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For 7,947 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 1 point 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    The sweetly enticing Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire repays the bit of patience it asks.
    • Boston Globe
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mia and the Migoo
    Where Mia and the Migoo triumphs is in the art department alone, with rich brown charcoal outlines, majestic pastel washes that give depth to the landscapes, and riotous colors that are more vivid than the story line.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Barney's Great Adventure
    The film is too long for some toddlers and too dull for some older children, and anyone over 12 will likely find it as much fun as a 75-minute root canal. [03 Apr 1998, p.D9]
    • Boston Globe
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Unknown
    Unknown is punchy and entertaining. Maybe not the sort of thing you'd want to spend $10 plus a mortgage for popcorn on, but a nifty surprise on DVD several months from now -- or on pay-cable on-demand right now.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    It plants a flag for a new corporate entertainment franchise and it will make international containerships of money, so does it matter that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is joyless and incoherent? Probably not.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is Where I Leave You
    It’s entertaining enough if you turn your brain off.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Chandni Chowk to China
    Although Americans may be overwhelmed by the dizzy mix of music, dancing, and kung fu, they should have no trouble appreciating the talent of this extraordinary entertainer.
  8. Connie and Carla
    The movie's queer delight is contagious. You'll exit lip-synching.
  9. The Village
    Spellbinding if ponderous.
  10. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    The director, Beeban Kidron, handles the proceedings with an episodic aimlessness on par with Bridget's.
  11. Southie
    Juicy acting and an intense individual and communal commitment that seems to boil up from the streets carry Southie past its structural and technical limitations. [28 May 1999]
    • Boston Globe
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mortal Kombat
    Hardcore fans and gamers will thrill to the contractually required scene where a fighter has his still-beating heart ripped out of his chest. But that’s the only time Mortal Kombat shows a pulse.
  13. The Bronze
    Disappointingly, this scruffy indie doesn’t live up to its promise either, despite a few flashes of subversive inspiration.
  14. One Last Thing...
    Dylan and Nikki are an awkward match at best, and their combined story is about as creative/convincing as a Hallmark card.
  15. Jobs
    If one were to compare this film to one of Jobs’s own products, it would be more like the Cube than the iPod.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Libertine
    A glorious disaster.
  17. The Losers
    The amusement it provides is cheap, disposable, and hardly worth the number of quarters you fed into the slot in a frenzy not to go home empty-handed.
  18. Southland Tales
    Richard Kelly's Southland Tales isn't just a movie. It's an apocalyptic piñata that's been bazooka-ed open.
  19. Life Happens
    Unfortunately, the potential for screwball comedy is wasted because L!fe Happens never finds its thematic tone or comedic rhythm.
  20. Snow Falling on Cedars
    The kind of richly layered film that Hollywood seldom attempts, much less brings off. But it's more than brought off here in grand, solid style and beautifully crafted detail.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex with Strangers
    Explicit yet consistently unerotic. It's also intensely sad, capturing everything about these people except the high they ceaselessly chase.
  22. America's Sweethearts
    You keep waiting for it to go into orbit, to be really fizzy and outrageous, like the screwball farce it wants to be. Instead, the film settles for the merely serviceable.
  23. Killer Elite
    Killer Elite is based on a true story and about a half-dozen Jason Statham movies.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dudley Do-Right
    Never gets horribly bad, but can't sustain its moments of inspiration either.
  25. Night Swim
    Night Swim has its characters make infuriatingly asinine decisions to serve its plot.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Firehouse Dog
    And that dog -- or, rather, that digitally enhanced replicant -- is just plain creepy.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Racing Stripes
    Simultaneously overplotted and simplistic, the new barnyard/racecourse comedy from Warner Brothers is predictable every step of the way, and it contains at least three too many poop jokes.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eagle Eye
    A movie only a copyright lawyer could love. It strip-mines at least three Hitchcock classics - "North by Northwest," "The Wrong Man," and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" - then commits unlawful assault on Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" just for the heck of it.
  29. A Piece of Eden
    The kind of heartwarming, well-intentioned film many audiences claim they want to see at their local theaters.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Teknolust
    Has a welcome humor but only in theory, and theory, chilly and self-involved, is where this filmmaker seems most at home. Like its bio-digital sirens, the movie never quite comes alive.
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