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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
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fairy
    The Fairy may be as close as we'll ever get to a live-action cartoon.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Marley
    It's an outstanding, warts-and-all look at reggae legend Bob Marley.
  3. Damsels in Distress
    These are women who seemed raised on Louisa May Alcott and might have been aspirationally besotted with Jane Austen. But you sense tragedy looming. They're hurtling, inexorably, toward Tennessee Williams.
  4. Think Like a Man
    It's not much of a part for Henson. None of these characters makes real-world sense. They're walking chapter outlines.
  5. To the Arctic
    More storytelling and less preaching would have served those messages better.
  6. The Lucky One
    Seeing her (Schilling) and Efron fumble at each other is like watching a stick of butter and a bag of flour not turn into a cake.
  7. Inside Hana's Suitcase
    In the end, what makes Inside Hana's Suitcase so powerful is the most traditional technique of all: authentic and eloquent storytelling by memorable characters.
  8. October Baby
    Its anti-abortion stance aside, October Baby looks and feels like a Lifetime movie waiting not to happen.
  9. Life Happens
    Unfortunately, the potential for screwball comedy is wasted because L!fe Happens never finds its thematic tone or comedic rhythm.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lady
    It can't be easy to turn one of the most stirring human rights dramas of the past quarter century into stultifying screen pageantry, but director Luc Besson and writer Rebecca Frayn have managed the trick with The Lady.
  11. Goon
    The movie's unlikely sincerity can't completely offset its ugliness for less bloodthirsty viewers, but it helps, and it does smooth over some narrative rough edges.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue Like Jazz
    It does give believers and those tottering on the edge something to chew on, and it steadfastly refuses to demonize everybody else.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Have a Pope
    Whenever it stays with Piccoli, though, it's mysterious and moving, struck by the humility of a man who's not up to playing God.
  14. Detention
    The movie itself is never truly clear. If it's also never intentionally bad, its unintentional badness keeps blasting into shockingly clever places.
  15. Bully
    Bully contains some moments of real alarm and, in the school bus, one nightmarish motif.
  16. The Three Stooges
    How could the Farrellys not? It pleases me to report that the movie is far from a disaster – on a dozen or so occasions, it's even funny.
  17. Lockout
    If you're an "Escape From New York" fan, you might have wondered about those rumors about a possible remake...Well, wonder no more. Producer Luc Besson's action factory has beaten everyone to it, stylishly. They're just calling the thing Lockout, and setting it in outer space.
  18. Hipsters
    Hipsters is also kind of amazing, thanks to headlong enthusiasm and an endearing obliviousness to just how ghastly the whole thing keeps threatening to become.
  19. Gerhard Richter - Painting
    The man we meet is intelligent and good-humored. "They do what they want," he says with a shrug, indicating a set of just-completed canvases. "I planned something different."
  20. Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
    "I've seen the look on people's faces when I've brought them there," Whedon says of the convention. "It's the look I had on my face. 'My tribe, my tribe, I've found my tribe.' "
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Cabin in the Woods
    The movie balances nicely on the edge of meta-horror, with characters breaking free of their assigned roles (in more ways than one) and monkey-wrenching the very urban legend they're dying to get out of.
  22. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
    Under a different set of circumstances - in a different society - the development might have flourished. But The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a documentary, not fantasy.
  23. Losing Control
    This is a manic hour and a half. It's full of pushy, grabby, assertive, borderline obnoxious characters, not all of whom went to Harvard.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thin Ice
    The movie never fully clicks.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a foodie's delight, obviously, and best seen either on a full stomach or with restaurant reservations immediately following.
  26. American Reunion
    The directors don't know how to make this new plot funny or infectious. Most promises of comedic pleasure go as unfulfilled Stifler's T-shirt. This movie hasn't a clue where to begin the donation process.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Kid with a Bike
    The Dardennes achieve lyricism without seeming to try.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Raid: Redemption
    Poised at the midway point between an ultraviolent video game and a neo-classic dance musical. As midnight-movie mash-ups go, it's pretty amazing.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Boy
    Hyper-stylized, funny, a crowd-pleaser.
  30. The Deep Blue Sea
    Rachel Weisz has become an exquisite camera artist. In a single shot, she can open up a whole movie. The Deep Blue Sea has a scene like that.
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