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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. Girl, Interrupted
    The movie -- even though it's based on real events -- seems unsatisfying and unconvincing.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Topsy-Turvy
    Some movies delight you. Some stimulate and provoke. Some enlighten and inform. And some simply hand you a rousing good time-- does all of that and more.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Anna and the King
    In the end you feel like you've been taken on a pleasing, professionally run tourist trip that let you enjoy the sights without ever really inhabiting the land.
  4. Onegin
    Despite Fiennes' splendid moodiness and Tyler's radiant vulnerability, despite lovely settings... this movie is dull.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Stuart Little
    Patronizing and predictable where E.B. White's episodic 1945 book...is odd and open-ended.
  6. Simpatico
    A somewhat bewildering and unsatisfying film that nevertheless contains more inspired moments and brilliant scenes than many movies we call successes.
  7. Bicentennial Man
    Has heart, but lacks bite.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    Few Hollywood action pictures are half as exciting or ravishing.
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. Magnolia
    The kind of brilliantly weirdo picture that, by all rights, shouldn't have gotten made at all but this time, miraculously, was.
  10. The Cider House Rules
    A deliberately old-fashioned picture that succeeds in nearly everything it tries to do.
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. Cradle Will Rock
    Cradle Will Rock is the masterpiece that wasn't, a magnificent opportunity blown to hell.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Diamonds
    Kirk Douglas' performance...is so strong and inspiring it's a shame there isn't a better movie around it.
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. The Green Mile
    On many levels, it hits its marks -- but it still misses the impact of some shorter, less-ambitious movies that play with our emotions more deftly or deeply, walk their miles, deadly or not, with a lighter, faster, more confident tread.
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    Custom-designed for 13 year-olds, laden with broad sight gags, gross sound effects and a bowlful of potty jokes.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Stir of Echoes
    A horror movie with a Hitchcockian veneer of the everyday, a story that taps into our fear not only of the paranormal but also of insanity and the secret evil that may lie beneath ordinary lives.
  16. Clouds of May
    This subtle, beautifully shot film is a gently ironic study of the relationship between a Turkish filmmaker, who has returned to his country home to make an independent movie, and his elderly father, whom he has recruited as an actor. [13 Oct 2000, p.L]
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. Agnes Browne
    A bawdy comedy that convincingly celebrates the resilience of the urban poor and the power of friendship in the teeth of despair.
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. The End of the Affair
    Few recent movie romances have a more chilling and peculiar feel -- and a more sobering aftertaste -- than Neil Jordan's heart-rendingly cold adaptation of Affair.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. A Map of the World
    Strangely unmoving. So what went wrong?
  20. Holy Smoke
    As much fun as anything director/co-writer Jane Campion has ever filmed. Holy Smoke lets it all hang out.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Sweet and Lowdown
    Exquisitely designed, lovingly executed, beautifully scored and played, every hair and note in place, it's a movie full of irony, passion and bluesy riffs.
  22. Tumbleweeds
    This smart, hardscrabble, very likable film has a heart and spirit all its own: a rollicking, earthy flair and lusty intelligence.
  23. Ride with the Devil
    At a time when new westerns are in short supply, Devil a sight for sore eyes.
  24. End of Days
    An overblown, overspectacular, oversold movie without an original idea in its head.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Toy Story 2
    You can't ask for a family film to do more than Toy Story 2. It's smart and playful enough to entertain adults, yet it never aims above the heads of kids.
  26. Flawless
    In making a movie that preaches love for odd ducks, Schumacher has turned Flawless into the oddest duck of all.
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. The World Is Not Enough
    There's the script -- and that's the problem.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sleepy Hollow
    Visually sumptuous and playfully creepy.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    All About My Mother
    Generous in spirit and always engaging as it demonstrates that no matter how difficult life may become, there's no excuse for being drab.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Mansfield Park
    Why should we keep seeing Austen fresh, through our own, modern eyes? Because she's a writer who has never really left our field of vision. And, as this new Mansfield Park proves again, she never will.
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