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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. Best Laid Plans
    The plot thickens and thickens and thickens until it chokes on a tangled mess of double-crosses.
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. Black Cat, White Cat
    Astonishing, crazily delightful.
  3. Stigmata
    Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage should be ashamed to have written such nonsense.
  4. All the Little Animals
    Beautifully produced: a moving film with a fascinating story and exemplary acting.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Outside Providence
    Like Richard Linklater's "Dazed and Confused," Outside Providence reminisces vividly, recalling the era fondly but not with too much sugar.
  6. Chill Factor
    It's one of those movies that are unfortunately so technically well done, it's hard to tune out on the senseless story.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. The 13th Warrior
    Has a remote feel. It sometimes impresses but never soars.
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. A Dog of Flanders
    It was the adult in me that wept when the movie ended. Take the kid and have a good time.
  9. The Muse
    A real gem: a deadpan fantasy that turns into one of the best pictures ever about the post-"Star Wars" studio moviemaking era.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Dudley Do-Right
    Like an obnoxious uncle desparately trying to amuse the young'uns with poo-poo humor and dum-dum pratfalls.
  11. In Too Deep
    An oft-told tale.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    The same bland vision of teendom that's become inescapable on the small and big screens.
  13. Mickey Blue Eyes
    A limply derivative, disappointingly trivial and hokey fish-out-of-water crime comedy.
  14. 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.
  15. Bowfinger
    One of the best and funniest things that Martin, as writer and actor, has ever done.
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. The Thomas Crown Affair
    Too expensive for its own good, too chic for comfort.
  19. 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.
  20. Autumn Tale
    A film which should gratify any audience starved for intelligent dialogue, realistic portrayals of romance and lovely, non-cliched open-air photography.
  21. Illuminata
    A gloriously giddy movie about theater, love and artifice, an unabashed art film.
  22. 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.
  24. 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
  25. Twin Falls Idaho
    If you're in the mood for something strange, this film may please you, twice over.
  26. Deep Blue Sea
    Even overlooking the fundamental inanity of the movie, one is left to contend with some offensive racial stereotyping.
  27. Inspector Gadget
    Feels like a demonstration reel for toys, action figures and future DisneyQuest installations.
  28. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    There may be better ways to waste your time than seeing this movie.
  29. 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
  30. 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.
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