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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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    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Clifford's Really Big Movie
    Big, noisy, harmless, and a little clumsy -- yep, that's Clifford, the Big Red Dog. And it's Clifford's Really Big Movie, too.
  2. EuroTrip
    In light of our recent crackdown on runaway nudity, the steady stream of exposed breasts in the gnarly Eurotrip give it a nostalgic feel.
  3. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
    Every ounce of the film feels artificially upbeat.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kitchen Stories
    If you've ever staggered out of IKEA oppressed by the clean, inhuman lines of a thousand affordable dinette sets, you may get a kick out of Bent Hamer's comedy Kitchen Stories.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Welcome to Mooseport
    It's a disappointingly limp small-town farce played several shades too broadly by a cast that has done better work elsewhere.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    After the Life
    A straight-up drama and thus the only film in "The Trilogy" not forced into a genre straitjacket -- suspense thriller ("On the Run") or farce ("An Amazing Couple") -- "Life" is also the finest of the three. This isn't a coincidence.
  7. The Seagull's Laughter
    Lively and beautiful filmmaking. It may leave you scratching your head, but it shouldn't leave you cold.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    50 First Dates
    The plot -- it's inspired and ridiculous at the same time -- is best described as "Groundhog Day" meets "Memento."
  9. Robot Stories
    In Robot Stories, technology hasn't colonized human life, it's finding ways to make living (and loving) better.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    An Amazing Couple
    Turns what sounds suspiciously like a gimmick into a concept that holds water. Or, in this case, the sparkling wine of comedy.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Osama
    Osama works simply as the story of one unlucky young girl.
  12. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    A terrifyingly cheap-looking B-movie comedy mocking terrifyingly cheap-looking science-fiction B-movies. As such things go, this one has its moments.
  13. Miracle
    You might cheer. You might cry. For a minute, you might even wish it were you on that medal stand.
  14. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Takes a dedicated and true snapshot of African-American life. But so little of its presentation is memorable. This is a haircut movie that redefines ''fade.''
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Catch That Kid
    Flatters its audience by dividing the grown-up world into mean idiots and nice idiots, which might be interestingly subversive if the movie had anything on its mind. Instead, it's just a Hollywood crash course: Heist Films 101.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Return
    Filmed with a cold, poetic beauty, The Return slowly strips away motivation until it arrives at a place of myth both private and oddly universal.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Dreamers
    The Dreamers isn't that bad -- actually, it's funny, affecting, interestingly twisted, and seriously erotic before it heads south in the final stretch.
  18. 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.
  21. The Perfect Score
    Comes tantalizingly close to being interesting.
  22. 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.
  24. You Got Served
    Part soap opera and part thriller, and it has the unique characteristic of being both undeveloped and overwritten.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  30. 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.
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