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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. Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust
    What's unique about this documentary is that it grips history with both hands, shakes it, examines it, and exits with the entire wrinkled contents bravely in tow.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On the Run
    This payback-revenge storyline, told mostly at night with minimal dialogue, is tense but familiar, and Bruno's quick-draw costume changes are fun to watch.
  4. The Perfect Score
    Comes tantalizingly close to being interesting.
  5. Latter Days
    Such a well-meaning but unambitious work that it's tempting to take it seriously even as you dismiss it.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Bounce
    No one on the screen bothers to commit to a character.
  7. You Got Served
    Part soap opera and part thriller, and it has the unique characteristic of being both undeveloped and overwritten.
  8. Eat This New York
    So, how's the food? The camera never even goes up close. That's the kind of restaurant documentary this is.
  9. Piccadilly [re-release]
    As casually insensitive and careless as you might expect from a film of this era, but it's also surprisingly crafty about finding ways to incite discussion
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    A pleasant puff-pastry throwback to Sandra Dee movies, ''Bye Bye Birdie,'' and other pre-Beatles effluvia.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Touching the Void
    As sagas of endurance in the face of ridiculous odds go, this story is up there with Shackleton and ''Into Thin Air.''
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Butterfly Effect
    A film of singularly boneheaded conceits, Butterfly is populated by, and appears to have been made by, stoned college dudes more hung up on oh-wow twists than the need to make sense.
  13. Made-Up
    It wants, as Kate says about her documentary, to be a "seminal work on beauty and aging." But it wears like a gauzy romantic comedy.
  14. Empathy
    At the very least, some of the answers and observations offered up in this hybrid documentary/drama/thesis project will surprise you.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Teacher's Pet
    Barrels along on a diverting enough sugar high, but in the hangover that follows you may wonder where the wonder was.
  16. Torque
    Invites you not simply to identify with its low IQ but to cheer it on. This is a movie that knows you know it's dumb, and that's enough to make the whole thing worth tolerating.
    • 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.
  18. Along Came Polly
    There is no central drama, no surprise, no tension in his comedy. The ads for Along Came Polly make it look so upbeat and simple that you're convinced it must be hiding something, like death or a disease. But the truth is there in the advertising: nothing happens.
  19. Tokyo Godfathers
    Demonstrates an idiosyncratic human touch. Kon is unafraid of the unseemly and unsightly. People are captured as they really might be.
  20. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    Aileen is Broomfield working compassionately. Perhaps it's only because he knows he can't save Wuornos that he can offer her as she might have been: part wounded animal, part self-destructive martyr, and all tragedy.
  21. Chasing Liberty
    It's one TV-movie romp that Kristy McNichol never got around to starring in.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Battle of Algiers
    The Battle of Algiers is a thinking person's action film in which there are winners -- but no heroes.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Secret Things
    Hints at a place where desire, fear, pleasure, and power all intersect, but it never actually goes there.
  24. Millennium Mambo
    If Millennium Mambo is the only chance to see Hou Hsaio-hsien's work at a movie theater, you'd better take it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Japanese Story
    Best taken as a dazzling showcase for Collette, an actress who fits none of Hollywood's ideas of glamour or artistry, yet who grows like a beautiful outback weed with each new role she takes.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Modern Times (re-release)
    Chaplin's sentimental politics and peerless comic invention dovetailed more perfectly in this film than in any other he made.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Company
    Robert Altman's gossamer, tension-free meditation on the ballet life, never quite recovers from a performance scene that arrives about 20 minutes in.
  28. Paycheck
    We're left with the painful reality that Paycheck might get Alfred Hitchcock, but it certainly doesn't know Philip K. Dick.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cold Mountain
    Three quarters of Cold Mountain consist of some of the most masterful and absorbing filmmaking of the year. The final quarter is Hollywood business as usual.
  30. Cheaper by the Dozen
    Martin puts a thankless gloss on the antic role he played in "Parenthood." As his wife, Hunt is the movie's saving grace.
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