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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. 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.
  3. The Guys
    Short without feeling scant. That's how big its sense of grief is.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Intact
    The movie pits fortune against destiny and has an enigmatic old time splitting the difference.
  8. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Equilibrium
    Equilibrium just happens to be a really bad comic book.
  15. Adaptation.
    Like no movie before it, Adaptation risks everything -- its cool, its credibility, its very soul -- to expose the horror of making art for the business of entertainment.
  16. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    As ambitious as this may be, however, the movie's objectives tax its energy even as the girls' plight tears at your heart.
  17. Russian Ark
    Who most of these exquisitely costumed people are I have no idea, but they brush past the camera in such rapids of jubilation it's a wonder they don't knock the thing over. I watched most of the film exhilarated, but depressed that I'm not a big Russophile.
  18. They
    At some point, I just tired of looking at all the nicely composed shots unworthy of the stock they're printed on. Lives are at stake here, and I don't mean Julia's and her annoying pals'. I mean the lives of you and me, the only pronouns that really matter here.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Solaris
    To appreciate Solaris, the new film by Steven Soderbergh, it helps to downshift your moviegoing metabolism to a level approaching the cryogenically frozen: The movie's that cerebral, that contemplative, that slow.
  20. Eight Crazy Nights
    What's special about the movie is how totally it believes in itself as a musical. The tunes, co-written by Sandler and a bunch of his pals, take on rock opera and traditional Jewish folk music with boyish exuberance.
  21. Die Another Day
    Die Another Day is still as professionally mediocre as its predecessors.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
    This isn't a movie -- it's an author in love with the sound of her own voice.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Emperor's Club
    That uncertainty -- in the professor, in the audience -- is what drives Emperor's Club to a surprisingly thought-provoking, even disturbing conclusion.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Quiet American
    The key to why the new ''American'' is so good and so true, though, is Brendan Fraser as the title character.
  25. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
    Would have benefited from putting a wider lens on the man and his detractors.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Talk to Her
    Odd, moving, strained cinematic poetry.
  27. Friday After Next
    Loaded with priceless encounters that would seem incongruous in any other movie but play here as low-comedy facts of some parts of black life.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    One hell of a party, and it doesn't let anything get in the way of that.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Interview with the Assassin
    Like ''Blair,'' it never quite finds a way out of its own built-in dead-end.
  30. Half Past Dead
    Brilliantly named Half Past Dead -- or for Seagal pessimists: ''Totally Past His Prime.''
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