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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. Ice Age
    The coolest animation in town.
  2. 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.''
  4. 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.
  5. The Time Machine
    The best thing about the new film of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine is the machine.
  6. 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.
  8. 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.
    • Boston Globe
  9. 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
  12. Mean Machine
    More machine than mean, although it's anything but a smoothly running operation.
    • Boston Globe
  13. Monsoon Wedding
    The film's bountiful warmth and gusto do their work. By the end, we feel part of the family, too.
  14. 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.
    • Boston Globe
  15. 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.
    • Boston Globe
  16. 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
  18. Wendigo
    Ultimately, this film is only scary if you're afraid of artfully self-conscious, grainy cinematography.
    • Boston Globe
  19. Hart's War
    Reminds us that the human dynamic can do a lot that explosions can't, even when the film flirts with formula.
  20. 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.
  22. John Q
    A well-intentioned but self-defeatingly manipulative film that amounts to an impassioned commercial for national health care.
  23. Scotland, Pa.
    Blurs the line between black comedy and black hole.
    • Boston Globe
  24. Rollerball
    Meretricious without being entertaining, it's an easy game -- and an easier film -- to sit out.
    • Boston Globe
  25. Big Fat Liar
    Offers little in the way of pleasure, even to its target audience -- the easily pleased and undemanding.
  26. Collateral Damage
    Schwarzenegger's mortality for the first time suits him.
  27. 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.
  29. 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
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