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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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  1. Princess Mononoke
    Its breadth, profundity, and stunningly rendered vision make idealism seem renewed and breathtaking again.
  2. Being John Malkovich
    But then Being John Malkovich is a brilliant juggling act, too, brilliantly brought off.
  3. The Best Man
    Breathes fresh life into old formulas.
  4. Three to Tango
    Trips early and never gets up off the floor.
  5. Bats
    A reassuring little cheeseball of a movie.
  6. Body Shots
    Beneath its glitz, poses, and pub crawlers and club prowlers, it's an old-fashioned morality tale.
  7. Crazy in Alabama
    The pieces don't always fit together smoothly, but there's a lot of flavorful work to savor.
  8. Show Me Love
    Charming and, compared with most Hollywood films like it, refreshing.
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  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. The Story of Us
    Conspicuously short on the kind of texture that makes us feel we're watching real people living real lives.
  12. Joe the King
    Whaley's self-effacing but strongly etched and wrenchingly effective film.
  13. 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.
  14. Fight Club
    Begins with that invigoratingly nervy and imaginative buzz. But its chic indictment of empty materialist values fizzles.
  15. Random Hearts
    A-list soap opera, high-class and high-gloss.
  16. The Grandfather
    A solid, humane, old-fashioned film in the best sense of the term.
  17. The Limey
    Can't outrun its very visible limits.
  18. Superstar
    Part of the reason for the comic surehandedness is the obvious chemistry between Shannon, Ferrell, and director Bruce McCulloch.
  19. 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.
  20. Plunkett & Macleane
    Scott makes it easy to overlook the conventionality beneath his sometimes overdone but almost always enjoyable combination of atmosphere and propulsiveness.
  21. 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.
  23. Happy, Texas
    I can't imagine anyone not feeling entertained by Happy, Texas.
  24. Three Kings
    You walk out amazed and refreshed by the way it kicks the assumptions out from under the genre.
  25. Drive Me Crazy
    Gets by on the watchability of its young stars.
  26. 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.
  28. Mumford
    The performances are disarming and Mumford is the kind of comedy that grows on you if you give it a chance.
  29. 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.
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