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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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    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Oldboy
    Lee’s Oldboy stands on its own. It just stands a bit shorter.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Philomena
    Philomena is a tearjerker of rare honesty and craft.
  3. Homefront
    Boston University product Gary Fleder (“Kiss the Girls”) directs the action with grungy efficiency, and the movie does hook us with a certain lurid anticipation of just how far things might escalate.
  4. Frozen
    Frozen could also leave its mark as the next step in the Disney Princess feminist revisionism championed by last year’s “Brave.” Where that film staunchly pushed a men-don’t-define-me theme throughout, here it’s the requisite fairy tale ending that gets tweaked.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nebraska
    It’s a movie that floods you with emotion when you least expect it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jerusalem
    This IMAX spectacular largely does what it’s supposed to fascinate, educate, and visually wow the audience, in 45 minutes or less.
  7. Go for Sisters
    Though fitfully entertaining, it lacks the conviction and urgency present in even the weakest of his quasi agit-prop productions.
  8. American Promise
    The result is an extended home movie that is also a sociological experiment.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Book Thief
    The film is unobjectionable, sentimental, and not a little dull.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Armstrong Lie
    The Armstrong Lie is one for the time capsule, because it preserves for future generations a very particular modern response to scandal: confession without remorse.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Delivery Man
    Delivery Man is predictable but likable, schmaltzy but sweet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    Very few people will take in this spectacle of a society amusing itself to death, of “reality games” and the vapid media hysteria that surrounds them, and not draw a parallel to our own televised bread and circuses. At its best, “Catching Fire” is a blockbuster that bites the culture that made it.
  13. The Broken Circle Breakdown
    Despite the music, and no matter how the film’s editors slice it, the attempt to get a rise out of the audience by way of the endangered child device verges on emotional pornography.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
    The final questions in Pervert’s Guide to Ideology nag at us, and in a culture so built upon and so profiting by fantasies of Hollywood apocalypse, they deserve to.
  15. The Best Man Holiday
    All in all, maybe the best 90 minutes of romantic comedy in theaters this fall. Unfortunately, the film is 122 minutes long.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How I Live Now
    A meticulously observed, rapturously directed account of World War III and its aftermath as seen from the point of view of a spoiled young woman. The movie’s pretty fascinating before it goes bonkers.
  17. Spinning Plates
    So here’s a tip: Don’t desert this film before giving it a chance. You might not want seconds, but eventually it dishes up a satisfying slice of life.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dallas Buyers Club
    By the end of this sincerely calculated, always watchable movie, everything has burned away but the fury, including whatever you may think or have thought about the actor you’re looking at. That’s how good the performance is.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thor: The Dark World
    Has its moments of visual invention and self-aware humor — mostly when the hero’s trickster brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is around — but otherwise it’s an awkwardly plotted extravaganza.
  20. Design Is One
    You may not recognize the Vignelli name, but you certainly recognize their designs.
  21. Man of Tai Chi
    With his thoughtful exploration of the conflict between desire and responsibility, and his self-reflexive exploration of the themes of voyeurism, ambition, and personal identity, Reeves’s debut shows signs of a talented filmmaker.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Diana
    Hirschbiegel and Watts don’t have the nerve for camp. Even a scene of a rejected Diana back at Kensington, forlornly playing Bach at her piano while mascara streams down her face, is played gloomily straight.
  23. Let the Fire Burn
    In his eloquent, evenhanded, and meticulously constructed debut documentary, Jason Osder stirs the ashes of this tragedy and sheds new heat and light on such timely issues as the abuse of authority and the violation of the rights of citizens, especially the marginalized and powerless.
  24. Birth of the Living Dead
    In the war between zombies and vampires for the domination of American popular culture, the zombies currently seem to have the edge. So suggests a montage in Rob Kuhns’s amusing but perfunctory documentary about the origins of the 1968 ur-text of zombiedom, George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead.”
  25. Free Birds
    At an hour and a half, the action in Free Birds gets stretched thin. It’s Thanksgiving fare, sure, but it only partly satisfies our hankering.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue Is the Warmest Color
    If you don’t really understand women — or don’t even want to — it’s easier to just call them a mystery and let it go at that. For all the close-ups, that may be why Blue Is the Warmest Color never gets close enough.
  27. Last Vegas
    Somewhere between John Cassavetes’s “Husbands” (1970) and “The Hangover” (2009) you will find Last Vegas. Not necessarily a bad place to be, except the film unfortunately has the madcap hilarity of the former and the emotional intensity of the latter.
  28. Ender's Game
    It comes down to this: Which is more important, the innocence of a child or the survival of the species? And if the race survives, will it just become like the enemy aliens that must be destroyed to do so?
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kill Your Darlings
    That Ginsberg is played by Daniel Radcliffe might come as a shock, but the shock wears off as the movie rolls on and you realize you’re in very good hands.
  30. Zaytoun
    A scene between Yoni and Fahed in the pilot’s makeshift holding cell is a microcosm of everything that’s right about the movie, and not quite right.
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