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For 7,950 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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  1. Spider-Man 3
    Raimi, who shares script credit with his brother Ivan and Alvin Sargent, strikes an exquisite balance between pop and woe, drama and whooshing adventure.
  2. Meet the Parents
    Distress of Parents is a real pleasure.
  3. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
    Alice Creed isn't as good as Tarantino's directorial debut, or another movie it calls to mind, "A Simple Plan.'' But the genetic resemblance to those two films indicates how good much of this extremely assured picture is.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    Take away the storming music and grand vistas, and it's all a standard sword-and-sorcery adventure; director Andrew Adamson is more than a journeyman but much less than the visionary Peter Jackson is.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stoker
    The performances are excellent, but it’s the direction that lifts the movie up and spins it around. Like Hitchcock, Park storyboards everything ahead of time, and while that level of control might seem claustrophobic in theory, it ends up freeing Stoker to sail into zones of malevolent visual sensuality.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The High Note
    Greeson writes dialogue that’s shallow but clever; and under Nisha Ganatra’s direction, The High Note tells a brisk, improbable tale.
  7. Everybody's Famous!
    A likable satire on celebrity, Flemish-style, it is no less pointed than its American counterparts, just a lot less pompous.
  8. Only the Brave
    The film concerns itself more with beauty shots of the region’s rugged, intimidating vastness than with “Backdraft”-rivaling imagery of combustion as art.
  9. The Autopsy of Jane Doe
    A lean indie horror flick that manages to creep us out even before getting to the part that’s meant to be truly unsettling.
  10. En la ciudad sin límites
    A tidy soap opera. But it's a discreet, warmly made one, too. In a show of restraint, the intrigue never rises above mildly juicy.
  11. Megamind
    The bliss of Megamind is the way it pursues solutions for tired problems.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Watermark
    Watermark feels less focused than “Manufactured Landscapes.” While it presents us with awful and/or awe-inspiring images and ideas, the movie lacks the tightening grip that made the earlier work so unforgettable.
  13. Isn't She Great
    A surprisingly warm and engaging entertainment - brassy, schmaltzy, funny.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tell Them Who You Are
    In more ways than one, Mark Wexler gets the release he's seeking.
  15. Crush
    MacDowell offers an engaging portrait of a complex woman who has survived life's slings and arrows. It makes Crush an affecting take on modern women.
  16. Fuck
    Despite the appearance of numerous free-speaking conservatives, the movie's partisanship leans nakedly to the left.
  17. Dad
    The film is mostly Lemmon's in a quietly stunning performance you frankly didn't know he had in him. [27 Oct 1989, p.29p]
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  18. Whip It
    Most crucially, Barrymore encourages Page to just let herself go. The sight of her making her way up residential streets in a pair of Barbie roller skates or screaming “Marco’’ in a game of Marco Polo is simply joyful.
  19. White Men Can't Jump
    White Men Can't Jump isn't perfect. But most of the time it's a lot of fun. Its funky moves are going to put more smiles on more faces than any regular season or tournament basketball TV throws at you. [27 Mar 1992, p.25]
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  20. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    If anyone is capable of pulling off a deviled screwball with cheeky panache, it's de la Iglesia, who's one of the world's great nutty directors yet to find the American following he so richly deserves.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trainwreck
    A very entertaining romantic comedy, conventional on the surface while standing all sorts of genre clichés and gender assumptions discreetly on their heads. Its subversions are lower-case, embedded in the laughs, but they’re there and they matter.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Aura
    The Aura is richer and less showy than "Nine Queens," and it lifts off from the gangster genre to contemplate deeper mysteries.
  23. Will & Harper
    There’s an optimism here that coexists with humor, joy, sadness, and more than one laugh-out-loud moment.
  24. A River Runs Through It
    The story is told handsomely and affectingly with images, facial expressions and body language. [16 Oct 1992]
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  25. A Shock to the System
    When a tone is sustained as confidently and with as many delicious flourishes as A Shock to the System manages, and the screen is filled with characterful performances, it's a sign the director is doing something right. [23 Mar 1990, p.46p]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dreams Rewired
    Dreams Rewired is scattered by necessity and intent, and it throws off enough sparks to set your brain reeling.
  27. Clockwatchers
    Clockwatchers may not be perfect, but it's on to something. [22 May 1998, p.D5]
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  28. Babies
    I don’t think the movie is looking for answers; it isn’t asking any questions. But by its very nature, this is both an experiment in ontology (do babies know they’re babies?) and existentialism (are they thinking about who to be?).
  29. I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
    Akerman, though, is her own best spokesperson as she discusses her films at locations where they were shot.
  30. The Game of Their Lives
    What the cast members lack in sharpened skill they more than make up for in raw gusto and athletic scrappiness (most of the actors have logged a lot of soccer in their pasts). These guys give a sport that is virtually nameless in the movies a good name in this one.
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