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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 Insider
    This is a first-class muckraking melodrama: an admirable picture.
  2. American Movie
    Of all the many documentaries that take you along on a movie shoot, one of my all-time favorites is this delightfully scrappy, sometimes poignant, often hilarious show.
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. The Legend of 1900
    The sort of movie that both rewards and tries your patience.
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Beefcake
    Much to enjoy in this potpourri of silly fun and forbidden games, but a bit less ambition and a tad more focus might have helped.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Suburbans
    The storyline isn't coherent, the music stinks, the characters are one-dimensional, the dialogue is insipid and it is neither funny nor romantic.
  6. Music of the Heart
    Wonderful spirit, humanity and humor.
  7. House on Haunted Hill
    Contains too little of the original's campy spirit and too many whistles, bells, explosions and screams.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Princess Mononoke
    Rarely does any film, animated or otherwise, immerse you in such a vivid landscape and engage your senses so strongly.
  9. Being John Malkovich
    Weird to the max, smart, sneaky as a Wall Street pickpocket and revved up with cruel wit and brazen imagination, Being John Malkovich is a dark movie comedy that you couldn't forget if you tried.
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. Three to Tango
    Television sitcom-style directing and writing.
  11. Body Shots
    Like an episode of "Friends" where the entire cast has been given aphrodisiacs and locked up.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Crazy in Alabama
    Although Banderas occasionally shows flashes of style, individual elements too often go together like grits in a puff pastry.
  13. The Best Man
    Largely a disappointment.
  14. Bringing Out the Dead
    Blazes up constantly with a stunning, off-kilter brilliance, an incandescent force that sometimes explodes the space between us and the screen.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Show Me Love
    A light, breezy, often charming little film, with a good cast playing mostly shallow characters.
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Bats
    Perfect late-summer drive-in fare.
  17. The Story of Us
    Disturbingly lightweight and emotionally risk-free.
  18. The Source
    Like Workman's other films, it's a time capsule that sings.
  19. Joe the King
    One of my favorite U.S. fiction features at 1999's Sundance Festival.
  20. That's the Way I Like It
    Spins a fairy tale web that is hard to escape.
  21. The Straight Story
    A great, haunting film; it affects us in ways we're not used to...it is capable of both lifting our hearts and chilling us to the bone.
  22. Fight Club
    It's a genuine shocker - a dazzler of a film - a hellishly funny picture.
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. The Grandfather
    At once proudly conservative, passionately idealistic and beautifully assured.
  24. Random Hearts
    It's still strangely remote, only fitfully romantic, never really convincing.
  25. The Limey
    Intoxicatingly well-crafted entertainment about hunting down your enemy.
  26. Beyond the Clouds
    As we watch, we can sense, once again, the eye of a painter, the dreams of a poet and, tying them together, the vision of a master.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Superstar
    From my vantage point, it doesn't include a single laugh.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Boys Don't Cry
    A stirring, emotionally true testament to foolish bravery as well as shameful evidence of the severity with which it is so often punished.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Subtle lessons on friendship, materialism and cooperation along with clever touches.
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Happy, Texas
    Don't expect a lot, and you'll probably enjoy Happy, Texas, as I did -- mostly. At the very least, Steve Zahn will make you laugh.
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