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For 7,946 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: 5,228 out of 7946
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7946
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7946
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  1. The Shipping News
    The Shipping News is good news, but not as good as it could have been.
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  2. Ali
    Ali, in short, is far from a seamless success, but it does get the big things right and it respects a subject who commands respect.
    • Boston Globe
  3. The Majestic
    A sweet, visually handsome sermon, but it's too dramatically bland to convert even the converted.
    • Boston Globe
  4. Kate & Leopold
    It's a charmer.
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  5. A Beautiful Mind
    The film makes more apparent than ever that Howard is quite underrated as a filmmaker, possibly because he's been hidden in full view in the mainstream for so long.
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  6. How High
    The biggest problem, ironically, is that even though the plot and the action center on smoking pot, it's not enough of a stoner flick. The concept of getting stoned isn't amusing; watching stoned people is.
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  7. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    Mixes ''Jetsons''-style futuristic hijinks with a reliable story of a boy inadvertently whisked ''over the rainbow'' to another galaxy where his mettle is tested.
    • Boston Globe
  8. Joe Somebody
    The cop-out is mitigated by Allen's ability to impart a comfortable, lived-in quality to his roles, this one included.
    • Boston Globe
  9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    Not since the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy has film dipped into myth and emerged with the kind of weight and heft seen in Peter Jackson's first installment of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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  10. Kandahar
    A bleak road movie that often ambles. But its many moments of poetic grace make this haunting and harrowing journey a rewarding one.
  11. Lantana
    Haunting, powerfully acted, penetratingly written, it's about people coming home -- and not coming home -- to their marriages.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Not Another Teen Movie
    A clever satire that's layered like a breakfast club sandwich with sly in-jokes, sight gags, gross-out scenes, and, of course, requisite bathroom humor.
    • Boston Globe
  13. The Royal Tenenbaums
    There are laughs in it. But mostly you sit around waiting for it to be funnier, or at least funny more often. The problem is that it hasn't figured out a way to be funny while satisfyingly accommodating the pain in these characters.
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  14. Vanilla Sky
    May not emerge as the biggest disaster of the holiday movie season, if only because we haven't yet seen all the other year-end films. But it is a huge high-energy misfire, bringing Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Crowe to earth with a thud.
    • Boston Globe
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Behind the Sun
    This is a deeper film, delving into the twisted motives that rule lives, the lethal cycles that shackle progress, and, ultimately, the courage it takes to choose life.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In July
    Sweet little crowd-pleaser.
  17. Baran
    Simple, but loaded. It celebrates the humanity and humanism at the heart of Iran's remarkable flow of films, but it's also more of a rebuke to materialistic values than any ideologue could ever hope to be.
  18. Tuvalu
    Astounding. It is also bizarre, challenging, and, at times, admirably overreaching. In short, it's the kind of ambitious little film that can leave critics in a swoon and American moviegoers scratching their heads.
    • Boston Globe
  19. Last Orders
    Richly textured, beautifully acted.
  20. The Business of Strangers
    Isn't much more than ''Baise-Moi'' in business suits as they deconstruct sisterhood with an expense account, but their duets sizzle.
    • Boston Globe
  21. No Man's Land
    From beginning to end, it bristles with ironies in classic Eastern European absurdist style.
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  22. Ocean's Eleven
    It's slick, sleek, and stylish, and if it doesn't quite redefine cool, it certainly offers a snazzy update.
    • Boston Globe
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Independent
    A charming and funny look at the independent filmmaking business and the thin line between a masterpiece and a $9 nap.
  24. The Affair of the Necklace
    Larceny at its most labored.
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  25. Behind Enemy Lines
    As it is, Behind Enemy Lines will satisfy only those in search of a rousingly, if simplistically, patriotic bloodbath.
    • Boston Globe
    • 40 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Trouble Every Day
    A success in some sense, but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead.
  27. In the Bedroom
    The surehandedly wrought, beautifully acted, almost unbearably tense In the Bedroom is a rare film, not to be missed.
    • Boston Globe
  28. Black Knight
    It's hard to find the movie unpleasant, but it's hard to imagine it causing any strong reaction at all.
    • Boston Globe
  29. Sidewalks of New York
    The film's flaws seem unimportant, and it passes the big test, making you want to find out what happens to these characters, even when what does happen is predictable.
    • Boston Globe
  30. The Devil's Backbone
    A seductively corrosive horror story that also potently suggests the ways war can shatter childhood.
    • Boston Globe
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