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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. Men in Black II
    There's something wrong with this picture, and the problem is there on Smith's face -- Smith looks distressingly I-was-an-Oscar-nominee bored. That goes double for Jones.
  2. What's Cooking?
    This good-hearted but undersupplied ensemble piece is only appetizer-deep.
  3. On the Line
    In the end, it's much ado about not very much, certainly not enough to catapult Bass into a film career, but probably enough to satisfy 'N Sync fans.
    • Boston Globe
  4. Planet of the Apes
    It's too psychically flat and dramatically inert. Instead of reinvigorating a Hollywood classic, Burton only takes it to camp.
    • Boston Globe
  5. By Hook or by Crook
    Not particularly good -- meaning navigable, remotely entertaining, pleasing to the eye -- it does, rather nobly, want to hip its audience to gender fluidity.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Frailty
    Murder should either be unsparingly real or kitschy like the ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre.'' This is neither.
  7. The Majestic
    A sweet, visually handsome sermon, but it's too dramatically bland to convert even the converted.
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  8. The Scorpion King
    For a movie with such a misplaced sense of history, The Scorpion King seems afraid to have more fun with its own stupidity.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Agent Cody Banks
    The premise of Agent Cody Banks is more than a little bizarre.
  10. Duplex
    The result is a cheap and cloying contraption that doesn't know when to stop smirking.
  11. The Trip
    Uses lots of stock footage and takes looks back at America's big transitional period as though the era came in a can.
  12. What Women Want
    Disappoints.
  13. What a Girl Wants
    It's not that What a Girl Wants is dreadful; it's merely slapdash, wildly inconsistent in tone and style, and mind-numbingly predictable in character and plot.
  14. American Movie
    It seems more a geek show than a slab of marketing wizardry.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    S.W.A.T.
    Those who love police overkill, guns, jingoistic race-baiting, guns, macho smugness, and guns will be well served.
  16. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    This predictable, uninspired addition to the endless saga won't win over nonbelievers.
    • Boston Globe
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love the Hard Way
    The film's final scenes are among its silliest, unfortunately.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Teacher's Pet
    Barrels along on a diverting enough sugar high, but in the hangover that follows you may wonder where the wonder was.
  19. Life as a House
    This one is nearly as bad as it gets, suggesting that all the wrong people were wielding the sledgehammers here.
    • Boston Globe
  20. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    Intermittently engaging but inescapably overextended.
    • Boston Globe
  21. High Crimes
    Every minute of the film is trash, and director Carl Franklin seems to know it.
  22. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Predictable and not terribly clever, but among the slim pickings of movies geared to the pre-school and grade-school set, it could be much worse.
  23. The Mummy
    Seems to be going through a series of motions so obviously virtual that it makes you wish that the filmmakers had stayed away from the computer keyboards entirely and stuck with the rotting tape look.
  24. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    Ladling in so much schmaltz that even his in-house critic says, ''This thing's worse than `Terms of Endearment.'''
  25. Adorenarin doraibu
    A climactic explosion is too obviously a rigged gunpowder charge, and it becomes a metaphor for the film's mistake of diminishing the frantic motion that kept things fizzy and fun.
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  26. Word Wars
    Only occasionally do the thrill of the game and the passion of its players come together. That said, these guys' nakedly neurotic enthusiasm keeps the movie from being a total jumble.
  27. Heartbreakers
    Cries out for the brisk pacing of a Sturges or a Wilder. As is, it's too lumpish, languid, and lukewarm to hit even the guilty pleasure zone.
    • Boston Globe
  28. My Mother Likes Women
    We do learn that love heals and that the movie's title makes a terrifically lewd little rock song. (Thank you, Sol.) But that's about it.
  29. Cats & Dogs
    The effects are so showy, and so relentless, that they call attention pretty quickly to the fact that there is not much else to Cats and Dogs.
  30. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Doesn't so much strike a lot of sour notes as fail to strike the right ones.
    • Boston Globe
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