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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tales of the Night
    Tales, which (as the title suggests) is an "Arabian Nights"-style omnibus, has similarly eye-bending backgrounds but a creatively monochromatic foreground that comes to feel like a limitation.
  2. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    This fifth and mercifully final installment features so much idle anticipation that it's unclear whether we're watching a movie or an Apple product launch.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    La Rafle (The Round Up)
    A big, sorrowful, dramatically trite period epic about a bleak chapter in the history of modern France.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Must Be the Place
    This isn't a great movie, but it is a special one. And Penn is something to see.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lincoln
    It makes politics exciting again.
  6. Skyfall
    These are truly tedious stakes for an action movie. The franchise isn't worried about world safety. It's fretting over whether to start wearing Depends.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    High Ground
    A less than inspiring documentary about extremely inspiring individuals, High Ground is worth seeing for what it shows rather than how it shows it.
  8. The Bay
    Lacks the creepy immediacy of even the most misbegotten of the found-footage genre.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Late Quartet
    The performances are worth a look, especially since Christopher Walken so rarely gets to play a sane person.
  10. The Details
    Manages to be both compelling and unsatisfying. But what limits it isn't lack of execution. The movie is many things, but a mess isn't one of them. Estes knows exactly what he wants. Whether it's worth wanting is another matter.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The House I Live In
    I'm wary of implying that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but - guess what - it is. And see it with someone whose views are different from your own. We're going to need everyone to help get us out of this mess.
  12. Holy Motors
    The film has sprung from the mind of the Frenchman Leos Carax and ought to be seen to be believed, on the largest screen you can find, and probably sober, too, since it becomes its own narcotic.
  13. The Loneliest Planet
    The movie captures a kind of tragedy of self.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wreck-It Ralph
    It's pure plastic product from plot line to the pro forma 3-D to the tidy moral lessons - ersatz family entertainment as disposable as it is diverting. It made me want to go read a book.
  15. Flight
    Flight is a so-so movie with Denzel Washington as a commercial-airline pilot who crash-lands a plane while drunk, high, hung over, and horny. It doesn't do much that you couldn't anticipate just by seeing the trailer - the trailer is more exciting than the movie itself.
  16. War of the Buttons
    But when there's such a lighthearted, boys-at-play manner about the story's established aspects, it creates an odd disconnect from the World War II tolerance lessons that the filmmakers seek to add. War and persecution are bad, kids - except when it's all in good fun.
  17. Smashed
    The most interesting thing about Smashed is the way Kate, the movie's alcoholic schoolteacher, never looks drunk - at least, not the way drunk people do in the movies.
  18. The Other Son
    It's done persuasively enough that you wonder how you'd feel under similar circumstances.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Picture
    The movie feels loose and unpredictable. You're never sure where Paul or the story is going, and while that makes The Big Picture unexpectedly gripping for much of its running time, the shapelessness ultimately wins out.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sessions
    The achievement of this simply told, exceptionally fine film is the clarity with which it portrays the drama of a good soul in an inert body.
  21. Chasing Mavericks
    Come for the surfing. Stay for the sainthood.
  22. Fun Size
    All over the map in the details it throws at us, and the level of immaturity it aims for.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cloud Atlas
    Unlike "Tree" or "2001," Cloud Atlas offers more answers than it does questions, and by the end of its nearly three-hour running time - which flies by surprisingly fast, all things considered - it feels like the most feverishly expensive late-night college bull session ever. There are glories here, but they fade in the light of day.
  24. Paranormal Activity 4
    The ending steals actionably from "The Blair Witch Project," the movie that helped spawn these first-person chillers.
  25. Sister
    It's delicately made, yet forceful in its delicacy.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hello I Must Be Going
    The movie's sharp-tongued and softhearted, a Sundance kind of film that mostly sidesteps generic Sundanceyness.
  27. Somewhere Between
    Knowlton has landed on four stories that deserve to be told, and she's told them in a straightforward way that gets the job done, with obvious dedication and love.
  28. All Together
    The comedy in Robelin's movie veers from wacky and overwritten to truly, beautifully sad, especially the whimsical final sequence, which is as apt an existential tribute to the afterglow of Fonda's fabulousness as you'll see.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wuthering Heights
    If the new Wuthering Heights makes you uncomfortable, that's part of Andrea Arnold's game plan.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beauty Is Embarrassing
    An amiable if not especially urgent celebration of the life and work of Wayne White.
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