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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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    • 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.
  2. Kate & Leopold
    It's a charmer.
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  3. Small Time Crooks
    It's the kind of movie you can settle into, secure in the expectation that you can steal from it more than a little vintage Allen fun.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hollywood Ending
    A small film, but its ease and grace are virtues that can't be overrated.
  5. Tupac: Resurrection
    The movie is like an extra-strength episode of MTV's ''Diary,'' which is like ''A&E Biography'' in the first person. Only ''Resurrection'' has a subject who's been dead for six years.
  6. Harry Is Here to Help
    A sleek little poison pill of a movie.
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spartan
    When Spartan is good, it's surprisingly gripping and fresh, and when it's bad, it's just another overcooked Hollywood paranoid thriller.
  8. The Truth About Charlie
    The closer you get to sorting out the truth, the less likely you are to believe it, let alone comprehend it. The latter half of this movie is as outlandish as a Mexican soap opera.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Agronomist
    Smartly filmed (aside from a few distracting editing fripperies), but it's so dazzled by its subject and saddened by his martyrdom that it never moves past the heroic politics of dissent.
  10. Girl on the Bridge
    I'd take a chance on it anyway, even if it stumbles and loses its way.
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  11. Katakuri-ke no kôfuku
    If there's one image that sums up the filmmaking style of Takashi Miike, it's the close-up of a bubbling hot pot on the family dinner table.
  12. Knafayim Shvurot
    This intimate, warmly made family portrait always feels true. The performances are particularly good.
  13. 8 Women
    Even if some of the references are inscrutable, a lot of 8 Women is a riot. Here and there Ozon finds the key to a level of farce that would have amused Bunuel himself.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Seabiscuit
    In the end, Seabiscuit gets right the things that matter.
  15. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey don't simply star in this movie; they tag-team it out of the Freddie Prinze Jr. --Julia Stiles puppy-love ghetto.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Independent
    A charming and funny look at the independent filmmaking business and the thin line between a masterpiece and a $9 nap.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    The joy is in the details, and they are unrelentingly comic.
  18. The Italian Job
    Norton is unapologetic and unflappable in his part. Slimy and vaguely nerdy, he's become the thinking man's thug, even if this character's Armani-wear is better tailored than his psychology.
  19. Zoolander
    Isn't always on the money, but when it is, it really is.
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  20. Joe the King
    Whaley's self-effacing but strongly etched and wrenchingly effective film.
  21. Wonderland
    Give it a chance and you'll probably share the cast's collective impulse to dive in and embrace it.
  22. The 6th Day
    Puts the fun back into going to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. He said he'd be back, and he is.
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  23. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
    Made of a serene dynamite that's all but unknown to American film audiences.
  24. En la ciudad sin límites
    A tidy soap opera. But it's a discreet, warmly made one, too. In a show of restraint, the intrigue never rises above mildly juicy.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Secretary
    Love hurts in Secretary -- but not too much. It's not impossible to imagine adventurous young couples seeing this movie and rushing home to try out the handcuffs and paddles.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
    Sometimes it gets into arcane talk of equipment that makes more sense for a Berklee College of Music engineering class than for a mass-market movie -- but as a probing look at a really nice-guy genius in the studio world, it succeeds admirably.
  27. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    The mother-child dynamic here is the fraught stuff of any worthy melodrama.
  28. Bus 174
    Engrossing, smartly made documentary.
  29. Siddhartha (re-release)
    Apologies to Conrad Rooks, but the only reason his 1972 film, Siddhartha, is getting a 30th-anniversary rerelease is the appeal of seeing Sven Nykvist's amazing cinematography restored to its full splendor.
  30. Joy Ride
    It's a snazzy, smartly made, and even hip little scarefest. As a jump-start to Halloween, it's all you could hope for.
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