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For 7,944 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: 5,226 out of 7944
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7944
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7944
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Languorous and enigmatic, “Long Day’s Journey” is the very definition of art cinema, and it will baffle and possibly enrage casual filmgoers expecting such niceties as plot. It is a movie not to be followed but steeped in and ultimately surrendered to.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark Phoenix
    For a series supposedly dedicated to the pleasure of superhero movies, Dark Phoenix somehow ends up illustrating their limits.
  3. Pavarotti
    The best part of Ron Howard’s long-winded and fitfully moving Pavarotti occurs at the beginning with footage from 1995 of the world-famous tenor — who died in 2007, at 71 — visiting an opera house built in the middle of the Amazon jungle. The legend has it that Enrico Caruso had performed there 100 years before.
  4. Ma
    This time, the over-the-top craziness that Spencer slyly serves up fills more than just a pie plate.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rocketman
    As long as Rocketman is charting the jet-propelled rise of Elton John in the early 1970s, it is an absolute gas. As soon as it plunges into the burnout years — addictions, betrayals, diva fits — it plays like every other rags-to-rock-to-riches saga you’ve ever seen. Especially “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
  6. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    You’ll just have to look to your own effects-jazzed inner child to find a kid who’s relatable here.
  7. The Tomorrow Man
    Their (Danner/Lithgow) being together feels more like a device — there’d be no movie without their relationship — than it does a romance. There’s a lack of chemistry that makes for a listlessness of narrative.
  8. Halston
    It’s an understatement to say that Tcheng is drawn to this material. He revels in it. Yet he’s too clear-eyed to turn Halston’s story into a morality tale.
  9. Meeting Gorbachev
    Several talking heads appear, including George Shultz, James Baker, and Lech Walesa. Tellingly, none of the interviewees is Russian. A running theme is that many Russians consider Gorbachev a traitor. “A tragic figure” Herzog calls him.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Booksmart
    Booksmart registers as an instant classic that doesn’t reinvent the genre so much as refurbish it from within, and it matters very much that the writers, director, and stars are all women. Also that they’re having a hell of a good time.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aladdin
    Here’s the thing about Disney’s “live-action” remakes of its animated classics: The new versions may be bigger, louder, and more lavish, but they’ll never be original. The thrill of first impact is gone.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All Is True
    All is True is expertly acted and handsomely filmed but suffers from an excess of sentimentality, a rash of revelations, and a surfeit of subtext, with characters blurting out the hidden motives for their behavior instead of simply behaving them. I imagine Shakespeare himself might be simultaneously tickled and appalled.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Souvenir
    The Souvenir demands to be seen. Hogg is a major filmmaker pointing herself in new directions -- the past and future simultaneously – and hashing out the places where memory tells the truth and where it only offers more romanticism, more lies.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aniara
    Parts of the film aren’t pretty because people don’t always act in pretty ways, and the speculation that such an event might create its own hermetically sealed reality, one increasingly distorted to our eyes, is intriguing, if not especially deep. It all plays out like a “Big Brother” reality show with 5,000 participants and no Big Brother.
  15. The Biggest Little Farm
    Think “An Inconvenient Truth” meets “Babe,” or “The Good Earth” meets a biodiverse “Marley & Me,” with a dash of the Food Network’s “Pioneer Woman” tossed in. Among other things, that means furry critters romping to a folksy soundtrack with tubas and banjos employed unironically. It means circle-of-life lessons and sun-dappled everything. It means check your cynicism and snark at the gate, if you dare.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Non-Fiction
    It’s a fond comedy of manners and pretentions, a film for literate audiences that gently bites the hands that buy the tickets.
  17. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    Compared to a second installment that expanded the established Keanuscape in ways the “Matrix” sequels only wish they had, “Wick 3” fumbles for compelling, organically incorporated territory to explore.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Photograph
    Another tale of timid souls united by a sweet movie gimmick.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trial by Fire
    Powerful stuff, but unpowerfully told.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hustle
    A watchable, unnecessary re-do that works hard but lacks the charm to really zing.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tolkien
    Tolkien gives us the passing of a vanished England and the loss of a generation but not quite enough about what was won, by him for us, nor the mystery of how he won it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shadow
    Shadow shows a master at the top of his game, and if you have any love at all for the movies and the places they can take you, catch this one on the biggest screen possible.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Working Woman
    Without stooping to the uselessness of style, Working Woman makes its points simply by staying with Orna as she proceeds through stages of shock, humiliation, self-loathing, self-censorship, all emotions her husband finds difficult to understand and which the Bennys of the world rely on.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Long Shot
    Long Shot is awfully funny when it’s not being completely preposterous — and sometimes even when it is.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dogman
    The movie convinces us that the hero sees and understands Simone’s evil even as he continues to enable it — even as he allows his own life to be ruined. Dogman ends with a paroxysm of cathartic violence and an eerie echo of Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (also with Mastroianni).
  26. Ask Dr. Ruth
    [A] peripatetic and ultimately poignant documentary.
  27. Hail Satan?
    Goofy is easy. Earnest is easy in a different way. Disturbing is both easy and hard. They’re all dissimilar, and Hail Satan? has lots of all three.
  28. Avengers: Endgame
    The movie is ludicrously long, clocking in at three hours and one minute, but surprisingly satisfying.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Teen Spirit
    Very like a gummy bear, Teen Spirit gives you a nice little sugar rush until the lights come up and you realize you’re still hungry. Part of the problem is the script, which includes lines of dialogue so generic it’s as if Minghella is daring himself to squeeze a drop more juice out of them.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Little Woods
    Under DaCosta’s sure, steady direction, Little Woods belongs with movies like “Frozen River” (2008), “Winter’s Bone” (2010), “Wind River” (2017), and last year’s “Leave No Trace” — dramas about overlooked communities that ache with empathetic detail. The movie steers clear of polemics, though, and puts its faith in its characters, specifically the exhausted, unbreakable bond of sisterhood that unites these siblings.
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