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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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    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Total Recall (2012)
    The only laugh to be had in Total Recall, a ripsnorting sci-fi action extravaganza that starts well and works its way down to average, is in the opening credits, where we learn that the movie's primary production company is called Original Film. Really?
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Queen of Versailles
    Queen of Versailles is still worthwhile, not because it questions all-American entitlement but because it prompts us to think hard about what, exactly, we believe we're entitled to.
  3. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
    It's superb filmmaking, uncluttered and utterly assured. Miike places us in the household of Li, offering up rich, deep colors, with an almost painterly exploration of fields of depth and volume.
  4. Farewell, My Queen
    One of the movie's strengths is how we see the revolution - or, rather the anticipation of it - not from the perspective of royal or radical but courtier and servant.
  5. The Well Digger's Daughter
    Say this for Auteuil: He has a sense of movie history. The closing credits include the equivalent of an Easter egg for lovers of film and especially for lovers of French film.
  6. Sacrifice
    Sacrifice wants to have it both ways. It's willing neither to give itself up to the goofy sincerity of genre conventions nor to make the demands on viewers that serious drama requires. The sacrifices Chen's characters make would signify that much more if he'd made a sacrifice or two himself.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Step Up Revolution
    Don't roll your eyes just yet. Step Up Revolution, enhanced by 3-D and set in glitzy Miami, is not as cringe-worthy as you would expect from the fourth "Step Up" installment.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Watch
    It's another one of those loud, penis-obsessed bro farces, lazily written (by actor Seth Rogen, among others) and haphazardly directed.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trishna
    Trishna should move the soul and engage the tear-ducts, yet it passes by as distant as it is lovely. And the blame must fall on the movie's star, Freida Pinto.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unforgivable
    Everyone is equal parts emotional victim and villain in Unforgivable, an elegantly rambling Franco-Italian affair about the ways we do each other wrong while trying to do each other right.
  11. The Day He Arrives
    The verb in the title of The Day He Arrives doesn't refer so much to a traveler reaching a destination as to a man finding himself - or hoping to.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Dark Knight Rises
    Nolan brings his Batman trilogy to a close with a majestic, almost completely satisfying crash. Everything feels epic about the film: the characters, the effects, the emotional stakes - even the missteps (and there are more than a few).
  13. Ballplayer: Pelotero
    A well-crafted, bravely revealing little film that could be considered essential education for baseball fans. It's just a bonus that the documentary is so entertaining.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sleepless Night
    It's fast, lean, satisfying, and forgettable; nothing special, really, until you realize that the movies have largely lost the knack for brisk mayhem like this.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young Journeys
    Neil Young Journeys is easily the least of the three documentaries director Jonathan Demme has made with the legendary rocker; but in its shaggy, eccentric way, it may be the truest.
  16. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    It makes you wonder if the series' animators, who took time out for "Rio" just before this, aren't so secretly yearning to sail different creative waters.
  17. Natural Selection
    The movie has elements of road picture, social satire, and odd-couple romance, but mostly it's about lack of pacing and tone. Somewhere very (very) deep in here is a whiff of "Citizen Ruth," and who knows what Alexander Payne might have done with this material. Instead we know what writer-director Robbie Pickering has done with it, and that ain't much.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    To Rome with Love
    A charming but terribly self-indulgent trifle that's less than the sum of its many parts.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Take This Waltz
    The new movie's a visual achievement and a narrative muddle: A color-drenched story of lust, love, and infidelity, it suffers from a vagueness that may be the point but that feels accidental.
  20. The Invisible War
    Rules and regulations, which the military is very good at, are about behavior. Law is about justice. The Invisible War makes all too clear that the military isn't very good at justice.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beasts of the Southern Wild
    She's (Hushpuppy) trying to make sense of this world, and the movie, pitched between realism and fable, is the story of how she finally does. That balance is the key to the movie's magic.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Savages
    Savages is Oliver Stone's strongest work in years - a stylish, violent, hallucinatory thriller with both a mean streak and a devilish sense of humor.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Katy Perry: Part of Me
    Part of Me is one aspect of Perry, but her fans may leave the movie wanting more.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Amazing Spider-Man
    Dumbed down, tarted up, and almost shockingly uninspired, it's the worst superhero movie since "Green Lantern."
  25. Madea's Witness Protection
    Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report. People who want to watch it are going to do so, regardless of what anyone says about it. And that's not even factoring in Charlie Sheen.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    People Like Us
    People Like Us is neither optimal nor prime.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Magic Mike
    Director Steven Soderbergh is working very near the top of his game here, and if Magic Mike tells an old, old story about a young man, his talent, his rise, and his fall - see everything from "Saturday Night Fever" to "Boogie Nights" - he brings the confidence of a born filmmaker and a cast that's sharper than their characters and ready to play.
  28. Portrait of Wally
    What's most vexing about Portrait of Wally is its lack of nuance.
  29. The Turin Horse
    The Turin Horse is in a very gray black and white. It looks the same way it feels: bleak, pure, forbidding, transfixing. Watching it, frankly, can be a bit of an ordeal. There's hardly anything in The Turin Horse you would describe as entertaining, but there is a very great deal that's beautiful and absorbing.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ted
    A crass, foul-mouthed, mostly hilarious, surprisingly sentimental bromance.
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