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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. The Iron Ladies
    The same underdog formulas and sunny disposition that turned it into an unexpected Thai box-office hit should win it friends here, too.
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  2. Vengo
    Presents a darkly realistic yet seductive world, with music as the tie that binds.
    • Boston Globe
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The American Astronaut
    Doesn't really have a climax that works, making you wonder whether all the nutso plot machinations were worth following. Maybe, maybe not. But there were a number of skewed bits that popped out and put a chuckle into this journey.
  4. O
    The film collapses under the weight of the effort to shoehorn Shakespeare's story into a context that ultimately doesn't accommodate it.
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  5. Jeepers Creepers
    The limp script actually has the characters spout ''Let's get outta here!'' more than once. Or maybe that's just a wise member of the audience talking.
  6. Tortilla Soup
    Its attributes and achievements are modest, but its arias, duets, and ensembles are engaging all the same.
  7. Summer Catch
    The screenplay, with its relentlessly schematic characters saying relentlessly schematic things, is so moronic that it makes you long for a documentary on the real Cape League.
  8. Together
    The best thing about Together, apart from the way some of its characters grow on you even as others put you off, is the way it snatches idealism back from the brink of life-smothering orthodoxy.
  9. Ghosts of Mars
    Slides instantly into the realm of the forgettable.
  10. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    There's nothing major here, certainly nothing on the order of my favorite among Allen's retro workouts of the past decade, ''Bullets Over Broadway.'' But it's entertaining all the same.
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  11. Happy Accidents
    D'Onofrio's affably wide-eyed weirdness generates not only pleasure, but a genuinely authentic conundrum, bouncing forward and backward toward the truth.
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  12. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Sequels and fun don't often coincide, but this time they do.
    • Boston Globe
  13. Bubble Boy
    There's always been room for rudeness in humor. In fact, it can be invigorating. But Bubble Boy goes through the motions of being outrageous when all it's really got is a rage to conform to formula.
  14. Fighter
    In the end, Fighter, despite its newsreel footage, is less a document of wartime experience than of the mentality one needs to maintain in order to be a fighter.
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  15. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    Intermittently engaging but inescapably overextended.
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  16. Innocence
    Films that achieve the dimension of seraphic embrace achieved by 'Innocence, as it explores a return to first love, are the rarest of the rare.
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  17. American Outlaws
    At least hits a certain adrenaline level, and the stunts have panache. If you crave the ''Young Guns'' approach to the Old West, here it is again.
  18. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Doesn't so much strike a lot of sour notes as fail to strike the right ones.
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  19. Rat Race
    A strong ending might have obscured the mediocrity in the writing, or at least diverted us, but the ending is sentimental where it needed to be hard-edged and comically merciless. For a film about people hurtling forward, Rat Race is pretty pedestrian.
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  20. Aberdeen
    It is an uncompromising family tale, one that's dark but lyrical and moving in its rendering of the ties that bind even the most dysfunctional families, despite valiant efforts to destroy them.
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  21. An American Rhapsody
    Although there's a certain connect-the-dots quality to the storytelling, there's no denying the care and craftsmanship that Gardos has brought to her debut film.
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  22. The Turandot Project
    Miraculously, the opera comes off, simultaneously ridiculous and thrilling, in a blaze of pageantry.
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  23. All Over the Guy
    Little more than a screenful of boy meets boy, boy meets baggage, boy loses baggage.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    American Pie 2
    Is this movie over the top? Definitely. Better than the original? Definitely not.
  25. Session 9
    You couldn't ask for a better setting for a horror movie. What you could ask for is a better script.
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  26. The Others
    Has everything you want in a supernatural thriller except thrills.
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  27. Osmosis Jones
    In a dismal summer for movies, Osmosis Jones is a fresh breath of foul air.
  28. The Deep End
    A perfect example of a small, well-made, and (in its central role) rivetingly acted film.
    • Boston Globe
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Audition
    A long crawl from inception to climax.
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  30. Original Sin
    Despite the heavy-handedness, isn't awful enough to be a hilarious howler. But neither is it good enough to become the tropical noir it could have been.
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