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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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  1. Death to Smoochy
    The script boasts some tart TV-insider humor, but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy.
  2. Panic Room
    Might give you a few decorating ideas if you happen to have been wondering about a home bomb shelter, but it's a thriller that doesn't thrill.
  3. No Such Thing
    Hartley's loquacity and arguable pretentiousness are stemmed by his sense of play. Even when they run afoul, his movies still have the conviction of their fun. No Such Thing barely has any convictions at all.
  4. Clockstoppers
    The film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers, and it lacks the novel charm that made ''Spy Kids'' a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences.
  5. Sorority Boys
    Crude, lewd comedy that makes ''Animal House'' seem wholesome.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Son of the Bride
    Fully realizes its ambitions as a tale about confronting and navigating life's land mines with humor, tenacity, and hope.
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Blade II
    It was possible to hope that Blade II would turn out to be good. Well, forget it.
  8. Pauline and Paulette
    Sentimental and has its heart on its sleeve, but never heavy-handedly so, and its delicacy and tenderness will get to you if you give it half a chance.
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  9. Harrison's Flowers
    A powerful portrait of modern journalism and the nobility -- and futility -- of chronicling modern war.
  10. Showtime
    Would seem to be surefire casting. The catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Y Tu Mamá También
    Sensual, funny, and moving film.
  12. Promises
    Beautifully crafted and brutally honest.
  13. Resident Evil
    A video game cum movie that substitutes shrieking decibel levels for a coherent plot and any resemblance to originality.
  14. Ice Age
    The coolest animation in town.
  15. Asphalt Zahov
    It is haunting in its literal and symbolic meanings, which is the powerful, lingering effect of Yellow Asphalt.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All About the Benjamins
    All About the Benjamins has: flash, cash, and enough videogenic eye candy to make ''Miami Vice'' look like ''Little House on the Prairie.''
  17. Festival in Cannes
    Many of the story lines offer only superficial insight into the characters; Silver's rich but unhappy mogul has been done far too many times.
  18. The Time Machine
    The best thing about the new film of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine is the machine.
  19. Stolen Summer
    Sweetly earnest little drama.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pépé le Moko (re-release)
    Foreign intrigue is raised to an art form.
  21. We Were Soldiers
    It isn't afraid to genuflect to heroes and heroism and has everything it needs to connect with the resurgence of patriotism after Sept. 11.
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  22. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    The film's biggest problem, however, is its naive inability to understand that sex comedies, to amuse, must be about more than sex.
    • Boston Globe
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Cherry Orchard
    As Ranevskaya, the film's focal point and one of its only sources of vitality, Rampling is an enigmatic treasure.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Big Bad Love
    It's messy, but in the end satisfying, a film worth making, a journey worth taking.
    • Boston Globe
  25. Mean Machine
    More machine than mean, although it's anything but a smoothly running operation.
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  26. Monsoon Wedding
    The film's bountiful warmth and gusto do their work. By the end, we feel part of the family, too.
  27. Dragonfly
    At least Dragonfly isn't contemptible or altogether dismissible. But it doesn't use Costner well, and it even more unforgivably wastes Kathy Bates.
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  28. Queen of the Damned
    Degenerates into a lot of dull declaiming and attitudinizing, despite a sly tongue-in-cheek quality brought by a preening Stuart Townsend to the Lestat role he inherited from the utterly humorless Tom Cruise.
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  29. Return to Never Land
    Reliable, standard Disney animated fare, with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages.
    • Boston Globe
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Scratch
    An illuminating and entertaining study of an underground culture that has become part of the American mainstream.
    • Boston Globe
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