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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Tokyo Godfathers
    Demonstrates an idiosyncratic human touch. Kon is unafraid of the unseemly and unsightly. People are captured as they really might be.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  11. 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.
  15. 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.
  17. 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Peter Pan
    All Peter Pan lacks is a Peter Pan with any discernible personality, no matter that Jeremy Sumpter is the first actual, genetic boy to play the role on film.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monster
    A gruesome, helpless spiral barely saved by an actress locating humanity where few would have cared to bother.
  20. Calendar Girls
    More like that crowd-pleasing UK fluff that requires great actresses to do wacky things. Mirren is such an easy, breezy presence that you might think she's playing the screenwriting equivalent of air.
  21. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    The film's central drama is not between the former secretary and the filmmaker. It's between McNamara and history.
  22. Mona Lisa Smile
    The reliable Mike Newell directs Mona Lisa Smile with such assurance that the important moments are never mawkish or dull, and he encourages the women to act with absolute conviction.
  23. House of Sand and Fog
    Exacting but disappointing thriller.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Yet what I felt when the lights came up at the end of this visionary, titanic, relentless experience was something different: a strange relief that it was, at last, over.
  25. Power Trip
    Part Marxist social drama and part Michael Moore corporation-needling, with fed-up residents trying to outsmart the big, bad naive company to keep their lights on for free.
  26. AKA
    The triptych is a device but never a gimmick: three windows into one fractured soul.
  27. The Statement
    Harwood's screenplay obscures any sort of philosophical, religious, or historical considerations in favor of pulpy and faith-bruising sensationalism.
  28. Prisoner of Paradise
    While Prisoners of Paradise gives us but an impression of Gerron's state of mind, the film does a powerful job of showing us how deflated, small, and desperate this boisterous man had become.
  29. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    The movie is so dependant on its source material that it fails to put Carter, Thompson, Penn, and Christy to better use.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stuck on You
    Story lines don't come any clammier.
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