Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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For 1,685 reviews, this critic has graded:
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56% higher than the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.3 points higher than other critics.
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Ty Burr's Scores
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Positive: 1,160 out of 1685
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Mixed: 283 out of 1685
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Negative: 242 out of 1685
1,685
movie reviews
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Ty Burr 63
The movie isn't badly done, just overdone - a cozy art-house crowd-pleaser coasting on the expectations of its genre.- Posted Dec 16, 2010
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Ty Burr 100
On the most basic level the new film is pure vaudeville: a loopy flyaway fantasy that's hysterically funny if only to keep the darkness at bay. -
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Ty Burr 88
Spare and elegant and harrowing, it's an ode to childhood trust being stretched until it snaps. -
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Ty Burr 88
Even more than "Chicken Run," Were-Rabbit is a tiny plasticine masterpiece. -
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Ty Burr 88
Elena reveals a filmmaker in full command of his art and not much interested in catering to an audience. If you want this film, you have to meet it more than halfway.- Posted May 31, 2012
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Ty Burr 88
Fateless looks man's inhumanity to man square in the eye and pronounces it standard operating procedure, and that may be the greater horror. -
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Ty Burr 88
Brokeback may be too polished for some people, too elegantly dispassionate in its study of choked passion. -
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- Posted Mar 29, 2012
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Ty Burr 88
A fitting, expertly made final chapter, freighted with hard-won emotions, shot through with a sense of farewell, and fully aware of the epic stakes involved.- Posted Jul 13, 2011
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- Posted Oct 11, 2012
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Ty Burr 100
Murderball is a paradox: a movie about quadriplegics that insists we look beyond their disability. -
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Ty Burr 88
Moneyball is a hilarious and provocative change-up, entertaining without feeling the need to swing for the fences.- Posted Sep 22, 2011
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Ty Burr 88
Epic in scope, ambition, and execution, it's a classic swords-and-samurai film with postmodern blood and guts, and it's completely satisfying.- Posted May 5, 2011
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- Posted Nov 8, 2012
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Ty Burr 100
You may even feel like dancing in the aisles yourself. Sure, the real world doesn't always work this way. Have you forgotten that this is one of the reasons why we go to movies in the first place? -
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Ty Burr 100
More than "Unforgiven," more than "Mystic River," it is Clint Eastwood's autumnal masterpiece. -
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Ty Burr 100
Movies like The Kids Are All Right -- beautifully written, impeccably played, funny and randy and true -- don't come along very often. -
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Ty Burr 88
Like the best spiritual movies, of whatever faith, "Of Gods and Men" moves us toward a union with the infinite, and when we come to the monks' last supper, the moment is staggeringly powerful.- Posted Mar 17, 2011
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Ty Burr 88
It isn't often you get to meet the devil in all his glory, but here he is in Deliver Us From Evil, and his name is Father Oliver O'Grady. -
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Ty Burr 100
As its title implies, This Is England isn't a hyperstylized head-trip a la "Trainspotting" but a straightforward calling to account. -
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Ty Burr 88
Compston's performance and the downer milieu, presented with appropriate paint-peeling profanity, are more than enough to keep an audience riveted and ultimately moved close to tears. -
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Ty Burr 88
When The Departed roars to life, as it does in so many of its scenes, you feel like nobody understands movies -- the delirious highs, the unforgiving moral depths -- as well as this man does. Welcome back, Marty. -
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Ty Burr 100
She's (Hushpuppy) trying to make sense of this world, and the movie, pitched between realism and fable, is the story of how she finally does. That balance is the key to the movie's magic.- Posted Jul 5, 2012
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Ty Burr 88
The subject is the privileged state of childhood itself - how we're all lucky to have had it and how it so easily floats away from our grasp. -
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Ty Burr 100
There are three Poles in The Pianist -- Szpilman, Polanski, and Frederic Chopin. Of the three, fittingly, Chopin speaks the loudest. -
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Ty Burr 88
Smartly written and beautifully played, The Savages is about that point in life where you look around and realize that where you are is probably as far as you're going to get. In spite of this, the movie's a comedy, dry and humane. -
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Ty Burr 88
Lebanon gives us viscerally violent, intensely distressing glimpses into war's annihilation of people, places, and communities. -
