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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bad Company
    As a tale of adolescent sexuality warped by passion, though, Bad Company is less compelling and more exploitative than its makers think.
  2. Hannibal
    ''The Silence of the Lambs'' was a classic; Hannibal is only a good movie of its type.
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  3. Signs & Wonders
    Has extraordinary depth and insight about the limitations and follies of human beings.
  4. Saving Silverman
    The kind of comedy that takes the fun out of stupidity.
    • Boston Globe
  5. The Taste of Others
    A civilized delight.
    • Boston Globe
  6. The Invisible Circus
    A fatally insubstantial film.
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  7. Valentine
    A flagrantly retro example of a tired genre that would vanish in a puff of smoke if anger management classes were to enter the picture, or if it would ever occur to any one of its endless stream of victims to reach for a light switch before proceeding into a spooky place.
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  8. Head Over Heels
    A lame romantic comedy that is neither romantic nor comedic.
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  9. Nico and Dani
    The film is rightfully carried by Nico and Dani and under Gay's artful helmsmanship it's carried with remarkable sympathy and believability.
    • Boston Globe
  10. Trolösa
    Ullmann's film is an achievement of heart and consequence, as full of integrity as Bergman, yet demonstrating more mercy.
    • Boston Globe
  11. Sugar & Spice
    Isn't as dark as ''Heathers'' or as witty as ''Clueless,'' but it's at least pointed in that direction.
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  12. The Wedding Planner
    The unevenness of what surrounds the star couple is indicative of the script's inability to muster anything more than intermittent sophistication.
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  13. The Pledge
    In its dark, relentless, devastatingly ironic way, The Pledge is an exhilarating movie, partly because it isn't afraid to be genuinely challenging.
  14. Snatch.
    One could argue that ''Lock, Stock'' and Snatch are essentially the same movie - crime comedies marked by an outlandish visual style. Which raises the question of whether Ritchie has the range to do anything else.
    • Boston Globe
  15. Zheng hun qi shi
    A subtly comic, ultimately moving film about modern adult relationships.
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  16. Antitrust
    An example of a film that begins with a provocative idea and then runs itself into the ground with clumsy structuring.
    • Boston Globe
  17. Double Take
    Gallo has delivered a clever suspense comedy that, thanks to a taut script, creative direction, and first-rate performances from its leads, gives Double Take more weight than one would expect from a genre crowd-pleaser.
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  18. Save the Last Dance
    The most traditional of Hollywood romances, in that it's resolutely about nice people with nice problems.
  19. Chunhyangdyun
    It's sweeping yet intimate, stately yet impassioned, stylized yet immediate.
    • Boston Globe
  20. The Claim
    Stark, haunting, epic, and mournful, The Claim is a mountain of a film.
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  21. Shadow of the Vampire
    He's (Dafoe) the stuff bad dreams are made of. He's also the best movie vampire since Schreck's original. He deserves a bloody Oscar.
  22. Traffic
    It's the best drug-busting movie since ''The French Connection.''
  23. All the Pretty Horses
    To paraphrase Andre Malraux, it invokes but it doesn't always supply, doesn't course strongly enough with the book's themes of blood and earth and dislocation.
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  24. Thirteen Days
    It turns the nerve-fraying Cuban missile crisis into a big pop myth with the grip of a vise.
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  25. An Everlasting Piece
    A slight but diverting series of set pieces.
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  26. Before Night Falls
    Most of all it's the emotional and spiritual arc of an exile, in all its terrible isolation, that gives ''Before Night Falls'' its power.
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  27. The House of Mirth
    There was little mirth or innocence in the world that Wharton was able to write her way out of (she was much happier living in Paris), and Davies and his leading lady lift the silks to reveal it as the minefield it was.
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  28. Miss Congeniality
    She (Bullock) has a way of landing on her feet and remaining simpatico no matter how cheesy the script is. That's what happens here.
  29. State and Main
    Good clean dirty fun.
  30. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    A clever and satisfyingly abundant entertainment.
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