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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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  1. I Capture the Castle
    If there's true magic to be found in the proceedings, it's in Garai's dexterous performance.
  2. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    It's a sunny, funny, fittingly cartoony blend of computer-generated 3-D representations of the flying squirrel and his pal the moose with actors.
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  3. Medea
    Medea works on von Trier's own imagistic terms. There are shots and sequences in this movie that feel unique.
  4. The Sea Is Watching
    As rich and literary a work as you might expect.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Confidence
    Run the game, bow to the movies that did it better and before, keep the dialogue on the line between hard-boiled and hokey, and throw one last curveball before the lights come up. It's a con in itself, but the reward's in the playing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ignorant Fairies
    It's a soapy, simplistic, but surprisingly affecting ambisexual melodrama that plays a little like Pedro Almodovar without the surreal frills.
  7. Insomnia
    Has to be appreciated simply for doing its job, for being the only thriller I've seen recently that made me wonder how my knuckles ended up in my mouth.
  8. Die, Mommie, Die!
    Busch combines French absurdist theater and American performance art with a drag queen's flamboyant wit.
  9. The Big Hit
    The last word in good-time mayhem.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dirty Pretty Things
    This is the meatiest role Tautou has had post-''Amelie'' and she drops the zombie-pixie act for once, giving us a character who's caught in a daily dance between propriety and abandon, and who can only dance faster as desperation sets in.
  11. Yossi & Jagger
    What the movie lacks in ambition, originality, and grit, it makes up for in pure feeling.
  12. Bread and Tulips
    Manages the right balance of fairy tale and joyous self-discovery. And the Venice locations don't hurt.
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  13. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Intoxicating fun.
  14. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Small, sharply written, incisive comedy examines, with smarts and style and sexiness, the very nature of modern romance - gay, straight, and in between.
  15. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    These children are indeed the faces of war. It's just harder to recognize them because they're the ones someone cared enough to save.
  16. Hearts in Atlantis
    A powerful and surehandedly crafted depth charge of a movie.
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  17. Urbania
    It plays like Scorsese's ``After Hours,'' but for higher stakes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winged Migration
    If it were any more real - if it were Imax, say -- the audience would be molting.
  19. Rock Star
    As generic as its title, but two things enable it to land: the basic likability of Mark Wahlberg as the wannabe protagonist, and the contagious energies in the rock concert sequences.
    • Boston Globe
  20. Chopper
    Too quick to uncritically and unthinkingly accept its subject's rollickingly self-mythologizing take on himself.
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  21. Girlhood
    Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus spent three years shooting two teenagers living in a Maryland juvenile detention center. The completed film is called Girlhood and it feels as much a work in progress as its two troubled subjects do.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Grazia's Island
    If you prefer your domestic clashes sunnier and more strenuously poetic, Respiro may be your respite. If nothing else, it's a reminder of how severely underutilized Valeria Golino is as both actress and cinematic glory.
  23. Horns and Halos
    The film means to provoke a closer look at the faces of good and evil. It questions whether we really live in a world that can be divided neatly into black hats and white hats.
  24. Psycho Beach Party
    A little Hitchcock and some good Psycho fun at the beach.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bread, My Sweet
    Think low-budget ''Moonstruck'' but think again: A regional dish in the most heartwarming sense.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Austin Powers in Goldmember
    The most consistently funny of the ''Austin Powers'' films.
  27. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    Give your brain the night off, and Myers will make you smile too.
  28. Shattered Glass
    Shattered Glass, with its dumb title, is smart about good vs. evil. Incidentally, the good is Lane, who now works at The Washington Post and was a consultant on this picture.
  29. Hannibal
    ''The Silence of the Lambs'' was a classic; Hannibal is only a good movie of its type.
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  30. Songcatcher
    Somewhat sanitized but gorgeous Americana, with another impressive turn by McTeer.
    • Boston Globe
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