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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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One to One: John & Yoko
    It takes nerve to make a documentary about the most unpopular period of a massively popular public figure’s life. “One to One: John & Yoko” demonstrates that it’s worth the effort.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sacramento
    It takes its sweet and sour time getting there, but eventually “Sacramento” finds a satisfying seriocomic groove in the plight of men facing the prospect of fatherhood and realizing adulthood has to come along for the ride.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Drop
    Drop is the sort of unpretentious suspense exercise that takes a single absurd premise and works every variation it can within a streamlined 100 minutes. Your brain is not required, but a certain amount of suspension of disbelief is the price of admission.
  4. Warfare
    Warfare is a process movie: It’s less interested in character development and “narrative” than in simply plunging viewers into an environment and giving us a sense of what life is like within it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ballad of Wallis Island
    Shot on Ramsey Island and other locations along the coast of Wales, the movie is gorgeous to look at, and it’s endearing enough to warm one’s hands and heart on a cold entertainment evening.
  6. The Encampments
    Too often, in a film about an ostensibly peaceful form of dissent, it feels like adversaries are being targeted, albeit subtly, when the real enemy is war itself.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Friend
    The Friend is a better dog movie than it is a people movie, but it’s such a wonderful dog movie that you may not mind that the people are merely fine.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    A Minecraft Movie
    The biggest surprise is that “A Minecraft Movie” ends up feeling more necessary in an era of depreciating art appreciation. Like Garrett, this movie may be tacky and loud, but it also makes a great point.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Freaky Tales
    The mystery is why a movie so hell-bent on having fun feels so formulaic.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
    Whatever your familiarity with [Liza's] indelible performances, the amount of deep cuts and candid behind-the-scenes material is an archivist’s dream.
    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Penguin Lessons
    The Penguin Lessons will please the kind of audiences who like to travel the world in comfort, as those PBS ads for Viking River Cruises say, but it accidentally offers those audiences uncomfortable food for thought.
    • 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.
    • 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.
  15. The Alto Knights
    The speculative ending is actually the most intriguing thing about “The Alto Knights,” more interesting even than De Niro times two. And yet the film’s climax nevertheless fails to raise much of a heartbeat in this boglike slog through a momentous moment in murderous mob history.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Magazine Dreams
    The movie stands as a statement of a gifted, troubled actor’s intense commitment to his craft. Beyond that, it is a punishment.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snow White
    True, the CGI dwarves (not “dwarfs,” thank you) are a pox upon the eyeballs, but other than that? It’s pretty good.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Opus
    It isn’t even a disaster; that, at least, might be interesting.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl draws a portrait of a culture with one foot in a 21st century of iPhones and laptops and the other in a crushing patriarchal hierarchy that goes back millennia and that proves nearly impossible to upend.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eephus
    Eephus belongs with the great baseball movies not because of any major league ambitions but because it understands what the game has meant and still means in small towns, among average people and weekend players.
  21. October 8
    Without demonizing either side, it shows how Israel’s pattern of mistakes, if not arrogance, may have helped set a pot on the stove that is now boiling over with venom.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Black Bag
    Black Bag is a movie about pros made by a pro, and either you’re up to the challenge or you’re not.
  23. Novocaine
    Even with a gimmick engineered to orchestrate endless bursts of Looney Tunes-style hyperviolence, “Novocaine” lives up to its name, all right — a tedious action-comedy so numbingly bland, you feel the pain of its 110-minute run time even as its protagonist can’t feel a thing.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Seven Veils
    Seven Veils doesn’t crash to Earth, but it also never quite frees itself from the notebook of its ideas to become the gripping emotional thriller it seems to want to be.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mickey 17
    It’s [Bong Joon Ho's] first film since “Parasite” became the first foreign language movie to win a best picture Oscar in 2020, and while it’s not his best work, “Mickey 17” is still a great deal of acrid fun. In the bargain, you get three great performances from two very good actors.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Universal Language
    It is as far from the commercial mainstream as narrative filmmaking gets, but for connoisseurs of the poetic bizarre, it has its very real enchantments.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Dead Friend Zoe
    My Dead Friend Zoe is straightforward as filmmaking and it’s fairly obvious as therapy, but it comes from a place of deep respect and deeper love, and everyone here honors that.
  29. Last Breath
    Much like its characters, “Last Breath” simply goes about getting the job done, without fuss or fanfare. Maybe no higher praise is necessary.
    • 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.
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