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For 7,945 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: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
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  1. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    It does manage to put a somewhat complex human face on the domestic troublemakers, if not their exploits.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Purple Butterfly
    Ye bites off substantially more than he can chew.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Very Long Engagement
    Flattens you with concussive detail and the awfulness of war; it plays like "Saving Private Ryan" as remade by a Continental mathematician flipping out on Ecstasy.
  4. Paper Clips
    Inspirational.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Notre musique
    Elegant, insistent movie -- a great gray filmmaker's finest in years.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Christmas with the Kranks
    Kranks is a feel-good movie in which every character is hateful (except, sigh, the cancer lady), and a Christmas movie too chickenhearted to mention Jesus.
  7. Alexander
    The best there is to say is that it's better than ''Troy."
  8. Fear and Trembling
    As wonderful as Testud is, her character doesn't make much sense.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Days of Being Wild shows Wong discovering his own cinematic language, and he's as astonished as we are.
  10. National Treasure
    National Treasure even has a rough time approaching the heart of ''The Amazing Race," a show that manages, in 44 minutes, to make you care about average folks as they follow clues across the globe.
  11. Bad Education
    This is a brilliantly structured hall of mirrors that wraps Catholicism and the movie industry into a tasty film noir.
  12. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    The film, which is as economically made as it is primitively animated, ambles from adventure to adventure, taking nothing seriously, not even itself.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bright Future
    The movie has a curious and cumulative power.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After the Sunset
    For a movie that's sexist, racist, and possibly the most deeply closeted gay love story to be released this year, After the Sunset is reasonably entertaining.
  15. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    The director, Beeban Kidron, handles the proceedings with an episodic aimlessness on par with Bridget's.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kinsey
    As superbly crafted -- as good -- as this movie is, Condon never really owns up to the cloud of pessimism at its center.
  17. Finding Neverland
    It's a portrait of the artist as Mary Poppins.
  18. Overnight
    Overnight is about all kinds of in-the-moment emotional rawness.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Polar Express
    Zemeckis and Hanks really seem to think they’re giving us a Christmas movie for the ages and a technology that will change cinema forever. They’re wrong on both counts. The Polar Express is merely a marvelous toy that has somehow become convinced it has a soul.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Callas Forever
    In sum, a big, honking tutti-frutti sundae of a movie that nonetheless is shot through with authentic feeling.
  21. Fade to Black
    The film elects a storytelling manner that's scarily similar to the beginning of a lot of hip-hop thrillers.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brother to Brother
    A very good drama about the difficulties of being young, black, and gay. With a bigger budget and a sharper focus, it might have been a great one.
  23. Cachorro
    Pedro is what a friend of mine calls a ''macho Iberico," which refers to a certain type of cocky, insensitive Spanish man.
  24. Alfie
    Shyer's version is a thing of infinite emptiness and nauseating vanity. It's not funny, alluring, affecting, or erotic, just conceited.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Incredibles
    Such smart, whiz-bang fun that you may not realize what it's about until you're safely home.
  26. Enduring Love
    Technically outstanding and the performances are strong.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Birth
    Such a meticulously wrought piece of hokum that it's both easy to admire and impossible to warm up to.
  28. Saw
    As long as Saw stays in that big, nasty bathroom, all we need to believe is the knot in our stomachs.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ray
    He (Ray) was, a more complicated man than this film, or perhaps any film, dares allow. Foxx is not at fault here.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sideways
    It's a performance (Giamatti's) so nuanced and so real in its everyday pain that it doesn't stand a chance of winning an Oscar. But it should.
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