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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. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    In a summer in which every blockbuster is zealous to be a video game, Rodriguez, with a wink, has produced his own.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Camp
    A comedy, and for all its cliches and clumsiness, close to a great one.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Masked and Anonymous
    The exact cinematic equivalent of a classic Bob Dylan song. It's also proof that what is towering genius in one medium can go insanely wrong in another.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cuban Rafters
    A heart-rending account of people trying to dodge the hurdles that politics puts in front of them. By the end of this humanist epic, some are ennobled by their struggle. Most are exhausted.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Johnny English
    Adding to the general air of ''What the hell?'' is Australian pop singer Natalie Imbruglia as Lorna, the beautiful superspy who falls for our hero. With Lorna's help, Johnny discovers that Sauvage is plotting to take over the British throne -- the Battle of Hastings wasn't good enough, it seems.
  6. How to Deal
    This movie is the worst episode of ''Gilmore Girls'' ever.
  7. The Sea Is Watching
    As rich and literary a work as you might expect.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dirty Pretty Things
    This is the meatiest role Tautou has had post-''Amelie'' and she drops the zombie-pixie act for once, giving us a character who's caught in a daily dance between propriety and abandon, and who can only dance faster as desperation sets in.
  9. Bad Boys II
    Bay's movie is also a confident mega-production that feels it doesn't need to lean on its visual frills if it has Smith and Lawrence -- it's a natural-born buddy flick.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    September 11
    Taken as a whole, the film says, "We grieve too, but like this, and this, and this."
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Garage Days
    The overall tone is one of mild Sex Pistols excess combined with Monkees-era high jinks.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Housekeeper
    There isn't much to The Housekeeper, really, but it plumbs depths of male unease that louder and less wise movies strain to reach.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    Lightweight yet alluring.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Northfork
    This is very much the bargain that Northfork offers an audience: Buy into the brothers' elegiac meditation on angels, Eden, and the death of American innocence or sit back and scoff at it as so much David Lynch lite.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Cuckoo
    The Cuckoo is smart enough to steer away from allegory and into the specific every chance it gets, though -- so much so that when the film finally does slip the mortal coil, you still hang with it.
  16. I Capture the Castle
    If there's true magic to be found in the proceedings, it's in Garai's dexterous performance.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Holy Land
    For all the film's flaws, it has a caustic, nondenominational view of apocalypses to come.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Has the distinction of being much dumber and pulpier than the comic book on which it's based -- the ink practically comes off on your fingers as you watch it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Pirates offers something for everyone: Bloom and Depp for the ladies, big action and Knightley for the men, self-aware gags for the postmodern crowd, Depp and Rush for fans of top-rank scenery chewing.
  20. Tattoo
    Maybe Tattoo is creepy and stylized enough to pull you along anyway, but if you like your thrillers to dig below the familiar epidermis, look elsewhere.
  21. Swimming Pool
    Very much a genre picture, relying on notions of suspense, surprise, and comeuppance. Indeed, at the center of this movie is a question of whether what we're seeing is really to be believed.
  22. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    This third installment is the loudest, dopiest, and least inventive of the three. But what the movie...lacks in intelligence it makes up for in sheer doom.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Brad Pitt and Michelle Pfeiffer? Great to look at. Astonishingly dull to listen to.
  24. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Witherspoon is a professional, demanding we give ourselves over to her carbonated pluck.
  25. Friday Night
    Has a sultry and complex psychological intent all its own, yet it's reminiscent of some earlier Denis works, including ''Nenette and Boni.''
  26. On_Line
    Weintrob's stylish visuals mimic Web technologies, which succeed in making his characters seem all the more removed from reality. Now if someone would find a way to equip theater seats with a ''delete'' key, we could be rid of them completely.
  27. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    The movie's glee is contagious.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    28 Days Later...
    A damn-near great end-of-the-world zombie movie, terrifying on the basic heebie-jeebie level, respectful toward its B-movie forebears, and all the more unnerving for coming out in this fretful era of SARS and germ warfare.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Francis Ford Coppola Presents: The Legend of Suriyothai
    The movie is both stunning on the level of visual pageantry and curiously inert as cinema.
  30. Alex & Emma
    The lack of sexual tension is astounding.
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