For 36 reviews, this critic has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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39% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Ty Burr's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 62 |
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100
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| Lowest review score: |
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16
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 36
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Mixed: 13 out of 36
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Negative: 4 out of 36
36
movie reviews
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Ty Burr 100
You may not like the terms Tarantino sets, but you have to admit he succeeds on them. -
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Ty Burr 100
Steven Spielberg overcame the lumpy plotting of Peter Benchley's novel to create an efficient, graceful fright machine in Jaws. -
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Ty Burr 91
From the opening shot of a burnt-orange GTO cruising a high school parking lot to the strains of Aerosmith's ''Sweet Emotion,'' Richard Linklater's film nails mid-'70s adolescence so precisely that you'll need Clearasil by the end credits. -
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Ty Burr 83
The result has the dingy grace of pigeons flying across an urban wasteland. -
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Ty Burr 83
For once, too, David Mamet the director outshines David Mamet the writer. -
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Ty Burr 83
The improvisations are a mixed bag -- Reed and Fox are surprisingly hilarious, while Roseanne is a shrieking horror show -- but the air of gentle play and a wistful sense that Brooklyn is some kind of lost Eden put this one up on the more structured "Smoke." -
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Ty Burr 83
Ang Lee's film of the Jane Austen novel slavishly follows the gospel according to Merchant Ivory, swooning over characters declaiming modestly while surrounded by topiary. -
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Ty Burr 83
For a movie that's mostly a plotless mix of old sci-fi flicks and Bowie-esque gender-bending, Rocky Horror continues to charm. That's due in part to the honest delight we take in the freedoms this movie so cheerfully flaunts. -
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Ty Burr 75
Sean Penn and Robert Duvall basically played the Two Faces of Dennis: hyper young firebrand and cautious older lion. -
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Ty Burr 75
A perfectly enjoyable star vehicle that does exactly what it sets out to do. [7 May 1999, p.66] -
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Ty Burr 75
Reiner's penchant for hip little riffs -- Billy Crystal as a yiddish wizard, etc. -- dilutes primal power in favor of genial fun. -
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Ty Burr 75
From the neon-sign opening titles to the derivative angst of the dialogue, it's a touchstone of '80s pop culture, and a schizophrenic one, too. -
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Ty Burr 75
The film is shot in color and includes an amped-up Danny Elfman version of Bernard Herrmann's haunting score. -
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Ty Burr 67
This is one of those follies that go beyond pesky, bourgeois notions of ''good'' and ''bad.'' -
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Ty Burr 67
Rodriguez makes the same mistake as other first-time auteurs: The world of this movie exists only in relation to other movies, particularly the Sergio Leone-Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns of the early '60s. -
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Ty Burr 67
Sets, music, and imagery are rigorously controlled and undeniably stunning, but after a while flaws creep into the plot's double helix. -
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Ty Burr 67
Relaxed, valedictory, exquisitely titled, Grumpy Old Men feels like an odd couple's last hurrah. -
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Ty Burr 58
Judging by the title, though, Sprecher made the movie she wanted to make, and if you're in the right damp-wool mood, you may connect with it too. -
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Ty Burr 58
It's a little short on coherence and long on comic-book sensationalism -- dig the hokey, climactic Battle of the Minds between the hero and a cadaverous Mr. Big -- but there's no denying the nightmarish pull of the film's aesthetic. -
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Ty Burr 58
A sumptuous two-and-a-quarter-hour emotional epic built on one lachrymose climax after another. What little plot there is exists only to set up the next Big Cry. -
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Ty Burr 58
If writer-director Tony Vitale ladles on the cliches with extra sauce, Guido still has a hey-Ma-I'm-makin'-a-movie enthusiasm that's more infectious than it has a right to be. -
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Ty Burr 58
Murphy gives a reined in performance that, every so often, shows a spark of the ''Shrek''ish donkey within. -
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Ty Burr 58
If you can stagger around the plot holes (how'd a Brazilian cargo ship with a dead crew get to Lake Michigan?), the last 30 minutes are pure, dumb monster-movie fun. -
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Ty Burr 42
Dian Bachar, as Joe's pint-size sidekick, sounds the only note of sly wit; the unidentified stripper playing T-Rex delivers the only real shock value. The movie could have used a lot more of both. -
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Ty Burr 42
The only entertainment value is in imagining Turner's apoplexy when he watched Spader having sex with Rosanna Arquette's leg wound. -
