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For 7,964 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 0.9 points 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. The Lost City
    The Lost City is Andy Garcia's ballad to Havana during the Cuban revolution. You'll have to forgive the penthouse view, though -- it's the only one Garcia can seem to find.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Water
    Succeeds in its central goal: to turn a forgotten class of women into real, memorable human beings who deserve a different life.
  3. Lady Vengeance
    For most of Lady Vengeance, Park is playing with us. But the jokey atmosphere dissipates and the fun turns inside out in the movie's last act.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Army of Shadows
    The results bear witness to a time when sacrifice was bleached of everything but itself.
  5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    A watchful, winding-down tragedy of a movie that delivers what it promises. As commentary, it's grim. As filmmaking, it's a powerfully disturbing odyssey through the Bucharest health care system.
  6. Three Times
    Another triumph of modesty from a master who deserves real, paying audiences, not just the adoration of besotted film critics.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Dreamz
    American Dreamz pitches its softballs with style. Martin Tweed, the preeningly heartless British host of the title TV show, just may be the great comic role that has always eluded Hugh Grant.
  8. The Sentinel
    The Sentinel isn't an entire season of ''24" smushed into a bland two hours of movie? Does Kiefer Sutherland know?
  9. Silent Hill
    Tens of millions of dollars were spent to tell us what we should have known going in: that the makers of the movie you're slogging through will spare no expense to demonstrate how much they hate us. Do us a favor. Tell them the feeling is mutual.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Somersault
    The movie has more style than depth and it's sometimes in danger of confusing the two.
  11. Mongolian Ping Pong
    In Mongolian Ping Pong the point is to look under the majestic vistas and see value in ordinary things -- ping-pong balls included.
  12. Stolen
    The Poe-like atmosphere in Stolen is such a chilling success that when Mashberg says that Gardner would have cracked this case herself, it's impossible to imagine that she isn't out looking for those paintings right now.
  13. Scary Movie 4
    Part sketch-comedy cartoon, part Cracked magazine spoof, installment four is the most scornfully made yet.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wild
    How's the movie? Technologically incredible, aesthetically pretty hideous, and narratively lumpy: Kids who aren't cynics (i.e., 9 and under) will roll with it.
  15. Kinky Boots
    Not since ''Mannequin on the Move" has a flamboyant black man brought so much fabulousness to stiff white heterosexuals.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hard Candy
    Hard Candy is the rare movie that may be worthiest for the arguments you'll have after it's over.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Notorious Bettie Page
    It's a handsome, often funny piece of work with a nearly fatal inability to settle on a tone.
  18. Look Both Ways
    The debut live-action feature of Australian animator Sarah Watt has several other things to recommend it as well, including a black-humored screenplay, realistic performances, eye-catching artwork, and a few creative turns on some well-worn themes.
  19. Mountain Patrol
    Never has a movie so soberingly made the fight to save life and the struggle to hold on to it seem so futile.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    La Mujer de Mi Hermano
    An oddly unsexy melodrama in which every supposedly shocking revelation (rape, incest, homosexuality, pedophilia) is treated with the same blithe shrug of recognition. It's numbing, especially with the film's deadly serious mood.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
    As charming as Dunn's kid-in-a-candy-store exploration is at times, it's apparent that his ''anthropological" take on the scene isn't much more than the love letter he always dreamed of writing to his headbanging pals.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story
    Fueled by off-kilter characters, charming and funny -- if haltingly awkward -- dialogue, and a reasonable amount of thematic ingenuity, "Blackballed" succeeds as a modest tribute to the kind of aging boys club that idles for hours in somebody's parents' rumpus room, its members tossing around big-man talk but trapped in emotional adolescence.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Sisters in Law
    Despite the lack of an especially defined narrative arc, the people are what make the movie -- as they should in a tale like this.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lucky Number Slevin
    The most original thing about Lucky Number Slevin is that it lets Lucy Liu play a screwball heroine.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Benchwarmers
    Not terrible, not terrible at all. Yes, the plot is terrible, some of the jokes are terrible, and Rob Schneider's bizarre from-the-neck-up oxblood tan is terrible, but the movie as a whole is a more-than-acceptable addition to the genre of shameless and hastily made American comedy.
  26. Phat Girlz
    This is a disarming and, in its own way, delightful vehicle for its star and executive producer, the comedian and actress Mo'Nique. Who could hate this movie?
  27. Take the Lead
    The movie partners all the cliches of the inner-city school drama with the cliches of the dance instructional, and the two keep stomping on each other's toes.
  28. Friends with Money
    Holofcener writes as well as Albert Brooks at his best, and her finesse with actors is as assured as James L. Brooks's on his TV and film projects from 20 and 30 years ago.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On a Clear Day
    Pleasantly inspirational on its own terms, "Clear" is no one's idea of fresh goods.
  30. When Do We Eat?
    The film turns that stale old Seder into warmed-up dinner theater.
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