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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 Time for Drunken Horses
    Deeper and richer in humanity than all but a handful of the American films released this year.
  2. Vénus beauté (institut)
    It's all glossy urban fairy-tale stuff, laid on with style to spare, given added resonance by a mini-pantheon of French movie goddesses.
  3. Stardom
    Denys Arcand has satiric fun with the media's way of taking celebrity culture at face value and nothing but. Eventually, though, the film becomes what it's ridiculing.
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  4. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Berlinger has approached Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 with intelligence and even a bit of thematic heft. But, frankly, the cheap thrill is gone.
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  5. Lucky Numbers
    Despite a few tangy black comic moments, Lucky Numbers' is bummer theater.
  6. What's Cooking?
    This good-hearted but undersupplied ensemble piece is only appetizer-deep.
  7. Sound and Fury
    Riveting tale of family dynamics packed with as much drama, conflict, and poignancy as the best feature film.
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  8. The Yards
    By the end, we're left with a feeling of depletion rather than resolution, which may have been Gray's intention.
  9. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Intoxicating fun.
  10. Calle 54
    Filled with affection and verve and will do very nicely until the next shipment of Latin jazz comes along.
    • Boston Globe
  11. Pay It Forward
    The kind of film you've got to admire simply for the way it squares its shoulders and plunges into a message of unfashionable idealism.
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  12. Bedazzled
    The important thing is that Hurley looks smashing in her succession of red outfits.
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  13. Lost Souls
    Full of atmosphere and visuals, it's empty of anything that really matters.
  14. Dr T and the Women
    A comedy of chaos, an ensemble comedy, with characters swirling around one another unaware, in their uniform desperation, of how funny they are.
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  15. The Contender
    Wonderfully cast and slickly directed, but so crudely written.
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  16. Billy Elliot
    Bell is utterly persuasive as the boy literally yearning to leap beyond the oppressively apparent confines of his world.
    • Boston Globe
    • 22 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ladies Man
    Overstays its welcome.
  18. Ratcatcher
    Fresh, original, and arresting.
    • Boston Globe
  19. Taboo
    The intriguing subject, unfortunately, collapses under too many talky scenes of the samurai discussing their feelings and gossiping about who loves whom.
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  20. Two Family House
    Worth staying with for the respect it pays to its characters' emotions.
  21. Bamboozled
    Ends with a fizzle, not a bang.
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  22. Get Carter
    A sodden-looking film.
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  23. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    A video game barely disguised as a movie. Violent, and the monsters are scary for younger children.
    • Boston Globe
  24. Meet the Parents
    Distress of Parents is a real pleasure.
  25. Requiem for a Dream
    It's two hours of slumming in a vision of hell hatched from bourgeois comfort. That, and not its unsavory subject matter, is what makes it bummer theater.
  26. Beautiful
    The tame, confused script eventually sinks the film, although Field shows skill directing actors.
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  27. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    It plays like a pilot for what I imagine will be network TV's first all-gay sitcom.
  28. Girlfight
    A terrific little uppercut of a boxing movie and close to a perfect one.
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  29. Remember the Titans
    Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes.
  30. Barenaked in America
    Insights run more along the lines of which ''Sesame Street'' character each of them identifies with.
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