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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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    • 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
  2. 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.
  3. The 6th Day
    Puts the fun back into going to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. He said he'd be back, and he is.
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  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. Men of Honor
    Just what Gooding needed to restart his stalled career.
  7. Little Nicky
    Hell itself is going to hell in Sandler's new comedy.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
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  10. 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
  11. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    It offers pleasures of a kind that fewer and fewer films even seem to remember, much less aspire to.
  12. Charlie's Angels
    A babe-athon, pure and simple.
    • Boston Globe
  13. The Little Vampire
    Sweetly macabre charmer.
  14. A Time for Drunken Horses
    Deeper and richer in humanity than all but a handful of the American films released this year.
  15. Vénus beauté (institut)
    It's all glossy urban fairy-tale stuff, laid on with style to spare, given added resonance by a mini-pantheon of French movie goddesses.
  16. Stardom
    Denys Arcand has satiric fun with the media's way of taking celebrity culture at face value and nothing but. Eventually, though, the film becomes what it's ridiculing.
    • Boston Globe
  17. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Berlinger has approached Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 with intelligence and even a bit of thematic heft. But, frankly, the cheap thrill is gone.
    • Boston Globe
  18. Lucky Numbers
    Despite a few tangy black comic moments, Lucky Numbers' is bummer theater.
  19. What's Cooking?
    This good-hearted but undersupplied ensemble piece is only appetizer-deep.
  20. Sound and Fury
    Riveting tale of family dynamics packed with as much drama, conflict, and poignancy as the best feature film.
    • Boston Globe
  21. The Yards
    By the end, we're left with a feeling of depletion rather than resolution, which may have been Gray's intention.
  22. The Legend of Drunken Master
    Intoxicating fun.
  23. Calle 54
    Filled with affection and verve and will do very nicely until the next shipment of Latin jazz comes along.
    • Boston Globe
  24. Pay It Forward
    The kind of film you've got to admire simply for the way it squares its shoulders and plunges into a message of unfashionable idealism.
    • Boston Globe
  25. Bedazzled
    The important thing is that Hurley looks smashing in her succession of red outfits.
    • Boston Globe
  26. Lost Souls
    Full of atmosphere and visuals, it's empty of anything that really matters.
  27. Dr T and the Women
    A comedy of chaos, an ensemble comedy, with characters swirling around one another unaware, in their uniform desperation, of how funny they are.
    • Boston Globe
  28. The Contender
    Wonderfully cast and slickly directed, but so crudely written.
    • Boston Globe
  29. Billy Elliot
    Bell is utterly persuasive as the boy literally yearning to leap beyond the oppressively apparent confines of his world.
    • Boston Globe
    • 22 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ladies Man
    Overstays its welcome.
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