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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
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsoon
    A delicate, observant, and rather too quiescent drama of coming home to a strange land, Monsoon is an interesting change of pace for star Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians”) and another musing on diaspora by the Cambodia-born British filmmaker Hong Khaou.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Climb
    As The Climb wends its way through the years, and as the friends’ relationships with each other and their girlfriends and families take multiple turns, each “chapter” is presented in smartly thought-out single takes. Except when they’re not; it’s a tough gimmick to sustain and the filmmakers don’t seem too intent on trying.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hillbilly Elegy
    Worse, by neutering the specifics of where these people live and come from, Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy renders the story meaningless.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Life Ahead
    Yet The Life Ahead works admirably well — meaning you’re reduced to soggy Kleenex but honestly — in large part because of the grounded, magnetic performances of the two leads.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chick Fight
    Both writer and director are men, which perhaps explains why much of the talk in Chick Fight about female empowerment and channeling one’s womanly rage comes off as lip service on the way to the next beat-down or snuggle-up.
  6. City Hall
    Wiseman has made something so mundane as to be absorbingly exotic, a civics-lesson procedural. As with any procedural, the people involved in the process are just as important to the story as the process is.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Let Him Go
    Mostly Let Him Go is about what would happen if “Death Wish” were cast with the couple from “American Gothic.”
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Holidate
    In trying to play up the naughty, witty side of the rom-com equation, the movie settles for snarky. It’s an acrid fairy tale, if not without a few pleasures, and it arrives on Netflix just in time for — wait, Christmas?
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The True Adventures of Wolfboy
    The movie itself suffers from hyperbole, hyper-self-consciousness, at times hyperventilation. A magical-realist coming-of-age fairy tale set in Buffalo and environs, it toggles between whimsy and grim realism.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Am Greta
    It’s clear that Thunberg knows the science and can talk about the Keeling Curve and the Albedo Effect, even if the journalists and heads of states she meets can’t.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Synchronic
    Opens itself up to some splendid drive-in philosophizing.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Yet for all the gags that fall flat and scenes that don’t quite play, there are enough that fuse shock humor and sly moral commentary to combust in your face.
  13. White Noise
    White Noise is an expertly edited, four-year immersion into a phenomenon that has shaped the volatile politics of our time. It’s an auspicious debut for both Lombroso and The Atlantic, and its intimate and empathetic approach might be a more potent way of countering those who promote such toxic ideas than blunting confrontation.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Witches
    It’s rated PG, but trust me, it’ll give younger kids the screaming meemees.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ham on Rye
    Ham on Rye will frustrate literal-minded audiences, but it’s a work of gentle, genuine American surrealism — a lo-fi love song to those left behind by character and chance.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rebecca
    Everyone behaves themselves in this Rebecca, whereas the point of the book and the first movie is that our worst behavior is always floating just below the waterline, ready to bob to the surface at the wrong moment.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What the Constitution Means to Me
    Schreck matches the wit and fire of her writing with a riveting performance that often does not feel like a performance at all, but rather a cri de coeur wrenched up from a deep place where the personal, the historical, and the universal have met and merged.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Honest Thief
    It’s perfectly generic on-demand product that will eat up an hour and a half of your life and be immediately forgotten.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Martin Eden
    The tragedy of this grand and artful movie is that the individuality Martin craves to make him stand out leaves him in the end standing very much alone.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shithouse
    The movie won the grand prize at this year’s Slamdance, an even more indie Sundance-adjacent festival, and it marks the arrival of an earnest talent in writer-director-star Cooper Raiff. It’s also the rare youth movie to dispense with cynicism and wear its heart on its sleeve.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Totally Under Control
    The movie is enraging, necessary, and above all, useful.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The War with Grandpa
    Not that terrible, but dispiritingly generic — the kind of off-brand, cable-ready product that functions as advertised but could have been cast with anybody other than some of the most unique and celebrated performers of their generations.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Time
    Time is not a cut-and-dried chronology. Rather it’s a poetic rumination on atonement and endurance, one that chops up and reorders time itself to give us a powerful portrait of a woman who refuses to take no for an answer.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Forty-Year-Old Version
    All in all, quite impressive for a debut. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait another 40 years for the next one.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On the Rocks
    It’s an agreeable diversion.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dick Johnson Is Dead
    If you’ve ever helped shepherd a parent or a grandparent in their final years, you may be better equipped to handle this movie’s gallows humor and to appreciate the care with which it separates the contradictory emotions felt by Kirsten and all grown children.
  27. Herb Alpert Is...
    The first two-thirds is lively in pace, all of it is amiable in tone and sun-splashed in appearance. The final half hour gets a bit gushy. It’s mostly devoted to Alpert’s blissful second marriage, to singer Lani Hall — they’ve been married nearly 50 years — and his philanthropic largess. But since there’s a lot to gush about, that’s okay.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Glorias
    All the cinematic huffing and puffing only calls attention to the paradox on which this movie is built: It’s a portrait of a woman who’s not particularly interested in being seen other than to prod the world to value other women as much as they value men — culturally, politically, and financially.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Trial of the Chicago 7
    "Trial” is so inherently compelling — and so directly germane to an America where the government labels cities “anarchist jurisdictions” and states are drawing up laws against free assembly — that it doesn’t need the frills. Let the kids know what happened the way it happened. They can handle the truth.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Misbehaviour
    Misbehaviour is intersectional to a fault, and keeping all those balls in the air is almost more than the movie can handle.
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