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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. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. Last Orders
    Richly textured, beautifully acted.
  7. 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
  8. No Man's Land
    From beginning to end, it bristles with ironies in classic Eastern European absurdist style.
    • Boston Globe
  9. 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.
  11. The Affair of the Necklace
    Larceny at its most labored.
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  12. 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.
  14. In the Bedroom
    The surehandedly wrought, beautifully acted, almost unbearably tense In the Bedroom is a rare film, not to be missed.
    • Boston Globe
  15. Black Knight
    It's hard to find the movie unpleasant, but it's hard to imagine it causing any strong reaction at all.
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  16. 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
  17. The Devil's Backbone
    A seductively corrosive horror story that also potently suggests the ways war can shatter childhood.
    • Boston Globe
  18. Spy Game
    There's something elegiac in Redford's spy who knows he's a dinosaur but still has a few moves left.
    • Boston Globe
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Così ridevano
    A film of great ingenuity and imagination, full of suggestive power, and it deserves to be seen.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
    Captures a shadowy scene.
  21. Novocaine
    Quite apart from wringing the last molecule of vividness from his freewheeling roster of loose cannons, he brings to his direction of Martin a finesse shared by only a few of the directors who have worked with the comedian-actor.
    • Boston Globe
  22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    A firm, ringing yes and no on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The best thing about it may be that it will lead many back to read -- or re-read -- the book.
    • Boston Globe
    • 18 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Wash
    This real-life alliance is part of what makes the slice-of-life comedy The Wash work as well as it does, despite a somewhat skimpy though often crassly amusing script written by the film's director, D.J. Pooh.
    • Boston Globe
  24. Heist
    Not only reminds us that there's a little larceny in all of us, it reminds us how much fun it can be to commune with our inner thieves.
    • Boston Globe
  25. Shallow Hal
    You can't help cheering on Shallow Hal. That and the fact that it's not at all politically correct. It's something better. It's big-hearted, and it's funny.
    • Boston Globe
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Happenstance
    It has every mark of inspiration by imitation.
    • Boston Globe
  27. Tape
    Smart, unpredictable, and alive with the energies of actors who clearly are enjoying being stretched by their material.
    • Boston Globe
  28. Domestic Disturbance
    Doesn't make nearly the ripple it could have made.
    • Boston Globe
  29. Monsters, Inc.
    By any other standard, the creatures in Monsters, Inc. would be impressive. But by the high standard Pixar not only set itself, but invented, they're only ordinary.
    • Boston Globe
  30. Amélie
    Delightful and original, the film conjures up a corner of Paris distinct and specific, yet fairy-tale fanciful.
    • Boston Globe
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