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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 5.2 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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    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    IF
    Because there’s little internal logic in IF, you may find yourself constantly asking why the characters are doing what they do, or how the whole imaginary-friend thing works within the context of the movie.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Megalopolis
    Is “Megalopolis” the movie that Coppola has wanted to make for more than 40 years? Absolutely. Is it an unfashionable ode to optimism and the freedom to create, a vision as generous as it is crazy as it is overflowing with delirious invention? That, too.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Death of a Unicorn
    Perhaps an experienced director could have pulled it off, but Scharfman isn’t there yet, and the result is a tonally confused, gracelessly shot and edited misfire that squanders its premise on escalating suspense and ugly, unconvincing digital effects.
  4. The Idea of You
    The cast does its best with the material, especially supporting player Perry Mattfeld, who makes a meal out of her small role as the mistress who broke up Solène and David’s marriage.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    MaXXXine
    The problem with making homages to junky genre movies is that sometimes you just end up with a junky genre movie.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blink Twice
    In sum, the movie’s a passable time-waster, but it might be better — for Kravitz’s filmmaking future and for us — if we just forgot the whole thing.
  7. Nightbitch
    It’s too bad that the premise hints at more of a horror twist than the movie actually delivers. Heller frequently interrupts a thin story with ambiguous dashes of magical realism that only serve to confuse.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tuesday
    At its intermittent best, “Tuesday” pulls a rough and breathtaking beauty from the cataclysm. At its worst, it’s for the birds.
  9. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
    As much as Guy Ritchie’s uber-violent, stakes-free, World War II action comedy caper “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” milks its “based on a true story” bona fides, it’s more akin to the last decade’s glut of slick, cool-guy popcorn pictures (including his own) than any meaningful retelling of real heroism.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Moana 2
    The songs aren’t the problem. Rather, it’s the muddled story, which takes way too long to give Moana — now a skilled wayfinder scouting new lands and new peoples to reconnect her long-isolated island tribe with the world — her mission.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Back in Action
    There’s just enough bite there to give the stars something to work with, and Diaz especially responds with the joy of the well-rested.
  12. Lonely Planet
    This lethargic romantic drama forces chemistry where there is none and, worse, sells out its aspirationally cool, intelligent female protagonist with an endgame that she — and the luminous Dern — hardly deserves.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Piano Lesson
    The Piano Lesson offers a spirited if uneven testimony to the playwright’s great gifts.
  14. Gardens of Stone
    James Earl Jones, James Caan and D.B. Sweeney turn in superior performances in "Gardens of Stone," but it's all for naught. Francis Coppola sabotages their efforts with a handsome but fragmentary film that can't decide which story to tell.
  15. The Keeper
    The Keeper will win no filmmaking prizes. But it doesn’t mean, or need, to. Like an infomercial, its aim is more simple, direct and unapologetic: to call attention to an epidemic hiding in plain sight. By that measure: mission accomplished.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Trap
    If you sit back and enjoy its mindless rhythms, you might have a good time. Just don’t try mining the lyrics for meaning.
  17. You're Cordially Invited
    Destined to be forgotten in the wasteland that stretches between the actor’s best work and his worst, this dumb-but-not-dumb-enough, simultaneously heartwarming and disheartening film features layer upon layer of wedding-disaster clichés (complete with a trashed cake).
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    You Gotta Believe
    You Gotta Believe is an entry in the “heartwarming true story” genre, Little League subdivision, and it isn’t bad so much as resolutely average.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
    If you have ever loved the Downton Abbey franchise, you will most likely enjoy this one while finding it pretty weak Darjeeling.
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