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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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    • 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.
  3. 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
  4. Anywhere But Here
    These are real characters, fully observed, gutsily written, beautifully acted by the two leads.
  5. 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.
  6. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Such a sour, mindlessly inflated experience that seeing it may temporarily put you off historical movies.
  7. 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
  10. 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
  11. Train of Life
    A fairy tale comedy with the Holocaust as the background, a collision of terror and community, death and beauty.
  12. The Insider
    This is a first-class muckraking melodrama: an admirable picture.
  13. 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
  14. The Legend of 1900
    The sort of movie that both rewards and tries your patience.
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. 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.
  17. Music of the Heart
    Wonderful spirit, humanity and humor.
  18. 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.
  20. 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
  21. Three to Tango
    Television sitcom-style directing and writing.
  22. 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.
  24. The Best Man
    Largely a disappointment.
  25. 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
  26. Show Me Love
    A light, breezy, often charming little film, with a good cast playing mostly shallow characters.
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Bats
    Perfect late-summer drive-in fare.
  28. The Story of Us
    Disturbingly lightweight and emotionally risk-free.
  29. The Source
    Like Workman's other films, it's a time capsule that sings.
  30. Joe the King
    One of my favorite U.S. fiction features at 1999's Sundance Festival.
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