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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. The End of the Affair
    The immaculately crafted film that just sits there and refuses to come to life.
  2. Sweet and Lowdown
    Agreeable eye candy and ear candy, but it's too slight to reach as deep as it thinks it wants to reach.
  3. A Map of the World
    Gives three first-rate actors a chance to stretch, and they do.
  4. Flawless
    A smartly crafted throwback to the gritty Manhattan crime melodramas of the '40s .
  5. Tumbleweeds
    You'll care what happens in this film with more than enough freshness and originality to avoid succumbing to girls-on-the-run cliches.
  6. End of Days
    It seems endless. It's also unusually crude and stupid, even for an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
  7. Ride with the Devil
    It's one of the few films that persuades you that it went out to meet the war and bring it to us with verisimilitude.
  8. Toy Story 2
    Everything you could want in a sequel. It satisfyingly regenerates the characters and qualities that made the first film so popular. And then it moves them forward into newer, fresher, more elaborate, more involving territory.
  9. The World Is Not Enough
    This 19th Bond installment is passable, but only just.
  10. All About My Mother
    A tender genuflection to the women's energies that keep that spinning world from keeling over.
  11. Sleepy Hollow
    A gorgeous screenful of period eye candy.
  12. 42: Forty Two Up
    A miracle of data retrieval as the grown schoolchildren are measured against their footage from the earlier films.
  13. Mansfield Park
    Stylish and arrives at a satisfying cumulative weight, even if it isn't Austen pure.
  14. Liberty Heights
    Both a lovingly crafted remembrance of things past and a deliberate broadening and darkening of the canvas Levinson previously filled in "Diner," "Tin Men," and "Avalon."
  15. Anywhere But Here
    Aims its big, bold mother-daughter conflicts straight at the heart by way of the tear ducts, and connects.
  16. Felicia's Journey
    Has more ambition than the usual serial killer film, but curiously less urgency.
  17. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    A lot of striking pictures in this would-be feminist "Braveheart," but a film that's pretty flat and earthbound because of the limitations of the figure at its center.
  18. Dogma
    Has that rarest of qualities in movies that think of themselves as religious. I'm talking about the vision thing. And the ability to make morality entertaining.
  19. Light It Up
    Light It Up isn't a great movie, but it's a cut above most so-called urban thrillers.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    The Japanese animation is beautiful, and the script adaptation for the English-speaking audience is well-paced, clever, and absorbing enough to keep parents from squirming.
  21. Rosetta
    The bleakness of Rosetta will not be for all, but it's one of the best films of the year.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Bachelor
    A vapid, charmless update of Buster Keaton's 1925 film "Seven Chances."
    • Boston Globe
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    Reflective, haunting, hilarious documentary.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Train of Life
    Another phantasmagorical tale of life among the Nazis, is upon us. This one works much better.
  25. American Movie
    It seems more a geek show than a slab of marketing wizardry.
  26. The Bone Collector
    Washington and Jolie earn their stripes here, but more texture would have resulted, I think, in more terror.
  27. The Insider
    A big, dark juggernaut of a movie about a big, dark juggernaut of a subject.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beefcake
    It leaves you with an odd, sweet-and-sour taste - nostalgia painted in pastel colors, streaked with black smears.
  29. Music of the Heart
    Avoids the potentially suffocating pall of uplift hovering over its quite exhilarating story.
  30. The Legend of 1900
    Its protagonist haven't enough emotional substance to carry them through the long, darkly lit introspective sequences.
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