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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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Carnage
    It's a treat, nevertheless, to watch the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni in a rare leading role. Chiara Mastroianni has her mother's hair and face with her father's sorrowful eyes stuck smack in the middle, and she moves as if conscious of the weight of her genetic splendor.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    Lightweight yet alluring.
  3. I Am Sam
    Ham-handedly manipulative film.
  4. Mission: Impossible II
    Hard-driving and propulsive as it is, the film is unable to hide the fact that Woo seems not only to be repeating himself, but parodying his earlier films on a much bigger scale, more crudely and coarsely.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark Blue
    In the end, the problem with movies like Dark Blue is that they willfully ignore the systemic, historical, cultural, and class causes of racism in favor of pinning it all on a few bad apples. Sure, that's entertainment. It's also a lie.
  6. Friday Night
    Has a sultry and complex psychological intent all its own, yet it's reminiscent of some earlier Denis works, including ''Nenette and Boni.''
  7. Sugar & Spice
    Isn't as dark as ''Heathers'' or as witty as ''Clueless,'' but it's at least pointed in that direction.
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  8. Teddy Bears' Picnic
    Feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between lunch breaks for Shearer's radio show and his ''Simpson'' voice-overs.
  9. The Experiment
    This cacophonous ending may serve to reinforce the filmmakers' cynical themes, but it leaves viewers trying desperately to remember the part of the film that had brains, wit, and so much promise.
  10. Crazy in Alabama
    The pieces don't always fit together smoothly, but there's a lot of flavorful work to savor.
  11. Two Family House
    Worth staying with for the respect it pays to its characters' emotions.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Human Nature
    It's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness, and where ''Human Nature'' should be ingratiating, it's just grating.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Life Without Me
    It has a naive, heartfelt selfishness that may offend some viewers, and a resolve that others will find intensely soothing. ''Dying's not as easy as it looks,'' cautions Ann's doctor (Julian Richings), but here it's as easy as a movie can make it.
  14. The Gatekeeper
    Isn't the most seductive film ever made about border life or undocumented immigrants, but in a way it's unfair to compare it to such artistic triumphs as ''Touch of Evil,'' ''El Norte,'' ''Lone Star,'' and ''Traffic.''
  15. Dr. Dolittle 2
    It's warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious.
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  16. The End of the Affair
    The immaculately crafted film that just sits there and refuses to come to life.
  17. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Lacks the requisite sense of dread.
    • Boston Globe
  18. Rape Me
    You won't feel raped by it, but you well may feel that it's too ideologically earnest for the porn crowd and too hard-core for serious audiences.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    About a Boy
    Renders what should have been a wholly entertaining film into a timid, soggy near miss.
  20. Joe Somebody
    The cop-out is mitigated by Allen's ability to impart a comfortable, lived-in quality to his roles, this one included.
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  21. Center Stage
    Anybody who's ever laced on toe shoes, or wanted to, will find something to take away from Center Stage.
    • Boston Globe
  22. The Flower of Evil
    If 'The Flower of Evil' is not vintage Claude Chabrol, it's at least vintage mediocre Claude Chabrol.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Emperor's Club
    That uncertainty -- in the professor, in the audience -- is what drives Emperor's Club to a surprisingly thought-provoking, even disturbing conclusion.
  24. Calendar Girls
    More like that crowd-pleasing UK fluff that requires great actresses to do wacky things. Mirren is such an easy, breezy presence that you might think she's playing the screenwriting equivalent of air.
  25. Woman on Top
    A romantic fairy tale that's light and in several ways seductive, if not exactly filling.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Missing
    The movie runs into its deepest trouble with its depiction of Lilly's captors. After years of Hollywood wooden Indians and a more recent run of tribal angels (as in "Dances With Wolves"), movies like "The Last of the Mohicans" have acknowledged the historical truth that Native Americans could be as bloody-minded as their white conquerors.
  27. Saving Grace
    It's funny and charming most of the time, thanks to Brenda Blethyn.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beefcake
    It leaves you with an odd, sweet-and-sour taste - nostalgia painted in pastel colors, streaked with black smears.
  29. Crazy/Beautiful
    To have been the film it could have been, crazy/beautiful needed to be messier.
  30. 15 Minutes
    In a season mostly given over to unwatchable movies being cleared off studio shelves, it's at least about something. And there's no denying the lurid urgency with which it jumps off the screen.
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