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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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    • 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.
  2. Detention
    The movie itself is never truly clear. If it's also never intentionally bad, its unintentional badness keeps blasting into shockingly clever places.
  3. Bully
    Bully contains some moments of real alarm and, in the school bus, one nightmarish motif.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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."
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  14. 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.
  18. 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Intruders
    Its muddled, overambitious story leaves us unsatisfied - you might even say hollow.
  20. Wrath of the Titans
    The moments that elevate Wrath above the routine are right in line with Liebesman's "Battle: Los Angeles'' high points: frenetically shot u-r-there combat sequences that feel like the real thing.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mirror Mirror
    Just a limp, jokey family film that wants to have its fairy tale magic and its hip irony, too.
  22. Free Men
    Nobility with little pacing, imagination, or energy tends not to work too well on the screen. Rahim has the eyes of the young Mandy Patinkin. If only he had some of the wildness.
  23. Footnote
    Footnote culminates with stirring gravity that you wish Cedar had the confidence - in himself, his material, and us - to sustain. Both Uriel's dilemma and his father's are unenviable, even as you understand the deep guilt, sense of conflict, and hubris this mix-up provokes.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Delicacy
    "Unpredictable'' is one adjective you could use to describe the new Audrey Tautou movie, Delicacy. Others might be "charming,'' "offbeat,'' "droll.'' "Unfocused'' and "underwhelming'' also apply.
  25. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
    The movie doesn't exactly argue anything. It's mostly a collection of scenes and footage, directed by Losier in plumes of abstraction and unified by Megson's voice-over.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunger Games
    What The Hunger Games does have is a game cast, a large budget well spent, Collins on board as co-writer, and Lawrence as Katniss.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Salt of Life
    The Salt of Life is about that moment in a man or woman's life when members of the opposite sex stop seeing them, and while the mood is jauntily sensual, the undertow is fierce.
  28. Undefeated
    The movie charts its nine-game winning streak and post-season. If there's a problem, it's that there are too few moments like that one with Chavis in the locker room.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The FP
    This purposefully bad dystopian gangsta drama - imagine a "Boyz 'n the Hood,'' "Mad Max,'' and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'' mash-up - simply fails.
  30. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    Jeff Who Lives at Home devotes so much of itself to mocking the loneliness and personal shortcomings of these characters that once it stops jabbing and turns serious, you start laughing.
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