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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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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hysteria
    The problem with Hysteria is that it keeps patting itself and us on the back for knowing better.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bel Ami
    Robert Pattinson isn't all that bad in Bel Ami. He just isn't right.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nobody Else But You (Poupoupidou)
    A playful French meta-mystery that's occasionally too proud of its own cleverness.
  4. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
    You can picture the DreamWorks corporate confab: "OK, the kids respond to move-it, move-it repetition - give us something else repetitive, and let's get herding." It wasn't just desperate, it was insulting.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prometheus
    Watching Prometheus is like opening a deluxe gift box from Tiffany's to find a mug from the dollar store.
  6. For Greater Glory
    Some bad movies can make you feel awful for the people who made them and worse for the audience that shows up. The actors, the script, the camera: There's nowhere good they can go. For Greater Glory is that kind of bad movie: a total embarrassment.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Keyhole
    The first Guy Maddin movie that feels as if it got only halfway out of the director's head and onto the screen.
  8. The Intouchables
    This tired little movie got on my last nerve. If Driss is so charismatic and so full of ingenuity, why isn't he using any of that skill to help lift up his family?
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Battlefield America
    If you're looking for a tough, streetwise film about urban kids who get together to enter a national hip-hop dance competition, Battlefield America is not your movie.
  10. Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
    Jonathan Gruber and Ari Daniel Pinchot have assembled a straightforward documentary that uses Yoni's own words - in the form of his moving, eloquent letters and poems - to create a searing portrait of his short but meaningful life.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elena
    Elena reveals a filmmaker in full command of his art and not much interested in catering to an audience. If you want this film, you have to meet it more than halfway.
  12. Moonrise Kingdom
    Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's seventh movie, and it's the first since "Rushmore" that works from the opening shot to the final image.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snow White and the Huntsman
    Just feels like it was made from the pieces of every fantasy-action movie ever made.
  14. Crooked Arrows
    The story is unique and engaging enough to transcend the uplifting sports-underdog formula.
  15. Chernobyl Diaries
    The movie wants us to find this frightening, but there's no suspense, no terrifying images.
  16. Mighty Fine
    Chazz Palminteri's the best thing in the movie. He now has the look of a slightly beefier Steve Buscemi. But where Buscemi is all nerves on edge and something bad waiting to happen, Palminteri has a winning ease.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Where Do We Go Now?
    Where Do We Go Now? has a heart and an anger to offset its structural fuzziness. It's refreshingly open-minded about faith, too.
  18. I Wish
    This is much too buoyant a movie for tragedy. But Koreeda's achievement is that he gives us children who might weigh more, emotionally, than their parents, yet they're still these little creatures learning how to wield and bear that weight.
  19. Polisse
    The entire movie is pitched at a scream. But the screaming is more Janis Joplin, Axl Rose, or Mary J. Blige than Jamie Lee Curtis. All the tears I shed were hard-earned. So were all the laughing and clapping and eye-covering. In each case, it was involuntary.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Men in Black III
    Brolin's performance is funny, masterful, confident, and more than a little unsettling. If one human being can sample another, that's what's going on here. The rest of Men in Black 3 is about as good as one could hope for from an unnecessary sequel that's a decade late to the party.
  21. The Story of Film: An Odyssey
    Is The Story of Film worth 15 hours of your viewing life? Well, that's between you and your kino conscience. The first part certainly is. Cousins is extremely good at laying out the emergence of a film grammar. More important, he communicates the sense of wonder and excitement that characterized the emergence of so astonishing a medium.
  22. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Eerily tragic and chillingly hard to come to terms with.
  23. The Color Wheel
    You can feel the movie building away from the whiny comedy and toward something more emotionally raw then something sexually weird.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    What to Expect When You're Expecting
    The writing is sharp and the performances bright, and if you've been through the forced gestational march known as pregnancy, there are knowing laughs to be had. If you haven't, do yourself a favor and stay away.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bernie
    Black gets to play an actual character instead of a loudmouthed cartoon. The movie's bright and endearing and surprisingly lacking in a point. I wish I liked it better.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Darling Companion
    Darling Companion would be instantly forgettable if not for Keaton, who imbues Beth with a sorrow, warmth, wisdom, and rage that feel earned.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunter
    The Hunter becomes turgid with corporate conspiracies, hired assassins, and offscreen tragedies, and the appealing leanness of the early scenes gets lost.
  28. God Bless America
    Some of this vigilante-fantasy misbehavior is wickedly funny.
  29. Mansome
    It's a movie so late in noticing a shift in American male grooming that for a documentary on the subject to work, Spurlock would either have to pitch it to our grandparents (or be a grandparent) or trace the arc of the shift and unpack it.
  30. Surviving Progress
    More to the point, the title doubles as accusation. Progress is dangerous and requires survival tactics, just as a hurricane or avalanche does.
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