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For 7,946 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 0.9 points 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: 5,228 out of 7946
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7946
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7946
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Palindromes
    What makes Palindromes bearable is that Solondz has yet to come up with an answer.
  2. Sahara
    In the end, the thing that Cussler's fans will probably object to most is the nonsensical way Sahara manhandles his story.
  3. Fever Pitch
    Effortlessly entertaining romantic comedy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kung Fu Hustle
    Like a meal prepared by an extreme chef, ''Hustle" is more than a bit of a mess. It still tastes like nothing you've ever had before.
  5. Eating Out
    The explicit encounters and dirty talk in Eating Out suggest a new genre -- call it porncom -- that seeks to amuse and arouse at the same time.
  6. Winter Solstice
    Ultimately undercut by its fictional elements and its flat characters.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    Stylish and only superficially superficial, Happily Ever After plunks us down with three male friends as they dance on the edge of their 40s.
  8. Major Dundee (re-release)
    Expanded, Major Dundee is still a mess of great scenes sprinkled among some fairly monotonous action.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sin City
    Tarantino may have nicked the title first, but this is the real ''Pulp Fiction," with all the drama and the dead ends that implies.
  10. Dust to Glory
    Brown lays out his guiding philosophy up front when he says of the Baja, ''This isn't about a race, it's about the human race."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Control
    Takes your angriest thoughts about urban public transportation and magnifies them into a grubby and rousingly antisocial fantasia on post-communist breakdown and bureaucracy.
  12. Look at Me
    A marvelous, uncommonly observant, and unexpectedly rousing group portrait.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beauty Shop
    Formulaic but extremely good-natured comedy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Oldboy
    More than anything else, Oldboy recalls Alfred Hitchcock with all restraint tossed to the wind, or Hitchcock's most obsessed devotee, Brian De Palma, at his most nastily inspired.
  15. Guess Who
    The movie will please those looking for easy physical comedy.
  16. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    If only Miller's writing had some human zest. Nearly everybody here is crunchy, salt-of-the-earth organic, and off in a dreamland.
  17. Nina's Tragedies
    Gabizon never establishes a consistent tone or point of view. Instead, we hop from one episode to the next, with no momentum and no reason to care about these people.
  18. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The laughless outtakes for ''Armed and Fabulous" helpfully remind us that it could have been worse.
  19. Mondovino
    The movie feels incomplete and uncentered. It's like a grand magazine profile that's all reportage and absolutely no prose.
  20. Ice Princess
    A feel-good but inane Disney production.
  21. The Ring Two
    Scares up few chills.
  22. Melinda and Melinda
    Doesn't entirely work.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fifty-Fifty
    True to its title, Schizo is both gripped by the past and pulled toward an unknown future.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steamboy
    Boys of all ages, by contrast, will be mesmerized by the relentless, breathtakingly visualized action.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rider Named Death
    Shakhnazarov's film effortlessly captures the times and the author's conflicted yet unyielding attitude, yet it never draws any conclusions -- the film remains under glass.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hostage
    It's a B-flick all the way, but it has no pretensions to the contrary, and that's some kind of refreshing.
  27. Robots
    Isn't as trippy, scary, handmade-looking, or environmentally aware as some of Miyazaki's pictures. But it shares their dreaminess. Even at its most ingenious, not even Pixar does that.
  28. The Upside of Anger
    It's the men in ''Upside" who speak all the truth.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Millions
    You really don't need to borrow someone else's kids to ponder and enjoy what Millions has to offer.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In My Country
    At its best when Anna confronts her tangled Afrikaaner legacy and when it brings the heretical notion of forgiveness up front, where a non-African audience can come to grips with it.
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