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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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    • 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Casa de los babys
    Sayles seems to be trying, single-handedly, to correct centuries of First World self-centeredness in Third World contexts.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  11. Underworld
    As murky and derivative-looking as the film is, it moves with an authority that pummels you into submission.
  12. 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cabin Fever
    Doesn't have the gonzo wit of ''Re-Animator'' or ''Evil Dead 2,'' nor is it flat-out terrifying like ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' or even a zombie-come-lately like this year's ''28 Days Later.''
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lost in Translation
    Longer on atmosphere and observation than on story, but you don't mind: Coppola maintains her quietly charged tone with a certainty that would be unbelievable in a second film if you didn't suspect genetics had a hand.
  16. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    It's a grisly, chuckling cartoon made on shots of tequila, Red Bull, and Sergio Leone.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Same River Twice
    Youth recedes, the body decays, life is a compromised thing: These are truths. But they're not fresh truths, and Moss's riverdogs are hardly the first to have discovered them.
  18. Grisbi (re-release)
    Roughly translated, Touchez pas au Grisbi means ''don't touch the loot.'' But in literal terms, this film version of Albert Simonin's blockbuster really couldn't care less who ends up with the cash.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Carnage
    It's a treat, nevertheless, to watch the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni in a rare leading role. Chiara Mastroianni has her mother's hair and face with her father's sorrowful eyes stuck smack in the middle, and she moves as if conscious of the weight of her genetic splendor.
  20. The Order
    A stupendous bore.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Party Monster
    "Prison isn't all that different from a nightclub,'' comments Alig toward the end. Funny; this movie isn't all that different from prison.
  22. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    Manages to fascinate more than it entertains.
  23. Taking Sides
    Proves acutely subtle. But its question of what we forgive art in the face of atrocity and immorality is one for the ages.
  24. The Backyard
    The most disturbing thing about this grass-roots-inspired extreme-wrestling documentary by Paul Hough is how much worse you expect the violence to be.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    Pure bangers-and-mash realism: a spotty yet ingratiating working-class farce that suggests a Mike Leigh movie with opera buffa tendencies.
  26. The Other Side of the Bed
    Sexual doublespeak is everywhere.
  27. Jeepers Creepers II
    It plays better as exasperating comedy than genuine horror -- although there is something terrifying about being stuck in a movie whose idea of a bogeyman is a scarecrow with an eating disorder.
  28. My Boss's Daughter
    Having also starred in "Dude, Where's My Car" and "Just Married," Kutcher is becoming a stoopid-comedy specialist.
  29. The Medallion
    Moves from cheekiness to ineptitude, often in a single take.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Babí léto
    This wistfully charming slice-of-life comedy celebrates an elderly man defiantly thumbing his nose at old age.
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