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 100
In its unhurried fashion, Sugar can take its place with the best baseball movies. Where most focus on the grand slam, this one's about the life that surrounds the game and everything that comes after. -
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Ty Burr 88
This is one cinematic novella that stays with you for quite a while. -
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Ty Burr 75
If it were any more real - if it were Imax, say -- the audience would be molting. -
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Ty Burr 88
The Namesake has a deep, alluvial poetry to it, like a mighty river reaching the sea. It's mysterious and ordinary, insightful and banal, rambling and precise, and it is altogether unexpected. -
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Ty Burr 88
So what is Hunger? Unexpectedly, a visually ravishing tour of hell and a meditation on freedom that at best is wordlessly profound and at worst interestingly obscure. -
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Ty Burr 88
Anvil! is one of the sweetest, funniest films I've seen this year. Also the loudest and most foulmouthed. -
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- Posted Jun 16, 2011
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Ty Burr 88
Michael Clayton is about the gap between predatory professionalism and the sins of real life - about how those sins can corrode the hardest business suit of armor. -
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Ty Burr 75
Smartly filmed (aside from a few distracting editing fripperies), but it's so dazzled by its subject and saddened by his martyrdom that it never moves past the heroic politics of dissent. -
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Ty Burr 88
As sagas of endurance in the face of ridiculous odds go, this story is up there with Shackleton and ''Into Thin Air.'' -
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Ty Burr 63
At its most interesting, the movie offers us the sight of people desperately embracing faith in the hopes it will pull them through. -
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Ty Burr 75
You come away impressed, oppressed, provoked, and beaten down, holding on to Ledger's squirrelly incandescence as a beacon in the darkness. -
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Ty Burr 88
Burma VJ’ retorts that eyes and ears are everywhere in our ever-tightening global communications mesh. Voices, too, and they get heard. The generals and the ayatollahs have every right to be scared. -
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Ty Burr 88
Filmed with a cold, poetic beauty, The Return slowly strips away motivation until it arrives at a place of myth both private and oddly universal. -
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Ty Burr 75
Doesn't derive its power from the turning wheels of plot suspense but from the simple act of looking and not blinking. -
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Ty Burr 88
Does what too many independent American movies only pretend to do: Takes you to an unnoticed corner of our country and shows what it's like to actually live there. -
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Ty Burr 88
It's spookily touching to see this massed group of former rock gods gathered to honor one of their fallen. Bald spots and graying shags predominate; the giant velvet lapels of 1969 have given way to sensible sport coats; the granny glasses are for real. -
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Ty Burr 75
The anti-"Kill Bill." This is an old man's movie in all the good ways: gentle, humanistic, rich with observation, quietly aware of all that can't be solved by the sword. -
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Ty Burr 75
It’s rooted in observed reality and idiosyncratic individuals. It’s possible, Silva is saying, to live among people and still be terribly, crushingly isolated. -
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Ty Burr 88
This is the first time, though, his (Mortensen)performance seemed so much bigger than the film surrounding it. That he manages the feat with so few wasted gestures puts him in line with the greats. -
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Ty Burr 88
Grueling yet ultimately exhilarating. -
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Ty Burr 75
Mao had it wrong; in ''Revolution,'' political power comes out of the barrel of a TV tube. -
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Ty Burr 88
The opening 15 minutes of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World are so well crafted that they restore your faith in commercial cinema. -
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Ty Burr 88
A visually overwhelming labor of love, a hand-drawn medieval adventure tale that seeks and finds cosmic connections. -
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Ty Burr 75
So there's a hole at the center of "Pete Seeger" that the movie fills with loving remembrances, testimonials, and new interview footage of the singer at his hand-built cabin in upstate New York. -
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Ty Burr 75
What sustains the film is its tone of almost hallucinatory foreboding. White Material isn't about the calm before the storm but the seconds before the deluge.- Posted Dec 14, 2010
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