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For 7,964 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  13. 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.
  15. 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.
  17. 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.
    • 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  29. 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.
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