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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. Biker Boyz
    It's too long and self-consciously progressive to be entertaining, but it's too well-intentioned to be dismissed altogether.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lost in La Mancha
    It is an honest, dumbstruck, not particularly deep demonstration of how insanely difficult it is to make a movie, any movie, no matter how blithe the end result may appear on screen.
  3. The Guru
    The movie offers up too many airy spiritual lessons in the hope of crossing from farce to sentiment.
  4. Final Destination 2
    By the time I saw poor Tim crushed, head to toe, by a falling sheet of plate glass, I was certain I hadn't signed up for anything this punishing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Recruit
    Pacino, thankfully, is on-screen enough to keep this stew on a solid low boil.
  6. Chaos
    The best that can be said of the men in Coline Serreau's Chaos is that some of them are pimps.
  7. Darkness Falls
    So much schlock and melodrama find their way into Darkness Falls that when an exasperated character shouts near the end ''All this over a [expletive] tooth!,'' you know how he feels.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    The filmmakers are smart to cut between their primary interview and later footage of Junge watching that interview and offering further commentary -- living footnotes, as it were.
  9. In the Mirror of Maya Deren
    Intimidated by the words "avant-garde film"? Then hand yourself over, without reservation, to the skills of documentarian Martina Kudlacek and her astonishingly accessible primer, In the Mirror of Maya Deren.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Divine Intervention
    The Academy accepts submissions only from real countries, and Palestine isn't one. This is as good a joke, and as dark, as anything in the movie.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Guy Thing
    A pleasant, thin, hammerlocked movie about the pleasures of breaking free - it's the Cliff Notes version of anarchic classics like ''Bringing Up Baby'' or ''What's Up, Doc?'' Should you want to take the graduate course, you'll find those films at your video store.
  12. National Security
    The film is profane. But who knew police brutality could play as a laughing matter?
    • 16 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kangaroo Jack
    Will parents be able to sit through Kangaroo Jack without plunging sharp sticks into their eyes? The short answer? Yes. Barely.
  14. City of God
    Full of action, but no soul.
  15. Crimson Gold
    This is the first beautiful performance in the year's first great movie.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    For some of us, this constitutes a religious event.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just Married
    Reasonably painless if you've never seen a comedy about the travails of newlyweds.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    Screenwriter Kaufman is in fine meta-fettle here, even if he's still losing control of his material toward the end, and while it's too soon to tell whether Clooney has the stuff of a great director, he certainly knows who to hire.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love Liza
    Does have the enclosed, slightly overheated feel of a family theatrical.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nicholas Nickleby
    A rambunctious joy.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Max
    In the end, the lure of the gimmick proves too much for Meyjes, clearly a writer-director of talent. If Max were half as audacious, it would be twice as good.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hours
    Still: The Hours is a book about people writing, reading, and living another book, and that literariness makes the movie resist itself.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Pianist
    There are three Poles in The Pianist -- Szpilman, Polanski, and Frederic Chopin. Of the three, fittingly, Chopin speaks the loudest.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Catch Me If You Can
    Nothing if not a celebration of our willingness to be gulled by life's charming strangers.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    Fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven; others need not necessarily apply.
  26. Two Weeks Notice
    Lawrence just leans on Grant and Bullock, who could have done a movie this breezy from the set of their next one -- where, presumably, Bullock will be playing Medea.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spider
    It's Cronenberg's finest film, it's star Ralph Fiennes's riskiest role, it's a tour de force for actress Miranda Richardson.
  28. Narc
    Frustratingly, Carnahan barely trusts his storytelling to keep our attention long enough to get through a scene without some grisly cutaway -- a gun to the head, the writhing wounded.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gangs of New York
    Scorsese and his team of Grade A talents are working on an operatic scale here, and like many operas, this is long, overwrought, sprawling, and more than frequently brilliant. It also hits just enough discordant notes to keep it from greatness.
  30. Antwone Fisher
    Corny. But it's corny in a way that a Hollywood movie about a boy who just wants to go home ought to be corny. Plus when it's done with this much care, corny works for me.
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