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For 2,175 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Odd Man Out
Lowest review score: 0 Double Team
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,245 out of 2175
  2. Mixed: 548 out of 2175
  3. Negative: 382 out of 2175
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  1. Funny Games
    Funny Games condescends to its audience like a pretentious, preachifying graduate student in post-modernism. It would help us out of the cultural quagmire we're drowning in, if only we could understand its highly convoluted and exclusive language. [29 May 1998, p.1E]
    • Baltimore Sun
  2. Cold Souls
    Paul Giamatti - that huddle of broiling instincts, out-of-control impulses and aggravated ardor epitomized in "Sideways" - you feel his soul's absence as dearly as its presence.
  3. Butterfly Tongues
    A movie of unforced nobility and quiet pleasures, Butterfly works on all sorts of levels.
    • Baltimore Sun
  4. Monster's Ball
    The film has a lot of right in it, including an ending that's suitably uncertain, but fraught with possibilities.
    • Baltimore Sun
  5. Small Time Crooks
    Can be recommended even if just for the presence of Elaine May, who turns in her most charmingly ditzy performance since "A New Leaf."
  6. Nurse Betty
    Aimless and unfocused.
  7. Imelda
    Remarkable documentary.
  8. American Hardcore
    The triumph of American Hardcore is that it convinces general audiences that there were vast underground reservoirs of angst and anguish to be tapped.
  9. The Last September
    Instead of a sweeping epic, this adaptation of a novel by Elizabeth Bowen is much quieter, a work perhaps too understated and stereotypical for its own good.
  10. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    Foster is strident, Vincent D'Onofrio has little to do but chain-smoke thoughtfully as an accessible priest, and the physical atmosphere is hazy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Great Ziegfeld
    Every turn of the story, every interpolated song or dance serves to recall pleasant times in the theater or thrilling stories in the newspapers. [12 May 1936, p.10]
    • Baltimore Sun
  12. Sunshine State
    The only gold in Sunshine State comes from its three female stars.
    • Baltimore Sun
  13. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    If The Eyes of Tammy Faye is skimpy, it's still an important correction to the record about this fascinating and misunderstood woman, who turns out to be much more than just her makeup.
    • Baltimore Sun
  14. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    While it displays its share of quirky charm, off-kilter characters and outlandish situations, this is really the first film where you can feel the Coens straining to keep up with themselves.
  15. The Bank Job
    The gritty heist picture The Bank Job has everything adult action fans could want, starting with a grand, fact-inspired gimmick.
  16. Talk to Me
    Kasi Lemmons' movie is called Talk to Me, but what it really does is sing to you, in the argot and cadences of soul, jazz, rock and rhythm and blues.
  17. 25th Hour
    Norton is brilliant in Lee's so-so 'Hour.'
  18. Chicago 10
    The movie conveys the drama of the moment but eschews context. The result is an arresting yet frustrating experience.
  19. Divided We Fall
    Divided We Fall has a lot going for it, but its Places in the Heart ending, sentimental and incongruous, helps ensure that it will not find a place in a demanding audience's heart or mind.
  20. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    "His eye is incredibly sharp and amazing, in regard to visceral cinema," says Uma Thurman, who has worked with Tarantino on both Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. "He's a great storyteller. He's very seductive as a filmmaker."
  21. Crazy Love
    The enthralling documentary Crazy Love is about how a high-flying lawyer's obsession with a young beauty blinded her, metaphorically and literally.
  22. Changing Lanes
    For all its pretensions, Changing Lanes, ultimately, is about nothing more profound than one foul day.
  23. Monsieur Ibrahim
    Monsieur Ibrahim is about people interacting as people, not symbols (one reason, Sharif has said, he took the role was to help his grandchildren's generation understand that idea).
  24. Adorenarin doraibu
    There's plenty to like about Adrenaline Drive, including the appealing, sympathetic performances of its two young stars and the tongue-in-cheek humor that pervades the film.
    • Baltimore Sun
  25. Ong Bak
    An opportunity to enjoy the pure adrenaline rush that has always been the hallmark of martial-arts cinema.
  26. Infamous
    It bears roughly the same resemblance to the Bennett Miller-Dan Futterman-Philip Seymour Hoffman masterpiece as the now-forgotten "Valmont" did to "Dangerous Liaisons."
  27. North Country
    At best, North Country just inspires you to read the book.
  28. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    Light, engaging documentary.
  29. Babe: Pig in the City
    In Babe: Pig in the City, the sunny mood of the Hoggett Farm has been supplanted by darker urban tones, suggesting the arrival of a new cinematic genre: Barnyard Noir.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Braveheart
    His film would benefit from more subtlety and tighter editing, but as both director and star, Gibson takes the story by the hilt and plunges forward, as single-minded as Wallace screaming into battle.
    • Baltimore Sun
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