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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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gloomy Sunday
    Lushly engaging, even if it covers some of the same ground as ''The Pianist'' with less artistry and more melodrama.
  2. Elf
    The movie sets Ferrell's assaultive and juvenile physical comedy in a less-combative playground, and the result might leave the Ferrell-intolerant exiting the theater on a high.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Actually
    Charming, if terribly overstuffed, vision of romantic London gridlock.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Matrix Revolutions
    Revolutions, the final installment in the trilogy, parcels things more neatly. You get 45 minutes of the Wachowskis' patented theosophical bong water, followed by an hour of the most muscular, hard-core special-effects rama-lama yet to hit the screen. Only then does Jesus show up.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
    Mao had it wrong; in ''Revolution,'' political power comes out of the barrel of a TV tube.
  6. Die, Mommie, Die!
    Busch combines French absurdist theater and American performance art with a drag queen's flamboyant wit.
  7. Shattered Glass
    Shattered Glass, with its dumb title, is smart about good vs. evil. Incidentally, the good is Lane, who now works at The Washington Post and was a consultant on this picture.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Human Stain
    Benton has laid bare a great author's creaky plotting only to deliver a melodrama with bookish pretensions.
  9. Eyes Without a Face [re-release]
    Eyes Without a Face, outre as it is, never tires as hypnotic, touching, ghastly fun.
  10. Girlhood
    Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus spent three years shooting two teenagers living in a Maryland juvenile detention center. The completed film is called Girlhood and it feels as much a work in progress as its two troubled subjects do.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Singing Detective
    The question that has to be asked is: Why? The original six-part BBC ''Singing Detective'' remains one of the signal achievements in the history of television -- really -- and its release on DVD this past spring puts it easily within reach of the curious.
  12. Radio
    A tall glass of hogwash that's terrified to declare itself the racial-healing melodrama it is.
  13. Elephant
    The atmosphere is hypo-stylized, vividly generic and worse than real, like a doomy Frederick Wiseman documentary.
  14. Scary Movie 3
    Notably Wayansless. It's also notably devoid of a point of view.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beyond Borders
    Worse than junk, in fact. Beyond Borders so trivializes the plight of the world's displaced peoples that it becomes actively obnoxious.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Party 2000
    The film was conceived as a youthful tour of all that's wrong with the two-party system, with the likably shambling actor Philip Seymour Hoffman as host, but the breadth of subjects covered precludes any response other than nebulous discontent.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Cut
    It might even work if In the Cut was remotely convincing as a thriller, but Campion can't help wrinkling her nose at genre.
  18. Sylvia
    At heart, Sylvia is constructed as a psychological suspense film framed around the ambiguities of Hughes's infidelity and Plath's resulting paranoia. So at its strangest, the movie is a potboiler.
  19. Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin hardly trusts you to follow its story, opening with the murder, then a series of titles that explain what's to follow.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Runaway Jury
    The closest cinematic approximation to a beach novel that money and skill can buy.
  21. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    As the eviscerations ensue, the truth becomes undeniable: This is easily the most gruesome, most pointless, episode of "Scooby Doo" ever.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pieces of April
    The movie ends with a sentimental vision of unity that, admittedly, warmed this weary moviegoer's heart. If that vision was earned, I might even have melted.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dopamine
    There are rich issues at play here, about the nature of attraction and whether individual will is or isn't pinned to the wheel of physiology. But Decena hasn't dramatized them; he's used them as talking points set to an indie-film guitar strum, and the result is both earnest and passionless.
  24. The Flower of Evil
    If 'The Flower of Evil' is not vintage Claude Chabrol, it's at least vintage mediocre Claude Chabrol.
  25. Good Boy!
    The film is touchingly firm about leveling with children, drawing a careful, crucial line between fantasy and reality, without patronizing or haranguing them.
  26. Intolerable Cruelty
    The film is often at odds with itself as a sincere work of romantic comedy, as Wilder's sometimes were, too. Nonetheless, it's determined to keep Clooney's considerable comedic skills front and center. He's never been looser, sexier, or more antic.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    House of the Dead
    House of the Dead, sadly, is so bad it's bad.
  28. Girls Will Be Girls
    The performances by Plotnick, Leupp, and Roberson comprise a jarring special effect.
  29. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    The worst thing about the first Quentin Tarantino picture in five years is that after 93 minutes of some of the most luscious violence and spellbinding storytelling you're likely to see this year, Kill Bill ends.
  30. Bus 174
    Engrossing, smartly made documentary.
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