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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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Piece By Piece
    The movie serves as product placement for a brand of toys but also as a form of creative brick-olage, one that reflects a modern music producer’s ability to weave small units of musical noise into an epic canvas that gets the whole world up offa that thing.
  2. The Merchant of Venice
    As cinematic storytelling, it works.
  3. 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.
  4. Star 80
    It never ventures close enough to the victims to inspire profound reflections on the pity and terror of it all. [12 Nov 1983, p.C1]
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  5. Kingdom of Heaven
    To introduce an archetype like this to western audiences -- as the world weathers culturally and religiously demonizing times -- may have been worth this whole flawed movie. Too bad the story didn't just start with him.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On Swift Horses
    As a director, Minahan knows his way around a track, but on the evidence of this film, he’s not yet ready to run wild.
  7. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    She is so funny she should come with a seven-day waiting period.
  8. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
    The Electrical Life of Louis Wain tells its story with sympathy, but too many quirks and try-hard flourishes. In the welter and spin of tics, voice-overs, set pieces, images, flashbacks and dream states, the man himself gets as lost as a kitten in the rain.
  9. Chronicles
    Although it's often difficult to discern amid a schematic plot and overheated, sanctimonious denouement, an undeniable reality underlies Cronicas.
  10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Although "Hitchhiker" starts out a total gas, it doesn't have enough fuel to sustain the ride, ultimately amounting to little more than some amusing gags strung together in search of a story.
  11. Home Alone
    The movie has a big payoff; it's the setup that's the drag. But Kevin's antics will touch the budding subversive in every kid. My advice? Hide the car keys.
  12. Denial
    The movie may be competent at telling its story, but it’s missing one key ingredient: feeling.
  13. Gaza Strip
    Its one-sidedness flirts with propaganda.
  14. The Way Home
    Simple without being slight, and profoundly moving without dipping into mawkishness.
  15. Out of the Furnace
    A well-acted, beautifully filmed, utterly depressing chronicle of revenge and thwarted dreams in post-industrial America.
  16. Buster's Mal Heart
    Malek’s talents serve a much more personal, ultimately touching story.
  17. Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
    Hey, I never said The Covenant wasn’t manipulative. It is — skillfully, entertainingly and at times almost overbearingly so. But oh, boy, does it work.
  18. Pitch Perfect 2
    A comedy that, if not always better than the first, is certainly more uproarious.
  19. Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
    Yes, “Honk” picks some low-hanging fruit. But it also, as it turns out, leaves a sour aftertaste in the mouth.
  20. Downton Abbey: A New Era
    The subtitle refers not only to the twilight of the 1920s but to a changing of the guard in this entertainment franchise as well. In that sense, maybe Downton Abbey isn’t really giving its fans what they want, but what they have always needed to accept in this epic saga: that time doesn’t stand still.
  21. Mistress
    Landau and Wuhl give especially heartfelt performances under the obviously sympathetic direction of Barry Primus, who based the story on his own attempts to finance a project.
  22. Pope Francis - A Man of His Word
    In this stirring portrait, it’s possible to see evangelism not in hectoring words or holier-than-thou bromides, but in loving action. Who wouldn’t say amen to that?
  23. The Game
    Certainly handsome, well made and for most of its running time gripping, the film ultimately turns into a $60-odd-million piffle.
  24. A Coffee In Berlin
    It manages to make an entertaining story out of nothing in particular. And just when you get comfortable passively observing a passive observer, the minutest of twists becomes its own call to action. It urges the audience to consider this small story in a broader context.
  25. Dear Frankie
    Within this overly familiar trope, there's plenty of room for small surprises, not the least of which are delightful, understated performances all around.
  26. Atomic Blonde
    Ultimately, Atomic Blonde is, like its heroine, something of a machine. Lit by glowing neon, fueled by the rhythm of ’80s power pop and fashioned from stiletto heels, cigarettes, guns and sunglasses, it looks and sounds good, but it isn’t much of a conversationalist.
  27. I'm Your Woman
    I’m Your Woman isn’t so much off-kilter as it is ballasted by a different, perhaps lower center of gravity. The title sounds exploitative — perhaps even silly — but the tale it spins is one of power and, ultimately, of coming unexpectedly, satisfyingly, into one’s own.
  28. Vitus
    The cast is superb, especially the young actors who portray Vitus; Gheorghiu is a real-life piano prodigy, lending an extra frisson to the intoxicating music that plays throughout the film.
  29. Cachorro
    Has a refreshingly original attitude.
  30. How She Move
    The movie, which is burdened by a rather mediocre script by Annmarie Morais but boasts some terrific performances -- is not just a sports movie. It's a girls-can't-do-it/girls-can-do-it/girls-do-it/girls-beat-the-boys-at-it movie.
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