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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. A Question of Faith
    Writer and director Tim Disney raises a provocative point about how radical and inconvenient true faith can be.
    • Boston Globe
    • 16 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Deuces Wild
    Just about the only things that remotely redeem this movie are the solid acting performances by the principals, who make the most of the one-dimensional material given them.
  3. Rat
    Rat may be lightweight, but it's never cheesy.
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  4. One Night at McCool's
    Neither as rollicking nor as wild as one had hoped, but Tyler's tongue-in-cheek noir goddess transcends cliche and the screenplay's other shortcomings terrifically.
    • Boston Globe
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Driven
    When the film predictably limps across the finish line, you're left with the impression your time would have been better spent sitting in traffic.
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  6. The Golden Bowl
    What Merchant, Ivory and Co. arrive at is a sort of handsomely illustrated Cliffs Notes version of the novel.
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  7. Town & Country
    Starts out as a somewhat weary farce of infidelity, but turns into something a lot more gratifying, namely a comedy of mercy.
    • Boston Globe
  8. The Luzhin Defence
    Watson's character grows in importance until she eclipses the recessive Luzhin.
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  9. The Low Down
    Captures the ensemble quality it was after and the provisional look and feel are perfect stylistic analogues to the lives - the male lives, anyway - that it's portraying.
  10. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    A sequel whose time has come - and gone.
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  11. Harry Is Here to Help
    A sleek little poison pill of a movie.
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  12. Freddy Got Fingered
    His (Green) new gross-out comedy is crude and stupid, but just as often rudely funny. It doesn't so much push the envelope as shred it.
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  13. The Center of the World
    Provoke us into examining whether the onus is on the man for turning it into a commercial proposition or the woman for agreeing to his offer.
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  14. Lakeboat
    Feels a bit flat and underdeveloped.
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  15. The Circle
    Such moral outrage, apart from the artistry in which it is embedded, tells us that the forces of change are stirring in Iran.
    • Boston Globe
  16. Bridget Jones's Diary
    The film not only works better than expected but gets the important things right, starting, of course, with Zellweger's Bridget and Bridget's mind-set.
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  17. Josie and the Pussycats
    Mindless glitz-o-ramas don't get any snazzier.
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  18. Kingdom Come
    In the end, it's simple warmth and sincerity that make this ensemble piece so disarming.
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  19. Chopper
    Too quick to uncritically and unthinkingly accept its subject's rollickingly self-mythologizing take on himself.
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  20. Joe Dirt
    We have to endure 93 minutes of this torture, with only a few high points.
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  21. The Girl
    Somewhat overstylized and deliberately enigmatic, The Girl won't appeal to everyone. But its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense.
  22. Just Visiting
    It's hard to believe anyone would think importing a French comedy was a good idea.
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  23. 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.
  24. Along Came a Spider
    Efficient, but in the end quite pedestrian.
    • Boston Globe
  25. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    This predictable, uninspired addition to the endless saga won't win over nonbelievers.
    • Boston Globe
  26. Shadow Magic
    Shadow Magic isn't interested in psychology or character study. It's a series of tableaux and on that level succeeds admirably.
    • Boston Globe
  27. Blow
    Blew its chance to be an epic drug opera. It's only nostril-deep.
    • Boston Globe
    • 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.
  29. 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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  30. 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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