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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. Bang Rajan
    Choppy, cheesy historical war epic really has only a couple of things going for it, and its biggest asset remains the heroic popular legend that inspired its making.
  2. American Psycho
    In both senses of the word, American Psycho wastes its women.
    • Boston Globe
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Audition
    A long crawl from inception to climax.
    • Boston Globe
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Battle of Shaker Heights
    In a better movie -- a much better movie -- LaBeouf might make the same sort of impact Dustin Hoffman did in ''The Graduate.'' But the kid's young. There are movies to come.
  5. Unbreakable
    A film that begins with a train wreck and then, figuratively speaking, becomes one.
  6. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Takes a dedicated and true snapshot of African-American life. But so little of its presentation is memorable. This is a haircut movie that redefines ''fade.''
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Matchstick Men
    Rockwell is a hoot as Frankie, but during the stretches when he's not on screen, the air goes out of the film.
  8. Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin hardly trusts you to follow its story, opening with the murder, then a series of titles that explain what's to follow.
  9. Identity
    It's an exasperating exercise in B-movie hokum and screenwriter's gimmickry.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ladies Man
    Overstays its welcome.
  11. Little Nicky
    Hell itself is going to hell in Sandler's new comedy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Owning Mahowny
    Hoffman confessed he was drawn to the role because ''this was a guy who didn't know how to feel, and I found that fascinating.'' His challenge is our frustration
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Driven
    When the film predictably limps across the finish line, you're left with the impression your time would have been better spent sitting in traffic.
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  14. Rosenstrasse
    The picture's structural intricacy is a smoke screen for its psychological and emotional shallowness.
  15. Freddy vs. Jason
    Attempts none of the witty, provocative visual and metaphysical set pieces from any of the ''Nightmare'' movies. And it offers none of the real fright of the early ''Friday the 13th'' films. In fact, the movie is deeply, proudly unimaginative.
  16. Chasing Liberty
    It's one TV-movie romp that Kristy McNichol never got around to starring in.
  17. The 13th Warrior
    About everything is big in The 13th Warrior except the writing, which is microscopic.
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  18. Death to Smoochy
    The script boasts some tart TV-insider humor, but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy.
  19. Don't Say a Word
    Don't Say a Word can be thought of as a case of Dial B for Boring.
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  20. The Princess Diaries
    Unfortunately, the filmmakers seem to have forgotten that comedy is a requisite feature in a comedy.
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  21. Virgin
    So much of Virgin is bunk masquerading as sexual politics.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cabin Fever
    Doesn't have the gonzo wit of ''Re-Animator'' or ''Evil Dead 2,'' nor is it flat-out terrifying like ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' or even a zombie-come-lately like this year's ''28 Days Later.''
  23. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    As the eviscerations ensue, the truth becomes undeniable: This is easily the most gruesome, most pointless, episode of "Scooby Doo" ever.
  24. The Tigger Movie
    If a long, chilly afternoon needs to be filled, The Tigger Movie won't hurt. But neither will it enchant.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    It Runs in the Family
    It's ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' with all the emotions and half the artistry.
  26. Tomorrow Never Dies
    Tomorrow Never Dies works too hard to keep the James Bond franchise going, sacrificing Bond's signature light comedy and stylish playfulness to become just another hectic action movie. [19 Dec 1997]
    • Boston Globe
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    World Traveler
    The real seduction Crudup pulls off is that he makes it seem possible that the character hasn't actually done all of these awful things.
    • Boston Globe
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Catch That Kid
    Flatters its audience by dividing the grown-up world into mean idiots and nice idiots, which might be interestingly subversive if the movie had anything on its mind. Instead, it's just a Hollywood crash course: Heist Films 101.
  29. The Mexican
    Isolated offbeat moments aside, The Mexican mostly fires blanks.
    • Boston Globe
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex and Lucia
    Isn't a first-date movie. As a third -date movie, though, it's just about perfect.
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