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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. Diamonds
    Kirk Douglas' performance...is so strong and inspiring it's a shame there isn't a better movie around it.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. A Map of the World
    Strangely unmoving. So what went wrong?
  9. Holy Smoke
    As much fun as anything director/co-writer Jane Campion has ever filmed. Holy Smoke lets it all hang out.
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. 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.
  11. Tumbleweeds
    This smart, hardscrabble, very likable film has a heart and spirit all its own: a rollicking, earthy flair and lusty intelligence.
  12. Ride with the Devil
    At a time when new westerns are in short supply, Devil a sight for sore eyes.
  13. 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.
  15. Flawless
    In making a movie that preaches love for odd ducks, Schumacher has turned Flawless into the oddest duck of all.
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. 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
  19. 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Liberty Heights
    Few mainstream films portray the religiousness or ethnicity of characters with such detail, warmth and humor as Liberty Heights.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Dogma
    Smith's strongest suit is writing dialogue that slips smart insights in between pop-culture references and raunchy language.
  22. Felicia's Journey
    A rare example of a literary film that preserves the best of its source while creatively filling up on it.
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Anywhere But Here
    These are real characters, fully observed, gutsily written, beautifully acted by the two leads.
  24. Where's Marlowe?
    Although Where's Marlowe abounds with many supposedly clever ideas, it's about as badly made as anything you'll see anywhere on television.
  25. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Such a sour, mindlessly inflated experience that seeing it may temporarily put you off historical movies.
  26. Light It Up
    This is a good-hearted movie that unfortunately is wildly implausible and makes no sense.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    The sense that the movie serves mostly to showcase a slew of purchasable cartoon figures loses nothing in the translation.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Bachelor
    Too bad the movie concentrates on the male point of view because it kicks to life when Zellweger is on screen.
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. The Bone Collector
    Two gifted co-stars, Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, and the highly imaginative thriller specialist Phillip Noyce lend some luster and credibility to another borderline-absurd scenario.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Train of Life
    A fairy tale comedy with the Holocaust as the background, a collision of terror and community, death and beauty.
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