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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Greenberg
    Noah Baumbach makes nature documentaries disguised as indie comedy-dramas.
  2. IMAX: Hubble 3D
    Is it being a spoilsport to suggest that the Hubble’s original 2-D images are a lot more stupendous than all the IMAX 3-D hurly-burly?
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Runaways
    In rock, it's about the attitude as much as the music. In some cases, more so. And the Runaways were all attitude.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    City Island
    A strident, contrived, surprisingly lovable Noo Yawk City family farce.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young Trunk Show
    The movie’s not all glorious noise.
  6. Vincere
    Setting aside, just for a moment, his general loathsomeness, there is a case to be made for a less apparent aspect of Benito Mussolini: He was once really hot.
  7. Mid-August Lunch
    The movie is a perfect blend of calm execution and uninflected farce.
  8. She's Out of My League
    While Baruchel is fun to root for and watch flail about like a pipe-cleaner in the wind, this movie encourages a sick desire in me -- to see Michael Cera and all the runners-up in the Mr. Puniverse Contest knocked down a peg by a bully with a neck the size of a tree trunk.
  9. Green Zone
    Green Zone is somewhere between a blockbuster and a tract -- a traction movie. It whizzes and bangs and sizzles as it chases the truth like a dog off its leash.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mother
    You never know where Mother is going to go next. All you know is that you're in the hands of a master with an appreciably bent sense of humor.
  11. Our Family Wedding
    The movie is made livelier by its bit players -- King, Murphy, Lupe Ontiveros as Lucia’s bigoted grandma, Anna Maria Horseford as Marcus’s grandmother, Shannyn Sossamon as one of Whitaker’s airhead girlfriends, and, best of all, Anjelah Johnson as Lucia’s car-mechanic sister.
  12. Remember Me
    The movie crassly repurposes tragedy to excuse its cliches.
  13. Children of Invention
    This is not “Death of a Salesman’’ or “Save the Tiger’’ (in the case of the latter, thank God). But how refreshing to see a movie about a mother’s struggles that doesn’t culminate in her lying on her back to make ends meet.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alice in Wonderland
    Where Burton and his screenwriter, Linda Woolverton, go astray is turning this new 3-D version - a sequel, really, about a grown Alice returning to the psychic dreamworld of her childhood - into a fantasy adventure that looks like every other CGI epic out there.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brooklyn's Finest
    What’s missing is the assurance of tone that a Lumet would provide.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Secret of Kells
    A visually overwhelming labor of love, a hand-drawn medieval adventure tale that seeks and finds cosmic connections.
  17. Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess
    For a few years, Veit Harlan must have felt he was the right filmmaker at the right place at the right time. Did he ever stop to think that his luck also meant the doom of millions? Moeller’s documentary can’t supply an answer. It does, however, make the rest of us wonder.
  18. Cop Out
    Cop Out seems aptly named. It’s not personal. It’s barely even a movie. It’s a fire hydrant that the director and his stars use for exterior shots.
  19. A Prophet
    It’s imperfect, but it’s daring, bold, and from a director who isn’t scared of anything.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Crazies
    Does what an exploitation movie should: It gets in, it scares you silly, and it gets out, all while playing fair by the audience.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Yellow Handkerchief
    The performances are what put it over -- that and the observant camera of director Udayan Prasad.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Art of the Steal
    The movie’s never less than entertaining, but you often feel like arguing with the screen, and not in a good way.
  23. Formosa Betrayed
    As a political thriller, Formosa Betrayed has enough suspense and intrigue to pull viewers along willingly. It doesn’t try too hard, which is refreshing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prodigal Sons
    There’s still enough to chew on to recommend the movie, not least the oddly touching sight of two siblings whose very identities have been altered by surgery.
  25. Shutter Island
    This is a long, heavy film, in which Scorsese’s aerobic moviemaking turns mannered and uncharacteristically passive.
  26. The Good Guy
    It’s network television drama, starring actors best known for their TV work and full of the petty gripes and mild worries of characters who really have nothing compelling to worry about.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ghost Writer
    In Polanski’s hands, it’s an unholy pleasure: a diversion that stings.
  28. Phyllis and Harold
    Phyllis and Harold is really about Phyllis and how discontent has a way of spilling, then spreading. Kleine never quite says so, but her mother’s life was a tragedy.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wolfman
    The movie is by no means good but it’s surprisingly enjoyable: a misty, moody Saturday-matinee monster-chiller-horror special.
  30. Valentine's Day
    This is many lousy movies for the price of one.
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