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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    National Anthem
    National Anthem is that rarity, a genuinely sensual American movie, and in that sensuality it connects its characters to the transcendence and union promised by Emerson, Whitman, Melville and all the rest of our country’s great literary dreamers.
  2. Chile '76
    Chile ’76 turns out to be a paranoid thriller altogether worthy of the era it captures with such cool, self-contained style.
  3. Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
    The documentary could have been shapelier and better focused, but it packs lots of information and even more emotion.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It Ain't Over
    Berra’s advice, of course, tends to be dizzyingly contradictory but deceptively simple. The same could be said of It Ain’t Over, which zips through Berra’s life without ever feeling rushed. When it comes to Mullin’s well-paced depiction of a misunderstood legend, Berra’s words put it best: “You can observe a lot by watching.”
  5. Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
    Obliquely but evocatively, “Desperate Souls” ponders the many roles of the cowboy: gay icon, cinematic hero and symbol of American manifest destiny from the Rockies to the Mekong. Yet the documentary acknowledges that neither Schlesinger’s film nor its era could change everything.
  6. How to Have Sex
    The direction and performances in “How to Have Sex” are so spontaneous and naturalistic that the film often plays like a slice-of-life documentary; it’s not necessarily a fully realized story, but as one chapter, it’s extraordinarily vivid.
  7. Anselm
    As Kiefer’s monumental art decays, “Anselm” can endure as his memorial.
  8. Fallen Leaves
    Fallen Leaves casts an irresistible spell, one that’s as playful as it is full of longing and pathos.
  9. The Taste of Things
    Binoche is so gifted, she no longer seems to act anymore: She just is, in all her serene confidence and physical charisma, and “The Taste of Things” provides the ideal showcase for those ineffable gifts.
  10. Last Summer
    The French provocateur Catherine Breillat gets her kicks with unnerving tales of sexual coercion, but a clothed, close-up first kiss in “Last Summer” may be her most excruciating to date.
  11. The Old Oak
    If “Oak” brushes up against the fuzzy calculus of melodrama, Mari and Turner always wrestle it back to earth.
  12. The Scent of Green Papaya
    Scent is a captured memory, a living, breathing reverie rather than a narrative. It's also the birth of a great talent.
  13. Bobi Wine: The People's President
    The documentary’s resulting mix of intimate portrait and raw street warfare proves visceral, dynamic and sometimes upsetting — although Sharp and Bwayo say they excluded the most horrific footage.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
    Cousins succeeds at his main task. He brings back a genius in all his contradictions, and his movies in all their deadly delights.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Iron Claw
    Once The Iron Claw populates its first half with peppy needle drops, seaty training montages and brotherly bonding, the pivot toward death and heartache becomes all the more wrenching.
  16. The Plot Against Harry
    Roemer gives this tour of the chopped-liver circuit, with its bar mitzvahs and fashion shows and dog training classes, a bluesy, mordant spirit.
  17. Nyad
    Despite its over-credulous willingness to go along on what through one lens amounts to a massive ego trip, Nyad manages to be a celebration of perseverance, self-belief and learning how to be loved.
  18. June Zero
    As Paltrow (Gwyneth’s brother), who directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Tom Shoval, makes his own case that history is built of small, individual actions that tend to be overlooked, he allows himself a bit of gallows humor.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bikeriders
    All that’s missing, really, is a story. “The Bikeriders” is almost good enough to convince us we don’t need one.
  20. The Mission
    Although the focus eventually returns to Chau’s disastrous undertaking, the asides gradually take over. The film expands into a debate on the ethics of missionary Christianity.
  21. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
    After years of dabbling, lyrically and literally, Taylor Swift has come for American cinema, and we can only wait for her next move.
  22. Next Goal Wins
    Ultimately, Next Goal Wins isn’t really a sports movie at all, but one whose deceptively simple mantras — “Be happy” and “There’s more to life than soccer” — are the most subversive (and winning) things about it.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wicked Little Letters
    Wicked Little Letters manages the paradoxical trick of being both broadly played and finely acted, the first due to a director intent on underlining every action with a heavy Sharpie and the second to a cast that colors in the outlines of their characters with finesse, depth and life.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Critic
    At 85, Ian McKellen doesn’t have many performances left in him, so any movie that lets the actor carve ham with such exuberant relish as “The Critic” is worth his time and ours.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    They Shot the Piano Player
    Under the supervision of animation director Carlos Léon Sancha, the film is a graceful, somewhat overbusy visual treat, a playful riot of colors anchored by a crisp sense of line.
  26. Mean Girls
    This “Mean Girls” may be a sugarcoated object lesson about unhealthy, ingrained behaviors, but it’s no downer.
  27. To Kill a Tiger
    What’s extraordinary about To Kill a Tiger is Kiran and Ranjit’s determination, and the possible changes for good that may result from it.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
    Wiseman's approach is to drop you blindly into the middle of the Troisgros milieu and allow details to emerge scene by scene, frame by frame, as if you're watching a photograph come into clear, four-color focus over several hours.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
    While there are no salacious details or plot-moving drama about what makes Queen Bey tick — and there shouldn’t be — Renaissance reveals something else, showcasing the joy to be found in cultural touchstones like the tour and the community built around it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elio
    The sugar highs of this rambunctious thrill ride are fun, in other words, but in the end “Elio” is most memorable when it eases up to celebrate the invisible ties of love and friendship that bind all of us aliens to each other.
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