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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 1.1 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. You've Got Mail
    Warm, smart, and funny!
    • Boston Globe
  2. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    Resonates with intelligence and a poignancy made more sorrowful by what happened to all of us, but especially to New Yorkers, on that terrible day.
    • Boston Globe
  3. The War Zone
    In all respects, from choice of material to fullness of execution on every level, The War Zone is an extraordinary piece of work.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Real Women Have Curves
    I have seen the future of Hollywood movie stardom, and its name is America Ferrera.
  5. Riding in Cars with Boys
    As a flawed but lovably lionhearted woman, Barrymore triumphantly comes of age as an actress.
    • Boston Globe
  6. The Emperor's New Groove
    A lively, invigorating comedy: a near-perfect mix of fresh characters, well-cast voices, superb visuals, and a fast-paced, fantasy-adventure plot.
    • Boston Globe
  7. My Architect
    Nathaniel fares well with his father's fellow masters, although Frank Gehry seems evasive.
  8. Traffic
    It's the best drug-busting movie since ''The French Connection.''
  9. The Tic Code
    Reveals real feelings.
  10. Italian for Beginners
    It's the kind of romantic comedy that doesn't cheapen the word ''heartwarming.''
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nowhere in Africa
    The movie's strength is its refusal to offer easy answers.
  12. Ran
    In Ran, color plays a role not unlike that of language in "Lear": a kind of ground bass of beauty, a product of pure imagination, that both affirms life and surpasses it. Yet Kurosawa uses that beauty more as negation: a reminder not of what man is capable of but how puny he is in comparison.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lawless Heart
    The thread that winds through their stories is love lost and connections found, but only the audience is able to weave it into something to keep.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Weather Underground
    Essential viewing for anyone who wants to know the roots -- and perils -- of modern political dissent.
  15. Alice et Martin
    Richly compelling.
    • Boston Globe
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    With All Deliberate Speed
    The film is at its most quietly powerful, though, when telling the story of a group of African-American high school kids who took their discontent to the highest court in the land.
  17. Our Lady of the Assassins
    Plays like a dislocated version of ''Death in Venice,'' but in a dryer, higher climate that features exponentially more firepower.
    • Boston Globe
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Train of Life
    Another phantasmagorical tale of life among the Nazis, is upon us. This one works much better.
  19. Kandahar
    A bleak road movie that often ambles. But its many moments of poetic grace make this haunting and harrowing journey a rewarding one.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Metropolis
    Poetic, surreal, and curiously powerful.
    • Boston Globe
  21. Croupier
    It's brilliantly precise in its detailing, stylishly jagged and sensual by turns, and utterly unpredictable.
  22. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    The film's central drama is not between the former secretary and the filmmaker. It's between McNamara and history.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bukowski: Born into This
    Wants to claim Bukowski (1920-1994) as a 20th-century West Coast Walt Whitman -- a people's poet of modern degradation. Through a selective presentation of his writing and a reverently crass treatment of his life, it makes a funny, often intensely moving case, and you're having such a good time that you're glad to let it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Filth and the Fury
    This is a warts 'n' all portrayal - there's no dodging the feelings of both disgust and amusement.
    • Boston Globe
  25. For Love of the Game
    After revitalizing baseball movies with "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham," he's now three for three with the funny, quirky, rueful, and richly textured For Love of the Game.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Quiet American
    The key to why the new ''American'' is so good and so true, though, is Brendan Fraser as the title character.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Igby Goes Down
    Across the board, the performances testify, often hilariously, to the pain these characters feel and inflict but are incapable of expressing.
  28. The Transporter
    The best movie Steven Seagal never made. Except that Statham, while just as marked for death, is harder to kill.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Osama
    Osama works simply as the story of one unlucky young girl.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gerry
    Watching Gus Van Sant's Gerry is the cinematic equivalent of watching paint dry. I mean that as high praise.
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