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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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  1. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Bernal, with his sweet man-boy looks, makes Padre Amaro's portrait of corruption all the more flabbergasting in its irony.
  2. Ararat
    The screenplay's intelligence begins to break down in Egoyan's formal choices. Ideas never elude Egoyan, but boy does Saroyan's epic look uncertain and cruddy.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Moves the franchise even closer to Indiana Jones territory, with bloodcurdling action scenes and a passel of climactic computer-generated slime beasties unparalleled in their potential ability to -- I'm quoting from both book and film here -- '' rip, tear, rend, kill. ''
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
    This is art paying homage to art.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bread, My Sweet
    Think low-budget ''Moonstruck'' but think again: A regional dish in the most heartwarming sense.
  6. Far From Heaven
    This is a love letter from one auteur to another that doesn't feel like a term paper. Instead, Far From Heaven is an honest-to-God drama with resonance all its own.
  7. 8 Mile
    A hip-hop cousin of Prince's ''Purple Rain,'' which had braver fashion sense and better original songs.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Femme Fatale
    Fatale is, truthfully, a mess - an absurdly overwritten Eurotrash thriller that beggars an audience's suspension of disbelief. It's also great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood.
  9. Strange Fruit
    The film spends its first half explaining the song -- famously and vividly about the cycle of Southern lynching. Its better second half-hour unmasks its composer as a compassionate Jewish guy from the Bronx.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Treasure Planet
    As literary desecrations go, this makes for perfectly acceptable, occasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment. You'll forget about it by Monday, though, and if they're old enough to have developed some taste, so will your kids.
  11. The Weight of Water
    Though it never rises to its full potential as a film, still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed.
  12. Tully
    The film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths. Entirely appropriately, the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn. That's not just a farm movie, that's life.
  13. Daughter from Danang
    That commendable sense of balance, which Dolgin and Franco use to approach this family reunion, ultimately makes the finished product devastating.
  14. The Santa Clause 2
    For an anonymous Saturday afternoon, it's the best lump of coal Hollywood can jam in your stocking.
  15. I Spy
    The sex bits are flat, the racial innuendo is flatter, and somewhere, Cosby is having a Pudding Pop and shaking his head in disbelief.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Santa vs. the Snowman
    Takes you inside a kingdom you've never seen the likes of before. Not only is it an IMAX film, with all the superlatives (six-story screen, 12,000 seat-rumbling watts of digital sound) this implies, but it's also computer-generated 3D animation.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bank
    Handsomely shot and edited, The Bank benefits greatly from the brutal ministrations of LaPaglia,
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Quai des Orfèvres [re-release]
    A film noir? A backstage musical? A whodunit? A comedy? In truth, it's all of the above -- plus a kinky love story, an absorbing melodrama, and a mordantly jaded snapshot of postwar Paris -- and all of them are wonderful.
  19. All the Queen's Men
    A throwback war movie that fails on so many levels, it should pay reparations to viewers.
  20. Frida
    Disappointing.
  21. By Hook or by Crook
    Not particularly good -- meaning navigable, remotely entertaining, pleasing to the eye -- it does, rather nobly, want to hip its audience to gender fluidity.
  22. The Truth About Charlie
    The closer you get to sorting out the truth, the less likely you are to believe it, let alone comprehend it. The latter half of this movie is as outlandish as a Mexican soap opera.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paid in Full
    The only victims in Paid in Full are the dealers and their families -- and the only word for that is one this paper can't print.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All or Nothing
    Grueling, heavy-handed, and surprisingly insight-free. For once, a gaggle of Leigh characters hasn't jelled beyond the level of its cast's conceits.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Roger Dodger
    Mines laughs from the ways in which its antihero's reductive philosophy consistently goes kerflooey in his face, but there's a weary sadness to it as well.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Ship
    Pureed, predictable conflation of ''Alien'' and ''Titanic'' and ''The Shining.''
  27. Fidel
    Unabashed Fidel worship.
  28. Le bossu
    The story is a mess. But On Guard was directed by the reliable Philippe de Broca, who imbues the whole affair with high-calorie silliness.
  29. The Business of Fancydancing
    Shot in digital video, Fancydancing feels a bit like a racy after-school special. Performances are amateurishly uneven.
  30. Naqoyqatsi
    A movie that seems to have been made mostly on the hard drive of a Power Mac G4. But whatever, we get it: Technology destroys everything.
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