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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  7. The Flower of Evil
    If 'The Flower of Evil' is not vintage Claude Chabrol, it's at least vintage mediocre Claude Chabrol.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  11. Girls Will Be Girls
    The performances by Plotnick, Leupp, and Roberson comprise a jarring special effect.
  12. 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.
  13. Bus 174
    Engrossing, smartly made documentary.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mystic River
    This is at bottom a pulp thriller that strains -- sometimes pretentiously, at other times with gutter magnificence -- to reach the level of basic human truths.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rare Birds
    For the record, Rare Birds doesn't even fly as a birder's special, since Tasseter's Sulfurious Duck is a fictional species. Now, if they'd seen a Eurasian Wigeon, then we'd be talking.
  16. The Event
    Dukakis gets off some of the film's best lines and keeps the worst from sinking the whole affair; Polley's role is limited, but her character's audition for a feminine hygiene commercial is by far the best thing here.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Out of Time
    An overly constructed little thriller that squeezes a fair amount of suspense out of its far-fetched plot.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Concert for George
    It's spookily touching to see this massed group of former rock gods gathered to honor one of their fallen. Bald spots and graying shags predominate; the giant velvet lapels of 1969 have given way to sensible sport coats; the granny glasses are for real.
  19. The Station Agent
    Mercifully, The Station Agent is not about how these misfits heal one another -- they're not that miserable, for one thing. It's about the unlikely ways proximity, need, and coincidence create friendships.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wonderland
    Skips lightly along the sewers of human depravity as if the trip alone was worth the telling.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    School of Rock
    Utterly adorable.
  22. Bollywood/Hollywood
    The average Bollywood routine is passionately cheesy. This movie seems cursed with a lactose intolerance.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Life Without Me
    It has a naive, heartfelt selfishness that may offend some viewers, and a resolve that others will find intensely soothing. ''Dying's not as easy as it looks,'' cautions Ann's doctor (Julian Richings), but here it's as easy as a movie can make it.
  24. Prey for Rock & Roll
    The casting alone should warn you about what kind of bottom this movie's going to hit.
  25. Duplex
    The result is a cheap and cloying contraption that doesn't know when to stop smirking.
  26. The Rundown
    Comes on like a runaway Humvee.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    You come away enchanted less by the character than by the woman playing her.
  28. Bubba Ho-tep
    The film's good humor is often betrayed by its low-budget roots, however, as though it couldn't afford to be more original or ambitious than its premise.
  29. Luther
    The film winds up stranding us in a desperate wilderness of collapse and betrothal.
  30. Yossi & Jagger
    What the movie lacks in ambition, originality, and grit, it makes up for in pure feeling.
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