For 36 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ty Burr's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 62
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 16
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 36
  2. Negative: 4 out of 36
36 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 50
    • Ty Burr 42
    Pakula insists that The Pelican Brief is haute cuisine, and the seriousness nearly wrecks it.
    • Metascore: 30
    • Ty Burr 42
    The movie is too blatant a throwback to crass '80s teen fodder to really work.
    • Metascore: 15
    • Ty Burr 33
    Carpool is affably stupid Saturday-matinee fare -- good for opiating the kids for a few hours -- but let's just say it's no Big Bully.
    • Metascore: 27
    • Ty Burr 25
    Musketeer's fight scenes are underlit, overmiked, and appallingly edited, with none of the spacious grace that even routine Asian action flicks get right. Worse, the narrative scenes make less sense.
    • Metascore: 29
    • Ty Burr 25
    There's not much else for viewers to do but give themselves over to the whims of the bad-movie gods.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Ty Burr 16
    It's nearly unwatchable, a farrago of confusing direction, stupid plot coincidences, and banal dialogue.