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For 7,613 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 1.4 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: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. Requiem for a Dream
    Often, Requiem for a Dream is as technically inventive and daring as the Scottish heroin film "Trainspotting," but it has more resonance and feeling. And when Burstyn is on screen, it often becomes heartbreaking.
  2. Bootmen
    What it gains in fun, the film loses in credibility, as the production number itself more closely resembles a high-priced Las Vegas extravaganza than a quickly organized charity event.
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Girlfight
    Girlfight, for its skill and theme, will please many. It's a shame it's no knockout.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    Shallow though it may be, is a breakthrough.
  5. Barenaked in America
    A welcome respite from the high-volume ugliness of rock extravaganza.
  6. Remember the Titans
    Works better and cuts deeper than the mostly fictionalized "Hoosiers."
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Beautiful
    Spends its first three-quarters confronting us with one of the most dislikable characters in recent memory.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Best in Show
    For sheer laughs, Willard and Piddock take the trophy.
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    It's hard not to feel angry that you've spent almost two hours watching this moronic exercise.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Woman on Top
    A dish that's pretty easy to swallow, but if it could have borrowed some of Isabella's more potent spices, it might have boasted a more lasting flavor.
  11. Dancer in the Dark
    (The film is) one of the most anguished, intense and weirdly brilliant of the year.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Left Luggage
    The only glaring fault of this otherwise fine film is that director Jeroen Krabbe's sense of drama is far too heavy-handed in spots.
  13. Human Resources
    Works so well for the first 40 minutes or so, that when the bottom falls out of it, I felt more than disappointed. I felt betrayed.
  14. Goya in Bordeaux
    Bravo!
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Has moments of profound poignance, though it lacks the overall dramatic impact of "The Long Way Home."
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Circus
    When the final twist has been turned and the last corpse has hit the ground, it is a film that could have been twice as good if it had been half as complicated.
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    Just say no.
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Bait
    It's another slick-and-quick muscle car of a movie, racing along for a couple of hours, taking you nowhere as fast as it can.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Urbania
    One of those small films that will, one hopes, find a larger audience through word of mouth.
  20. Duets
    The joys of singing give the movie a hook, but when Duets aims for lyricism, it's got a tin ear.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Almost Famous
    I loved this movie madly, and so will many of you.
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. The Way of the Gun
    What pulls us along through the inky shoals of The Way of the Gun? Sheer style, plus the movie's refusal to play nice.
  23. Nurse Betty
    The movie has a deliberately screw-loose feel.
  24. Solas
    A beautifully acted and deeply compassionate study of ordinary people coping with the vicissitudes of life.
  25. The Watcher
    Sluggish and preposterous, full of violence and cliches.
  26. Whipped
    A decent idea that never goes deep enough for genuine satisfaction.
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Titanic Town
    As solid as the earth, rich as a good meal and sometimes funny as hell.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Highlander: Endgame
    Has to explain itself through so much of the film that there's just not much film left.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. Dark Days
    There is something inherently dishonest about Dark Days.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. The Art of War
    Too-loud, poorly directed and seriously overedited.
    • Chicago Tribune
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