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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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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
    The results are exactly as patchwork as that sounds, with sequences of rowdy, sacrilegious invention punctuated by long spells of tedium.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Quartet
    Quartet is a sweet-tempered, rather fuddly drama about retired opera singers, and compared to a slick crowd-pleaser like "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," with whom it shares a star and a sentimentalized view of old age, it's a mess.
  3. The Last Stand
    Kim doesn't sweat interweaving his story threads in any tightly controlled way. Just when the need-for-speed stuff really starts to gain traction, he'll shift for a surprisingly lengthy stretch to comic relief with the deputies and local wacko Johnny Knoxville.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Amour
    What happens between two people? Only the chemistry that keeps us from stumbling through the chaos by ourselves. Is that an illusion, too? Amour says it doesn't much matter. There is no dignity in life except love.
  5. Mama
    The frustration, though, is how much the movie leans on made-ya-jump scares and contrived plot devices when its quieter chills and already fraught setups are so potent.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Broken City
    As the implausibilities and conspiracies and double-crosses pile up, Broken City paints itself into a corner. A plot can be confusing as long as the filmmakers themselves don't seem confused, but that's not the case here.
  7. Fairhaven
    O'Brien and his castmates seem to play loose with his script a bit more than they should in an effort to give the material a lived-in feeling.
  8. Gangster Squad
    Gangster Squad is an almost movie. It's almost terrible. It's almost entertaining. But it's missing the shameless insanity of a wonderfully bad movie, and the particular vision, point of view, and coherence of some very good ones. So it sits there in between - loud, flashy, and unnecessary.
  9. Texas Chainsaw 3D
    All the makers of Texas Chainsaw 3D cared about was getting your $16.
  10. Hitler's Children
    The moral weight of Hitler's Children is unmistakable. So is that weight's inertness.
  11. Bestiaire
    The images are meant to accumulate shame, and they do. But they also might be too much.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Impossible
    An earnest, extremely grueling, prodigiously crafted true-life drama that takes one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history and reduces it to a bad day at Club Med.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zero Dark Thirty
    It's a movie made with the same coolly fanatical attention to craft the lead character displays in her work. Bigelow is now recognized as one of our true filmmaking naturals.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Not Fade Away
    It's both achingly affectionate and a terrible mess.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Promised Land
    It's a fine line between interesting characters and "Northern Exposure" quirk, but the movie mostly stays on the right side of it.
  16. Parental Guidance
    Parental Guidance is overly generous with regard to the silliness. However, it's not clueless. Crystal seems determined to give as generously as he gets. When a bully whacks him, Crystal covers the bully in vomit. Good for him.
  17. Django Unchained
    The movie Quentin Tarantino has written and directed is corkscrewed, inside-out, upside-down, simultaneously clear-eyed and completely out of its mind.
  18. Les Miserables
    After 2½ hours, the movie's become a bowl of trail mix - you're picking out the nuts you don't like and hoping the next bite doesn't contain any craisins. All the carefully crafted misérables turns into a pile of miz.
  19. Jack Reacher
    This movie is the height of by-the-book dullness.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Guilt Trip
    The movie's silly, predictable, and surprisingly sweet - the sort of thing you can and probably should take your mother to.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is 40
    The best scenes - the only time This Is 40 taps into genuinely messy comic anxiety - feature Brooks, who shpritzes shabby false confidence as Pete's pop, saddled with a younger wife and triplets he can't tell apart. Otherwise, the movie never quite comes to a point.
  22. Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
    It's better to see it on the stage... a moderately enjoyable film that lacks the awe-inspiring visual and aural aplomb of Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil's live shows.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rust and Bone
    The leads save it, particularly Cotillard, who once again subverts her own glamour with ferocious lack of ego. The movie itself only occasionally matches her intensity.
  24. Barbara
    What Hoss is asked to play - and does play with great skill - is the fine line between self-protection and hauteur.
  25. The Central Park Five
    If the second hour or so isn't as strong as the first, it's because the filmmaking fails to rise to the injustice that's befallen its subjects since their exoneration. It can't, really.
  26. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
    There is one bright spot. Ellie Kendrick plays Dolly's silly, breathlessly romantic little sister, Kitty.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wagner & Me
    To truly appreciate Wagner & Me, a BBC documentary getting a spotty theatrical release in this country, you have to cherish the music of Richard Wagner with the same quivering intensity as host Stephen Fry.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hyde Park on Hudson
    I don't know if I've ever seen a movie as spectacularly tone-deaf as Hyde Park on Hudson.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    The downside is that "The Hobbit" no longer looks like a movie at all. It looks like a video.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neighboring Sounds
    Neighboring Sounds unfolds like a casual nightmare in the light of day.
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