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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Outrun
    The Outrun is a recovery drama lifted above the genre’s necessary clichés by the star’s prickly, incandescent presence. It’s also boosted by the film’s setting in the stark Orkney Isles in the north of Scotland and by Fingscheidt’s poetic approach to time, place and chronology.
  2. Wreck-It Ralph
    Emphasizes action and eye-popping visuals over emotion.
  3. ParaNorman
    A colorfully macabre stop-motion animation comedy that embraces the sociopolitical allegories of George A. Romero's zombie pictures and reworks them into a feature-length episode of "Scooby-Doo."
  4. Luce
    A funny thing happened while watching Luce. With only a half-hour or so of the movie left to go, it suddenly occurred to me: I wasn’t sure what the movie was actually about. Or, more accurately, it was about so much that, at the point where most films are starting to wrap things up, this one felt like it was still just setting the stage.
  5. Sign 'o' the Times
    The film as a whole is a little like one of those inflatable love dolls -- a reasonable facsimile, but nothing like the real thing.
  6. Welcome to Sarajevo
    But if the modestly budgeted film (loosely based on journalist Michael Nicholson's factual narrative, "Natasha's Story") lopes along a formulaic, often heavy-handed track, its pictures and subtext make a powerful statement. [9Jan1998 Pg. N.41]
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  7. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    Knappenberger’s documentary is smart and focused, homing in on a recurring theme of independence.
  8. Only the Brave
    The acting ensemble has a believable, brotherly chemistry, especially Teller and Taylor Kitsch, playing a troublemaker who initially teases Brendan brutally before the two warm up to each other, forming an adorable bond.
  9. The Tunnel
    Good old-fashioned movie storytelling that steadily builds, over the course of nearly three hours, to a white-knuckle conclusion that satisfies on nearly every level.
  10. Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
    It does exactly what its subject didn’t do: toe the line.
  11. The Search for General Tso
    A fascinating, funny and informative documentary.
  12. Dark Money
    As Ravel puts it, the disproportionate influence of money on elections isn’t a Democratic or Republican problem, but a “gateway issue to every other issue you might care about.” Dark Money makes the case, as well as any film can, that she’s pretty much right on the money.
  13. Tell Them Who You Are
    Possibly without meaning to, the younger Wexler has made a superb examination not of professional cinematography -- really, who cares? -- but of the eternal bad business between fathers and sons.
  14. Hellboy
    Surprisingly smart, graphically faithful live-action adaptation of the Mike Mignola series
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sleepless in Seattle
    There are no surprises in Sleepless, and the audience is ahead of the characters every step of the way. But people seem to like it that way. And, hey, it works like a charm.
  16. Violette
    Violette mostly avoids the pitfalls associated with movies about writers by limiting the scenes of Violette scribbling furiously in a notebook.
  17. Betting on Zero
    Betting on Zero makes such a strong and effective case that the company does, in fact, engage in shady business practices that it’s likely to leave viewers in a state of Documentary High Dudgeon (that brand of cinematic outrage that is not entirely unmixed with a pleasurable feeling of moral superiority).
  18. Days of the Whale
    Propelled by a lyrical, pulsing soundtrack of Colombian rock, hip-hop and bolero, Days of the Whale is less a character study, or even a love story than a vibrant study in swirling perpetual motion.
  19. Hail, Caesar!
    Slick, silly and often extravagantly pretty, it’s a pastiche that threads a tricky needle, conveying the dual nature of cinema as an enchanting art form and a ruthless, rationalized industrial practice.
  20. Candy Mountain
    Though much of "Candy" is a clumsy sprawl, there's more than enough human spirit in the tank to keep it going.
  21. The Painted Bird
    At nearly three hours long, and told with the book’s peripatetic structure, moving from nightmare to nightmare, The Painted Bird is not for the faint of heart.
  22. The Color Purple
    In the end, The Color Purple manages to find a sweet spot between tragedy and entertainment. But is that really the best way to honor Walker’s vision?
  23. Mistaken for Strangers
    What might have been just another anodyne promo piece or solipsistic valentine instead becomes a funny, eccentric and finally deeply poignant depiction of art, family, ­self-sabotage and the prickly intricacies of brotherly love.
  24. Planes, Trains & Automobiles
    There are many periods when the two men are traveling and you feel the need to fast-forward the movie to another scene. This is not a great comedy but it's a string of funny highlights.
  25. Igby Goes Down
    A dead-on sense of how rich kids live and talk today, a sense of the melancholy of a dysfunctional family, and some great dark laughs.
  26. Babes
    Glazer and Rabinowitz’s script can be patchy and manic, but it does its best work showing the contortions women undergo to prove their support, especially in today’s “yaaaas queen” era where everyone is a goddess.
  27. Safety Not Guaranteed
    As happens with many time-travel films, this one ultimately paints itself into a bit of a narrative corner.
  28. Christine
    A great performance does not necessarily make for great tragedy, and Christine remains mired in the minutiae of its portrait of a doomed, bitter young woman.
  29. Clear and Present Danger
    There's nothing "wrong" with this movie but it feels like warmed-over business as usual.
  30. Die Hard
    A logistical wonder, a marvel of engineering, and relentlessly, mercilessly thrilling.
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