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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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    • 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.
  3. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  11. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Witherspoon is a professional, demanding we give ourselves over to her carbonated pluck.
  12. 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.''
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  17. Alex & Emma
    The lack of sexual tension is astounding.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hulk
    To answer your first question: like a cross between Shrek, the Frankenstein monster, and a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot.
  19. From Justin to Kelly
    They have the chemistry of step-siblings, so a movie that has them make out is, as the one of the few girls in the theater exclaimed, "so gross."
  20. Manito
    Because Manito is really just an opera without the violins or Viking hats, you probably don't need to have everything spelled out. Its Spanish-English script is secondary to the universal language and timeless drama of family, community, dreams made and dreams dashed.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hard Word
    Wonderful characters, these three, and The Hard Word never figures out what to do with them.
  22. The Nazi Officer's Wife
    One of the most compelling films the Holocaust has yet produced.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jet Lag
    As a credible love story, though, the film never leaves the runway. If you're a fan of these actors, you may want to look up Jet Lag when it comes out on video, or catch it on an Air France flight while flirting with the passenger in the next seat.
  24. The Heart of Me
    The first half of The Heart of Me is just that sort of hoot. You know where it's all headed, and you can't wait for it to get there, as the cheap, cruel ironies pile up almost farcically.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hollywood Homicide
    One of the most lazily scripted, poorly structured, smugly stereotyped star vehicles in recent memory. Bizarrely, this seems to be the point.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Rugrats Go Wild
    Slapstick and potty humor for the kids, sly allusions and famous voices for the adults, and a light coating of aren't-we-lucky-to-have-each-other schmaltz at the very end - yep, Nickelodeon has the family-flick formula pretty much down.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tycoon: A New Russian
    Despite its ambitious depiction of post-Soviet economic woes, Tycoon is an uneven political thriller that suffers mostly from a highly convoluted story line.
  28. Herod's Law
    Incisive, highly entertaining political farce.
  29. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    Yes, I've seen Dumb and Dumberer, so you don't have to. As good deeds go, this is about as significant as getting a cat out of a tree, but believe me, you're better off at home, alphabetizing your old comic books, talking to your parents, or watching paint dry.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love the Hard Way
    The film's final scenes are among its silliest, unfortunately.
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