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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. Insomnia
    Has to be appreciated simply for doing its job, for being the only thriller I've seen recently that made me wonder how my knuckles ended up in my mouth.
  2. The Importance of Being Earnest
    A delightful alternative to most current multiplex fare, which wouldn't recognize a juicy bon mot if it tripped over one in the aisle.
  3. The Believer
    An amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    About a Boy
    Renders what should have been a wholly entertaining film into a timid, soggy near miss.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
    One roots for Lucas to get the next film sorted out, and to resurrect the humanity and soul that first made so many fall in love a long time ago with that galaxy far, far away.
  6. The Lady and the Duke
    Rohmer's style saps the film of the drama that flows directly from the subject matter.
  7. Unfaithful
    Despite the Gallic source material, what we truly have in Unfaithful is a tasteful, adult-contemporary ''Fatal Attraction'' redux, right down to the mister's Soho address and the happy family tucked away in the New York hinterlands.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The New Guy
    Probably would have worked better as a slamming soundtrack than as a muddle-headed movie.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    An epic film in every respect.
  10. Home Movie
    Suffice it to say that Chris Smith's Home Movie is the most bananas episode of ''Cribs'' ever. The film is Smith's ballad of the wacky homeowner.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Mystic Masseur
    Offers no tangible sense of Ganesh's genuine convictions (beyond a thirst for fame), nor of the essence of his character. By the time Ganesh's political downfall comes, in the same spiritless fashion in which his fortunes rose, it would take a mystic miracle to care.
  12. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    No porno flick posing as art. Nor is it science fiction, though it does contain a few scenes with B-movie overtones. This is a deep and meaningful film, ultimately far more poignant than it is titillating.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hollywood Ending
    A small film, but its ease and grace are virtues that can't be overrated.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Spider-Man
    Raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings. That said, we could use some moxie in the sequel.
  15. Circuit
    Like ''Showgirls'' and ''Glitter,'' the most entertaining moments here are unintentional.
  16. Sade
    Sensationalism and doom are not on screen here; Jacquot offers a relatively peaceful moment in Sade's life.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex with Strangers
    Explicit yet consistently unerotic. It's also intensely sad, capturing everything about these people except the high they ceaselessly chase.
    • 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  27. 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.
    • Boston Globe
    • 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.
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