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For 8,156 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Falling from Grace
Lowest review score: 0 Jupiter Ascending
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,085 out of 8156
  2. Mixed: 1,243 out of 8156
  3. Negative: 828 out of 8156
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  1. Autumn Tale
    Rohmer elegantly seduces us with people who have all of the alarming unpredictability of life.
  2. The Iron Giant
    Not just a cute romp but an involving story that has something to say.
  3. The Sixth Sense
    Has a kind of calm, sneaky self-confidence that allows it to take us down a strange path, intriguingly.
  4. Dick
    A sly little comic treasure.
  5. Runaway Bride
    After seeing Gere and Roberts play much smarter people (even in romantic comedies), it is painful to see them dumbed down here. The screenplay is so sluggish, they're like Derby winners made to carry extra weight.
  6. Twin Falls Idaho
    In its quiet, dark, claustrophobic way, this is one of the best films of the year.
  7. Deep Blue Sea
    After slogging through the predictability of countless would-be action thrillers, I admired the sheer professionalism of this one, which doesn't transcend its genre, but at least honors it.
  8. Inspector Gadget
    The plot was an arbitrary concoction.
  9. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    The script must have been a funny read. It's the movie that somehow never achieves takeoff speed.
  10. The Haunting
    The story is a mess, but for long periods of time that hardly matters. It's beside the point, as we enter one of the most striking spaces I've ever seen in a film.
  11. The Wood
    Feels a little uncertain, as if it's moving from present to past under the demands of a screenplay rather than because it really feels that way. But the growing-up stuff is kind of wonderful.
  12. Eyes Wide Shut
    The reconciliation at the end of the film is the one scene that doesn't work; a film that intrigues us because of its loose ends shouldn't try to tidy up.
  13. The Blair Witch Project
    At a time when digital techniques can show us almost anything, The Blair Witch Project is a reminder that what really scares us is the stuff we can't see.
  14. Lake Placid
    The movie is pretty bad, all right. But it has a certain charm. It's so completely wrong-headed from beginning to end that it develops a doomed fascination.
  15. Muppets from Space
    Maybe Muppets from Space is just not very good, and they'll make a comeback. I hope so. Because I just don't seem to care much anymore. Sorry, Miss Piggy. Really sorry.
  16. Arlington Road
    A conspiracy thriller that begins well and makes good points, but it flies off the rails in the last 30 minutes.
  17. American Pie
    It is not inspired, but it's cheerful and hard-working and sometimes funny, and--here's the important thing--it's not mean.
  18. Summer of Sam
    Lee has a wealth of material here, and the film tumbles through it with exuberance.
  19. Wild Wild West
    All concept and no content.
  20. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    I laughed. I did not always feel proud of myself while I was laughing, however.
  21. Big Daddy
    Big Daddy should be reported to the child welfare office.
  22. Tarzan
    I saw Tarzan once, and went to see it again. This kind of bright, colorful, hyperkinetic animation is a visual exhilaration.
  23. The General's Daughter
    A well-made thriller with a lot of good acting, but the death of Elisabeth Campbell is so unnecessarily graphic and gruesome that by the end I felt sort of unclean.
  24. Run Lola Run
    I would not want to see a sequel to the film, and at 81 minutes it isn't a second too short, but what it does, it does cheerfully, with great energy, and very well.
  25. An Ideal Husband
    The two leading men, Northam and Everett, are smooth and charming.
  26. The Red Violin
    There really is a little something here for everyone: music and culture, politics and passion, crime and intrigue, history and even the backstage intrigue of the auction business.
  27. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    There is an underlying likability to Austin Powers that sort of carries us through the movie.
  28. Instinct
    If there's anything worse than a movie hammered together out of pieces of bad screenplays, it's a movie made from the scraps of good ones.
  29. Buena Vista Social Club
    It is a touching story, and the musicians (some over 90 years old) still have fire and grace onstage, but, man, does the style of this documentary get in the way.
  30. Limbo
    Sayles has started with a domestic comedy, and led us unswervingly into the heart of darkness.
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