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For 7,949 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: 5,230 out of 7949
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7949
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7949
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  1. Prisoner of Paradise
    While Prisoners of Paradise gives us but an impression of Gerron's state of mind, the film does a powerful job of showing us how deflated, small, and desperate this boisterous man had become.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Human Stain
    Benton has laid bare a great author's creaky plotting only to deliver a melodrama with bookish pretensions.
  3. Radio
    A tall glass of hogwash that's terrified to declare itself the racial-healing melodrama it is.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Liza
    Does have the enclosed, slightly overheated feel of a family theatrical.
  5. Reconstruction
    The movie is so chilly and fundamentally empty at its core that we're more or less on the outside looking in.
  6. Moulin Rouge!
    The film musical is at the moment an even more devitalized art form than the Broadway musical. But Moulin Rouge doesn't revive it. It only rearranges the bones.
    • Boston Globe
  7. Swordfish
    A high-impact, high-powered mess that raises the bar for over-the-topness.
    • Boston Globe
  8. Incantato
    One wishes Incantato was made of something other than musty air. Avati provides no real emotional counterweight for all the whimsy and nonsense, and the movie carries neither the force of morality nor the titillation of trashiness.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paid in Full
    The only victims in Paid in Full are the dealers and their families -- and the only word for that is one this paper can't print.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sunshine State
    There is almost no drama, nor any surprise, in this long effort.
    • Boston Globe
  11. Better Than Sex
    There are many things that Better Than Sex is better than, although sex is not among them. It is better than a root canal, an IRS audit, or a rained-out ballgame.
  12. Never Again
    There are moments, too, where the forced hipness falls aside and the two lead characters just plain relate, realistically and maturely, with a seasoned playfulness that is truly charming.
  13. Against the Ropes
    The movie is only sporadically interesting.
  14. Illuminata
    Beverly D'Angelo, Rufus Sewell, Georgina Cates, Leo Bassi - tumble with zest through a daisy chain of sexual capers. But while warmly energized, their carryings-on also seem a little generic.
    • Boston Globe
  15. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    The movie is so dependant on its source material that it fails to put Carter, Thompson, Penn, and Christy to better use.
  16. Mean Machine
    More machine than mean, although it's anything but a smoothly running operation.
    • Boston Globe
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    A pleasant puff-pastry throwback to Sandra Dee movies, ''Bye Bye Birdie,'' and other pre-Beatles effluvia.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Never Die Alone
    Invites us to both hate King David and admire his style, and there will probably be some hand-wringing about that.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Moog
    For every insight, there are a half-dozen meandering conversations and unguided reminiscences.
  20. Panic Room
    Might give you a few decorating ideas if you happen to have been wondering about a home bomb shelter, but it's a thriller that doesn't thrill.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sweet Home Alabama
    Isn't just lame; it's neutered.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hulk
    To answer your first question: like a cross between Shrek, the Frankenstein monster, and a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot.
  23. The Time Machine
    The best thing about the new film of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine is the machine.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    P.S.
    Contains more than its share of implausibilities and absurdities.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stuck on You
    Story lines don't come any clammier.
  26. Goya in Bordeaux
    Rich as it looks, it lacks the feverishness of Goya's art.
  27. Romance
    Lots of sex, but little joy.
  28. Bait
    Bait ends up seeming pretty wormy.
    • Boston Globe
  29. American Wedding
    Its commendable, if juvenile, sense of erogenous adventure is sullied by bland technique, canned suburban punk music, and the fact that all the exploration does amount to maturer characters.
  30. Suspect Zero
    Eckhart, who gets more rugged by the picture, certainly works hard to bring the audience along. But he's a nervous wreck for nothing. This movie isn't talking to us, it's talking to other serial killer movies.
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