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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Out of Sight
    Lopez, for all her Latina-siren voluptuousness, has always projected a contained coolness, and this is the first movie in which it fully works for her.
  2. Mission: Impossible II
    It's eye candy that detonates.
  3. Friday Night
    Ziplessness has rarely looked so inviting, nor have a couple of actors seemed so much like real people -- attractive, but hardly hunks of perfection -- who happened to get lucky, and are delighted to throw some of their guiltless good fortune our way.
  4. Kippur
    Intense, autobiographically based drama.
  5. Smoke Signals
    The film excels in small scenes of cannily chosen Indian everydayness.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue in the Face
    The improvisations are a mixed bag -- Reed and Fox are surprisingly hilarious, while Roseanne is a shrieking horror show -- but the air of gentle play and a wistful sense that Brooklyn is some kind of lost Eden put this one up on the more structured "Smoke."
  7. Swimming Pool
    The narrative logic of Swimming Pool slips through our hands like cool water, shimmery and light-dappled, leaving behind the pleasures of summer heat and goose bumps.
  8. Bittersweet Motel
    It's like Woodstock without the mud, and it leaves you feeling clean.
  9. Velvet Goldmine
    Velvet Goldmine is no masterpiece, but, at its best, it's a ravishing rock dream.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Spanish Prisoner
    For once, too, David Mamet the director outshines David Mamet the writer.
  11. Buffalo Soldiers
    A good satire that had the untimely bad luck to be about a U.S. soldier who will do anything it takes to party, except fight for the right.
  12. Crossroads
    Not only makes excellent use of the singer's sweetly coltish acting abilities, but it also promotes a standardized set of sturdy values with none of Mariah Carey's desperate ''Glitter,'' or any of Mandy Moore's gummy pap in ''A Walk to Remember.''
  13. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Isn't content to stick to the genre conventions it sets up. Instead, it sprawls and mutates into one of the Coens' elaborate gizmoid yarns.
  14. About a Boy
    Hugh Grant has grown up, holding on to his lightness and witty cynicism but losing the stuttering sherry-club mannerisms that were once his signature. In doing so, he has blossomed into the rare actor who can play a silver-tongued sleaze with a hidden inner decency.
  15. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    With him (Schwarzenegger), we return to a franchise we never knew we missed, surprisingly grateful for the star's generosity -- and evident pleasure -- in strapping on the old sunglasses and blasting adversaries to hell.
  16. Real Women Have Curves
    It's refreshingly low on the kind of Cinema of Empowerment pedantry that often goes along with stories about ethnic families, sweatshop working conditions, or women confronting issues of weight and body image -- and this little crowd-pleaser embraces all three.
  17. The Emperor's New Groove
    Hip, funny, mostly nonmusical, decidedly non- epic family picture.
  18. My Architect
    The son is obsessive and petulant, punishing and self-pitying, and by the time he gets to a talk with his hurt old mother, we understand why.
  19. One Hour Photo
    In One Hour Photo, Williams is a snapshot of human complexity worth framing.
  20. The Rookie
    Something particularly clean shines in this American fairy tale, a quality of simplicity that's almost as hard to achieve in such movies as a middle-aged man's boyhood dreams.
  21. The Flower of Evil
    The discreet stink of the bourgeoisie perfumes the wonderfully mordant, dry-eyed family saga, The Flower of Evil.
  22. The Thomas Crown Affair
    A romp of romantic larceny built out of spare parts we've seen in countless other films.
  23. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    An animated fairy tale made with simple, elegant conviction.
  24. Calendar Girls
    While each Yorkshire playmate-of-the-month warmly assesses her own undewy flesh, the movie gives off a happy vibe of appreciation -- for the dignity of the real Rylstone lot, the actresses who play them so lovingly, and the simple, flower-bed borders of the story.
  25. Tadpole
    Where ''Rushmore'' surprises and delights with its spiky depiction of sprawling American idiosyncrasy, Tadpole's more urbane, less complicated charms are specifically made in New York City.
  26. Head of State
    Rock and Mac exult in the kind of highly charged verbal and physical antics that are star-turn rewards for performers currently at the tops of their games.
  27. The Weather Underground
    Powerful and searching documentary.
  28. S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
    Yet S21, unlike many documentaries about the Nazi era, isn't a sickening panorama of brutality. Shot on video, it's quiet and intimate.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Saturday Night Fever
    Travolta molds what could have been an equally obvious character into a substantial, tragic figure.
  30. Divan
    The serious struggle in this lilting doc is told with an inviting light touch and a big heart.
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