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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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    • 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Swept Away
    At its best, Swept Away is like a scrapbook of postcards starring two lovebirds with great tans.
  7. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  13. The Tuxedo
    The jokes are as fresh as rotten eggs and the direction stoops to the occasion.
  14. Skins
    Maybe the redemptions offered are simplistic in the context of this place, but they make for a dramatic (if heavily foreshadowed) conclusion.
  15. Shanghai Ghetto
    May not be as dramatic as Roman Polanski's ''The Pianist,'' but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high.
  16. The Man from Elysian Fields
    Somewhere in this movie, amid the ponderous exchanges and unfortunate O. Henry-style coincidences, there's American tragedy.
  17. 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sweet Home Alabama
    Isn't just lame; it's neutered.
  19. Moonlight Mile
    The first half of Moonlight Mile feels like the runaway trailer for a movie that can't wait to jerk your tears. But to quote Joe in a moment of epiphany, there's a ''truth enema'' out there, and, boy, it really brings this movie around.
  20. The Trials of Henry Kissinger
    In ''Trials,'' Hitchens is almost endearing, stalking Kissinger from one event to the next like a bleary-eyed Michael Moore.
  21. Invincible
    Is a mellowed Herzog to be believed?
  22. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    Banderas slums through this dollar-bin action flick wearing the same look of wiped-out exasperation that Danny Glover's Sergeant Murtaugh sports in each installment of ''Lethal Weapon.'' And like Murtaugh, Banderas might be too old for this, too.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Four Feathers
    Still as moth-eaten as a Bengal tiger rug on the floor of a London men's club.
  24. The Banger Sisters
    The Banger Sisters so frequently features Hawn running around in revealing attire, tossing instructions at exhausted people that I'm inclined to think of it as a workout video.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Trapped
    Bacon makes an appropriately detestable villain; unfortunately, he's the most interesting character here. As for Love, well, this puts her one career rung closer to ''Hollywood Squares.''
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ignorant Fairies
    It's a soapy, simplistic, but surprisingly affecting ambisexual melodrama that plays a little like Pedro Almodovar without the surreal frills.
  27. 8 Women
    Even if some of the references are inscrutable, a lot of 8 Women is a riot. Here and there Ozon finds the key to a level of farce that would have amused Bunuel himself.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Secretary
    Love hurts in Secretary -- but not too much. It's not impossible to imagine adventurous young couples seeing this movie and rushing home to try out the handcuffs and paddles.
  29. Lawrence of Arabia (re-release)
    Lawrence is back on the big screen, and it simply demands to be seen. Yes, again.
  30. Spirited Away
    Delivers chunks of ''Yellow Submarine'' and ''The Phantom Tollbooth'' -- a vividly timeless oddity suitable for many children and most stoners.
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