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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. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    Only loosely concerned with behind-the-scenes gossip and is squarely focused on the nature of Fellini's insatiability.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Good Thief
    The actor is magnificent -- ravaged, desperate, aware -- and no more so than in a scene toward the end when Bob's cardsharp cool finally breaks. It's a risky scene, the one note of corn, but Nolte brings it home. Too bad the movie doesn't.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Assassination Tango
    Since its maker is one of the least vain of Hollywood actors, it's one that is worthy of indulgence and respect.
  4. The Core
    The real core of The Core is the beautiful friendship between a highly emotive Eckhart and the sacrificial Karyo. Their bond is the best thing to happen to Franco-American relations since SpaghettiOs.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Head of State
    Gets better -- more rambunctiously astute -- as it goes, and its comic engine sputters into fitful life when Bernie Mac arrives on the scene.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Raising Victor Vargas
    The ''R'' rating is understandable, but absurd. This is a family film in the most complicated and, ultimately, most cheering sense.
  7. Basic
    Falls flat on two fronts: It's neither deep and interesting enough to be a brainteaser nor sufficiently thrilling to count as a mindless diversion.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Piglet's Big Movie
    If you've got some very small fry on your hands and 75 minutes to kill, this is as bright, colorful, and fuzzy as you're going to get.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chuen jik sat sau
    Filmed with panache, wit, chic amorality, and an inexhaustible supply of Micro Uzi ammunition, ''Killer'' nevertheless represents a baroque dead end for the Hong Kong action genre.
  10. Boat Trip
    Even 007 is a big old queen. Yes, Roger Moore's on board as a lusty codger, who, unlike the rest of us, can't get enough of Sanz.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    View from the Top
    Who on earth is this embarrassment -- easily the worst film of the year to date -- aimed at?
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dreamcatcher
    The longer it takes for the eldritch glop to hit the fan, in fact, the less true the movie may be to King. For better and for worse, Dreamcatcher is true to King.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Japan
    This crudely powerful film is a throwback. Unfolding at an elliptical pace that feels like a revelation, or tedium, or both, Japon recalls the glory days of 1970s art-house filmmaking.
  14. Willard
    Wonderfully deranged.
  15. Under the City's Skin
    More a bleak docu-melodrama than an esoteric morality play.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunted
    Del Toro does remind you of Brando here; unfortunately, it's the Brando of ''Apocalypse Now,'' the one with the green face and puffy line readings. Jones fares better, even if he wears the same grieving-for-humanity expression throughout the film.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Agent Cody Banks
    The premise of Agent Cody Banks is more than a little bizarre.
  18. Spun
    Because Spun is so plotless it's almost avant-garde, we're meant to be delighted with its assortment of set pieces.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bend It Like Beckham
    The film's most natural appeal is to adolescent athletes -- in particular, cleat-wearing young ladies who will bask in its hard-won girl-power message. This is a movie with bruised shins and a huge heart.
  20. Laurel Canyon
    Frances McDormand rescues this role from the throes of cliche. It's as though drippy dialogue and sappy rock were a small price to pay for a part that lets her flash her breasts, get stoned, and join in a three-way.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nowhere in Africa
    The movie's strength is its refusal to offer easy answers.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bringing Down the House
    There are about 15 minutes of genuine, bust-a-gut comedy in Bringing Down the House, and, surprisingly, they belong to Steve Martin, who hasn't been funny on film in years.
  23. The Safety of Objects
    The film leaves you dissatisfied, as though you'd just spent two hours with a menagerie of plastic white people.
  24. Irreversible
    Noe's summation is an ideological sucker-punch from a filmmaker who gets off on abusive relationships. He may as well have thrown a big ''whatever'' up on the screen.
  25. Tears of the Sun
    The film would be just as powerful, if less likely to saturate suburban megaplexes and flatter its patrons, were its saviors -- I don't know - French.
  26. Ten
    The new Abbas Kiarostami film is called Ten, and in it something amazing happens: nothing.
  27. Cradle 2 the Grave
    This is a ride, a video game, a soundtrack -- unapologetic and clearly labeled as such. It has no middle speed.
  28. Horns and Halos
    The film means to provoke a closer look at the faces of good and evil. It questions whether we really live in a world that can be divided neatly into black hats and white hats.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Open Hearts
    Open Hearts, like all good melodramas, is ruthless in its insistence that people are dragged, uncomprehending, in the wake of events.
  30. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    Despite being well acted and sweetly moving when it strips down to the tender poem at its heart, Till Human Voices Wake Us spends too much time playing to an otherworldly suspense that simply isn't there.
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