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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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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Peter Pan
    All Peter Pan lacks is a Peter Pan with any discernible personality, no matter that Jeremy Sumpter is the first actual, genetic boy to play the role on film.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monster
    A gruesome, helpless spiral barely saved by an actress locating humanity where few would have cared to bother.
  3. Calendar Girls
    More like that crowd-pleasing UK fluff that requires great actresses to do wacky things. Mirren is such an easy, breezy presence that you might think she's playing the screenwriting equivalent of air.
  4. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    The film's central drama is not between the former secretary and the filmmaker. It's between McNamara and history.
  5. Mona Lisa Smile
    The reliable Mike Newell directs Mona Lisa Smile with such assurance that the important moments are never mawkish or dull, and he encourages the women to act with absolute conviction.
  6. House of Sand and Fog
    Exacting but disappointing thriller.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Yet what I felt when the lights came up at the end of this visionary, titanic, relentless experience was something different: a strange relief that it was, at last, over.
  8. Power Trip
    Part Marxist social drama and part Michael Moore corporation-needling, with fed-up residents trying to outsmart the big, bad naive company to keep their lights on for free.
  9. AKA
    The triptych is a device but never a gimmick: three windows into one fractured soul.
  10. The Statement
    Harwood's screenplay obscures any sort of philosophical, religious, or historical considerations in favor of pulpy and faith-bruising sensationalism.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stuck on You
    Story lines don't come any clammier.
  14. Something's Gotta Give
    Doesn't America's 50-and-fabulous set deserve better than a movie this superficial and pandering?
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Dancing on the edge of dullness, ''Girl'' is continually saved by the look of things: the hush of an atelier in midafternoon, dust-motes swirling in a sunbeam, pigment blooming under mortar and pestle. Impatience is forestalled, time and again, by rapture.
  16. Big Fish
    The actor's job here is the hardest to pull off, since practical skepticism in a Tim Burton picture is next to villainy. Yet Crudup suggests complex grown-up feelings that makes the rest of Big Fish feel like an earnest collection of magic tricks.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsieur Ibrahim
    When Shirley MacLaine made this same movie, more or less, as "Madame Sousatzka," there was a whole lot of acting going on. Sharif brings us to Ibrahim with a modesty that oddly reminds you of why the actor is a legend.
  18. Honey
    Neither hot nor square, it's as simple and earnest as any after-school special and as cameo-laden as any rap video.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Samurai
    Even if you think Cruise has never had a moment of doubt in his life, he makes Nathan's self-loathing palpable, and the character's regeneration has a hoarse, cautious purposefulness that's striking.
  20. En la ciudad sin límites
    A tidy soap opera. But it's a discreet, warmly made one, too. In a show of restraint, the intrigue never rises above mildly juicy.
  21. The Legend of Leigh Bowery
    It takes almost an hour for The Legend of Leigh Bowery to make a case for Bowery's sort of genius, and in the last third, the movie gives a real sense of what made him him.
  22. Timeline
    The trouble with the movie is basically everything. It's long, sloppy, and -- to both the quantum-physics ignorant and informed -- steadily implausible, never exciting in either its skill or its ludicrousness.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Cooler
    Looks brilliant while you're watching it and stands revealed as counterfeit only in the strong light of day. What Baldwin does, though, is the stuff of supporting actor Oscars.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Haunted Mansion
    It is spectacularly average. Neither an inspired reimagining nor a painful dud,
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Triplets of Belleville
    All you really need to enjoy "Triplets" is a taste for the weird and the wonderful.
  26. In America
    It's hard to dislike a film that wants to say that the bereft have to move on with their lives, that death is part of living, and that poverty is a state of mind. But it's not impossible.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bad Santa
    Without question, not for the children. It is, however, just the cup of rancid black-comedy eggnog for anyone fed up with holiday cheer in all its manifestations.
  28. 21 Grams
    Long on mood and moodiness, but at a loss as how to break any interesting human ground.
  29. Gothika
    For most of the movie, however, Halle sprints, Halle swims (55 laps!), and Halle screams. It's a two-hour fitness video -- a portrait of the Oscar winner as personal trainer.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Barbarian Invasions
    A honey, but your response to it may depend on where you fall on life's big curve.
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