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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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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jet Lag
    As a credible love story, though, the film never leaves the runway. If you're a fan of these actors, you may want to look up Jet Lag when it comes out on video, or catch it on an Air France flight while flirting with the passenger in the next seat.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Sum of All Fears
    And then there's Liev Schreiber as CIA operative John Clark. With less than 30 minutes of screen time, he's everything Affleck isn't - magnetic, clever, and delightful to watch. If only the filmmakers had possessed the courage to cast the splendid Schreiber instead of the feeble Affleck.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On the Run
    This payback-revenge storyline, told mostly at night with minimal dialogue, is tense but familiar, and Bruno's quick-draw costume changes are fun to watch.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One from the Heart (re-release)
    The movie looks great and sounds better, and its status as a pioneering work of cinematic eye candy seems secure. For one thing, it's hard to imagine ''Moulin Rouge'' without it. As a movie about recognizable human beings, however, One From the Heart remains a failure.
  5. On_Line
    Weintrob's stylish visuals mimic Web technologies, which succeed in making his characters seem all the more removed from reality. Now if someone would find a way to equip theater seats with a ''delete'' key, we could be rid of them completely.
  6. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    There's a whole lotta latex goin' on. The trouble is that not enough else is going on.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deliver Us from Eva
    Dawdles amiably and can't quite decide what it wants to be.
  8. The Big Tease
    What saves it is that it's lighter than mousse and is animated by a handful of engaging performers.
  9. Boat Trip
    Even 007 is a big old queen. Yes, Roger Moore's on board as a lusty codger, who, unlike the rest of us, can't get enough of Sanz.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Singing Detective
    The question that has to be asked is: Why? The original six-part BBC ''Singing Detective'' remains one of the signal achievements in the history of television -- really -- and its release on DVD this past spring puts it easily within reach of the curious.
  11. Hanging Up
    A flimsy sister act.
  12. Lucky Numbers
    Despite a few tangy black comic moments, Lucky Numbers' is bummer theater.
  13. Crossroads
    Packaged fluff aimed low, and patronizingly, at Spears's legion of young female fans.
  14. Bones
    You'll laugh at Bones a lot more often than you'll be scared by it, assuming you'll be scared at all.
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  15. The Man from Elysian Fields
    Somewhere in this movie, amid the ponderous exchanges and unfortunate O. Henry-style coincidences, there's American tragedy.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One Hour Photo
    Thriller fans might remember a terrific 1987 B flick called ''The Stepfather.'' One Hour Photo is that film, directed by an art student.
  17. Passionada
    A cheery version of a darker, grislier movie, one in which people like Daniel beat up people like Charlie, girls like Vicky end up in far more compromising positions, and women like Celia turn to Scotch and prescription drugs to cope with their pain.
  18. Hard Ball
    Ultimately, the kids carry this manipulative tear-jerker. They're warm, lively charmers.
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  19. Tadpole
    Written in wisps and watery double-entendres by Heather McGowan and Niels Mueller, and the movie is so benign that its proceedings are beside the point.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Head of State
    Gets better -- more rambunctiously astute -- as it goes, and its comic engine sputters into fitful life when Bernie Mac arrives on the scene.
  21. Dungeons & Dragons
    A mildly entertaining but tepid extravaganza more suited to television than the big screen.
    • Boston Globe
  22. Antitrust
    An example of a film that begins with a provocative idea and then runs itself into the ground with clumsy structuring.
    • Boston Globe
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Johnny English
    Adding to the general air of ''What the hell?'' is Australian pop singer Natalie Imbruglia as Lorna, the beautiful superspy who falls for our hero. With Lorna's help, Johnny discovers that Sauvage is plotting to take over the British throne -- the Battle of Hastings wasn't good enough, it seems.
  24. Where the Heart Is
    Never earns the rollicking life affirmation it's after.
  25. Along Came a Spider
    Efficient, but in the end quite pedestrian.
    • Boston Globe
  26. The Mummy Returns
    If you liked the earlier ''Mummy,'' you'll probably like this one. In fact, at many points you'll probably think you are watching the earlier one.
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  27. The Princess Blade
    This is a movie about excess. It's excessively long (at least it feels that way), the slo-mo is used in excess (so are the swords), and our heroine, Yuki (Yumiko Shaku), when she does emote, is excessively weepy for a coldblooded assassin.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hollywood Homicide
    One of the most lazily scripted, poorly structured, smugly stereotyped star vehicles in recent memory. Bizarrely, this seems to be the point.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Jungle Book 2
    Note that it took six writers to come up with the script for The Jungle Book 2. Note that Rudyard Kipling isn't one of them.
  30. How to Deal
    This movie is the worst episode of ''Gilmore Girls'' ever.
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