Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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For 1,689 reviews, this critic has graded:
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.2 points higher than other critics.
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Ty Burr's Scores
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Positive: 1,162 out of 1689
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Mixed: 284 out of 1689
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Negative: 243 out of 1689
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Ty Burr 25
Ramsay delivers an overdirected, conceptually obnoxious art film that's torture to sit through, listen to, and think about.- Posted Mar 8, 2012
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Ty Burr 38
A sociopolitical prankumentary in which the prank blows up in the filmmaker's face, exploding-cigar style.- Posted Sep 20, 2012
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Ty Burr 38
Sure, go ahead and take the kids. But, for pity's sake, read them the book first. -
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Ty Burr 38
Dumbed down, tarted up, and almost shockingly uninspired, it's the worst superhero movie since "Green Lantern."- Posted Jul 2, 2012
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Ty Burr 38
Settles for the cliches of American suspense films, right down to an ending that leaves the door open to a possible sequel. -
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Ty Burr 38
Even a fan, however, might prefer the excellent, recently released concert DVD "Pixies: Live at the Paradise in Boston" to this tepid behind-the-scenes experience. -
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Ty Burr 38
An attempt to turn the 2005 nonfiction bestseller into a high-energy docu-romp, Freakonomics is a misconceived botch. -
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Ty Burr 38
Ball's trying to be honest about adolescent coming of age, but since he's dishonest about everything else, the movie collapses in on itself. -
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Ty Burr 38
I could pile on the cooking metaphors until you cried "uncle," but the fact remains that there's a very good movie in here that its makers have failed to bring off.- Posted Oct 13, 2011
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Ty Burr 38
The film is low budget but puffed with self-importance, and it offers proof that Hollywood filmmakers should probably steer clear of topics that actually matter. -
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Ty Burr 38
Hobbled by its vaguely insulting comic-book version of the '60s and by a humorlessness that can only come from talented people convinced they're creating work for the ages. -
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Ty Burr 38
The result is a revenge thriller that's too taken with its own ambience to actually thrill. -
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Ty Burr 38
Diary of a Wimpy Kid the movie returns Kinney's tale to live-action reality, and the party's over. -
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Ty Burr 38
While there are moments of eldritch atmosphere and a few pro forma jolts, nothing here justifies our attention, let alone the film's inexplicable R rating.- Posted Aug 25, 2011
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Ty Burr 38
I don't know if I've ever seen a movie as spectacularly tone-deaf as Hyde Park on Hudson.- Posted Dec 13, 2012
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Ty Burr 38
Hopefully the last, of the fake trailer spinoffs of 2007's "Grindhouse." It makes last year's "Machete" look like "The King's Speech."- Posted May 28, 2011
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Ty Burr 38
Aggressive visual invention is rarely its own reward, and this movie does nothing to better the odds. -
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Ty Burr 38
Hints at a place where desire, fear, pleasure, and power all intersect, but it never actually goes there. -
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Ty Burr 38
Zwigoff's overdue for a turkey, in other words. Art School Confidential is it. -
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Ty Burr 25
Essentially, an act of terrorism against entertainment. It's inconsequential, potty - mouthed, extremely silly, and -- the worst sin of all -- dead boring. -
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Ty Burr 38
The producers of Ella Enchanted probably assume, correctly, that many more kids haven't read the book than have, and they're out to give that audience a slick, shallow good time. -
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Ty Burr 38
Handsomely shot and with a likable lead in Kuno Becker, it also suffers from a script so outrageously generic you could buy it at Costco. -
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Ty Burr 38
She has been made lovable -- and a Vanity Fair with a lovable Becky Sharp has no reason to exist. It's as if Shakespeare had put Hamlet on Prozac: What's the point? -
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Ty Burr 38
A noisy and lazy stopgap movie that goes absolutely nowhere and takes 2 1/2 hours to get there. -
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Ty Burr 38
A blandly filmed and subtext-heavy talkathon that wastes a game cast on a group of characters about whom it's almost impossible to care. If this were a cocktail party, you'd be back home with a good book already. -
