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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. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    The same bland vision of teendom that's become inescapable on the small and big screens.
  2. Mickey Blue Eyes
    A limply derivative, disappointingly trivial and hokey fish-out-of-water crime comedy.
  3. Brokedown Palace
    The movie, directed by veteran Jonathan Kaplan, has enough in common with such American-in-foreign-jail movies as "Midnight Express" and the recent "Return to Paradise" to make you wonder why it ever got made.
  4. Bowfinger
    One of the best and funniest things that Martin, as writer and actor, has ever done.
  5. Detroit Rock City
    A rock 'n' roll film should be funny-crazy -- not just a big, dumb promo for some over-the-hill dudes in makeup who are trying to sell today's kids on yesterday's glory by championing deliquency.
  6. Better Than Chocolate
    Despite its familiar trappings, Better Than Chocolate turns out to be quite enjoyable, thanks to some very engaging acting, a few involving subplots and an energy that must be credited to director Anne Wheeler. [27 Aug 1999, p.I]
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. The Thomas Crown Affair
    Too expensive for its own good, too chic for comfort.
  8. Mystery Men
    They're a ragtag assembly for sure, and the results aren't pretty. But on a simple mission of entertainment, they get the job done.
  9. Autumn Tale
    A film which should gratify any audience starved for intelligent dialogue, realistic portrayals of romance and lovely, non-cliched open-air photography.
  10. Illuminata
    A gloriously giddy movie about theater, love and artifice, an unabashed art film.
  11. The Iron Giant
    An animated tale equipped with heart, humor, blazing action and not a sappy song in earshot.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Sixth Sense
    Perhaps the most startling part is the realization that, in the turn-off-your-brain season of summer, you've just experienced an uncommonly serious-minded movie that's brave enough to engage our deepest emotions on issues of death, madness, illusion and forgiveness. That's the biggest thrill of them all.
  13. Runaway Bride
    A shiny bauble full of dead weight, gloppy good feeling and airless cliches. And every time you try to grab onto "Bride's" characters, they run away. [30 July 1999]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Twin Falls Idaho
    If you're in the mood for something strange, this film may please you, twice over.
  15. Deep Blue Sea
    Even overlooking the fundamental inanity of the movie, one is left to contend with some offensive racial stereotyping.
  16. Inspector Gadget
    Feels like a demonstration reel for toys, action figures and future DisneyQuest installations.
  17. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    There may be better ways to waste your time than seeing this movie.
  18. The Haunting
    In The Haunting, the moviemakers succeed in something very difficult: creating a haunted house with real personality and terror. [23 July 1999, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. The Wood
    Nostalgia has no real point to make here. All that Famuyiwa can hope to accomplish is to tell his story well. In this area he is less than competent.
  20. Eyes Wide Shut
    A spellbinder: provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot and masterfully executed.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Blair Witch Project
    Many of us may have thought that with the world offering so much vivid horribleness every day, movies had lost the power to give us a good cathartic scare. It's a shock -- and a pleasure -- to discover we were wrong.
  22. Lake Placid
    An almost mystifyingly bad movie.
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Muppets from Space
    Muppets from Space has silly gags and cute cosmic fish swimming around in its space. It just doesn't have the right awe and wonder -- except, perhaps, for the children who should be its prime audience. Adults, beware -- at least this time.
  24. Arlington Road
    A classy but over-contrived topical thriller about bomb plots and anti-government groups.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    American Pie
    Both funny and foul, alternately frank and full of it.
  26. Late August, Early September
    On one level, Late August, Early September is a story of how Adrien's illness and death affects those who respect and love him, but the film also finds the time and energy to suggest how the inevitable twists and delays that oftentimes comprise our early years can begin to feel like indulgences in the face of our own mortality. [17 Sep 1999, p.F]
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Summer of Sam
    This is a terrific movie: jolting, savage, horrifically funny, nightmarishly exciting but also brainy and compassionate.
  28. Wild Wild West
    A wild, wanton and wasteful western farce that's so overblown and underwritten it almost makes you cringe to watch it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    The kind of movie that can get you simultaneously laughing and shaking your head at its audacity.
  30. The Dinner Game
    The Dinner Game works thanks to some exceptionally strong acting, impeccable timing and rapid-fire delivery of many funny lines.
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