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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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  1. Le divorce
    This present-day Paris of Le Divorce is smartly shot and costumed, and the whole affair is breezy and uncharacteristically insouciant, given the reserved nature of the folks responsible for it.
  2. The Princess Blade
    This is a movie about excess. It's excessively long (at least it feels that way), the slo-mo is used in excess (so are the swords), and our heroine, Yuki (Yumiko Shaku), when she does emote, is excessively weepy for a coldblooded assassin.
  3. Step Into Liquid
    Serves up enough action and passion to stay afloat, but at the end of the day it's just not the perfect ride those earlier films were.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    S.W.A.T.
    Those who love police overkill, guns, jingoistic race-baiting, guns, macho smugness, and guns will be well served.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Freaky Friday
    Freaky Friday version 2003 is a shinier, snappier animal, partly because young girls now dress like Avril Lavigne, and partly because Jamie Lee Curtis has her best role in years and knows it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zero Day
    Without even trying, Coccio may have stumbled over the truest metaphor for Columbine yet.
  7. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    Like a Bond picture with no spies or villains or car chases or gadgets or explosions.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Secret Lives of Dentists
    May not be the best movie ever made about the perils of family life, but it is among the most ruthlessly comic.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Magdalene Sisters
    Blistering and brilliant work.
  10. American Wedding
    Its commendable, if juvenile, sense of erogenous adventure is sullied by bland technique, canned suburban punk music, and the fact that all the exploration does amount to maturer characters.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gigli
    An overlong, joyless, and inconsequential affair, full of dead air, and possessing only a few moments of jaw-dropping bad taste. It's a dull disaster.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Bugs!
    Beautiful, but story doesn't fly.
  13. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Cradle of lifelessness.
  14. Mondays in the Sun
    Loach makes a working metaphor of the old ant-and-grasshopper story, but the film's images are what echo the loudest.
  15. Buffalo Soldiers
    For all the controversy surrounding Buffalo Soldiers, you'd think the film would at least be interesting.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Seabiscuit
    In the end, Seabiscuit gets right the things that matter.
  17. Lucía, Lucía
    Nicely shot and edited, but the movie is a narrative mess, which wouldn't be so bad if all it were up to was depicting Lucia's ups and downs. But the film takes too many illogical detours to be of much use.
  18. 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.
  23. How to Deal
    This movie is the worst episode of ''Gilmore Girls'' ever.
  24. 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.
  26. 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.
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