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For 7,945 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: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One Hour Photo
    Thriller fans might remember a terrific 1987 B flick called ''The Stepfather.'' One Hour Photo is that film, directed by an art student.
  2. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    Cosmic slop.
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  3. Mostly Martha
    If there's nothing here for romantics, there's even less for gourmands. Nettelbeck fails to produce a good food metaphor, let alone an impressive, palate-aching preparation montage
  4. Blue Crush
    Not the sanctioned wet T-shirt contest you might be anticipating. The Pacific is the hottest body here. And director John Stockwell handles the frivolous material with an integrity that I have to admit I found disappointing. The movie isn't nearly dumb enough to be much beach fun.
  5. Katakuri-ke no kôfuku
    If there's one image that sums up the filmmaking style of Takashi Miike, it's the close-up of a bubbling hot pot on the family dinner table.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    I'm Going Home
    Richly allusive and eloquently stylized.
  7. The Château
    No one here is prodding you to laugh. It just happens.
  8. Secret Ballot
    Ride it out, and you will find the rewards modest but meaningful.
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  9. xXx
    As Diesel says, ''I like something fast enough to do something stupid in.'' Mission accomplished.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    24 Hour Party People
    Just don't expect the truth. An extremely bent, highly amusing form of the truth, maybe, but not the truth. 24 Hour Party People shares with the current Robert Evans documentary ''The Kid Stays in the Picture'' an awareness that a good anecdote often trumps the facts, but here the cheats are cheekily laid bare.
  11. Blood Work
    Eastwood risks embarrassment flirting with material this naked in its mawkishness, then jumps right in. He seems to want the world to know: Inside the 72-year-old body of this icon of virility beats the heart of a Mexican woman.
  12. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    Like a whacked pinata, it spills over with treasures - and one of the best things to fall out is Steve Buscemi, doing a riotously meek variation on the mad-scientist-with-cracked-lenses-and-lab-coat bit.
  13. The Good Girl
    Despite Aniston's hard work, Good Girl could be better.
  14. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    He doesn't just kill a good buzz. He bludgeons it.
  15. Full Frontal
    Studding your movie with friends, admirers, and sycophants is having a ball; it does not bring us to question the illusory power of cinema or the politics of entertainment.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    One Last Kiss
    More movies should be so funny and perceptive, with writing this sharp and acting this believable.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Master of Disguise
    Like criticizing the light fixtures on the Titanic. This ship was going down anyway.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Signs
    Its quirks are exactly what make Signs interesting, entertaining, and good.
  19. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    The magic of their perfectly shaded performances is that you always have to wonder ... Is she really that bad?
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Kid Stays in the Picture
    Implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most American of businesses, and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest Hollywood document of all.
  21. Swimming
    A rarity among modern movies: a coming-of-age tale without cliche or sentimentality. Bolstered by a luminous lead performance from Lauren Ambrose.
  22. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    To love Wilco is to believe in a certain rustic intelligence about popular music (and about yourself) and to embrace the Tweedy worldview that you need sarcasm and vagueness to cope with the pitfalls of sincerity.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Country Bears
    The music and the stars aren't enough to save the movie.
  24. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    Ladling in so much schmaltz that even his in-house critic says, ''This thing's worse than `Terms of Endearment.'''
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Austin Powers in Goldmember
    The most consistently funny of the ''Austin Powers'' films.
  26. Happy Times
    Shares many things with ''Not One Less'' and ''The Road Home,'' among them a grass-roots sensibility that ultimately puts a premium on hope and simple kindnesses, while acknowledging the seductive power of money and superficial success.
  27. K-19: The Widowmaker
    A relentlessly serious action movie, characterized by, of all things, sorrow.
  28. What to Do in Case of Fire
    Like Schumacher, director Gregor Schnitzler is more preoccupied with his characters' looks than their behavior. You might not buy the ideas. But you'll definitely want the T-shirt.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stuart Little 2
    Sure, go ahead and take the kids. But, for pity's sake, read them the book first.
  30. Tadpole
    Written in wisps and watery double-entendres by Heather McGowan and Niels Mueller, and the movie is so benign that its proceedings are beside the point.
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