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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. Fighter
    In the end, Fighter, despite its newsreel footage, is less a document of wartime experience than of the mentality one needs to maintain in order to be a fighter.
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  2. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    Intermittently engaging but inescapably overextended.
    • Boston Globe
  3. Innocence
    Films that achieve the dimension of seraphic embrace achieved by 'Innocence, as it explores a return to first love, are the rarest of the rare.
    • Boston Globe
  4. American Outlaws
    At least hits a certain adrenaline level, and the stunts have panache. If you crave the ''Young Guns'' approach to the Old West, here it is again.
  5. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Doesn't so much strike a lot of sour notes as fail to strike the right ones.
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  6. Rat Race
    A strong ending might have obscured the mediocrity in the writing, or at least diverted us, but the ending is sentimental where it needed to be hard-edged and comically merciless. For a film about people hurtling forward, Rat Race is pretty pedestrian.
    • Boston Globe
  7. Aberdeen
    It is an uncompromising family tale, one that's dark but lyrical and moving in its rendering of the ties that bind even the most dysfunctional families, despite valiant efforts to destroy them.
    • Boston Globe
  8. An American Rhapsody
    Although there's a certain connect-the-dots quality to the storytelling, there's no denying the care and craftsmanship that Gardos has brought to her debut film.
    • Boston Globe
  9. The Turandot Project
    Miraculously, the opera comes off, simultaneously ridiculous and thrilling, in a blaze of pageantry.
    • Boston Globe
  10. All Over the Guy
    Little more than a screenful of boy meets boy, boy meets baggage, boy loses baggage.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    American Pie 2
    Is this movie over the top? Definitely. Better than the original? Definitely not.
  12. Session 9
    You couldn't ask for a better setting for a horror movie. What you could ask for is a better script.
    • Boston Globe
  13. The Others
    Has everything you want in a supernatural thriller except thrills.
    • Boston Globe
  14. Osmosis Jones
    In a dismal summer for movies, Osmosis Jones is a fresh breath of foul air.
  15. The Deep End
    A perfect example of a small, well-made, and (in its central role) rivetingly acted film.
    • Boston Globe
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Audition
    A long crawl from inception to climax.
    • Boston Globe
  17. Original Sin
    Despite the heavy-handedness, isn't awful enough to be a hilarious howler. But neither is it good enough to become the tropical noir it could have been.
    • Boston Globe
  18. The Princess Diaries
    Unfortunately, the filmmakers seem to have forgotten that comedy is a requisite feature in a comedy.
    • Boston Globe
  19. Rush Hour 2
    It hasn't got a brain in its body, but it's fun to watch.
  20. Apocalypse Now Redux
    The best film of 2001 was made in 1979. [10 Aug 2001, p.D1]
    • Boston Globe
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Greenfingers
    Plants the seeds of comedy that grow into a mild feel-good flick, but it won't reap much viewer satisfaction.
  22. The Monkey's Mask
    Less elliptical and more down-and-dirty than Lang's interesting debut film, ''The Well,'' this one tumbles through Sydney's academic and alternative poetry circles and is built around a lesbian private eye.
    • Boston Globe
  23. Planet of the Apes
    It's too psychically flat and dramatically inert. Instead of reinvigorating a Hollywood classic, Burton only takes it to camp.
    • Boston Globe
  24. Bread and Tulips
    Manages the right balance of fairy tale and joyous self-discovery. And the Venice locations don't hurt.
    • Boston Globe
  25. Wet Hot American Summer
    The film keeps being yanked back from nothingness by this or that clever sendup, delivered by a small army of invigorated performers who seem to push off from one another's energy levels.
  26. Jackpot
    Bummer theater.
  27. America's Sweethearts
    You keep waiting for it to go into orbit, to be really fizzy and outrageous, like the screwball farce it wants to be. Instead, the film settles for the merely serviceable.
  28. Brother
    Cool killers - Kitano's stock in trade - do not necessarily make for cool movies.
  29. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    If you thought ''Moulin Rouge,'' or, for that matter, ''Tommy,'' was trippy, Hedwig, with its glorious convergence of material and performer, will show you what you've been missing.
    • Boston Globe
  30. Ghost World
    Whatever portion of the alienated teen angst championship Thora Birch left unclaimed after ''American Beauty,'' she nails down brilliantly in Ghost World.
    • Boston Globe
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