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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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  1. Sleepwalk with Me
    Birbiglia, who's from Shrewsbury, has done some wonderful things with awkwardness. I'm sad to report that Sleepwalk With Me isn't one of them.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Oslo, August 31st
    The surface of Oslo, August 31st is as cool and crystalline as a Scandinavian lake, but at its core is a benevolence for the life we all share and tears for the man who can no longer share in it.
  3. Lawless
    Lawless is very bloody - but the scenery and production design are a whole lot nicer.
  4. The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
    Will your preschoolers enjoy it? Perhaps. Is it worth 88 minutes of their lives, or yours? Not in a world where "Sesame Street" is on TV every day. Not even in a world where "Sesame Street" didn't exist.
  5. The Apparition
    To those of us in the audience who might be strangers in paranormal precincts, it looks suspiciously like a séance.
  6. 2016: Obama's America
    Well, fair's fair. George W. Bush got Michael Moore and "Fahrenheit 9/11." Now Barack Obama gets Dinesh D'Souza and 2016: Obama's America. Both films are wildly partisan attack documentaries made by wildly partisan and generally annoying polemicists (D'Souza is more personable, actually, than Moore).
  7. Compliance
    People do stupid things all the time. My friend and I sat through Compliance, didn't we? But there is a level of stupidity displayed by the people in this movie that beggars belief. Their behavior is to stupidity as the Death Star is to a doughnut.
  8. Robot and Frank
    Robot & Frank isn't sure whether it's a comedy or drama, buddy movie or sci-fi fantasy, family melodrama or social satire.
  9. Cosmopolis
    The novel is extremely funny. It's hilarious as well as horrific (all sorts of bad things are going on outside the limo - and a few inside of it, too). Yet whenever the movie is funny, it feels like a mistake. Comedy has never been a Cronenberg strength.
  10. Side by Side
    The directors and distributors can't rely on us. They should be implored to watch their movies in the same theaters we do. It's the only way for them to understand that a crime is being committed.
  11. Premium Rush
    Premium Rush has a lot of energy - too much, it's kind of exhausting.
  12. Hit and Run
    Put Christian Bale behind the wheel, and Hit & Run would make a billion bucks - except then there'd be no room for Shepard, and that movie would hardly be worth watching.
  13. The Expendables 2
    As it stands, The Expendables 2 is lazily satisfied with repeating the first movie's formula, shortcomings and grisly strengths alike.
  14. Restless City
    With Dosunmu, African culture thrives in a demographically shifting but historically African-American part of town. If the idea is that Nollywood could work in Manhattan, this is the director who can show us how.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    2 Days in New York
    Chatty, neurotic, maddeningly messy, often very funny, "New York" spins in a lunatic orbit of its own.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Celeste and Jesse Forever
    The movie is sardonic, hip, heartfelt, surprisingly white, and for all its ensemble pleasures, it's squarely about a furiously prim young woman and how she learns to bend.
  17. The Imposter
    Beverly Dollarhide, Nicholas's mother, says of the period after her son's disappearance, "My main goal in life at that time was not to think." Apparently, the filmmakers have taken a cue from her. At least her unwillingness to think makes sense.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    ParaNorman
    ParaNorman is supposedly for kids, but it's really aimed at their snarky older brothers, and it illustrates the limits of the new family creepshows.
  19. Sparkle
    It's a better movie than what's inspired it, but that fails to explain much. It's like preferring the line at the concession stand to the one for the bathroom.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Odd Life of Timothy Green
    It's the sort of thing you'll either find enchanting or an excellent reason to reach for the Scotch.
  21. The Matchmaker
    How does a filmmaker tell a Holocaust story that hasn't been told before? The Matchmaker does it by weaving fable with realism, coming-of-age innocence with adult grief, and guilt with romanticism.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Campaign
    It's just another happily idiotic Will Ferrell comedy, ably directed by Jay Roach ("Meet the Parents," "Dinner for Schmucks") and tossing its bawdy jokes at the side of the barn.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bourne Legacy
    The best thing that can be said about The Bourne Legacy is that Renner will survive it.
  24. Hope Springs
    You feel embarrassed for Streep and Jones (Streep especially) because of the situations, often sexual, they're put in. They're definitely not mailing in their performances.
  25. The Babymakers
    The squirminess stands out here because there's so little going on the rest of the time.
  26. Klown
    It can seem sometimes that Hollywood has a monopoly on stupid, obnoxious comedy. Anyone who sees Klown will learn otherwise. Comedy can be just as stupid and obnoxious in Danish.
  27. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
    Compared to the first two movie installments, this one is uncharacteristically scattershot in the life-lessons department.
  28. Ruby Sparks
    Much of the film is pure romantic comedy and a good one. Yet the filmmakers want it to be more.
  29. Easy Money
    In some ways Easy Money recalls Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic." They have drug dealing in common, of course, but also a sense of constant swirl and density of onscreen population.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Alison Klayman's documentary is one of the most engagingly powerful movies of the year almost completely on the strength of Ai's rumpled charisma and the confusion it creates in the bureaucratic mindset of the Chinese Communist Party.
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