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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 point 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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    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Runaways
    In rock, it's about the attitude as much as the music. In some cases, more so. And the Runaways were all attitude.
  2. How to Train Your Dragon
    Finds DreamWorks Animation looking to Viking territory for its next Shrek-sturdy comedy tentpole. By Odin, they make it work.
  3. Waking Sleeping Beauty
    Vividly captures a period of movie history. It’s just that the period seems less vital -- sleepier, if you will -- than it once did.
  4. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    A lively and affectionate cross between an infomercial and a genuflection.
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  5. The Dish
    Warm, wry, endearing.
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  6. Cradle 2 the Grave
    This is a ride, a video game, a soundtrack -- unapologetic and clearly labeled as such. It has no middle speed.
  7. The Girl
    Somewhat overstylized and deliberately enigmatic, The Girl won't appeal to everyone. But its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense.
  8. Manito
    Because Manito is really just an opera without the violins or Viking hats, you probably don't need to have everything spelled out. Its Spanish-English script is secondary to the universal language and timeless drama of family, community, dreams made and dreams dashed.
  9. Frequency
    Enough originality and emotional weight to keep you engrossed even when it lapses into some pretty standard moves at the end.
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  10. Skins
    Maybe the redemptions offered are simplistic in the context of this place, but they make for a dramatic (if heavily foreshadowed) conclusion.
  11. Anywhere But Here
    Aims its big, bold mother-daughter conflicts straight at the heart by way of the tear ducts, and connects.
  12. The Château
    No one here is prodding you to laugh. It just happens.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Murderous Maids
    May ultimately be no more than the sum of its (body) parts, but it's still a ghastly service-industry horror story - a film to make you wonder what might be roiling beneath the surface of the placid young woman who hands you your Grande Latte every morning.
  14. Painted Fire
    This is that rare art flick whose subject goes nuts because his work is not self-indulgent ENOUGH.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cool and Crazy
    Jensen's charming film, is perhaps one of the first in which the actors are credited not by the size of their salaries and egos, but by their vocal ranges.
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  16. Cradle Will Rock
    Brings the '30s vividly to the screen.
  17. Dick
    Hedaya is sublime.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Divine Intervention
    The Academy accepts submissions only from real countries, and Palestine isn't one. This is as good a joke, and as dark, as anything in the movie.
  19. K-19: The Widowmaker
    A relentlessly serious action movie, characterized by, of all things, sorrow.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Open Hearts
    Open Hearts, like all good melodramas, is ruthless in its insistence that people are dragged, uncomprehending, in the wake of events.
  21. Plunkett & Macleane
    Scott makes it easy to overlook the conventionality beneath his sometimes overdone but almost always enjoyable combination of atmosphere and propulsiveness.
  22. Mickey Blue Eyes
    It brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision.
  23. Liam
    Frears makes every note count for a lot in this beautifully gauged microcosm of big emotions expressed in small gestures.
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  24. The Cat's Meow
    Could have been -- and should have been -- richer and more resonant. It's Hollywood Babylon Lite, only TV movie-deep. But at least it's tangy.
  25. Tully
    The film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths. Entirely appropriately, the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn. That's not just a farm movie, that's life.
  26. Life and Debt
    Employs both eloquent and down-to-earth methods to explain the complex reasons why so many of the world's developing countries remain caught in an economic quagmire that prevents them from becoming self-sufficient.
  27. The Guys
    Short without feeling scant. That's how big its sense of grief is.
  28. In Too Deep
    Invigorating excellence.
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  29. Where the Money Is
    The film never drags, but one of the enjoyable things about it is its way of taking its time letting us get to know and savor the characters.
  30. Simon Magus
    An odd but original, at times even poetic, film about a vanished world.
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