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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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    • 19 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Cat in the Hat
    If the producers had dug up Ted Geisel's body and hung it from a tree, they couldn't have desecrated the man more.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Missing
    The movie runs into its deepest trouble with its depiction of Lilly's captors. After years of Hollywood wooden Indians and a more recent run of tribal angels (as in "Dances With Wolves"), movies like "The Last of the Mohicans" have acknowledged the historical truth that Native Americans could be as bloody-minded as their white conquerors.
    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John
    The Gospel of John is to "The Passion of the Christ" as tap water is to parboiled sacramental wine.
  5. Tupac: Resurrection
    The movie is like an extra-strength episode of MTV's ''Diary,'' which is like ''A&E Biography'' in the first person. Only ''Resurrection'' has a subject who's been dead for six years.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    The joy is in the details, and they are unrelentingly comic.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    The opening 15 minutes of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World are so well crafted that they restore your faith in commercial cinema.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anything But Love
    Like many of us who cherish the safe harbor of old movies, Rose and Cary mourn the fact that they don't make 'em like they used to. If they'd paused to ponder why not, they might have a better movie.
  9. Hukkle
    There's scarcely any dialogue, and the "hukkle" sound is universal enough to make subtitles unnecessary and to please an audience of any age and attention span.
  10. My Architect
    Nathaniel fares well with his father's fellow masters, although Frank Gehry seems evasive.
  11. Martin & Orloff
    The film is faithful to its absurdities, sometimes hilariously so.
  12. Just an American Boy
    Earle's song introductions, like those of his mentors Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, are as meaty, pointed, and touching as the tunes themselves, and his spoken words -- full of humor and humanity -- are the heart of the film.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In My Skin
    In My Skin takes that pain/pleasure principle and magnifies it until you're either dumbstruck or running screaming from the theater.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gloomy Sunday
    Lushly engaging, even if it covers some of the same ground as ''The Pianist'' with less artistry and more melodrama.
  15. Elf
    The movie sets Ferrell's assaultive and juvenile physical comedy in a less-combative playground, and the result might leave the Ferrell-intolerant exiting the theater on a high.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Actually
    Charming, if terribly overstuffed, vision of romantic London gridlock.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Matrix Revolutions
    Revolutions, the final installment in the trilogy, parcels things more neatly. You get 45 minutes of the Wachowskis' patented theosophical bong water, followed by an hour of the most muscular, hard-core special-effects rama-lama yet to hit the screen. Only then does Jesus show up.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
    Mao had it wrong; in ''Revolution,'' political power comes out of the barrel of a TV tube.
  19. Die, Mommie, Die!
    Busch combines French absurdist theater and American performance art with a drag queen's flamboyant wit.
  20. Shattered Glass
    Shattered Glass, with its dumb title, is smart about good vs. evil. Incidentally, the good is Lane, who now works at The Washington Post and was a consultant on this picture.
    • 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.
  22. Eyes Without a Face [re-release]
    Eyes Without a Face, outre as it is, never tires as hypnotic, touching, ghastly fun.
  23. Girlhood
    Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus spent three years shooting two teenagers living in a Maryland juvenile detention center. The completed film is called Girlhood and it feels as much a work in progress as its two troubled subjects do.
    • 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.
  25. Radio
    A tall glass of hogwash that's terrified to declare itself the racial-healing melodrama it is.
  26. Elephant
    The atmosphere is hypo-stylized, vividly generic and worse than real, like a doomy Frederick Wiseman documentary.
  27. Scary Movie 3
    Notably Wayansless. It's also notably devoid of a point of view.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beyond Borders
    Worse than junk, in fact. Beyond Borders so trivializes the plight of the world's displaced peoples that it becomes actively obnoxious.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Party 2000
    The film was conceived as a youthful tour of all that's wrong with the two-party system, with the likably shambling actor Philip Seymour Hoffman as host, but the breadth of subjects covered precludes any response other than nebulous discontent.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Cut
    It might even work if In the Cut was remotely convincing as a thriller, but Campion can't help wrinkling her nose at genre.
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