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For 7,948 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 1 point 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: 5,230 out of 7948
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7948
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7948
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  1. All the Little Animals
    Involvingly acted, surehandedly crafted.
  2. Home Movie
    Suffice it to say that Chris Smith's Home Movie is the most bananas episode of ''Cribs'' ever. The film is Smith's ballad of the wacky homeowner.
  3. Mumford
    The performances are disarming and Mumford is the kind of comedy that grows on you if you give it a chance.
  4. Miss Julie
    Figgis's film doesn't match its reach.
  5. Les Destinées
    Full of elegance but hampered by lack of depth.
  6. The Crimson Rivers
    The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness.
  7. Josie and the Pussycats
    Mindless glitz-o-ramas don't get any snazzier.
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  8. Crush
    MacDowell offers an engaging portrait of a complex woman who has survived life's slings and arrows. It makes Crush an affecting take on modern women.
  9. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    No porno flick posing as art. Nor is it science fiction, though it does contain a few scenes with B-movie overtones. This is a deep and meaningful film, ultimately far more poignant than it is titillating.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Housekeeper
    There isn't much to The Housekeeper, really, but it plumbs depths of male unease that louder and less wise movies strain to reach.
  11. Martin & Orloff
    The film is faithful to its absurdities, sometimes hilariously so.
  12. The Believer
    An amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction.
  13. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    A zestful genre outing, and then some, right up its final overkill.
  14. Chaos
    The best that can be said of the men in Coline Serreau's Chaos is that some of them are pimps.
  15. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    The magic of their perfectly shaded performances is that you always have to wonder ... Is she really that bad?
  16. The Hurricane
    (Washington's is) an astonishing performance, partly because it's so devoid of histrionics, and it has Oscar nomination written all over it.
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  17. Power Trip
    Part Marxist social drama and part Michael Moore corporation-needling, with fed-up residents trying to outsmart the big, bad naive company to keep their lights on for free.
  18. Lumumba
    Structural shortcomings and all -- gives a neglected giant of African independence his due.
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  19. 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.
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Maid in Manhattan
    It's Lopez who's the proper focus of this dream. So intent has she been on becoming a superstar in the past few years that many people have forgotten that, given decent material, she can act.
  21. Mondays in the Sun
    Loach makes a working metaphor of the old ant-and-grasshopper story, but the film's images are what echo the loudest.
  22. Millennium Actress
    The movie's narrative can be taxingly ornate, but there's something beautiful about its metaphorical conflation of politics and glamour, the real and the fictional.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Eight Legged Freaks
    Doesn't try to be anything it's not. It's happy being a funny, shoot-'em-up, run-for-your-life, green-guts monster movie. And as green-guts monster movies go, it's a beaut.
  24. Finding Forrester
    A juicy and gratifying teacher movie (a genre to which I'm partial). The joy in performance shared by Connery and Brown is the big reason.
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  25. Fantasia 2000
    A solid two-bagger, not a home run.
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  26. Happy, Texas
    I can't imagine anyone not feeling entertained by Happy, Texas.
  27. Hart's War
    Reminds us that the human dynamic can do a lot that explosions can't, even when the film flirts with formula.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blue Streak
    A rather witty, streetwise comedy/action movie with a lot going for it.
  29. A Decade Under the Influence
    The movie star Julie Christie turned 62 last month, and anyone under the impression that she merely floated through her prime heedless of the age in which she worked should catch her in A Decade Under the Influence.
  30. The Tailor of Panama
    Many spy capers lose their intended irony and wry black humor, but The Tailor of Panama stays stylishly on target in ways that would put a heat-seeking missile to shame.
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