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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. 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
  2. The Family Man
    Sitting through it is like waking up on Christmas morning to find a stockingful of styrofoam.
    • Boston Globe
  3. 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
  4. The Gift
    A solidly crafted, suspensefully written, powerfully acted little juggernaut.
    • Boston Globe
  5. Pollock
    Like its subject, Pollock is a messy creation, but one whose depth of commitment and high attack keeps it on track.
    • Boston Globe
  6. 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
  7. What Women Want
    Disappoints.
  8. Chocolat
    May not be deep, but it certainly is lip-smacking.
    • Boston Globe
  9. 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.
  10. Dungeons & Dragons
    A mildly entertaining but tepid extravaganza more suited to television than the big screen.
    • Boston Globe
  11. Proof of Life
    It's absorbing, although draggy.
  12. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Watching it is a nonstop high.
    • Boston Globe
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Unbreakable
    A film that begins with a train wreck and then, figuratively speaking, becomes one.
  16. Quills
    A witty yet fiery and, in the best sense, provocative play of ideas about freedom of expression.
  17. Bounce
    Something is missing in Bounce, the muted dynamic of which calls forth a perhaps inevitably muted reaction.
    • Boston Globe
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    La bûche
    The film's invented Paris -- endless restaurants, boutiques, and impossibly large apartments, with a little artificial ''grit'' thrown in -- is pretty, and the neatly wrapped plot provides the comforting illusion that one's own family dramas can be as easily and amusingly resolved.
    • Boston Globe
  19. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Predictable and not terribly clever, but among the slim pickings of movies geared to the pre-school and grade-school set, it could be much worse.
  20. The 6th Day
    Puts the fun back into going to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. He said he'd be back, and he is.
    • Boston Globe
  21. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    With Carrey hitting a career peak, this Grinch doesn't steal Christmas; it restores the season by helping energize us enough to make it through the whole thing.
    • Boston Globe
  22. Red Planet
    The question in Red Planet isn't whether there's any life on Mars, but whether there's any life in the film. The answer is no.
  23. Men of Honor
    Just what Gooding needed to restart his stalled career.
  24. Little Nicky
    Hell itself is going to hell in Sandler's new comedy.
  25. You Can Count on Me
    Satisfying in every respect, it's a piece of blue-collar chamber music, never treating the characters cheaply, allowing them a complex entwinement of emotions.
  26. Me & Isaac Newton
    As each scientist chronicles his or her story, one is impressed by the place that unswerving motivation and determination has assumed in the work.
    • Boston Globe
  27. Kippur
    A story about the ravages of one war on a single man's soul and psyche becomes an eloquent plea for peace.
    • Boston Globe
  28. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    It offers pleasures of a kind that fewer and fewer films even seem to remember, much less aspire to.
  29. Charlie's Angels
    A babe-athon, pure and simple.
    • Boston Globe
  30. The Little Vampire
    Sweetly macabre charmer.
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