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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. Ride with the Devil
    It's one of the few films that persuades you that it went out to meet the war and bring it to us with verisimilitude.
  2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    A clever and satisfyingly abundant entertainment.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    There's death, domestic violence, alcoholism, racism, attempted suicide, and a mental breakdown. Naturally, it's a comedy about the eccentricities of Southern women.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Incident at Loch Ness
    Once the cat is out of the bag, "Incident" becomes simultaneously entertaining and disappointing.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex Is Comedy
    A rigorous and bracingly charming movie about moviemaking.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bright Young Things
    Acridly funny.
  7. Spy Game
    There's something elegiac in Redford's spy who knows he's a dinosaur but still has a few moves left.
    • Boston Globe
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blind Shaft
    Less striking for its storyline than for the world it presents -- a rural moonscape of coal-dust, casual environmental disaster, and atavistic behavior.
  9. Town & Country
    Starts out as a somewhat weary farce of infidelity, but turns into something a lot more gratifying, namely a comedy of mercy.
    • Boston Globe
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Faat Kiné
    The situation is comic and yet quite serious, as are the ways in which language is used.
  11. Tears of the Sun
    The film would be just as powerful, if less likely to saturate suburban megaplexes and flatter its patrons, were its saviors -- I don't know - French.
  12. Happy Accidents
    D'Onofrio's affably wide-eyed weirdness generates not only pleasure, but a genuinely authentic conundrum, bouncing forward and backward toward the truth.
    • Boston Globe
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All the Real Girls
    Green unquestionably has a rare, intermittent knack for rapture.
  14. Pay It Forward
    The kind of film you've got to admire simply for the way it squares its shoulders and plunges into a message of unfashionable idealism.
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  15. A Dirty Shame
    A big, lascivious punch line about America's peculiar, embarrassed, hypocritical relationship with sex.
  16. Double Take
    Gallo has delivered a clever suspense comedy that, thanks to a taut script, creative direction, and first-rate performances from its leads, gives Double Take more weight than one would expect from a genre crowd-pleaser.
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  17. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    The movie's glee is contagious.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Festival Express
    Extraordinary.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    About Schmidt
    How you feel about About Schmidt may depend in large part on how you feel About Jack.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Cooler
    Looks brilliant while you're watching it and stands revealed as counterfeit only in the strong light of day. What Baldwin does, though, is the stuff of supporting actor Oscars.
  21. Dogma
    Has that rarest of qualities in movies that think of themselves as religious. I'm talking about the vision thing. And the ability to make morality entertaining.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hours
    Still: The Hours is a book about people writing, reading, and living another book, and that literariness makes the movie resist itself.
  23. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Sequels and fun don't often coincide, but this time they do.
    • Boston Globe
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Songs from the Second Floor
    The film is depressive, slow, darkly funny, unyielding in its formal rigor, and unsettlingly beautiful. It's obviously not for everyone, but only because not everyone can meet its stare.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Not Another Teen Movie
    A clever satire that's layered like a breakfast club sandwich with sly in-jokes, sight gags, gross-out scenes, and, of course, requisite bathroom humor.
    • Boston Globe
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    THX 1138
    For someone wanting to get noticed as a filmmaker, George Lucas couldn't have done much better than THX 1138, his 1971 feature debut that starts a limited run today in a new director's cut.
  27. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    The endearing and cheeky ensemble works hard, and Ken Scott's script finds ways of wringing irreverence from the apparent good nature of the situation.
  28. The Brown Bunny
    The Brown Bunny is certainly about how vain Gallo is. Yet rarely has narcissism produced such a handsome work of cinema.
  29. The Iron Giant
    A solid, not to say ironclad, winner in the less than overcrowded family animation arena.
  30. Sexy Beast
    Slightly misshapen and unbalanced, with a few loose ends, a few extraneous dream sequences. But there's something going on all the time.
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