to a fast, vibrant montage of Iranian faces and street scenes -- as if to say, look, this is who we REALLY are.
  13. The Perfect Game
    Much like a Sox starter struggling for the first couple of innings before settling down, The Perfect Game takes a while to get to the parts worth cheering.
  14. The Secret in Their Eyes
    The secret here is that the movie is rather tasteless. It has the high, slightly nauseating stink of perfume on garbage.
  15. Date Night
    Date Night manages to live down to its store-brand title.
  16. The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
    In 10 years, this movie could easily take its place among cult classics like “The Room.’’ For now, it’s better left in the bowels of a Turkish cave.
  17. Everyone Else
    Everyone Else is not about hurricanes and earthquakes and knives in the back. It's about private, emotional phenomena: the tiny tremors and imperceptible shifts that bring a couple closer together or drive them apart, almost without their noticing.
  18. The Square
    The surprise here is how thrillingly bad things get.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    When You're Strange
    The man inside that legend has yet to come into focus 40 years on. Morrison wanted the world and he wanted it now, and he got it. What When You’re Strange can’t admit is that he had no idea what to do next.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Women Without Men
    Shirin Neshat's film, a magical-realist cry from the heart, is as up-to-date as last year's pro-democracy protests.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    It Came from Kuchar
    The movie makes the case that the best American filmmakers may be the uncelebrated ones who helplessly turn life into art simply as a means to get out of bed every day.
  22. The Misfortunates
    The movie has to twist your arm to get you to feel for these people. But you wouldn’t be wrong to think it’s been broken.
  23. Don McKay
    The only person in Don McKay having a better time than Shue is Melissa Leo, who plays Sonny’s insinuating housemate. She’s too much by half, in an Agnes Moorehead sort of way.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Greatest
    The filmmaker’s uncertainty shows itself in drably functional camerawork and an over-reliance on Christophe Beck’s tasteful piano-and-violin score.
  25. Why Did I Get Married Too?
    If Perry’s cinematic vision remains less than 20/20, his sagacity gets stronger by the movie.
  26. Warlords
    It’s all lavish, if disposable. But in a nifty change of pace, the warriors in The Warlords are interesting.
  27. Breaking Upwards
    The film gets stronger and more involving as the drama gets heavier and the couple’s rift grows.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Clash of the Titans
    The results are -- there’s no other word for it -- a disaster.
  29. The Last Song
    A more convincing star could make this a degree more tolerable, although in Cyrus’s defense not much more.
  30. The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom
    While never heavy-handed about its politics, the film makes no effort to disguise its strong anti-Chinese bias.
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