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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
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Something in the Air
    With a minimum of melodrama and a fluid camera style that weaves restlessly in and out of the throng, Something in the Air is attentive to the users and the used in this generation of supposed equals. There’s no anger to the film, though, and what sometimes feels like passivity is really just the fond, unromantic gaze of an artist carefully considering his younger self.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Great Gatsby
    It has in Leonardo DiCaprio — magnificent is the only word to describe this performance — the best movie Gatsby by far, superhuman in his charm and connections, the host of revels beyond imagining, and at his heart an insecure fraud whose hopes are pinned to a woman.
  3. Bert Stern: Original Madman
    An effusive, sad, visually gorgeous, and illuminating portrait of the artist.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kon-Tiki
    Kon-Tiki is stalwart and uplifting and there are passing moments of wonder.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Iron Man 3
    The best scenes are when Stark just cuts impatiently through the claptrap.
  6. The Angels' Share
    Our advice: Forgive any conflicting elements and just drink them right down. They might be a peculiar blend, but they’re well crafted, just as you’d expect from Loach.
  7. Hava Nagila: The Movie
    Hava Nagila (The Movie) guarantees that the next time you hear the song at a party, you won’t think of it quite the same way. Of course, that won’t slow anyone rushing to the dance floor.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mud
    The most striking aspect of Mud is the air of myth and tall-tale telling that hovers lightly over the settings and characters.
  9. Arthur Newman
    The closest most people will get to that state of existential freedom is watching actors in a movie about it, and the pleasure usually comes with a price — a reminder that identity, though arbitrary, is also inescapable. In movies like Dante Ariola’s debut feature, Arthur Newman, so, too, are the cliches and platitudes.
  10. The Big Wedding
    Quaint and crass get together — or would that be “bump uglies”? — with awkward, thoroughly flat results in The Big Wedding, an ensemble comedy with a tonal cluelessness as surprising as the name cast that signed on for it anyway.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pain & Gain
    Pain & Gain, a jokey but fatally tone-deaf true-crime caper, plays like “Fargo” for idiots.
  12. A Fierce Green Fire
    Melding history, science, and up-to-the-minute urgency, A Fierce Green Fire is a clarion call that’s passionate and provocative.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Room 237
    Watching Room 237 is like being stuck on an airplane next to a stranger hellbent on convincing you of his very detailed, very paranoid theory of the universe. Actually, it’s like being stuck on a plane full of those guys, each with a different yet compellingly insane take on reality. And the in-flight entertainment features only one movie: “The Shining.”
  14. Girl Rising
    The idea behind Girl Rising is strikingly simple and even more strikingly imaginative.
  15. The Lords of Salem
    There are echoes of Roman Polanski’s “Rosemary’s Baby” in all of this that are impossible to miss.
  16. Oblivion
    Oblivion is a lot like its star: clean, cold, efficient, increasingly overblown, and not a little inexplicable.
  17. Scary Movie 5
    Not that there’s all manner of comedy craftsmanship demanding study here, but the movie does seem to be a funny jumble of contradictory impulses.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trance
    With Trance, story becomes just another element in Boyle’s commercial pop-Cubism, and the results are nearly fatal.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    To the Wonder
    The director’s first real misfire, a meditation on love and lost paradise that starts with breathtaking assurance and slowly crumbles into self-parody.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Disconnect
    Disconnect is far from a bad movie. It’s just better at melodrama than drama.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Company You Keep
    LeBeouf may yet mature into an American James McAvoy — a charismatically spineless leading man — but Sarandon and her character have him and his character for lunch.
  22. Koch
    The documentary nicely mixes vintage news footage and photographs, talking-head interviews with journalists and Koch associates, and lots (and lots) of Koch.
  23. Upstream Color
    Henry David Thoreau plays an enigmatic role in Shane Carruth’s hypnotic thriller — an oxymoronic term to describe a film that is truly sui generis.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    42
    The ambitious new biopic about Robinson, is better written and produced than those children’s books, but it isn’t any deeper, and that’s a disappointment.
  25. Evil Dead
    Are we really looking to Evil Dead for gnarly possessions played straight? That’s what Alvarez gives us for an overlong stretch, until his reinterpretation of the malevolent-hand gag kicks off a last act that’s more freewheelingly, twistedly grisly. (Don’t skip the credits, because the fan-energizing momentum peaks at the very end.)
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beyond the Hills
    It’s a deceptively impersonal style, because Beyond the Hills seethes with astonishment and rage at a broken society marooned between the 21st century and the 16th.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gimme the Loot
    Mostly it’s a footloose tour through the noise and sun of a summer metropolis and an unassumingly wise portrait of a friendship.
  28. Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
    A description of Davis’s post-trial life would have been welcome. Twice Communist Party candidate for vice president, she now teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz. That raises one more question. Santa Cruz is less than a hundred miles away from San Rafael. How many lifetimes away does it feel like?
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    From Up on Poppy Hill
    Poppy Hill doubtless plays most strongly to Japanese audiences — especially the musical score made up of old-timey jazz and early-’60s pop that sounds like corn syrup to Western ears — but its central conflict is gentle, unyielding, and universal. Which is to say that it turns out to be a Hayao Miyazaki movie after all.
  30. High Tech, Low Life
    High Tech, Low Life has a nice easy rhythm. It feels neither hurried nor emphatic. There’s no narration. Zola and Tiger do most of the talking.
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