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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. Mansfield Park
    Stylish and arrives at a satisfying cumulative weight, even if it isn't Austen pure.
  2. Liberty Heights
    Both a lovingly crafted remembrance of things past and a deliberate broadening and darkening of the canvas Levinson previously filled in "Diner," "Tin Men," and "Avalon."
  3. Anywhere But Here
    Aims its big, bold mother-daughter conflicts straight at the heart by way of the tear ducts, and connects.
  4. Felicia's Journey
    Has more ambition than the usual serial killer film, but curiously less urgency.
  5. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    A lot of striking pictures in this would-be feminist "Braveheart," but a film that's pretty flat and earthbound because of the limitations of the figure at its center.
  6. Dogma
    Has that rarest of qualities in movies that think of themselves as religious. I'm talking about the vision thing. And the ability to make morality entertaining.
  7. Light It Up
    Light It Up isn't a great movie, but it's a cut above most so-called urban thrillers.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    The Japanese animation is beautiful, and the script adaptation for the English-speaking audience is well-paced, clever, and absorbing enough to keep parents from squirming.
  9. Rosetta
    The bleakness of Rosetta will not be for all, but it's one of the best films of the year.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Bachelor
    A vapid, charmless update of Buster Keaton's 1925 film "Seven Chances."
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    Reflective, haunting, hilarious documentary.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Train of Life
    Another phantasmagorical tale of life among the Nazis, is upon us. This one works much better.
  13. American Movie
    It seems more a geek show than a slab of marketing wizardry.
  14. The Bone Collector
    Washington and Jolie earn their stripes here, but more texture would have resulted, I think, in more terror.
  15. The Insider
    A big, dark juggernaut of a movie about a big, dark juggernaut of a subject.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beefcake
    It leaves you with an odd, sweet-and-sour taste - nostalgia painted in pastel colors, streaked with black smears.
  17. Music of the Heart
    Avoids the potentially suffocating pall of uplift hovering over its quite exhilarating story.
  18. The Legend of 1900
    Its protagonist haven't enough emotional substance to carry them through the long, darkly lit introspective sequences.
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  19. Princess Mononoke
    Its breadth, profundity, and stunningly rendered vision make idealism seem renewed and breathtaking again.
  20. Being John Malkovich
    But then Being John Malkovich is a brilliant juggling act, too, brilliantly brought off.
  21. The Best Man
    Breathes fresh life into old formulas.
  22. Three to Tango
    Trips early and never gets up off the floor.
  23. Bats
    A reassuring little cheeseball of a movie.
  24. Body Shots
    Beneath its glitz, poses, and pub crawlers and club prowlers, it's an old-fashioned morality tale.
  25. Crazy in Alabama
    The pieces don't always fit together smoothly, but there's a lot of flavorful work to savor.
  26. Show Me Love
    Charming and, compared with most Hollywood films like it, refreshing.
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  27. Bringing Out the Dead
    While heartfelt and beautifully crafted, Bringing Out the Dead is too freighted with its protagonist's failed savior complex and is surprisingly lacking in primal impact.
  28. Julien Donkey-Boy
    At its best, it will impale you on its raw urgency. At other times, it's a slog through long improvisations that never achieve dramatic liftoff.
  29. The Story of Us
    Conspicuously short on the kind of texture that makes us feel we're watching real people living real lives.
  30. Joe the King
    Whaley's self-effacing but strongly etched and wrenchingly effective film.
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