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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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  1. Sorry, Baby
    Tough, tender and observational, “Sorry, Baby” suggests that Victor’s promising career has been suitably launched.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Twinless
    James Sweeney seems intent on leading us all merrily to hell.
  3. All That's Left of You
    At minimum, “All That’s Left of You” is a thoughtful exploration of how trauma can both fracture and bond a family. But for those who need it, the film serves as an urgent reminder of how ignorance and passivity undermine what it means to be human.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
    The star is so engaging and her story so compelling that this well-edited profile easily hangs together.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Oh, Hi!
    A suspense comedy as breezy and noncommittal as its title, this sophomore feature from writer-director Sophie Brooks is a deceptively low-fi affair, but it keeps a cheeky premise going for longer than it has any right to.
  6. Come See Me in the Good Light
    The movie is more than an admonition for the living; it’s also an achingly bittersweet love story about caregiving.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Folktales
    The great satisfaction of this documentary is seeing the troubled children of the early scenes emerge with a maturity and equanimity that comes from pushing oneself past the furthest you thought you could go.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prime Minister
    As sympathetic — and therefore potentially biased — as “Prime Minister” is to its subject, former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, it’s also one of the most arrestingly intimate political documentaries you’ll see.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bring Her Back
    Bring Her Back is close to, but not quite, a triumph of style over substance — foreboding, unnerving and ultimately very gooey in ways that linger like the aftermath of a bad dream yet lack the nightmare cogency of truly great horror.
  10. How to Get Ahead in Advertising
    If you like your movies with smooth skin, this might not be your cup of Neutrogena. But if you appreciate satire that reaches out and squeezes you where it hurts, you're going to enjoy yourself thoroughly.
  11. Jean de Florette
    Beneath the sylvan trappings is a whodunit as riveting as any.
  12. Secret Mall Apartment
    Thanks to its thoughtful protagonists and filmmaker Jeremy Workman, what starts out as a quirky human interest story becomes a profoundly humane portrait of creativity and community.
  13. Materialists
    Maybe “Materialists” marks the emergence of a new genre: the rom-con, not in the sense that it’s against the vicarious pleasures of flirting, seduction and finally finding true love, but that it’s painfully aware of the coldhearted calculation that so often lies beneath.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thank You Very Much
    Braverman has a number of aces up his sleeve, including a wealth of interviews filmed in the 1990s by Kaufman’s girlfriend, the film producer Lynne Margulies, and his writer and best friend Bob Zmuda, for a project that was never completed.
  15. Roofman
    This internal struggle transforms “Roofman” from what could have been a run-of-the-mill heist movie into an intriguing character study, even if it falls just short of success.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Words of War
    There’s no dazzling CGI in “Words of War” — no stalwart, spandexed action figures flying through the air to land nuclear uppercuts on the villain of the hour. There’s just one woman: Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist who went up against the villain of our age and paid the ultimate price for it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Highest 2 Lowest
    Lee has kept the bones of McBain’s and Kurosawa’s versions, but he’s made his own movie, occasionally for worse but mostly for better.
  18. Little Buddha
    What is surprising is the beguiling, unpretentious result: "Little Buddha," a modern fable about a Seattle boy believed to be a reincarnated Buddhist teacher, endears the audience to the Tibetan doctrine with a glowing, almost Disneyesque panache.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jay Kelly
    There’s a lot to like about “Jay Kelly,” the unexpectedly sweet new film from director Noah Baumbach. It’s beautifully shot, bustles with strong performances by a roundly endearing cast and indulges in an old-Hollywood elegance well-suited to its story: the late-life crisis of its titular megastar, played — embodied, really — by George Clooney.
  20. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
    The story, held at well-mannered arm’s length by Piani, never gets too messy; even Agathe’s deepest psychological issues — a phobia that makes travel difficult and, later, the explanation of its traumatic roots — are handled with efficient, unfailingly discrete politesse.
  21. Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
    In an era beset with dizzying setbacks in the ideals it celebrates, Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round feels particularly necessary right now.
  22. The Last Rodeo
    The Last Rodeo may not be bodacious, but it’s a satisfying ride.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Splitsville
    The grand subject of “Splitsville” is the virtues and pitfalls of unconventional relationship structures, and it’s never more inspired than when it’s finding surreal ways to convey the insecurities such arrangements may awaken.
  24. Ghosts of Mississippi
    As an amalgam of drama and history, Reiner and scriptwriter Lewis Colick strike a surprisingly satisfying compromise.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steve
    The film ends with a plea for viewers suffering from depression and other mental health issues to reach out for help. “Steve” is a deeply compassionate drama of why they should.
  26. Is This Thing On?
    In some ways, this dramedy, directed by Bradley Cooper, is a familiar story about midlife crises and marital dissatisfaction, but it quickly swerves in a fresh direction, resulting in a movie that’s both resonant and hilarious.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hedda
    There is a ritualistic, even tribal, quality to DaCosta’s telling that suggests a truth to the story untethered to time or place: Any woman confined like Hedda is will strive to escape, one way or another.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Nuremberg
    This movie would have done better two-thirds as long but focused more tightly, or four times longer and airing on Netflix as a limited series. Still: The human and the historian in me feels compelled to recommend it. Because movies about atrocities are necessary.
  29. Dead Man's Wire
    Riveting and darkly comedic, the film nimbly conveys the tragedies of buying into the American Dream.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    John Candy: I Like Me
    You’re astonished to see how fully actualized Candy was as a performer in his short time, but you’re also left with the heartbreak of all that was left unrealized by his untimely passing.
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