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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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    • 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.
  2. From Justin to Kelly
    They have the chemistry of step-siblings, so a movie that has them make out is, as the one of the few girls in the theater exclaimed, "so gross."
  3. Manito
    Because Manito is really just an opera without the violins or Viking hats, you probably don't need to have everything spelled out. Its Spanish-English script is secondary to the universal language and timeless drama of family, community, dreams made and dreams dashed.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hard Word
    Wonderful characters, these three, and The Hard Word never figures out what to do with them.
  5. The Nazi Officer's Wife
    One of the most compelling films the Holocaust has yet produced.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jet Lag
    As a credible love story, though, the film never leaves the runway. If you're a fan of these actors, you may want to look up Jet Lag when it comes out on video, or catch it on an Air France flight while flirting with the passenger in the next seat.
  7. The Heart of Me
    The first half of The Heart of Me is just that sort of hoot. You know where it's all headed, and you can't wait for it to get there, as the cheap, cruel ironies pile up almost farcically.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hollywood Homicide
    One of the most lazily scripted, poorly structured, smugly stereotyped star vehicles in recent memory. Bizarrely, this seems to be the point.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Rugrats Go Wild
    Slapstick and potty humor for the kids, sly allusions and famous voices for the adults, and a light coating of aren't-we-lucky-to-have-each-other schmaltz at the very end - yep, Nickelodeon has the family-flick formula pretty much down.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tycoon: A New Russian
    Despite its ambitious depiction of post-Soviet economic woes, Tycoon is an uneven political thriller that suffers mostly from a highly convoluted story line.
  11. Herod's Law
    Incisive, highly entertaining political farce.
  12. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    Yes, I've seen Dumb and Dumberer, so you don't have to. As good deeds go, this is about as significant as getting a cat out of a tree, but believe me, you're better off at home, alphabetizing your old comic books, talking to your parents, or watching paint dry.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love the Hard Way
    The film's final scenes are among its silliest, unfortunately.
  14. The Eye
    Like the horror-flick hacks who infest Hollywood like termites, the Pangs don't build suspense, they assault the senses with twitchy photography and Danny's editing.
  15. Wattstax (re-released)
    Wattstax is a disorienting and ironic moviegoing experience. It's a film about the curative powers of rhythm-and-blues music that sets out to frustrate your sense of rhythm in its insistence on the blues.
  16. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    Regardless, it's sad that Singleton is taking Diesel's sloppy seconds.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Whale Rider
    Like last year's Inuit sensation ''The Fast Runner,'' the Maori drama Whale Rider is based on a folk myth, and it's told with an elemental timelessness that feels like a swan dive into prehistory.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Weather Underground
    Essential viewing for anyone who wants to know the roots -- and perils -- of modern political dissent.
  19. Together
    The film doesn't amount to an emotionally palpable experience. Most of the stops it attempts to pull out are rusty. The movie ends with a gigantic lump in its throat, one that would take a tall glass of Barbara Stanwyck to wash down.
  20. The Italian Job
    Norton is unapologetic and unflappable in his part. Slimy and vaguely nerdy, he's become the thinking man's thug, even if this character's Armani-wear is better tailored than his psychology.
  21. Wrong Turn
    As perfectly bad horror movies go, Wrong Turn is something new: a gore-splattered workout flick.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Capturing the Friedmans
    As the Friedmans split apart like fissile neutrons, their story becomes five stories, none of which is remotely like the others.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Finding Nemo
    Pixar is so good at what it does that every other kiddie-entertainment purveyor -- including parent company Disney -- flounders in comparison.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The In-Laws
    Perhaps the biggest disappointment is that The In-Laws was directed by Andrew Fleming, who delivered the fizzy Nixon-era comedy ''Dick'' a few years back and who also had a hand in ''Grosse Pointe,'' the wicked, briefly-lived WB parody of TV teen dramas. The man obviously knows from satire, but not on the evidence of anything here.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Grazia's Island
    If you prefer your domestic clashes sunnier and more strenuously poetic, Respiro may be your respite. If nothing else, it's a reminder of how severely underutilized Valeria Golino is as both actress and cinematic glory.
  26. Bruce Almighty
    Bruce Almighty would rather go runny and bland, mostly where Aniston's Grace is concerned.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sea
    You may have to be from Iceland to take dialogue like ''You can't freeze love like a gutted fish'' with a straight face.
  28. Cinemania
    What Christlieb and Kijak do so well is keeping these folks from not seeming like loons.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    L'Auberge Espagnole
    The movie also rather sweetly suggests that the apartment being shared is Europe itself. There's a reason this warm, stylish human comedy was a big hit all across the Continent: It conveys a new generation's conviction that borders no longer matter.
  30. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    These children are indeed the faces of war. It's just harder to recognize them because they're the ones someone cared enough to save.
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