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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. Wendigo
    Ultimately, this film is only scary if you're afraid of artfully self-conscious, grainy cinematography.
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  2. Hart's War
    Reminds us that the human dynamic can do a lot that explosions can't, even when the film flirts with formula.
  3. Crossroads
    Packaged fluff aimed low, and patronizingly, at Spears's legion of young female fans.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Super Troopers
    Broken Lizard has a way to go to match the absurdity and conceptual genius of Monty Python or Kids in the Hall, but Super Troopers has promising moments of oddity.
  5. John Q
    A well-intentioned but self-defeatingly manipulative film that amounts to an impassioned commercial for national health care.
  6. Scotland, Pa.
    Blurs the line between black comedy and black hole.
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  7. Rollerball
    Meretricious without being entertaining, it's an easy game -- and an easier film -- to sit out.
    • Boston Globe
  8. Big Fat Liar
    Offers little in the way of pleasure, even to its target audience -- the easily pleased and undemanding.
  9. Collateral Damage
    Schwarzenegger's mortality for the first time suits him.
  10. Birthday Girl
    This bizarre, uneven comedy is notable mostly for the unsettling presence of Nicole Kidman in full, kinky, sex-kitten mode.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Slackers
    There's scant character development, pedestrian dialogue, and an almost complete lack of humor.
  12. Waydowntown
    The film will resonate with today's alienated workers, whose every brain cell and nerve ending hates the soul-crushing jobs they're told they should be grateful to have.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Son's Room
    A triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos.
    • Boston Globe
  14. The Mothman Prophecies
    The movie goes after our dreams by dragging them through our Sept. 11 nightmares with an apocalyptic finale so ludicrous, overedited, and from out of nowhere that it's hard to follow, let alone to believe it's happening.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Metropolis
    Poetic, surreal, and curiously powerful.
    • Boston Globe
  16. Storytelling
    Cleverly mocks the modern chronicler, raising questions that linger long after the film is finished.
    • Boston Globe
  17. The Count of Monte Cristo
    Wolpert and Reynolds seem to be aiming for the ''Titantic'' audience at the expense of sophistication and historical relevance. It's too bad. The able cast, not to mention Alexandre Dumas, deserves better.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beijing Bicycle
    Hard, gleaming images and an oblique storytelling style come to Wang the way the bike comes to Jian -- secondhand.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    A Walk to Remember
    A movie where the miracles -- and treacly moments -- keep topping each other.
  20. Ha-Hesder
    Time of Favor, which boasts a haunting score, is an unflinching, complex portrait of a modern Israel that is rarely seen on-screen.
  21. Italian for Beginners
    It's the kind of romantic comedy that doesn't cheapen the word ''heartwarming.''
  22. Snow Dogs
    Harmless, if witless, stuff for the kids.
    • Boston Globe
  23. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    A zestful genre outing, and then some, right up its final overkill.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
    May bring Goldsworthy's art closer than anything else to ''permanence'' in any traditional sense.
  25. Charlotte Gray
    Rarely has a movie that looked so good on paper fallen so flat as the aptly named Charlotte Gray. It's not a bad movie. Bad movies have more flavor.
  26. I Am Sam
    Ham-handedly manipulative film.
  27. Dark Blue World
    A bittersweet world, and it's frankly one to which we've been before, but seldom do we see it rendered with such exquisite, if pained, craftsmanship.
    • Boston Globe
  28. Black Hawk Down
    Character is almost wholly subordinated to a blast-furnace rendering of the hell into which they're dumped. Seldom will you see so many US military body parts strewn around a movie screen.
    • Boston Globe
  29. Gosford Park
    Never has a film taken such relish in between-the-wars malice as Gosford Park.
  30. Monster's Ball
    The kind of film that could easily be undone by its own high-minded ambitions and dissolve in a pall of uplift. But it stays the course and gives the season two of its notable performances.
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