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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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    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Words and Pictures
    Enjoyable, occasionally grueling, and overstuffed with incident and agenda.
  2. Puzzle
    Why can’t the film maintain its subtler shadings throughout? It’s a puzzle.
  3. Timecop
    There's been talk about Van Damme deepening his excursions into acting. Wisely, though, he keeps Timecop on a comic strip level. [16 Sep 1994, p.72]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Clerks II
    With Clerks II, the director retreats to home turf, but is Smith playing it safe or is he really interested in seeing how the old nabe has changed? Bit of both, actually.
  5. Sordid Lives
    It's heady in the beginning, chaotic throughout, and numb with the suddenness of the Internet economy's plummet at the end.
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  6. Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
    Visually, the movie is surprisingly inventive, with takeoffs on everything from manga to Hokusai prints. Sure, a lot of the jokes are dumb — you got a problem with that? — but “Paws” is quite smart.
  7. Contraband
    I don't know that a lot of Contraband makes sense. But I'm not sure that it has to. The director Baltasar Kormákur carries the movie off with efficiency, brutality, and humor.
    • 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.
  9. The Big Kahuna
    It's no meal, but it'll tide you over.
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  10. 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.
  11. A Piece of Eden
    The kind of heartwarming, well-intentioned film many audiences claim they want to see at their local theaters.
  12. Drawing Restraint 9
    Slow but rarely tedious.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Valhalla Rising
    Fascinating for its gonzo formal daring and brooding attitude, "Valhalla'' is still a trial for audiences seeking characters, plot, and things happening.
  14. Stolen Summer
    Sweetly earnest little drama.
  15. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Most of the expert insights contained in this concise documentary are already available in the door-stopping exposes of other experts, a fact that lends the proceedings a nagging redundancy.
  16. Hockney
    That we don’t hear more from Ruscha is one of the documentary’s flaws. Hockney, the subject, is like a great painting. Hockney, the documentary, is a pretty plain frame.
  17. Coach Carter
    Who's it for? How do you put this message across without it seeming medicinal? Sure, MTV is among the movie's producers, but what 11th grader wants to spend a Friday night being hit with such a blunt instrument?
  18. Body Shots
    Beneath its glitz, poses, and pub crawlers and club prowlers, it's an old-fashioned morality tale.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Running with Scissors
    There's grace here if the movie were willing to dig for it. Occasionally it does.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Brad Pitt and Michelle Pfeiffer? Great to look at. Astonishingly dull to listen to.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Heaven Is for Real
    While Heaven Is for Real asks a lot of questions, it ultimately has no doubt whatsoever about the answers. Take it on faith or not at all.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wordplay
    Sweet, indulgent, and surprisingly soft in the center; the most minor entry in the brainiac-doc genre to date, it's nevertheless a perfectly entertaining hour and a half for crossword adepts.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj
    The Rise of Taj is relatively pointless in the scheme of things, but refreshing in what it (mostly) doesn't resort to for laughs.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The American Astronaut
    Doesn't really have a climax that works, making you wonder whether all the nutso plot machinations were worth following. Maybe, maybe not. But there were a number of skewed bits that popped out and put a chuckle into this journey.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
    In inviting us along to peek into the life, filmmakers Kerthy Fix and Gail O'Hara don't give us quite enough about the art.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    At its best, The Time Traveler’s Wife does suggest the preciousness of a life that’s too often beyond our control. At its worst, it’s more than a little nuts.
  27. Stars at Noon
    Stars at Noon trades too much on a tradition of older, maybe not better but certainly more urgent movies. Somewhere deep, deep in its heart is the memory of Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum.
  28. Sunset Song
    Has its moments of grace, but too often resorts to conventions and a tone of high lugubriousness.
  29. 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pieces of a Woman
    The best moments are cinematic or actorly; the former come early and the latter are concentrated in the poised, agonized figure of the title character.
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