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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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Live in Time
    In any event, Pugh uses her expressive eyes and ardent, intelligent sensibilities to paint a touching if underdeveloped portrait of an artist desperate to leave her mark before being rushed too soon from the show.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Slingshot
    The tension on the ship keeps accelerating in a straight and dramatically unsurprising line until the final scenes of “Slingshot,” at which point the twists come piling in, one after another, each shocker nullified by the next.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wicked: For Good
    Despite its packed agenda, the film can also feel meandering and directionless.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cleaner
    Cleaner is a “Die Hard” knockoff with just enough fresh elements to make it watchable on a slow streaming night.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    There's Still Tomorrow
    It speaks to a cultural sisterhood that knows exactly what Paola Cortellesi is talking about. But some things get lost in translation, and this lovingly crafted work of neorealist cosplay is one of them.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Working Man
    The latest collaboration between ever-reliable Brit of Few Words Jason Statham and writer-director David Ayer — who teamed up more fruitfully on last year’s “The Beekeeper,” a revenge flick as wonderfully unhinged as its title — seems to belong to a bygone, channel-surfing era.
  7. Smurfs
    Smurfs may be all over the multiverse, but it doesn’t land anywhere worth writing home about.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    After the Hunt
    The kind of statement that makes you feel like you’re watching a movie not about real people but about how eight years after #MeToo, we still haven’t figured out how to talk about it at all.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    Kogonada gives us a bighearted sentimental “Journey,” and there will be audiences who will be there for it. But I hope for his next movie, he remembers he’s better at smaller favors.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
    I regret to report that Spinal Tap has become Dad Rock.
  11. Miracle Mile
    Of course, this is the stuff of suspense thrillers, but writer-director Steve DeJarnatt sets an unsure pace that tries our patience. It seems he's not committed to his story or his characters, but to the idea that he is saying something profound -- which he isn't.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Happy Gilmore 2
    Rather than aim for the flagstick, “Happy Gilmore 2” seems all too content to lay up in search of one gimme putt after another.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Henry Johnson
    Henry Johnson is unusual for Mamet in that it focuses on the prey. It’s also as close as a movie can get to a filmed play without including your dinner and a ride home.
  14. Manon of the Spring
    To completely sabotage the work, there is an insipid affair between Manon and a young teacher, Bernard (Hippolyte Girardot). Their juvenile romance blunts the epic effect that Berri obviously is trying to create.
  15. Heads of State
    As a blithely likable blunt instrument, Heads of State gets the job done, justifying its anesthetized mayhem with a sweet-natured message about the importance of friendship, international alliances and institutional continuity.
  16. Rust
    Rust, Alec Baldwin and Joel Souza’s slow-moving, sepia-toned homage to the American western, is the kind of respectable if unremarkable genre exercise that would have come and gone without much notice were it not for the circumstances of its making.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Unholy Trinity
    The Unholy Trinity is a reminder that they don’t make ’em like they used to — and maybe that’s a good thing. A pokey, low-budget Western enlivened by a couple of aging stars happily hamming it up, it’s the kind of B movie they used to program before the feature and after the cartoon in the old days.
  18. The Long Walk
    That existential paradox — are we all in this thing called life together, or is it every man for himself? — gives the film and its protagonists something meaty to chew on as it, and they, progress. But “The Long Walk” doesn’t dig into it in any deeply satisfying way.
  19. Good Fortune
    All the world is a farce, Ansari seems to say, while suggesting that it can still be saved. But like a breezy sitcom episode, his big-screen creation doesn’t feel the need to offer solutions.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Straw
    Straw has all the feels it wants and little of the art it needs. But there’s nothing to suggest Tyler Perry would have it any other way.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tinā
    Directed and co-written by the Samoan filmmaker Miki Magasiva, the movie features a unique central character, a powerhouse star performance and some truly uplifting choral singing. Those are the good parts. The less good part is a script that pummels audiences with melodrama, manipulation and sentimental clichés until we all cry uncle.
  22. Christy
    Christy, a biopic that plays by the rules, doesn’t do justice to an athlete who gloriously broke so many of them.
  23. Babel
    Yet as sophisticated a piece of filmmaking as it is, it seems hamstrung by the banality at its center; that's why it never assembles into a satisfying whole. It's pretty -- oh, what's the word? -- stupid in its dramatization of the silly little connections that unite us, and it's somewhat selective in its choice of them.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sunshine Cleaning
    A boring, choppy dramedy.
  25. Racing Stripes
    Although this film about a zebra who aspires to win horse races has a marvelous premise, it slows to a mediocre canter right out of the starting gate.
  26. Assault on Precinct 13
    Still breaks the first and only commandment of remakes: Thou shall at the very least do justice to the original, or thou shall not be made at all.
  27. Constantine
    Much of Constantine simply portends.
  28. Man of the House
    It's got a lot of small movies bouncing around inside it, but there's no big movie on the outside.
  29. Be Cool
    It's kind of -- hmmmm, less than good, a little better than not bad, almost all right, mediocre without being grating, sort of in the C-minus-to-C-minus-minus range.
  30. House of D
    A little more literary than lifelike, House of D is a story that feels too pat, and too perfect, for its own good.
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