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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Dogtown and Z-Boys
    Does a terrific job of evoking the electric magic of an extraordinary era.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Life or Something Like It
    Delivered with all the subtlety of a steel-toe boot, you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie.
  3. Jason X
    The only chills to be found are courtesy of your theater's central air, and the suspense will come from the wait to see which disappointed kid in a hockey mask will be the first to slash the screen.
  4. Rain
    Affecting, troubling, dazzling film.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Salton Sea
    A commercial Hollywood movie without pretensions. If there's no art here, it's still a good yarn - which is nothing to sneeze at these days.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Murderous Maids
    May ultimately be no more than the sum of its (body) parts, but it's still a ghastly service-industry horror story - a film to make you wonder what might be roiling beneath the surface of the placid young woman who hands you your Grande Latte every morning.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Murder by Numbers
    For much of its length, the film is plausible, if predictable and ponderous. Its strongest assets are its actors.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Girls Can't Swim
    While not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught, there's much truth and no small amount of poetry in Girls Can't Swim.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Enigma
    Snoozy, plodding film that never captures the inherent suspense of its subject.
  10. The Scorpion King
    For a movie with such a misplaced sense of history, The Scorpion King seems afraid to have more fun with its own stupidity.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    World Traveler
    The real seduction Crudup pulls off is that he makes it seem possible that the character hasn't actually done all of these awful things.
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Nine Queens
    Elaborately layered movie about schemes and more schemes that pile up faster than chips on a blackjack table. The other half is realizing, about halfway through the film, that you won't figure it out until it's over.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Chelsea Walls
    As for Hawke's direction, if there is any, it certainly isn't apparent. The shots are frequently bland and uneven, and the players act as though their only instruction was ''Just show up at the set and remember your lines.'' At least they seem to have gotten that much right.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Triumph of Love
    Sorvino can't pass for a man, but that's beyond the point in this rarefied situation. She's beautiful and she can usually act, but here the only convincing thing she projects is fatigue from running around the garden all day.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Mule Skinner Blues
    Earnhart's fundamental compassion toward his subjects elevates a riveting work that feels like a hybrid of ''Crumb'' and ''Nashville,'' with maybe a side of ''King of the Hill'' tossed on the barbecue.
  16. The Cat's Meow
    Could have been -- and should have been -- richer and more resonant. It's Hollywood Babylon Lite, only TV movie-deep. But at least it's tangy.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Human Nature
    It's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness, and where ''Human Nature'' should be ingratiating, it's just grating.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Frailty
    Murder should either be unsparingly real or kitschy like the ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre.'' This is neither.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Changing Lanes
    Banek is one of the more complex characters Affleck has attempted, but the performance comes off flat and uninvolving.
  20. New Best Friend
    Tawdry, trashy yawn-fest that makes the viewer long for the days when bad girls were dangerous dames with sultry style.
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  21. The Sweetest Thing
    This movie is to sweet as a dog is to a hydrant. But it's little things like that that keep someone like Diaz laughing all the way to the urinal.
  22. Lucky Break
    The movie moves predictably to its formulaic finale, which -- unwittingly perhaps -- reprises Plummer's own sugary classic, ''The Sound of Music.''
  23. Les Destinées
    Full of elegance but hampered by lack of depth.
  24. High Crimes
    Every minute of the film is trash, and director Carl Franklin seems to know it.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Big Trouble
    Juggles so many stories and characters, nothing ever develops into more than a rough sketch.
  26. Van Wilder
    Reynolds is the best thing about Van Wilder.
  27. Crush
    MacDowell offers an engaging portrait of a complex woman who has survived life's slings and arrows. It makes Crush an affecting take on modern women.
  28. Teddy Bears' Picnic
    Feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between lunch breaks for Shearer's radio show and his ''Simpson'' voice-overs.
  29. The Rookie
    It's not afraid to play cornball when it isn't playing baseball, but The Rookie gets away with it.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Time Out
    Cantet's script and direction are flawless, and, matched step-for-step by Jocelyn Pook's mournful score, he builds the tension to near unbearable levels.
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