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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. Up at the Villa
    It's a corker of a story - a polished yarn full of desire, desperation and despair.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Dreamed of Africa
    Doesn't have much plot. It just sort of meanders around like a wildebeest playing Blind Man's Bluff.
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Michael Jordan to the Max
    For any of you who've ever daydreamed of playing hoops with Jordan, Michael Jordan to the Max is almost certainly the closest you'll ever get.
  4. The Basket
    It gussies up the tale with so many random subplots that by the time we cut through the morass, the film is over.
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Gladiator
    Has the kind of super-cinematic qualities and bravura acting that make up for almost anything.
  6. Adorenarin doraibu
    It has terrific moments, but whenever it starts to cruise along nicely, it hits a comedic pothole that forces it to sputter on down the road.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. The Big Kahuna
    While it's done well enough here - written smartly, staged crisply and acted to the hilt - it doesn't last, except as a brief virtuoso piece for three players.
  8. Committed
    One more movie comedy about how love can turn you into an idiot. And its major flaw, among many others, is that the idiocy takes over the movie.
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Frequency
    Corny and far-fetched it may be, but Frequency works - except for some stretches when it doesn't.
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Bossa Nova
    A breezy, elegant charmer of a movie.
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. The Idiots
    It's interesting - in its own let-it-all-hang-out, shaky-camera way.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. 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.
  14. Where the Heart Is
    Never really feels right.
  15. 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
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  20. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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
  25. 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.
  26. 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
  27. Est - Ouest
    Has great themes and great actors.
    • Chicago Tribune
  28. Restaurant
    Some films, oddly enough, can be too ambitious for their own good, which is the case with Restaurant.
  29. Southpaw
    So look for (Francis) at the 2000 games in Sydney, which may provide a more heated ending to this lukewarm story.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. 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
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