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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. The Wedding Planner
    The unevenness of what surrounds the star couple is indicative of the script's inability to muster anything more than intermittent sophistication.
    • Boston Globe
  2. Feast of Love
    The bodies are athletic, young, and white, and yet this is not the sport sex we usually see in Hollywood movies. It's the sex of adulation. Sometimes the director Robert Benton goes heavy on the hydraulic positioning, but his movie is scarcely mechanical.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flipped
    Sweet, smartly acted, and charmingly old-fashioned, Flipped is a minor pleasure that will strike a lot of moviegoers - those who think no one makes movies for them anymore - as a major treat.
  4. Becket (re-release)
    The one thing going for Becket is actually two things: Burton and O'Toole.
  5. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Lacks the requisite sense of dread.
    • Boston Globe
  6. Centurion
    The profanity is delightful. And the general atmosphere is grim. The movie just isn't terribly inspired.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Semi-Pro
    The problem with Semi-Pro is that it keeps forgetting it's a parody of sports movies; the final scenes are supposed to be uplifting (sort of) but they're not fooling anyone. The film's much better when it just lets the guys gas and sass each other.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
    A fond, uncomplicated love letter to two irrepressible good-time Charlottes.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    39 Pounds of Love
    '39 Pounds of Love is a heartwarmer that looks away from darker, deeper, and more troubling matters.
  10. Pan
    Passable adventure that offers the occasional flash of real cleverness.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bad Santa
    Without question, not for the children. It is, however, just the cup of rancid black-comedy eggnog for anyone fed up with holiday cheer in all its manifestations.
  12. Araya
    While it insists that everyday lives in Araya are full of drudgery and toil, the film fails to produce a single ugly image.
  13. In Order of Disappearance
    The sardonic laughs include title cards with the name of each character who has joined the ranks of the disappeared.
  14. Margin Call
    In the case of Jeremy Irons playing the aloof English billionaire who owns the bank, that's dinner theater. But it's of the highest caliber.
  15. Shutter Island
    This is a long, heavy film, in which Scorsese’s aerobic moviemaking turns mannered and uncharacteristically passive.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The King's Speech
    The movie isn't badly done, just overdone - a cozy art-house crowd-pleaser coasting on the expectations of its genre.
  17. Splendor
    Runs out of helium and lands pretty heavily after its airy beginning.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trollhunter
    What Trollhunter isn't is particularly scary, but in its defense, it's not trying to be.
  19. The People vs. Fritz Bauer
    Because of the film’s earnest awkwardness, these excursions into the demimonde come off as campy.
  20. The Tree
    This is an easy movie to watch. If only Julie Bertuccelli had more trust in her most interesting stuff.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harriet
    A stirring if somewhat ham-fisted telling of a life that needs to be known by all Americans.
  22. 2 Days in Paris
    Here's all you really need to know in order to determine whether Julie Delpy's 2 Days in Paris is something you need to experience for yourself: Her blond hair is often all frizz, and she prefers glasses with a big black frame. She's Mia AND Woody.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Forbidden Kingdom
    Unashamed about giving its audience a good time, and the high spirits go a long way toward counterbalancing the cliches.
  24. Not Easily Broken
    For most of Not Easily Broken, I wondered why the movie wasn't worse. Then I remembered it was directed by the veteran Bill Duke, who applies ample TLC.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Amelia
    Inside Amelia is a sharp idea struggling to get out: How does a woman marketed to the public as a star turn herself back into a human being? And at what cost?
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Five Minutes of Heaven
    Five Minutes of Heaven’reduces Northern Ireland’s troubles to a gimmick, but it’s an interesting gimmick, and the two men hoisted on its petard work at vivid cross-purposes. If nothing else, the film’s worth seeing as a demonstration of opposing acting techniques.
  27. Mr. Jealousy
    The ensemble quality is high and likable, even if Baumbach's inventiveness as a writer falters after the film's sweet, savvy beginning. [12 June 1998]
    • Boston Globe
  28. 5B
    Haggis and Krauss’s desire to use the ward as a vehicle to tell a much larger and more complex story makes sense. Yet it ultimately takes away from the truly remarkable story they have to tell, a story that may actually be more complex than matters of government policy and public opinion.
  29. Wolf Creek
    Wolf Creek is ultimately all about the torture and the trauma. Happy holidays.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    About the only thing the title doesn’t tell you is that the movie’s a loving, sensitive exploration of S&M bondage techniques and polyamorous relationships.
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