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For 7,948 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: 5,230 out of 7948
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7948
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7948
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Matter of Taste
    A Matter of Taste, French director Bernard Rapp's polished second film, swims in lies, ones that sate at first, but soon intoxicate, seduce, and drown.
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  2. Grateful Dawg
    The pure joy of music-making is what this gem of a film is all about.
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  3. Mifune's Last Song
    The liveliest, most original family values film of the year so far.
  4. Waydowntown
    The film will resonate with today's alienated workers, whose every brain cell and nerve ending hates the soul-crushing jobs they're told they should be grateful to have.
  5. Flawless
    A smartly crafted throwback to the gritty Manhattan crime melodramas of the '40s .
  6. East Is East
    This engaging ensemble comedy that could have been called ''Father Doesn't Know Best.''
    • Boston Globe
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Orfeu
    A heady, sometimes blurry combination of fable, legend, and social-political commentary.
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  8. What to Do in Case of Fire
    Like Schumacher, director Gregor Schnitzler is more preoccupied with his characters' looks than their behavior. You might not buy the ideas. But you'll definitely want the T-shirt.
  9. Mansfield Park
    Stylish and arrives at a satisfying cumulative weight, even if it isn't Austen pure.
  10. Boys and Girls
    Plays like a college version of ''When Harry Met Sally.''
    • Boston Globe
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    One hell of a party, and it doesn't let anything get in the way of that.
  12. Harrison's Flowers
    A powerful portrait of modern journalism and the nobility -- and futility -- of chronicling modern war.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Heaven
    It's maddeningly chowderheaded, simplistic, pretentious, and not a little silly. You can't take your eyes off it.
  14. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    The film does not offer an optimistic view of relationships.
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    • 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.
  16. Everybody's Famous!
    A likable satire on celebrity, Flemish-style, it is no less pointed than its American counterparts, just a lot less pompous.
  17. The Closet
    Perhaps not the most uproarious of Veber's farces, but entertaining and emotionally satisfying all the same.
    • Boston Globe
  18. The Monkey's Mask
    Less elliptical and more down-and-dirty than Lang's interesting debut film, ''The Well,'' this one tumbles through Sydney's academic and alternative poetry circles and is built around a lesbian private eye.
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  19. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    The sweetly enticing Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire repays the bit of patience it asks.
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  20. 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.
  21. Me & Isaac Newton
    As each scientist chronicles his or her story, one is impressed by the place that unswerving motivation and determination has assumed in the work.
    • Boston Globe
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Son's Room
    A triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos.
    • Boston Globe
  23. The Five Senses
    A deft, elegant, melancholy tapestry of flawed outreach, and the big reason it succeeds is Podeswa's courage in dispensing with a lot of exposition and trusting the audience - and the faces of the actors - to fill a lot of what otherwise would be gaps.
    • Boston Globe
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Big Bad Love
    It's messy, but in the end satisfying, a film worth making, a journey worth taking.
    • Boston Globe
  25. Sade
    Sensationalism and doom are not on screen here; Jacquot offers a relatively peaceful moment in Sade's life.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elling
    Touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes, not least the notion that the marginal members of society - the ones who get spit out on the sidewalk with no idea of how it happened - might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants.
  27. Place Vendôme
    It's rare that a crime movie achieves such emotional complexity, but this one is smartly layered.
    • Boston Globe
  28. Secret Ballot
    Ride it out, and you will find the rewards modest but meaningful.
    • Boston Globe
  29. The Tavern
    A steadily engaging and winningly humane film that loves its characters.
    • Boston Globe
  30. The Importance of Being Earnest
    A delightful alternative to most current multiplex fare, which wouldn't recognize a juicy bon mot if it tripped over one in the aisle.
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