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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. Vampire Hunter D
    Confusing storytelling and bad dialogue.
  2. 8 ½ Women
    The problem with 8 1/2 Women isn't that what you see is what you get; it's that what you see is all you get.
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  3. The Road to El Dorado
    Less than memorable.
  4. Onegin
    A confident and promising directorial debut, one that has the feel of an experienced director to it, from the hypnotic unfolding of scenes to the finely observed character details.
  5. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    To love Wilco is to believe in a certain rustic intelligence about popular music (and about yourself) and to embrace the Tweedy worldview that you need sarcasm and vagueness to cope with the pitfalls of sincerity.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bank
    Handsomely shot and edited, The Bank benefits greatly from the brutal ministrations of LaPaglia,
  7. Bicentennial Man
    Few actors apart from Williams could bring it off.
  8. Beautiful People
    It's a spirited and essentially optimistic film, but it's also simplistic.
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  9. Romeo Must Die
    The reason to sit through its uninspired, formulaic moves, however, is its half-dozen spectacular fight sequences.
  10. The Real Cancun
    Not so much a documentary as it is a bald-faced party movie.
  11. The Business of Fancydancing
    Shot in digital video, Fancydancing feels a bit like a racy after-school special. Performances are amateurishly uneven.
  12. Showtime
    Would seem to be surefire casting. The catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chuen jik sat sau
    Filmed with panache, wit, chic amorality, and an inexhaustible supply of Micro Uzi ammunition, ''Killer'' nevertheless represents a baroque dead end for the Hong Kong action genre.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Interview with the Assassin
    Like ''Blair,'' it never quite finds a way out of its own built-in dead-end.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Himalaya
    Valli's touch as an artist is too light, and his dramatic sense too timid, to make the film much more than a collection of pretty pictures.
    • Boston Globe
  16. Tattoo
    Maybe Tattoo is creepy and stylized enough to pull you along anyway, but if you like your thrillers to dig below the familiar epidermis, look elsewhere.
  17. Trixie
    There are so many wonderful moments in Trixie and so few films like it that you wish Rudolph had given it a few more rewrites.
  18. The Low Down
    Captures the ensemble quality it was after and the provisional look and feel are perfect stylistic analogues to the lives - the male lives, anyway - that it's portraying.
  19. One Night at McCool's
    Neither as rollicking nor as wild as one had hoped, but Tyler's tongue-in-cheek noir goddess transcends cliche and the screenplay's other shortcomings terrifically.
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  20. The Yards
    By the end, we're left with a feeling of depletion rather than resolution, which may have been Gray's intention.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Happenstance
    It has every mark of inspiration by imitation.
    • Boston Globe
  22. Birthday Girl
    This bizarre, uneven comedy is notable mostly for the unsettling presence of Nicole Kidman in full, kinky, sex-kitten mode.
  23. Mystery, Alaska
    Individual performances...are flavorful and simpatico.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Girls Can't Swim
    While not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught, there's much truth and no small amount of poetry in Girls Can't Swim.
  25. Bounce
    Something is missing in Bounce, the muted dynamic of which calls forth a perhaps inevitably muted reaction.
    • Boston Globe
  26. Gun Shy
    The bathroom jokes in Gun Shy wear thin.
    • Boston Globe
  27. An Affair of Love
    A bit of a cop-out, wrapping in wistful sentimentality a failure to acknowledge a connection that is more than epidermal.
    • Boston Globe
  28. Boiler Room
    Derivative and flawed. But it does throw off a few sparks.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    La bûche
    The film's invented Paris -- endless restaurants, boutiques, and impossibly large apartments, with a little artificial ''grit'' thrown in -- is pretty, and the neatly wrapped plot provides the comforting illusion that one's own family dramas can be as easily and amusingly resolved.
    • Boston Globe
  30. Naqoyqatsi
    A movie that seems to have been made mostly on the hard drive of a Power Mac G4. But whatever, we get it: Technology destroys everything.
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