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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. Save the Last Dance
    The most traditional of Hollywood romances, in that it's resolutely about nice people with nice problems.
  2. Chunhyangdyun
    It's sweeping yet intimate, stately yet impassioned, stylized yet immediate.
    • Boston Globe
  3. The Claim
    Stark, haunting, epic, and mournful, The Claim is a mountain of a film.
    • Boston Globe
  4. 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.
  5. Traffic
    It's the best drug-busting movie since ''The French Connection.''
  6. 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.
    • Boston Globe
  7. Thirteen Days
    It turns the nerve-fraying Cuban missile crisis into a big pop myth with the grip of a vise.
    • Boston Globe
  8. An Everlasting Piece
    A slight but diverting series of set pieces.
    • Boston Globe
  9. 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.
    • Boston Globe
  10. 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.
    • Boston Globe
  11. 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.
  12. State and Main
    Good clean dirty fun.
  13. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    A clever and satisfyingly abundant entertainment.
  14. Cast Away
    The film's most remarkable achievement, in this culture of clamor, simply may be its decision to keep the volume down, drawing us in as opposed to pummeling us, as most films do.
    • Boston Globe
  15. The Family Man
    Sitting through it is like waking up on Christmas morning to find a stockingful of styrofoam.
    • Boston Globe
  16. Finding Forrester
    A juicy and gratifying teacher movie (a genre to which I'm partial). The joy in performance shared by Connery and Brown is the big reason.
    • Boston Globe
  17. The Gift
    A solidly crafted, suspensefully written, powerfully acted little juggernaut.
    • Boston Globe
  18. Pollock
    Like its subject, Pollock is a messy creation, but one whose depth of commitment and high attack keeps it on track.
    • Boston Globe
  19. The Emperor's New Groove
    A lively, invigorating comedy: a near-perfect mix of fresh characters, well-cast voices, superb visuals, and a fast-paced, fantasy-adventure plot.
    • Boston Globe
  20. What Women Want
    Disappoints.
  21. Chocolat
    May not be deep, but it certainly is lip-smacking.
    • Boston Globe
  22. Vertical Limit
    Avalanches are nothing compared to the deadening touch of the stereotyping and audience-insulting simplicities in the scenic but brain-dead Vertical Limit.
  23. Dungeons & Dragons
    A mildly entertaining but tepid extravaganza more suited to television than the big screen.
    • Boston Globe
  24. Proof of Life
    It's absorbing, although draggy.
  25. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Watching it is a nonstop high.
    • Boston Globe
  26. Boys Life 3
    A mixed bag. With such a brief running time, there are not enough high points to recommend the five shorts that make up the film.
    • Boston Globe
  27. 102 Dalmatians
    It is Close's performance that gives the movie its oomph and will leave adults with smiles as wide as the kids'.
    • Boston Globe
  28. Unbreakable
    A film that begins with a train wreck and then, figuratively speaking, becomes one.
  29. Quills
    A witty yet fiery and, in the best sense, provocative play of ideas about freedom of expression.
  30. Bounce
    Something is missing in Bounce, the muted dynamic of which calls forth a perhaps inevitably muted reaction.
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