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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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    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Pokémon Heroes
    Any richness in the drawing of the backgrounds only underscores the weirdly flat, affectless renderings of the characters moving through them.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Woman Is a Woman
    The most playful film to come out of the French New Wave, it's also the last time Jean-Luc Godard appeared to have any fun.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sweet Sixteen
    Compston's performance and the downer milieu, presented with appropriate paint-peeling profanity, are more than enough to keep an audience riveted and ultimately moved close to tears.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Matrix Reloaded
    The thrill isn't gone from the sequel, but the surprise is, and it hurts more than you'd think.
  5. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    Guy Maddin is a scholar, poet, prankster, and ferociously devoted classicist who likes to resurrect dead cinemas and deader directors and make them vital all over again.
  6. Only the Strong Survive
    The movie is the product of his (Friedman) big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom (and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I might add) has eluded.
  7. The Trip
    Uses lots of stock footage and takes looks back at America's big transitional period as though the era came in a can.
  8. Man on the Train
    There's the air of sadness and worry all over this movie, and sometimes it's heavy. But it's air all the same.
  9. Daddy Day Care
    The Daddy Day Care business model appears to be the 1983 Michael Keaton vehicle ''Mr. Mom,'' put on an unstoppable sugar high.
  10. The Shape of Things
    The cast helps enliven what could otherwise come off as a treatise. All four actors played these roles during the play's off-Broadway run.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Down with Love
    This is all far beyond silly, of course - the most inconsequential sort of winking, meta-movie in-joke.
  12. X2: X-Men United
    It's scenic, confidently directed and performed, dutiful, faithful, revelatory, informative, and largely involving. Rarely, however, is it any <I>fun</I>.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Dancer Upstairs
    Far from perfect but completely unique, the film could best be described as a paranoid South American metaphysical political thriller -- you heard me -- and whatever its failures, they're not ones of nerve or imagination.
    • 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
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue Car
    It's that central dance between teacher and student that makes the movie both hard to watch and worth your attention - a subtle waltz of power in which it's difficult to tell who's leading until too late.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    So who am I to carp that the film trades in the amiable realism of the show for just another watered-down pop star fantasy? Heck, it beats the Olsen twins. But not by much.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spellbound
    At its most unsettling level, Spellbound asks us to consider what words are for and what childhood should be. It's as profound as anything you'll see this year, and, yes, it should have won the Oscar.
  18. Marooned in Iraq
    As full of joy as pain, it's a perspective we need to see more often.
  19. The Real Cancun
    Not so much a documentary as it is a bald-faced party movie.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    City of Ghosts
    It's an actor's film, all right -- peppered with rich supporting performances but unconvincing in the telling.
  21. A Decade Under the Influence
    The movie star Julie Christie turned 62 last month, and anyone under the impression that she merely floated through her prime heedless of the age in which she worked should catch her in A Decade Under the Influence.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Confidence
    Run the game, bow to the movies that did it better and before, keep the dialogue on the line between hard-boiled and hokey, and throw one last curveball before the lights come up. It's a con in itself, but the reward's in the playing.
  23. Identity
    It's an exasperating exercise in B-movie hokum and screenwriter's gimmickry.
    • 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.
  25. Medea
    Medea works on von Trier's own imagistic terms. There are shots and sequences in this movie that feel unique.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winged Migration
    If it were any more real - if it were Imax, say -- the audience would be molting.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Holes
    Holes functions as a film, but just barely: Readers familiar with the book may negotiate the film's antic crosscutting, but newbies will need to pop a Dramamine before the lights dim.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lilya 4-Ever
    Doesn't derive its power from the turning wheels of plot suspense but from the simple act of looking and not blinking.
  29. Malibu's Most Wanted
    Kennedy doesn't take the character any deeper than a caricature of rich, nonblack fans of hip-hop culture. But as a caricature, he's fantastic.
  30. Love and Diane
    fully devotes itself to painting a family portrait seldom allowed such rich cinematic detail.
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