Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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For 1,685 reviews, this critic has graded:
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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 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 88
Whenever a band plays in “Persian Cats,’’ the director treats us to a fast, vibrant montage of Iranian faces and street scenes -- as if to say, look, this is who we REALLY are. -
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Ty Burr 88
Please Give is a moral comedy that feels at times like one of the late Eric Rohmer’s deceptively breezy miniatures, or a mid-period Woody Allen movie minus the fussiness. -
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Ty Burr 88
The hidden message of The Oath is so inescapable as to be Shakespearean: Character will out. -
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One of the smarter, more unexpectedly touching documentaries of the year, and I recommend it to you whether you love Rivers or loathe the very thought of her. -
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If you're not in the mood, the whole thing will probably seem pretty silly. But if you are -- oh, if you are -- I Am Love may be the richest, tastiest truffle you're likely to savor all summer. -
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Ty Burr 88
The movie's an unexpected end-of-summer tonic: a trash guilty pleasure with a healthy (if really violent) sense of outrage. It's also Rodriguez's freest movie yet, and possibly his best. -
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Ty Burr 88
Lebanon gives us viscerally violent, intensely distressing glimpses into war's annihilation of people, places, and communities. -
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Ty Burr 88
Carlos moves like a greyhound out of the gate, fleet and assured and focused on the business at hand. It's a subtle, ultimately staggering portrayal of a bloody-minded ideologue who convinced only himself.- Posted Oct 28, 2010
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Ty Burr 88
The Fighter is this close to a triumph: a movie that steeps us in the grit of its time and place - Lowell, Mass., in the 1990s - and electrifyingly dramatizes Ward's battles with the family that almost loved him to death.- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Ty Burr 88
The scene appalls but doesn't offend; it's a "Worst-Case-Scenario Survival Handbook'' nightmare that resonates on the metaphysical level.- Posted Nov 11, 2010
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Ty Burr 88
Rabbit Hole is a personal project for Kidman - she produced the film after falling in love with the play - and it seems to have revived the quickness in her. That ice-blue gaze has found its focus again, and it looks deep into the one thing none of us want to face.- Posted Dec 24, 2010
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Ty Burr 88
Why revisit Shoah 25 years after it was first released? Because it matters more a quarter century on, just as it will matter even more in a hundred years, and 200, and - if it and we survive - a thousand.- Posted Jan 20, 2011
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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
This may not be the greatest movie version of the novel, but it's possibly the truest.- Posted Mar 17, 2011
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Ty Burr 88
Confident enough to simply go with the exotica of average middle-class Americans who are well-intentioned, flawed, and dog-paddling like crazy to keep their heads above water. There's nothing at all unusual about them, and that's unusual.- Posted Mar 24, 2011
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Ty Burr 88
This is a slacker detective story, emphasis on the slack, and if you can downshift into its loping rhythms, it's pretty wonderful.- Posted Mar 31, 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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Ty Burr 88
There's nothing out there remotely like Meek's Cutoff, for which some viewers may be thankful. The ending seems calculated to drive the literal-minded screaming out of the theater and yet it's the only possible way out.- Posted May 5, 2011
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Ty Burr 88
A mystery, a melodrama, a prison film, and a love story, Incendies is foremost a scream of rage at a society destroyed by religion and by men.- Posted May 12, 2011
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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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An engrossing and enraging drama of one chimpanzee and his life's journey across a landscape of human folly.- Posted Jul 14, 2011
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Ty Burr 88
The movie is more pure, profane enjoyment than a body should have in the dog days of August.- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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Ty Burr 88
At its best, The Sleeping Beauty reclaims fairy tales as a kind of oral folk REM state, chewing over anxieties about adulthood, behavior, sex, and belonging in potent symbolic form.- Posted Aug 18, 2011
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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
Take Shelter plays Curtis's unraveling at daring length. The film will be too slow and dark for some, and it's definitely overlong.- Posted Oct 20, 2011
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