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For 7,947 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 1.1 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: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Amélie
    Delightful and original, the film conjures up a corner of Paris distinct and specific, yet fairy-tale fanciful.
    • Boston Globe
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Time of the Wolf
    Haneke has become known as a dour modern master of cinematic pain, and in this movie he scrubs civilization down to the root level.
  3. Girlfight
    A terrific little uppercut of a boxing movie and close to a perfect one.
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  4. Shadow of the Vampire
    He's (Dafoe) the stuff bad dreams are made of. He's also the best movie vampire since Schreck's original. He deserves a bloody Oscar.
  5. Nico and Dani
    The film is rightfully carried by Nico and Dani and under Gay's artful helmsmanship it's carried with remarkable sympathy and believability.
    • Boston Globe
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Touching the Void
    As sagas of endurance in the face of ridiculous odds go, this story is up there with Shackleton and ''Into Thin Air.''
  7. Jersey Girl
    Eloquent and unapologetically cute.
  8. The Saddest Music in the World
    Maddin's movies are easy, too. Point your eyes at the screen; the magic follows.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Super Size Me
    I don't usually make recommendations of this kind, but if you or your kids have gone to a burger joint in the last few weeks, you really do need to see this movie.
  10. Dinosaur
    Throughout the history of film, nothing turns campier faster than dinosaur movies. This one will have a much longer shelf life than most.
    • Boston Globe
  11. Love & Basketball
    The cinematic equivalent of a high, arching rainbow of a three-pointer from midcourt.
  12. Almost Famous
    Hollywood filmmaking at its best, brimming over with feeling, texture, spirit, and several kinds of keenness that transmute experience into big pop myth.
    • Boston Globe
  13. Bowling for Columbine
    Moore's roving essay feels even more urgent now than it did when the jury had to make up an award to honor it at the Cannes film festival in May.
  14. The Perfect Storm
    'Titanic'' was a case of a cheeseball story riding terrific effects. The Perfect Storm is in every important way deeper.
  15. Ocean's Eleven
    It's slick, sleek, and stylish, and if it doesn't quite redefine cool, it certainly offers a snazzy update.
    • Boston Globe
  16. As Good as It Gets
    Nicholson, Hunt, and Kinnear will win you over as they turn the film into a valentine to New York's walking wounded.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    I'm Going Home
    Richly allusive and eloquently stylized.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    If there's a larger theme in Zatoichi, it's that nobody is quite who he or she seems.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gangs of New York
    Scorsese and his team of Grade A talents are working on an operatic scale here, and like many operas, this is long, overwrought, sprawling, and more than frequently brilliant. It also hits just enough discordant notes to keep it from greatness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Notre musique
    Elegant, insistent movie -- a great gray filmmaker's finest in years.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
    Turns out to be one of the finer peeks into the creative process of staging a play. Granted, that's a tiny genre, and the film's core audience -- theater majors and the people who love them -- is narrow. The lessons, however, are big.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cold Mountain
    Three quarters of Cold Mountain consist of some of the most masterful and absorbing filmmaking of the year. The final quarter is Hollywood business as usual.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Finding Nemo
    Pixar is so good at what it does that every other kiddie-entertainment purveyor -- including parent company Disney -- flounders in comparison.
  24. Donkey Skin (re-release)
    It's practically a primer on how to rework a literary classic into an impressively restrained movie with something fresh and intelligent to say.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Così ridevano
    A film of great ingenuity and imagination, full of suggestive power, and it deserves to be seen.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Forgotten
    Turns out to be a grade-A B-movie that grounds its thrills in particulars of time, place, and character, so that when the time comes to make the leap into the wholly preposterous, we do so willingly. This is a movie that earns our trust -- and then happily abuses it.
  27. Dogville
    Despite its ultimate nuttiness, has a quiet, consuming power that sneaks up on you and doesn't go away. This is something new and ambitious for Von Trier: a work of compassion.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Door in the Floor
    A stunningly well-acted drama for grown-ups.
  29. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    If you thought ''Moulin Rouge,'' or, for that matter, ''Tommy,'' was trippy, Hedwig, with its glorious convergence of material and performer, will show you what you've been missing.
    • Boston Globe
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Baadasssss!
    A much better movie than the one it honors.
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