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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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  1. Moulin Rouge!
    The film musical is at the moment an even more devitalized art form than the Broadway musical. But Moulin Rouge doesn't revive it. It only rearranges the bones.
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  2. Shrek
    Suggests a summit meeting between ''The Princess Bride'' and ''Bridget Jones's Diary,'' it has a decided charm of its own.
    • Boston Globe
  3. Sordid Lives
    It's heady in the beginning, chaotic throughout, and numb with the suddenness of the Internet economy's plummet at the end.
    • Boston Globe
  4. The King Is Alive
    Sinks under the weight of its ever more inescapably apparent contrivance, and its forced parallels to ''Lear.''
    • Boston Globe
  5. The Trumpet of the Swan
    The film is gentle and carries a simple moral.
    • Boston Globe
  6. Bread and Roses
    The reason Bread and Roses works as well as it does is that as didactic as it sometimes gets, its heart is always bigger than its ideology.
    • Boston Globe
  7. A Knight's Tale
    A Knight's Tale, will either repel you or win you over. It won me over.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    About Adam
    In a moralistic time, About Adam is something of an anomaly, as it airily sticks to its pro-naughtiness agenda.
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Man Who Bought Mustique
    Becomes a creepy yet amusing look at how he tries to take control of the film being made about him.
    • Boston Globe
  10. Under the Sand
    Mesmerizing and unforgettable.
  11. Eureka
    Quiet, powerful, contemplative, respectful of stillness, Eureka is the first film this year in which there is obvious greatness.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Time and Tide
    A desperate, cynical self-parody.
    • Boston Globe
  13. The Mummy Returns
    If you liked the earlier ''Mummy,'' you'll probably like this one. In fact, at many points you'll probably think you are watching the earlier one.
    • Boston Globe
  14. A Question of Faith
    Writer and director Tim Disney raises a provocative point about how radical and inconvenient true faith can be.
    • Boston Globe
    • 16 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Deuces Wild
    Just about the only things that remotely redeem this movie are the solid acting performances by the principals, who make the most of the one-dimensional material given them.
  16. Rat
    Rat may be lightweight, but it's never cheesy.
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  17. One Night at McCool's
    Neither as rollicking nor as wild as one had hoped, but Tyler's tongue-in-cheek noir goddess transcends cliche and the screenplay's other shortcomings terrifically.
    • Boston Globe
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Driven
    When the film predictably limps across the finish line, you're left with the impression your time would have been better spent sitting in traffic.
    • Boston Globe
  19. The Golden Bowl
    What Merchant, Ivory and Co. arrive at is a sort of handsomely illustrated Cliffs Notes version of the novel.
    • Boston Globe
  20. Town & Country
    Starts out as a somewhat weary farce of infidelity, but turns into something a lot more gratifying, namely a comedy of mercy.
    • Boston Globe
  21. The Luzhin Defence
    Watson's character grows in importance until she eclipses the recessive Luzhin.
    • Boston Globe
  22. The Low Down
    Captures the ensemble quality it was after and the provisional look and feel are perfect stylistic analogues to the lives - the male lives, anyway - that it's portraying.
  23. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    A sequel whose time has come - and gone.
    • Boston Globe
  24. Harry Is Here to Help
    A sleek little poison pill of a movie.
    • Boston Globe
  25. Freddy Got Fingered
    His (Green) new gross-out comedy is crude and stupid, but just as often rudely funny. It doesn't so much push the envelope as shred it.
    • Boston Globe
  26. The Center of the World
    Provoke us into examining whether the onus is on the man for turning it into a commercial proposition or the woman for agreeing to his offer.
    • Boston Globe
  27. Lakeboat
    Feels a bit flat and underdeveloped.
    • Boston Globe
  28. The Circle
    Such moral outrage, apart from the artistry in which it is embedded, tells us that the forces of change are stirring in Iran.
    • Boston Globe
  29. Bridget Jones's Diary
    The film not only works better than expected but gets the important things right, starting, of course, with Zellweger's Bridget and Bridget's mind-set.
    • Boston Globe
  30. Josie and the Pussycats
    Mindless glitz-o-ramas don't get any snazzier.
    • Boston Globe
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