Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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For 1,694 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 5.2 points higher than other critics.
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Ty Burr's Scores
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Positive: 1,166 out of 1694
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Mixed: 285 out of 1694
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Negative: 243 out of 1694
1,694
movie reviews
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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. -
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Ty Burr 88
A near-masterpiece of mood and menace, and one that deserves to be seen on the largest screen possible. -
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Ty Burr 88
It's a wrenching, ennobling essay on teamwork and the hard struggle to change one's life. -
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Ty Burr 88
Australian rocker Nick Cave talks of how discovering Cohen during his small-town youth "just changed things." Bono calls the singer "our Shelley, our Byron." -
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Ty Burr 88
A quieter, less melodramatic piece of work than last year's "Crash," and arguably a better one. -
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Ty Burr 88
The only question his movie doesn't ask is "What do you want your next car to run on?" That's up to you. -
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Ty Burr 88
It looks at the all-American obsession with winning and chortles darkly. You still come out of the movie wanting to give your family a hug. -
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Ty Burr 88
A movie called Snakes on a Plane had better be one of two things: So bad it's good or so good it's great. Darned if it isn't a little bit of both. -
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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 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 88
The Lives of Others has similarities to Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 classic "The Conversation" but with undercurrents that resound across an entire century of European political history. -
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Ty Burr 88
Inland Empire may be the most aggressively surreal feature film ever released to movie theaters in this country, and it's possibly close to the movie David Lynch carries around in his head. -
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Ty Burr 88
I don't think I've seen a mainstream movie get fatherhood so right since "Kramer vs . Kramer": the fear, the indulgence, the snappishness, the pre-occupied "uh-huhs" as a child natters about his day, the steamrolling waves of love. -
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Ty Burr 88
Venus is rollickingly funny at times -- but there's an undercurrent of extraordinarily clear-eyed sadness. -
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Ty Burr 88
Notes on a Scandal is a nice mug of poisoned eggnog for the holiday season -- a movie so smart and entertaining you almost don't feel its chill sicken your bones. -
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Ty Burr 88
Seesawing between despair and soul-affirming inspiration, God Grew Tired of Us is a documentary to make you proud of what America offers to the rest of the world and worried that it can't keep its promises. -
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Ty Burr 88
Mostly, though, it's "Godzilla" with a severe case of Murphy's Law, and it is never less than bizarrely delightful. -
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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
Black Book takes the conventions of the WWII epic -- the prison breaks, the interrogation scenes -- and undermines them with craft and muscle and the ripe lack of restraint we've come to expect from this director. -
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Ty Burr 88
Tarantino and Rodriguez want you to cover your eyes in disbelief and get the unholy giggles at the same time. You do, but in two very different ways, and that's the movie's strength. -
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Ty Burr 88
With a tranquil fearlessness, it goes beyond the death of memory, to see what might be found in the unexplored country beyond. The answer is both frightening and comforting: More love. Unspecified love. Universal love. -
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Ty Burr 88
Someone walking cold into a movie theater showing Paprika might be excused for thinking the screen was having a Technicolor seizure. Fans of Japanese anime and filmmaker Satoshi Kon will simply feel dazzlingly at home. -
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Ty Burr 88
Crazy Love doesn't downplay the awfulness of what happened , but it also knows a good media circus when it sees one. -
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Ty Burr 88
For all its pessimism, the movie prompts a viewer to search his or her own memories for actions rather than reactions, and to mull over the differences between the two. It's a dark little ride, but at the end the lights hesitantly flicker back on. -
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Ty Burr 88
This is music to gorge on, raw ethnic survival in the form of sound. -
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Ty Burr 88
Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley is sensual in escalating degrees of heat, but the film's eroticism, which is substantial, is laid on with a caress. The movie's a slow-motion swoon back into Eden -- a nature documentary about humans -- and it's hypnotic. -
