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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. Est - Ouest
    Isn't always easy to sit through, but it repays patience. It's an honorable film, and it earns its undertow of poignancy derived from.
    • Boston Globe
    • 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.
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  3. Ready to Rumble
    Likable performances from its young cast and a better-than-average script add spark to this formulaic fairy tale and make the wrestling mania watchable.
  4. Price of Glory
    Stumbles over its own clumsiness until it goes down for the count.
  5. The Road to El Dorado
    Less than memorable.
  6. The Skulls
    Plummets into the realm of ludicrous failure.
  7. High Fidelity
    Sad, funny, brilliant.
    • Boston Globe
  8. X
    It doesn't tap deeply enough into any of the characters to compel us to identify with one or another.
    • Boston Globe
  9. The Color of Paradise
    The story is spun forth ravishingly, tenderly, and urgently, with a captivating mix of beauty, spare sophistication, and profound humanity.
  10. Here on Earth
    Maudlin script mars teen love.
    • Boston Globe
  11. Whatever It Takes
    Pretty lame stuff. Already it seems to be passing with the speed of light into the limbo of utterly forgettable "who-will-I-take-to-the-prom?" movies.
  12. Such a Long Journey
    While no individual plot strand is vividly compelling, their interplay makes for a hearty and humanistic mix, carried by the performances.
  13. Waking the Dead
    It's too fragmented and diffuse to ever bring its parts together in any really satisfying manner.
  14. Winter Sleepers
    Angst-ridden, yet graceful, stylish, and optimistic allegory about swerving off one road and finding your way back via another.
  15. Romeo Must Die
    The reason to sit through its uninspired, formulaic moves, however, is its half-dozen spectacular fight sequences.
  16. Erin Brockovich
    Roberts and Erin Brockovich have Oscar contender written all over them.
  17. Final Destination
    Starts by cheating death and ends by cheating us.
  18. Beyond the Mat
    Wrestling gets in America's face and Blaustein gets in wrestling's face. It's a fascinating tango.
    • Boston Globe
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Deterrence
    There is a palpable edge-of-the-seat tension and a number of complex ethnic issues that linger after the movie ends.
  20. Mission to Mars
    There are times when it moves into the guilty pleasure zone.
  21. The Ninth Gate
    A supernatural thriller that is neither super, natural, nor thrilling.
  22. The Next Best Thing
    Never having decided whether it wants to be comedy or a sentimental hand-wringer, it tries to be both and winds up being neither.
  23. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Best when it's playful, toying with the fact that the Mafia has in a single generation been transmogrified from myth to joke.
  24. Drowning Mona
    Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us.
  25. What Planet Are You From?
    The film is almost as shaky as the science, but Nichols knows how to get the most out of what amounts to a one-joke comedy, and Bening works virtual miracles.
  26. Judy Berlin
    It isn't often that lives of quiet desperation are served up with such pearly restraint.
  27. Mifune's Last Song
    The liveliest, most original family values film of the year so far.
  28. Reindeer Games
    The end is a long time coming in Reindeer Games and the dialogue is mostly slush.
  29. Wonder Boys
    A sweet screenful of quirky chaos.
  30. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    While it preserves his baseball feats, it looks beyond them to clarify Greenberg's place in American culture.
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