Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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For 1,686 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: 1,160 out of 1686
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Mixed: 283 out of 1686
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Negative: 243 out of 1686
1,686
movie reviews
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Ty Burr 88
With pained gentleness, her film insists we make our homelands within us and take them wherever we go. -
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Ty Burr 88
The real deal, an often awkward but nonetheless terrifically compelling high-stakes human drama. -
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Ty Burr 88
A broad, foursquare piece of populist filmmaking that happens to be tremendously moving. -
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Ty Burr 88
Remarkably, ''Me and You" doesn't shock so much as soothe. -
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Ty Burr 88
The film confirms director Audiard as a master of visual mood, in this case one of barely expressed emotional panic. -
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Ty Burr 88
In its unstated cynicism, beauty, and self-pity, Last Days fits the myth of Cobain like a torn pair of jeans. -
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Ty Burr 88
The Aristocrats -- the movie, not the joke -- is a working demonstration of the pleasures of the profane. -
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Ty Burr 88
An exquisitely filmed, emotionally transfixing epic about a white South African boy's journey to return his pet cheetah to the wild. -
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Ty Burr 88
Richly provocative entertainment, as heady as a cocktail party with the Manhattan literati and as vaguely troubling as the morning 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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A puzzle: a hermetically sealed period piece so intensely relevant to our current state of affairs that it takes your breath away. -
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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
You're left with the bewilderment and joy on Kane's face as he plays the old songs, and the sense of ghosts just behind his back. -
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Ty Burr 88
The movie's masterstroke is to avoid interviewing the usual anti-globalist suspects and let solid, hard-working middle Americans speak. -
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Ty Burr 88
Goblet of Fire is the entry in which Rowling finally took off the gloves. -
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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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Ty Burr 88
Tommy Lee Jones makes his feature directing debut here, and the film is as weathered, subtle, and sympathetic as the actor's own face. -
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Ty Burr 88
The director can work wonders within his celluloid universe, but when the time comes to hand us back to reality, he stumbles. With this movie, that hurts. -
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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
An agit-doc of unusual depth. It has a point -- that the primary business of America over the past half-century has been waging war -- and it supports that point with nuance, research, and a willingness to hear the other side of the argument. -
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Ty Burr 88
The movie's still a wickedly droll put-on. Better yet, beneath the fun lurks a dry and weary sigh at life's refusal to match the tidiness of art. -
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Ty Burr 88
That film remains an electrifying testament to pop music as a communal creative act. -
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Ty Burr 88
Formally, the movie's a lasting pleasure: Reed's incisive direction; Greene's easy yet weighted dialogue; the farseeing deep-focus photography of Georges Perinal; Vincent Korda's luxuriant sets. -
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Ty Burr 88
It’s a galling and provocative experience to viewers of any political persuasion, and a reminder to the left of how easily idealism can run amok. -
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Ty Burr 88
It's an inside-the-park home run -- a small, lovingly overwritten comic drama about fate, failure, and primal longing. To put it in words a Sox fan would understand, the movie hurts good. -
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Ty Burr 88
Brick is Bogart goes to high school, in other words, but that thumbnail description doesn't begin to convey the lasting pleasures of Rian Johnson's directorial debut. -
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Ty Burr 88
The movie is hard going, not least in the sense of powerlessness it leaves in an audience that knows exactly what will happen. And yet you come out feeling that the filmmakers have done the right thing by these people, and by this day. -
