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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. City of God
    Full of action, but no soul.
  2. 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.
  13. 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.
  15. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 25th Hour
    It's deeply stylized, but there's an accompanying patience and gravity that are hard to shake. They're the architecture of a lingering, unsentimental sadness.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    The miracle is that 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is better: tighter, smarter, funnier.
  20. The Guys
    Short without feeling scant. That's how big its sense of grief is.
  21. Evelyn
    Isn't just a feel-good movie; it's a feel-good-and-righteous movie. And audiences will forgive its flaws.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Maid in Manhattan
    It's Lopez who's the proper focus of this dream. So intent has she been on becoming a superstar in the past few years that many people have forgotten that, given decent material, she can act.
  23. Star Trek: Nemesis
    Fails to match the philosophical and acting bounties of 1996's ''First Contact.'' Baird has seen to it that the Enterprise's being under fire still amounts to the crew rocking back and forth, gripping the railings as the ship's phasers are down to 4 percent.
  24. Intact
    The movie pits fortune against destiny and has an enigmatic old time splitting the difference.
  25. Drumline
    A bonanza of pop uplift. It wraps the up-from-nothing drama of ''Flashdance'' in the sassy, interracial pep rallying of ''Bring It On'' and the military romance of ''An Officer and a Gentleman.''
    • 29 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hot Chick
    Faris is delightful, in fact, and she steals the movie right out from under Schneider.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    About Schmidt
    How you feel about About Schmidt may depend in large part on how you feel About Jack.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Analyze That
    That this witless, formulaic sequel to the hit comedy Analyze This even dares to spoof ''The Sopranos'' is embarrassing. It's like Freddie Prinze Jr. slamming Gene Hackman as a bad actor.
  29. Empire
    Rossellini doesn't do much more than show up and be a hundred kinds of ravishing. Yet there's a movie in her ageless face and that untamed bouffant.
  30. Blackboards
    Like so much Iranian cinema, Blackboards is a work of lyrical propaganda. But its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism, and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible, almost mystical work.
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