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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Eerily tragic and chillingly hard to come to terms with.
  5. 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.
  10. God Bless America
    Some of this vigilante-fantasy misbehavior is wickedly funny.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Battleship
    If only there were more genuine rah-rah fun involved, instead of just endless, thudding, seen-it-all-before mayhem.
  14. The Dictator
    You're left with an inert, politically neutral movie, a satire that can't bring itself to properly satirize anything.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elles
    Both provocative and muddled, the film's a moody, passive-aggressive tract that's buoyed by superior performances and sunk by its own uncertainties. An alternate title might be "The Joylessness of Sex."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Headhunters
    It's crisp entertainment even as plot absurdities gum up the works.
  17. Sound of My Voice
    It's as much a satire as a mystery, a film as much about art as it is about faith.
  18. Goodbye First Love
    This is an easy movie to spoil. It's rather plotless. But things happen in precisely the way that life happens.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    First Position
    Because its subjects are so driven and so talented, First Position, which is about ballet, is more gripping than the norm.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark Shadows
    Tim Burton has got his groove back.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is Not a Film
    In short, This Is Not a Film is the world within an apartment, and it is quietly devastating.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    It's predictable fluff, sometimes pleasantly so, at others times irritatingly.
  23. The Avengers
    You don't need to be a "comic-book person" to find the set pieces exhilarating. But if you are such a person, or a fan of the movies that comic books turn into, The Avengers feels like the moment you've been waiting for.
  24. Safe
    Writer-director Boaz Yakin delivers his conflicting elements mostly as intended, and with obvious ambition. But he fails to take care of certain fundamentals - most problematically, coaxing out the emotion he's seeking from Statham and young newcomer Catherine Chan.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Raven
    A grimly preposterous serial-killer thriller set in 19th-century Baltimore, this riff on the final days of the author of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and other masterpieces of the macabre might qualify as literary desecration if it weren't so silly.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Five-Year Engagement
    Five-Year Engagement alternates between realistic scenes of couples bickering and broad character farce, and the two halves mesh uneasily.
  27. Turn Me On, Dammit!
    What's refreshing about the Danish movie is how direct the girls are.
  28. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    The movie could also teach something to the makers of "Pirates of the Caribbean" about delivering a story quirky enough to actually stick with you.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsieur Lazhar
    There's a quiet metaphor here: How do you teach children without touching them - their minds, their souls, their sensitivities?
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chimpanzee
    In general, the more young people who see the film, the more who will be made aware of a fascinating, complicated near-relative whose numbers are dwindling rapidly.
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