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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. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    Accomplishes something I would have thought impossible. It made me appreciate its 1994 predecessor, "The Flintstones."
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Timecode
    The movie world could use more stunts as entertaining and innovative as this one.
  3. Where the Heart Is
    Never really feels right.
  4. Croupier
    Stumbles a bit towards the end when it focuses too much on a convoluted robbery attempt, but overall, it is a slick and intelligent look at life in the passing lane.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gossip
    Suffers from an overwhelming sense of teen movie facility and "Murder She Wrote" neatness.
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. The Last September
    One of those rare movies that manages to maintain the hushed intensity and claustrophobic anxiety that is normally associated with theater or prose.
  7. U-571
    As beautiful as all the film's technology is, it needs more real human beings around - to pull the switches, man the pumps and scuttle through those corridors.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Virgin Suicides
    It's quite funny, though not in a predictably irreverent way, and it moves along briskly - a little too briskly toward the end.
  9. Love & Basketball
    The biggest missteps come toward the end, when Prince-Bythewood's storybook instincts get the best of her and force a wrap-up that doesn't feel earned.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Keeping the Faith
    Despite scattered bits of nice writing, the movie never quite comes together.
  11. Set Me Free
    Shows us a filmmaker, unafraid of her emotions, unafraid to mine her past, someone clear-eyed, non-egoistic, full of life and warmth.
  12. American Psycho
    A second-rate nightmare: the Reagan generation meets Leatherhead with flickers of brilliance drowned in blood and snobbery, a corpse dressed by Bloomingdale's.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    28 Days
    A cutesy, heavy-handed morality tale that contains nary a believable moment.
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Where the Money Is
    A wildly improbable story that neither Newman nor co-stars Fiorentino and Mulroney, for all their panache and chemistry, can make much sense of it.
  15. East Is East
    He (Puri) is one of the most consistently excellent film actors that his country - or the world - has produced. And East is East, a grand cultural hybrid, is a real movie, too - raw, funny and wonderfully mixed up.
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Est - Ouest
    Has great themes and great actors.
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. Restaurant
    Some films, oddly enough, can be too ambitious for their own good, which is the case with Restaurant.
  18. Southpaw
    So look for (Francis) at the 2000 games in Sydney, which may provide a more heated ending to this lukewarm story.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. The Filth and the Fury
    The concerts are hypnotic, the music is swell, and the entire package moves along at just the right pace.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Joe Gould's Secret
    A wonderful, heart-breaking movie.
  21. Rules of Engagement
    Written with such murderous gravity, certainty and gloomy solemnity - such an absence of real life or feeling - that it tends to kill our interest.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Return to Me
    These characters deserve more than storybook plotting, as do we. The movie has won our hearts. It shouldn't be so timid about challenging our minds.
  23. Ready to Rumble
    Will come off as insipid, unfunny and too serious at times for its own good.
  24. Me Myself I
    Far too self-absorbed a picture.
  25. Black and White
    There is really no one to like in this film.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Price of Glory
    A pretty good film, acted powerfully .
  27. The Road to El Dorado
    It has a jokey irreverence that keeps it from teetering over the edge to absurdity.
  28. The Skulls
    A fast, slick, outlandish fiasco that starts out well and then seems to drop right off a cliff.
  29. Beau Travail
    You may not like Beau Travail - which is, after all, a quintessential "critic's film" - but I think you'll have to admit it's been almost perfectly executed.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    High Fidelity
    Easily cracks the top five list of reasons to go to the movies these days - and defies categories in doing so.
    • Chicago Tribune
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