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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. The Straight Story
    Farnsworth's embodiment of old American values, with their combination of delicacy, reserve, and stand-alone independence, is a one-of-a-kind treasure.
  2. Fight Club
    Begins with that invigoratingly nervy and imaginative buzz. But its chic indictment of empty materialist values fizzles.
  3. Random Hearts
    A-list soap opera, high-class and high-gloss.
  4. The Grandfather
    A solid, humane, old-fashioned film in the best sense of the term.
  5. The Limey
    Can't outrun its very visible limits.
  6. Superstar
    Part of the reason for the comic surehandedness is the obvious chemistry between Shannon, Ferrell, and director Bruce McCulloch.
  7. Boys Don't Cry
    "In Cold Blood," "Badlands," "The Executioner's Song," and now, joining those grisly milestones on the heartland hit list, and every bit their equal, is Boys Don't Cry.
  8. Plunkett & Macleane
    Scott makes it easy to overlook the conventionality beneath his sometimes overdone but almost always enjoyable combination of atmosphere and propulsiveness.
  9. Mystery, Alaska
    Individual performances...are flavorful and simpatico.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    The Jim Henson folks...come up with another winner.
  11. Happy, Texas
    I can't imagine anyone not feeling entertained by Happy, Texas.
  12. Three Kings
    You walk out amazed and refreshed by the way it kicks the assumptions out from under the genre.
  13. Drive Me Crazy
    Gets by on the watchability of its young stars.
  14. Double Jeopardy
    Judd is pretty much on her own - an assignment she mostly can handle with aplomb.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    On the Ropes
    Has the impact of a left-right combination to the chin.
  16. Mumford
    The performances are disarming and Mumford is the kind of comedy that grows on you if you give it a chance.
  17. Jakob the Liar
    Deserves a place alongside "Life Is Beautiful" and, yes, even "Schindler's List."
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dog Park
    A romantic comedy with an adult sensibility, a film that avoids characters-as-caricatures (with one exception), and deftly mixes cynicism and hope.
  19. Guinevere
    While the appeal of Guinevere is decidedly intermittent, it's there, and the acting is right on the money.
  20. Splendor
    Runs out of helium and lands pretty heavily after its airy beginning.
  21. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    A long, warm, satisfying farewell encounter.
  22. Sugar Town
    Likable, but at times it's also inescapably sketchy and ramshackle.
  23. Breakfast of Champions
    Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't.
  24. Lucie Aubrac
    Seems so preoccupied with genuflection that it never achieves its subject's heart-pounding immediacy.
  25. Get Bruce
    Captures just enough behind-the-scenes flavor to qualify as a light, bright divertissement.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blue Streak
    A rather witty, streetwise comedy/action movie with a lot going for it.
  27. For Love of the Game
    After revitalizing baseball movies with "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham," he's now three for three with the funny, quirky, rueful, and richly textured For Love of the Game.
  28. Romance
    Lots of sex, but little joy.
  29. American Beauty
    Spacey is diamond-brilliant in a role that plays as if custom-made for him.
  30. The Minus Man
    The sly and subtle Minus Man is a wicked little sidewinder of a black comedy.
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