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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. Kingdom Come
    In the end, it's simple warmth and sincerity that make this ensemble piece so disarming.
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  2. Chopper
    Too quick to uncritically and unthinkingly accept its subject's rollickingly self-mythologizing take on himself.
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  3. Joe Dirt
    We have to endure 93 minutes of this torture, with only a few high points.
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  4. The Girl
    Somewhat overstylized and deliberately enigmatic, The Girl won't appeal to everyone. But its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense.
  5. Just Visiting
    It's hard to believe anyone would think importing a French comedy was a good idea.
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  6. The Day I Became a Woman
    What you're not prepared for in Marziyeh Meshkini's astonishing debut film is the way its central image instantly leaps into the pantheon of world cinema with a rightness and an urgency that glue your eyes to the screen.
  7. Along Came a Spider
    Efficient, but in the end quite pedestrian.
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  8. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    This predictable, uninspired addition to the endless saga won't win over nonbelievers.
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  9. Shadow Magic
    Shadow Magic isn't interested in psychology or character study. It's a series of tableaux and on that level succeeds admirably.
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  10. Blow
    Blew its chance to be an epic drug opera. It's only nostril-deep.
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Mau Mau Sex Sex
    If you are a devotee of sleaze, you'll salivate at the prospect of Mau Mau Sex Sex, a fond and fawning look back at exploitation, or grindhouse, movies from the 1930s through the 1960s.
  12. Amores Perros
    As bloody as any recent film. But it's shot through with a harsh, stony humor that's invigorating enough to be regarded as a slap back at death.
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  13. The Tailor of Panama
    Many spy capers lose their intended irony and wry black humor, but The Tailor of Panama stays stylishly on target in ways that would put a heat-seeking missile to shame.
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  14. Someone Like You...
    There are three main reasons for seeing Someone Like You - Ashley Judd, Ashley Judd, and Ashley Judd.
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  15. Spy Kids
    Wacky enough and gadget-driven enough to appeal to bored kids looking for fresh energies.
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  16. Tomcats
    Isn't as funny as it is crude, and isn't as crude as it is labored.
    • Boston Globe
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Faat Kiné
    The situation is comic and yet quite serious, as are the ways in which language is used.
  18. The Brothers
    What saves the film is the charm and earthy humor the actors wring from the spectacle of these four guys getting an early jump on their midlife crises.
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  19. Heartbreakers
    Cries out for the brisk pacing of a Sturges or a Wilder. As is, it's too lumpish, languid, and lukewarm to hit even the guilty pleasure zone.
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  20. Say It Isn't So
    There are laughs here and there, and Graham and Klein aren't nearly as grating as what surrounds them. But there's no getting around the fact that far from seeming a labor of love, Say It Isn't So seems merely labored.
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  21. Too Much Sleep
    There are moments when faltering levels of energy and inventiveness threaten to turn Too Much Sleep into a nonevent. But it signals the arrival of a promising filmmaker and is worth sticking with.
  22. Exit Wounds
    Its pile-driving succession of set pieces comes at you with numbingly relentless efficiency, presumably in the hope that you won't notice or care how dumb it all is.
    • Boston Globe
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Ynever seen a documentary quite like this one, and aren't likely to again.
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  24. Memento
    The most disorienting and trippiest data-retrieval caper in years.
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  25. Enemy at the Gates
    It's too circumscribed and polite for the story it's telling, curiously deficient in the unexpected.
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  26. The Dish
    Warm, wry, endearing.
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  27. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Small, sharply written, incisive comedy examines, with smarts and style and sexiness, the very nature of modern romance - gay, straight, and in between.
  28. Simon Magus
    An odd but original, at times even poetic, film about a vanished world.
  29. 15 Minutes
    In a season mostly given over to unwatchable movies being cleared off studio shelves, it's at least about something. And there's no denying the lurid urgency with which it jumps off the screen.
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  30. Get Over It
    Comes off more like a series of painful cliches than a comedy or a love story.
    • Boston Globe
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