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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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On My Way
    Emmanuelle Bercot’s amusingly rambling drama hits the expected rest stops with a Gallic shrug and a lot of Gauloises.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alan Partridge
    Alan Partridge is the cinematic equivalent of Marmite: a much-loved condiment in Britain and a puzzlement almost everywhere else. An acquired taste, certainly, but on the basis of this movie, well worth sampling at least once.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Only Lovers Left Alive
    Disarmingly direct and charmingly directed; it’s a bona fide love story, if an exhausted and occasionally thin one.
  4. Walking with the Enemy
    Does not sink to the bathos of Roberto Benigni’s Oscar-winning film (“Life Is Beautiful”), but it does reduce a period of irredeemable horror to the heroics of a single person.
  5. Brick Mansions
    The thematic stuff, while well-intentioned, is also clunky, and ultimately beside the point. Action, obviously, is what you’re after.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Other Woman
    One of those loud, cringe-y female-empowerment comedies that feels like it was made by people who hate women.
  7. When I Saw You
    A fresh perspective on one of the world’s longest conflicts.
  8. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
    Strauch’s orotund prose sounds much like that of Werner Herzog, but without the irony. Herzog’s sensibility is missed here; he could have made a masterpiece about the absurdity of these deluded seekers of Eden.
  9. Finding Vivian Maier
    The chief problem is the documentary’s misapprehension of the artistic personality.
  10. Bears
    As with all of Disneynature’s features, there’s astonishing documentary work on display in Bears — but a leaner, less conspicuously structured view of the wild might have had even greater impact.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    That Demon Within
    There’s a half-realized, half-haunting Hitchcockian psychodrama buried somewhere within That Demon Within. What’s on the surface plays more like Wong and Lam simply forgot to take their meds.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Railway Man
    Throughout, Firth compellingly plays a man struggling to make sense of the ordeal that his life has become. Too often, though, you can feel the movie struggling right along with him.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Transcendence
    There’s a lot of intelligence in Transcendence. Ironically, almost all of it feels artificial.
  14. In Bloom
    Despite the seeming inevitability of tragedy and despair, In Bloom remains true to its title. Though political and personal upheaval threatens to overwhelm them, Eka and Natia’s clarity and courage resist the ignorance, injustice, and rage all around.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Heaven Is for Real
    While Heaven Is for Real asks a lot of questions, it ultimately has no doubt whatsoever about the answers. Take it on faith or not at all.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Watermark
    Watermark feels less focused than “Manufactured Landscapes.” While it presents us with awful and/or awe-inspiring images and ideas, the movie lacks the tightening grip that made the earlier work so unforgettable.
  17. Joe
    Joe is one more in the line of Southern Gothic miserabilism that includes “Winter’s Bone” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” films that many have praised but some find condescending.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Birder's Guide to Everything
    At its occasional best, A Birder’s Guide to Everything hints at the profound pleasure of standing very still and witnessing wonders the rest of the world passes by.
  19. The Raid 2
    The film was technically astonishing and yet brazenly simple.
  20. Dom Hemingway
    Entertaining if inconsequential gangster farce.
  21. Oculus
    At its best, it delves into the murky areas of memory, childhood trauma, and family conflict. But it forgoes such troubling issues for mumbo jumbo and glowing-eyed wraiths.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Under the Skin
    What’s under the film’s surface is intriguing enough, but it’s the surface itself that holds you in a dark trance. A portrait of alienation filmed from the alien’s point of view — or is it just a woman’s? — the movie’s a cinematic Rubik’s Cube that snaps together surprisingly easily, yet whose larger meanings remain tantalizingly out of reach.
  23. Rio 2
    It’s fun in stretches, but also busily forced.
  24. Draft Day
    It’s a big deal for the NFL and ESPN, no doubt, and Draft Day serves as 110 minutes of product placement for both.
  25. The Unknown Known
    “The Fog of War” (2003), about McNamara, won Morris a best documentary feature Oscar. The Unknown Known takes its title from a favorite phrase of Rumsfeld. It also accurately describes its subject, whose smiling inscrutability makes him consistently fascinating and often maddening.
  26. The Missing Picture
    His film aspires to a poetry about barbarism that will not let us forget.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    Vol. II is less focused than “Vol. I” — less funny, too, although there are a few dank laughs — and you feel Von Trier’s inspiration and energy start to flag during the final laps.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jodorowsky's Dune
    In retrospect, it’s obvious why the film was never produced: The director was a lunatic.
  29. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
    The animals are so magically entertaining to watch here (helped by some gently mischievous narrative assists), the educational treatment is a fun time in its own right.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anita
    If you were alive in 1991, the televised images may still stick in your mind and your craw.
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