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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Safe Conduct
    Essentially a dramatic reenactment of a generation's coping strategies.
  2. Black Hawk Down
    Character is almost wholly subordinated to a blast-furnace rendering of the hell into which they're dumped. Seldom will you see so many US military body parts strewn around a movie screen.
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  3. The Good Girl
    Despite Aniston's hard work, Good Girl could be better.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Max
    In the end, the lure of the gimmick proves too much for Meyjes, clearly a writer-director of talent. If Max were half as audacious, it would be twice as good.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vodka Lemon
    This is frostbitten Fellini -- a film that finds fresh beauty and contentment in the wake of centuries of conquering armies. The great joke of Vodka Lemon is that the conquerors missed what was there all along.
  6. Hidalgo
    Like most movies about men and horses, Hidalgo spares no expense in matters of corniness. Set in the 1890s, it's sort of a throwback movie, executed with the boyish kick of dusty old cowboy matinees.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All or Nothing
    Grueling, heavy-handed, and surprisingly insight-free. For once, a gaggle of Leigh characters hasn't jelled beyond the level of its cast's conceits.
  8. The Rundown
    Comes on like a runaway Humvee.
  9. Topsy-Turvy
    In the end, it's the snatches of music, mangled as it is, and the mechanics of staging it, in the absence of Leigh's usual raw, urgent psychic collisions, that keep Topsy-Turvy from seeming merely a gorgeous wax museum.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Me If You Dare
    French films have long specialized in depicting the impassioned, go-for-broke infatuation known as l'amour fou. Yann Samuell's Love Me If You Dare may be the first to investigate l'amour annoying.
  11. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    Good enough, but only just. It's got the hardware, but neither the characters, the imagination, nor the resonance one had hoped for.
  12. America's Heart and Soul
    Schwartzberg does stumble upon some pretty fascinating people.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gloomy Sunday
    Lushly engaging, even if it covers some of the same ground as ''The Pianist'' with less artistry and more melodrama.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunting of the President
    It's the old-fashioned verities of documentary filmmaking that serve Thomason and Perry best.
  15. House of Sand and Fog
    Exacting but disappointing thriller.
  16. The Center of the World
    Provoke us into examining whether the onus is on the man for turning it into a commercial proposition or the woman for agreeing to his offer.
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Clifford's Really Big Movie
    Big, noisy, harmless, and a little clumsy -- yep, that's Clifford, the Big Red Dog. And it's Clifford's Really Big Movie, too.
  18. Paycheck
    We're left with the painful reality that Paycheck might get Alfred Hitchcock, but it certainly doesn't know Philip K. Dick.
  19. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    Schneider's mild-mannered fish-lover is genuinely likable, and a good-natured foil to the crude jokes.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saved!
    If Saved! sinks into formula -- any movie with a showdown at a prom is treading a well-worn path -- you're grateful for its forgiving spirit.
  21. Cellular
    A ludicrous little abduction thriller that boasts an entertaining cocktail of gunpowder, suspense, adrenaline, and cheese. I just couldn't hate this movie, and I really, really tried. It's tightly made and well written in deceptive ways that don't reveal themselves until past the halfway point.
  22. Best in Show
    He's (Willard) a one-man storm of escalating inanity, and he's hilarious.
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  23. Dragonfly
    At least Dragonfly isn't contemptible or altogether dismissible. But it doesn't use Costner well, and it even more unforgivably wastes Kathy Bates.
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  24. Narc
    Frustratingly, Carnahan barely trusts his storytelling to keep our attention long enough to get through a scene without some grisly cutaway -- a gun to the head, the writhing wounded.
  25. The Other Side of the Bed
    Sexual doublespeak is everywhere.
  26. Road to Perdition
    Its seriousness is welcome. It's also a burden the film can't completely surmount.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Recruit
    Pacino, thankfully, is on-screen enough to keep this stew on a solid low boil.
  28. She Hate Me
    A belligerent little sex farce roiling inside an otherwise inconsequential lampoon of corporate America, the movie is rude and ridiculous, fearless up to a point, and breathtakingly hungry to provoke.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Starsky & Hutch
    Stealing the movie, however, is rapper Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear, the pimp/informant originally portrayed by Antonio Fargas on the TV show.
  30. Proof of Life
    It's absorbing, although draggy.
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