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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. The Santa Clause 2
    For an anonymous Saturday afternoon, it's the best lump of coal Hollywood can jam in your stocking.
  2. I Spy
    The sex bits are flat, the racial innuendo is flatter, and somewhere, Cosby is having a Pudding Pop and shaking his head in disbelief.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Santa vs. the Snowman
    Takes you inside a kingdom you've never seen the likes of before. Not only is it an IMAX film, with all the superlatives (six-story screen, 12,000 seat-rumbling watts of digital sound) this implies, but it's also computer-generated 3D animation.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bank
    Handsomely shot and edited, The Bank benefits greatly from the brutal ministrations of LaPaglia,
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Quai des Orfèvres [re-release]
    A film noir? A backstage musical? A whodunit? A comedy? In truth, it's all of the above -- plus a kinky love story, an absorbing melodrama, and a mordantly jaded snapshot of postwar Paris -- and all of them are wonderful.
  6. All the Queen's Men
    A throwback war movie that fails on so many levels, it should pay reparations to viewers.
  7. Frida
    Disappointing.
  8. By Hook or by Crook
    Not particularly good -- meaning navigable, remotely entertaining, pleasing to the eye -- it does, rather nobly, want to hip its audience to gender fluidity.
  9. The Truth About Charlie
    The closer you get to sorting out the truth, the less likely you are to believe it, let alone comprehend it. The latter half of this movie is as outlandish as a Mexican soap opera.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paid in Full
    The only victims in Paid in Full are the dealers and their families -- and the only word for that is one this paper can't print.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All or Nothing
    Grueling, heavy-handed, and surprisingly insight-free. For once, a gaggle of Leigh characters hasn't jelled beyond the level of its cast's conceits.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Roger Dodger
    Mines laughs from the ways in which its antihero's reductive philosophy consistently goes kerflooey in his face, but there's a weary sadness to it as well.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Ship
    Pureed, predictable conflation of ''Alien'' and ''Titanic'' and ''The Shining.''
  14. Fidel
    Unabashed Fidel worship.
  15. Le bossu
    The story is a mess. But On Guard was directed by the reliable Philippe de Broca, who imbues the whole affair with high-calorie silliness.
  16. The Business of Fancydancing
    Shot in digital video, Fancydancing feels a bit like a racy after-school special. Performances are amateurishly uneven.
  17. Naqoyqatsi
    A movie that seems to have been made mostly on the hard drive of a Power Mac G4. But whatever, we get it: Technology destroys everything.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Real Women Have Curves
    I have seen the future of Hollywood movie stardom, and its name is America Ferrera.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Abandon
    Abandon is this CLOSE to being good, juicy, bad-movie fun.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Grey Zone
    Should be seen: It's a worthy ordeal, with flaws that, ironically, make grist for later arguments.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Auto Focus
    Uplifting? Not bloody likely. Mesmerizing? Very, thanks to Greg Kinnear's eerie performance as Crane and director Paul Schrader's lucid depiction of the character's happy-go-lucky descent into hell.
  22. The Ring
    The unworthy new Hollywood remake of Japan's horror phenomenon, ''Ring,'' has packed on a definite article and a whole lot of hooey.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Formula 51
    Bloody and bloody funny, and Jackson and Carlyle make the best salt-and-pepper team since Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte knocked heads in ''48 HRS., '' but ultimately the movie can't find a way out of its own dead end.
  24. Comedian
    lluminating and exceptional docu-portrait.
  25. Brown Sugar
    Brown Sugar fails to produce an image of hip-hoppery as fascinating and complex as the moment when Halle Berry set her tongue wagging during a ghetto-fabulous grind with Warren Beatty in ''Bulworth.''
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pokémon 4: The Movie
    Harmless in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes, but why not just treat the little yard apes to the real deal and take them to ''Spirited Away''?
  27. Knockaround Guys
    Likable performances are critically wounded by implausible scenarios and derivative-minded direction referencing everything from ''Reservoir Dogs'' to ''Fargo.''
  28. Below
    With more character development this might have been an eerie thriller; with better payoffs, it could have been a thinking man's monster movie.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rules of Attraction
    If there's one thing Avary gets right, it's the brutal use-or-be-used approach to interpersonal relations that Ellis laid out with numbing detail, and James Van Der Beek is down to the challenge as Sean Bateman: horndog, cokehead, ceramics major, and all-around jerk.
  30. The Transporter
    The best movie Steven Seagal never made. Except that Statham, while just as marked for death, is harder to kill.
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