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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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    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ciao America
    Eventually blossoms into a snappy piece about understanding yourself by listening to the personal triumphs and defeats of the past.
  2. The Experiment
    This cacophonous ending may serve to reinforce the filmmakers' cynical themes, but it leaves viewers trying desperately to remember the part of the film that had brains, wit, and so much promise.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elvira's Haunted Hills
    She's like Bob Hope with fake breasts and a wig. Now, that's scary.
  4. The Children of the Century
    No one around this beauty-first rendition of these addled artisans and their brief, obsessive affair really understands the attraction, so most people just get out of the way.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Igby Goes Down
    Across the board, the performances testify, often hilariously, to the pain these characters feel and inflict but are incapable of expressing.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Barbershop
    A broad, very funny, unexpectedly graceful comedy of character and community.
  7. Alias Betty
    Miller is certainly faithful to the spirit of Rendell's psychologically probing, class-dissecting novels, even if his probing doesn't go nearly as deep and his storytelling isn't as compelling.
  8. Stealing Harvard
    Had Stealing Harvard merely been a stupid movie about people stuck in a string of silly moments, it could have gotten by on charm. As written by Peter Tolan and directed by Bruce McCulloch (''Kids in the Hall'') it's a stupid movie about stupid people.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    City by the Sea
    The movie will be remembered primarily for the huge, emerging talent of James Franco, who plays De Niro's troubled son.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In Praise of Love
    At one point in ''Praise,'' Godard mentions that the Bois de Boulogne, the Parisian park, is all that's left of the French forests from the time of the Roman conquest. In Praise of Love, glowing like an ember, is all that's left of genius.
  11. Mad Love
    Like an ''Afterschool Special'' with costumes by Gianni Versace, Mad Love looks better than it feels.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Red Satin
    More than a predictable self-discovery yarn about the caterpillar that turns into a beautiful butterfly.
  13. Undisputed
    There are moments when Hill and Giler dare to turn Undisputed into an episode of ''Oz'' - albeit an insipid, belligerence-, and sex-free episode.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Serving Sara
    How inept is Serving Sara? It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Amy's Orgasm
    Julie Davis, tries desperately to fill (Woody)Allen's Coke-bottle glasses, but it fails. Miserably.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How I Killed My Father
    Polite but emotionally devastating, How I Killed My Father throws such questions out like smart bombs, and they detonate long after the end-credits have rolled.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    S1m0ne
    What it is, distressingly, is a mess - a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative, of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One Hour Photo
    Thriller fans might remember a terrific 1987 B flick called ''The Stepfather.'' One Hour Photo is that film, directed by an art student.
  19. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    Cosmic slop.
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  20. Mostly Martha
    If there's nothing here for romantics, there's even less for gourmands. Nettelbeck fails to produce a good food metaphor, let alone an impressive, palate-aching preparation montage
  21. Blue Crush
    Not the sanctioned wet T-shirt contest you might be anticipating. The Pacific is the hottest body here. And director John Stockwell handles the frivolous material with an integrity that I have to admit I found disappointing. The movie isn't nearly dumb enough to be much beach fun.
  22. Katakuri-ke no kôfuku
    If there's one image that sums up the filmmaking style of Takashi Miike, it's the close-up of a bubbling hot pot on the family dinner table.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    I'm Going Home
    Richly allusive and eloquently stylized.
  24. The Château
    No one here is prodding you to laugh. It just happens.
  25. Secret Ballot
    Ride it out, and you will find the rewards modest but meaningful.
    • Boston Globe
  26. xXx
    As Diesel says, ''I like something fast enough to do something stupid in.'' Mission accomplished.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    24 Hour Party People
    Just don't expect the truth. An extremely bent, highly amusing form of the truth, maybe, but not the truth. 24 Hour Party People shares with the current Robert Evans documentary ''The Kid Stays in the Picture'' an awareness that a good anecdote often trumps the facts, but here the cheats are cheekily laid bare.
  28. Blood Work
    Eastwood risks embarrassment flirting with material this naked in its mawkishness, then jumps right in. He seems to want the world to know: Inside the 72-year-old body of this icon of virility beats the heart of a Mexican woman.
  29. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    Like a whacked pinata, it spills over with treasures - and one of the best things to fall out is Steve Buscemi, doing a riotously meek variation on the mad-scientist-with-cracked-lenses-and-lab-coat bit.
  30. The Good Girl
    Despite Aniston's hard work, Good Girl could be better.
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