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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. Earth
    Hurls its Holocaust at us in a series of justifiably horrific images.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Love Stinks
    It would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.
  3. Stigmata
    Could have been a classy thriller. But all the Aramaic in the world can't save it from its own pounding slickness.
  4. Black Cat, White Cat
    The gusto in the flying bullets, the fleeing lovers, and the flowing music will make you want to hang around until the party is over.
  5. All the Little Animals
    Involvingly acted, surehandedly crafted.
  6. Outside Providence
    It's much closer to a European film in sensibility than to one of Hollywood's factory products.
  7. Chill Factor
    Gooding plays the worst role I've ever seen him play in a movie...he perpetuates a kind of black stereotype that should have become history years ago.
  8. The Muse
    The season's brightest piece of counterprogramming.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A Dog of Flanders
    What a disaster -- a dog.
  10. The 13th Warrior
    About everything is big in The 13th Warrior except the writing, which is microscopic.
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dudley Do-Right
    Never gets horribly bad, but can't sustain its moments of inspiration either.
  12. In Too Deep
    Invigorating excellence.
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  13. Mickey Blue Eyes
    It brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision.
  14. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Mostly a screenful of nothingness.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Universal Soldier: The Return
    Devoid of personality and has an annoying gratuitous sentimental streak.
  16. Bowfinger
    Just enough laughs to keep you watching.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Better Than Chocolate
    A semisweet nugget, an insinuating, low-budget little charmer. [27 Aug 1999, p.E4]
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  18. Autumn Tale
    Few, if any, films this year will approach, let alone equal, Autumn Tale in its subtle sparkle.
  19. Illuminata
    Beverly D'Angelo, Rufus Sewell, Georgina Cates, Leo Bassi - tumble with zest through a daisy chain of sexual capers. But while warmly energized, their carryings-on also seem a little generic.
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  20. The Iron Giant
    A solid, not to say ironclad, winner in the less than overcrowded family animation arena.
  21. Dick
    Hedaya is sublime.
  22. Twin Falls Idaho
    Bizarre, shadowy, enticingly eerie...more poetic, more tantalizingly original.
  23. The Haunting
    By placing all its faith in production design and high-powered computerized effects, and not enough where it really matters, namely character and atmosphere, The Haunting relegates itself to the slag heap of embarrassing claptrap. [23 July 1999, p.D4]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    American Pie
    Gross and tasteless...this high-school romp mixes the gross and tasteless with sentimental mush.
  25. Late August, Early September
    Assayas and his engaged, responsive cast finally beat the odds, subtly and beautifully enabling the film to genuinely seem to be about a handful of friends approaching - not always easily or even gracefully but ultimately very touchingly - the September of their shared and individual lives. [13 Aug 1999, p.D4]
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  26. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    Give your brain the night off, and Myers will make you smile too.
  27. Limbo
    Until it goes off course, Limbo not only is up to Sayles's high standard, but extends it. [04 Jun 1999, p.C4]
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  28. Southie
    Juicy acting and an intense individual and communal commitment that seems to boil up from the streets carry Southie past its structural and technical limitations. [28 May 1999]
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  29. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    There's no getting around the fact that it's an uneven exercise that shows signs of having gestated too long. [04 Jun 1999]
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  30. Eternity and a Day
    It's poetic, resonant, wistful, convulsive, regretful, exultant. There also are times when it's demanding to sit through, when time passes slowly, urged on only by flickers of uncertainty on the face of its protagonist, or by his insistent peering after meanings that may not even exist. But it's also a film that offers the kinds of rewards possible only to the contemplative mindset. [25 Jun 1999, p.D5]
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