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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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    • 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.
  3. 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.
  6. 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.
  9. 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.
  11. Prey for Rock & Roll
    The casting alone should warn you about what kind of bottom this movie's going to hit.
  12. Duplex
    The result is a cheap and cloying contraption that doesn't know when to stop smirking.
  13. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Luther
    The film winds up stranding us in a desperate wilderness of collapse and betrothal.
  17. Yossi & Jagger
    What the movie lacks in ambition, originality, and grit, it makes up for in pure feeling.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Demonlover
    Expect Demonlover to become a midnight-movie staple in the coming years. And expect shards of it to roil your dreams for weeks.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
    Less a documentary than a cry of outrage -- a series of exotic images that slowly turn horrifying.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cold Creek Manor
    The film is a disquieting and often very funny examination of yuppie unease in the country. The problem is, it's disguised as a dopey suspense thriller.
  21. Mambo italiano
    No sophisticated dance, but it moves about with an open heart. And hey, it's at least as funny as that Greek thing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In This World
    A tremendous human drama, with each stage of its characters' journey a white-knuckle thriller in miniature.
  23. Anything Else
    This movie is wretched, condescending, and sad, like watching an elderly man spend more than 100 minutes tapping his arm for the youth vein -- which he never finds.
  24. Casa de los babys
    Sayles seems to be trying, single-handedly, to correct centuries of First World self-centeredness in Third World contexts.
  25. To Be and to Have
    Nothing momentous happens here, but Philibert has a magical sense of how to find the simple poetry lurking in the universal routine of being a kid. A lot of the film's lyricism is extracurricular.
  26. Secondhand Lions
    Slow and ultimately distressing.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fighting Temptations
    You have an overstuffed story line, sloppy filmmaking, a general thinness of conception (if you've seen "Sister Act," you've pretty much seen The Fighting Temptations), and a lead performance that starts out obnoxious and becomes actively grating.
  28. Underworld
    As murky and derivative-looking as the film is, it moves with an authority that pummels you into submission.
  29. Millennium Actress
    The movie's narrative can be taxingly ornate, but there's something beautiful about its metaphorical conflation of politics and glamour, the real and the fictional.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Matchstick Men
    Rockwell is a hoot as Frankie, but during the stretches when he's not on screen, the air goes out of the film.
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