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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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    • 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.
  5. 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.
  7. Comedian
    lluminating and exceptional docu-portrait.
  8. 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''?
  10. Knockaround Guys
    Likable performances are critically wounded by implausible scenarios and derivative-minded direction referencing everything from ''Reservoir Dogs'' to ''Fargo.''
  11. 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.
  13. The Transporter
    The best movie Steven Seagal never made. Except that Statham, while just as marked for death, is harder to kill.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Punch-Drunk Love
    It's a honey of a performance: controlled, achingly human, and funny in the deepest ways.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Safe Conduct
    Essentially a dramatic reenactment of a generation's coping strategies.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tuck Everlasting
    These actors offset the modern-day ordinariness of the leads -- Jackson, especially, seems as if he's just driven over from a mall tour -- and so, ultimately, does the exquisite moral dilemma of Tuck Everlasting.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Oleander
    The people who've made White Oleander appear to have spent a lot of time worrying about the audience. They should have told the story and let us take care of ourselves.
  18. Bowling for Columbine
    Moore's roving essay feels even more urgent now than it did when the jury had to make up an award to honor it at the Cannes film festival in May.
  19. Swept Away
    At its best, Swept Away is like a scrapbook of postcards starring two lovebirds with great tans.
  20. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    The movie's heart is in the right place, but all its messages of tolerance might resonate better if the Spanish-accented pirate didn't get drawn with a gold tooth and the turban-wearing Khalil wasn't an opportunistic rug merchant.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Heaven
    It's maddeningly chowderheaded, simplistic, pretentious, and not a little silly. You can't take your eyes off it.
  22. Welcome to Collinwood
    At some point we're flashed a junkyard billboard telling us that Collinwood is the ''Beirut of Cleveland'' - yes, but here, it's by way of Looney Tunes.
  23. Bloody Sunday
    The film is conducted in a delirious cinema-verite style; most of what you see has a brutal, you-are-there immediacy. You're not merely watching history, you're engulfed by it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Dragon
    As Hopkins's Lecter is concerned, it's official: He's Freddy Krueger.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Just a Kiss
    It's coherent, well shot, and tartly acted, but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate.
  26. The Tuxedo
    The jokes are as fresh as rotten eggs and the direction stoops to the occasion.
  27. Skins
    Maybe the redemptions offered are simplistic in the context of this place, but they make for a dramatic (if heavily foreshadowed) conclusion.
  28. Shanghai Ghetto
    May not be as dramatic as Roman Polanski's ''The Pianist,'' but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high.
  29. The Man from Elysian Fields
    Somewhere in this movie, amid the ponderous exchanges and unfortunate O. Henry-style coincidences, there's American tragedy.
  30. Siddhartha (re-release)
    Apologies to Conrad Rooks, but the only reason his 1972 film, Siddhartha, is getting a 30th-anniversary rerelease is the appeal of seeing Sven Nykvist's amazing cinematography restored to its full splendor.
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