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For 7,599 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. Dude, Where's My Car?
    At the end of 83 unmerciful minutes, audiences will be exclaiming, "Dude, I can't believe I sat through that movie!?" Stick to the trailer.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Vertical Limit
    If you were forced to judge it simply on its action-movie visual and technical elements, you'd have to count it a roaring success... . But if you lay aside that action and watch the people instead, it's a morass of dimwitted family crises and hack action-movie cliches.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Proof of Life
    The movie delivers on its own terms. It may emerge a bit bruised and tattered around the edges, but its ever-beating heart provides the ultimate Proof of Life.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Dungeons & Dragons
    The sad truth is, I can say nothing to recommend this film.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Splendid, soaringly ambitious Chinese period fantasy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Spring Forward
    Not too many actors last year bettered or equaled Beatty and Schreiber here, separately or (better yet) together. It's a pleasure and a privilege to watch them work.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. 102 Dalmatians
    How is it possible that actors as expert as Close and Depardieu can wind up together in a mostly brainless big-budget stinker?
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Quills
    Kaufman's startling Quills gives us an anatomy of fear, images both silken swift and molten hot, scenes that disrupt and inflame the imagination.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Unbreakable
    The irony is that although Unbreakable is as compellingly watchable, stylish and intriguing as its predecessor, its ending has almost the opposite effect on the overall picture.
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    Opulence almost interferes with the movie, weighing it down when it should seem lighter than air, surrounding the inarguably brilliant Carrey with too much frosting and frou-frou.
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. Bounce
    Doesn't really work when examined in the daylight outside the theater doors.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. La bûche
    A fine French comedy-drama.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The 6th Day
    Once Schwarzenegger got attached, the short-sighted, commercially minded forces took over; the man is desperate for a hit, so the movie dare not overestimate the audience's intelligence or tolerance for uneasily resolved dilemmas.
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Isn't novel entertainment, but adults who accompany kids to it are not likely to feel that it is a form of abuse for either of them.
  15. One Day in September
    Sweeps us back into a terrifying and desperate string of events and makes us feel them - and, more crucially, understand them as well.
  16. Little Nicky
    A feast of bad taste, a demonic hog-wallow.
  17. You Can Count on Me
    Honest, poignant and very funny, full of memorable, moving moments.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Red Planet
    The slogan for Red Planet could be "In space no one can hear you yawn."
  19. Men of Honor
    Inspirational biographical movie that really works.
  20. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    Though it's sweet and likable to a fault, it's also a movie that never seems heartfelt or deep.
  21. Charlie's Angels
    It's hard to believe how bad this movie is.
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. George Washington
    A picture about America with the blinders off, a film about heroism that makes you chuckle and feel sad - and a film about childhood that lets us reenter that lost world and see the grass, sky and sunlight the way they once looked, in the golden hours.
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. A Room for Romeo Brass
    Offers an honest, understated and unsentimental look at a small incident in the course of a friendship - but it is the kind of incident that defines most childhoods.
  24. Once in the Life
    Strong, hard, dirty, funny, moving atmospheric and laced with scabrously musical street dialogue.
  25. Lucky Numbers
    A comedy of bad manners with many punchy moments and many irritatingly glib ones.
  26. A Time for Drunken Horses
    Showing us a world through a child's eyes, A Time for Drunken Horses speaks so truthfully and well that it breaks the heart and scars the conscience.
  27. Stardom
    This film has so many good ideas, it tends to seem better after you've left the theater. But the mock TV stuff is just too faux to be funny.
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. The Little Vampire
    An odd little ghoul too cleaned up to survive, a bloodless vampire movie that's mostly lifeless as well.
  29. Loving Jezebel
    Run-of-the-mill sitcom-y in its pedestrian writing and uninspired direction.
  30. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Resembles an old Nine Inch Nails video. Missing from the mix are any characters with whom you'd want to spend one minute around a campfire.
    • Chicago Tribune
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