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For 7,945 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: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Deterrence
    There is a palpable edge-of-the-seat tension and a number of complex ethnic issues that linger after the movie ends.
  2. Mission to Mars
    There are times when it moves into the guilty pleasure zone.
  3. The Ninth Gate
    A supernatural thriller that is neither super, natural, nor thrilling.
  4. The Next Best Thing
    Never having decided whether it wants to be comedy or a sentimental hand-wringer, it tries to be both and winds up being neither.
  5. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Best when it's playful, toying with the fact that the Mafia has in a single generation been transmogrified from myth to joke.
  6. Drowning Mona
    Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us.
  7. What Planet Are You From?
    The film is almost as shaky as the science, but Nichols knows how to get the most out of what amounts to a one-joke comedy, and Bening works virtual miracles.
  8. Judy Berlin
    It isn't often that lives of quiet desperation are served up with such pearly restraint.
  9. Mifune's Last Song
    The liveliest, most original family values film of the year so far.
  10. Reindeer Games
    The end is a long time coming in Reindeer Games and the dialogue is mostly slush.
  11. Wonder Boys
    A sweet screenful of quirky chaos.
  12. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    While it preserves his baseball feats, it looks beyond them to clarify Greenberg's place in American culture.
  13. Beautiful People
    It's a spirited and essentially optimistic film, but it's also simplistic.
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  14. Boiler Room
    Derivative and flawed. But it does throw off a few sparks.
  15. Hanging Up
    A flimsy sister act.
  16. The Whole Nine Yards
    Light on its feet and reveling in its deviousness, it stays one step ahead of us .
  17. Not One Less
    In style and story line, the film is daring in its simplicity.
  18. Pitch Black
    The B-movie is still very much with us.
  19. Snow Day
    Takes a vacation from quality.
  20. The Tigger Movie
    If a long, chilly afternoon needs to be filled, The Tigger Movie won't hurt. But neither will it enchant.
  21. The Beach
    It's "Beach Blanket Bingo" revisited, but with a Eurocast and more exotic locations.
  22. Gun Shy
    The bathroom jokes in Gun Shy wear thin.
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  23. Scream 3
    A lame little flat liner.
  24. The Cup
    A small film and, ultimately, a satisfying one.
  25. Eye of the Beholder
    Never brings its potentially intriguing plot strands into focus.
  26. Isn't She Great
    A surprisingly warm and engaging entertainment - brassy, schmaltzy, funny.
  27. The Big Tease
    What saves it is that it's lighter than mousse and is animated by a handful of engaging performers.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Down to You
    Prinze charming, but can't save movie.
  29. The Boondock Saints
    (Duffy) navigates the twisted collision of religious faith and the thrill of the kill, altruism and brutality, with an ingenious mix of humor, horror, mysticism, and just plain hipness.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    My Dog Skip
    The film's vintage setting is as much a character as any other. Some of the best moments evoke the best parts of easygoing small town life in a bygone era.
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