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For 8,793 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,786 out of 8793
  2. Mixed: 2,560 out of 8793
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8793
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  1. Joe the King
    A powerful little gem: a little bit of "The Outsiders" (the film's tone is remarkably similar to Coppola's film, minus the airy redemption and golden sunrises), a lot of "The 400 Blows," and a slice of "Radio Flyer" all wrapped up in a dirty black bow.
  2. That's the Way I Like It
    A wistful, humorous, but ultimately fluffy look at those halcyon days, before punk, junk, and the onslaught of the Eighties.
  3. Julien Donkey-Boy
    Julien may be a donkey-boy but it's Harmony Korine, this film's director, who is a horse's ass.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
    A relentlessly good-humored, life-affirming film.
  5. The Straight Story
    Its simplicity belies an emotional complexity that will linger in your mind like a gentle dream.
  6. Fight Club
    Fight Club's dirty little secret is it's one of the best comedies of the decade.
  7. The Omega Code
    Proof positive that heavy underground buzz doesn't necessarily imply merit or even intrinsic interest.
  8. Random Hearts
    A moribund Harrison Ford vehicle, stodgily dull, and seemingly endless in its monotony.
  9. The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
    Belongs in the histrionic comedy genre, packed as it is with just plain silly situations that fail to elicit grins, much less guffaws.
  10. The Limey
    The work of a fine craftsman and artist.
  11. Superstar
    Even at 82 minutes in length, Superstar feels uncomfortably stretched.
  12. Boys Don't Cry
    An amazing work, a film that seems to gurgle up from the American heartland, resonant and fully formed, ripe with possibilities.
  13. Bandits
    Unruly girls around the world are liable to find these Bandits stealing their hearts.
  14. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    A top-notch example of uninsulting kid humor at its goofiest.
  15. Happy, Texas
    A humble comic fable, puttering along with a sunny grin, a goofy sentimentality, and not much else.
  16. Mystery, Alaska
    The bottom line with the film is that there's just no damn mystery about it.
  17. Plunkett & Macleane
    Rollicking is the term that best sums up Plunkett and Macleane, not in itself a bad thing, just, I think, not a very good thing.
  18. Drive Me Crazy
    The goal of Drive Me Crazy is simple: to sell tickets by selling fantasy.
  19. Three Kings
    A war movie with a conscience, an action movie with a funny bone, a caper movie with a shifting agenda.
  20. Double Jeopardy
    Predictable piffle, a comically unbelievable story that leaves almost no impression except what a sham our legal system is.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    On the Ropes
    The documentary has no narration, and uses excellent expository camerawork to say things that no narrator could equal.
  22. Mumford
    Seems as though its reach is always exceeding its grasp...partly because Kasdan spreads himself a bit thin amongst the nine major characters he's working with.
  23. Jakob the Liar
    Feels sterile and chilly; the humor -- Yiddish and otherwise -- falls flat, and sadly so does the film.
  24. Guinevere
    Bogs down during several fuzzily romantic interludes.
  25. Dog Park
    Quirky, but ultimately disappointing, romantic comedy.
  26. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    From the fan's perspective this is sheer bliss, the next best thing to pouring a couple of glasses of grappa and sitting down with a bona fide film immortal (and world-class raconteur) for a long, intimate conversation.
  27. Romance
    Sex may, indeed, be all in the mind, but Romance fails to score in the mind's eye.
  28. For Love of the Game
    Watching Raimi's visual style and narrative verve flatten out into this pale reiteration of a middle-aged-male weepie is an exercise in modern horror.
  29. Get Bruce
    Joyous ode to laughter as a way of life.
  30. Lucie Aubrac
    It's a love story, though, and all the more poignant for being one that actually survived under such tempestuous circumstances.
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