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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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    • 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.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  7. 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.
  9. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    Manages to fascinate more than it entertains.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  13. The Other Side of the Bed
    Sexual doublespeak is everywhere.
  14. 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.
  15. My Boss's Daughter
    Having also starred in "Dude, Where's My Car" and "Just Married," Kutcher is becoming a stoopid-comedy specialist.
  16. 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    A tale of narrow talent destroyed by pop hubris, raging insecurity, substance abuse, and murder.
  19. Rana's Wedding
    An invitation to see something a little less pretty, and potentially more enduring.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Battle of Shaker Heights
    In a better movie -- a much better movie -- LaBeouf might make the same sort of impact Dustin Hoffman did in ''The Graduate.'' But the kid's young. There are movies to come.
  21. Marci X
    Clueless and sad.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thirteen
    Would it be rude to suggest that your time might be better spent with your own children?
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Uptown Girls
    The feel-bad movie of the summer.
  24. Passionada
    A cheery version of a darker, grislier movie, one in which people like Daniel beat up people like Charlie, girls like Vicky end up in far more compromising positions, and women like Celia turn to Scotch and prescription drugs to cope with their pain.
  25. Freddy vs. Jason
    Attempts none of the witty, provocative visual and metaphysical set pieces from any of the ''Nightmare'' movies. And it offers none of the real fright of the early ''Friday the 13th'' films. In fact, the movie is deeply, proudly unimaginative.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Splendor
    The movie is pricelessly comic -- the Harvey/Joyce scenes catalog the couple's neuroses with glee -- but it just as often reaches for something richer.
  27. Shaolin Soccer
    As goofy action comedies go, Shaolin Soccer is one of the best.
  28. Open Range
    A patient, suspenseful exercise in genre craftsmanship
  29. Grind
    What Grind lacks in cinematic skill, it makes up for in heart, which is what most dudes-in-arms flicks are missing. Given the option of spending eternity with these gentlemen or the boys of ''American Pie,'' I'd choose the lads of Grind.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    OT: Our Town
    Director Scott Hamilton Kennedy finally gives us a reason to feel warm and fuzzy about Compton, Calif. It's not an easy feat.
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