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For 4,492 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 'Round Midnight
Lowest review score: 0 Couples Retreat
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,780 out of 4492
  2. Mixed: 1,361 out of 4492
  3. Negative: 351 out of 4492
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  1. The Cell
    The action is as grisly as it is surrealistic.
  2. Bless the Child
    Often trite and predictable but grudgingly likable in the end.
  3. Cecil B. DeMented
    The comedy is frantic and tasteless in the usual Waters mode, but it takes telling potshots at the Hollywood establishment, which isn't nearly so open about the tackiness of its products.
  4. The Replacements
    So vulgar and incoherent that even Hackman's gifts can't score a touchdown.
  5. An Affair of Love
    Baye and Lopez are excellent, as always.
  6. Aimee & Jaguar
    Färberböck has directed the story with a canny blend of liveliness and taste.
  7. The Tao of Steve
    Logue's magnetic performance is the movie's main virtue, supported by a good secondary cast and a sharply written screenplay.
  8. Saving Grace
    Blethyn's lively acting and some visually amusing moments lend spice to this minor but engaging comedy.
  9. Better Living
    Not even veteran talents like Dukakis and Scheider can surmount the artificial dialogue, arbitrary plot twists, and wan humor of this disappointing comedy-drama.
  10. Space Cowboys
    The story takes a while to get started, but the acting is lively, the special effects are snazzy.
  11. Hollow Man
    This is fatuous twaddle with a nasty, misogynistic edge.
  12. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    The star's over-the-top energy isn't enough to make this hopelessly vulgar, numbingly repetitious farce worth watching.
  13. Girl on the Bridge
    Although the story slips into clichés despite its offbeat subject, Leconte's cinematic style is fresh and vigorous, and Auteuil remains one of France's most engaging actors.
  14. Wonderland
    The ensemble acting is impressively in tune; and Michael Nyman's surging score adds an extra measure of emotional power.
  15. The Wind Will Carry Us
    A full-fledged masterpiece.
  16. New Waterford Girl
    Balaban's superb performance blends with Moyle's mostly understated directing to produce an uneven but sometimes enchanting comedy-drama.
  17. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Riveting stuff.
  18. Two Women
    Heart-pounding melodrama.
  19. Alice et Martin
    This drama is richly photographed and enhanced by Binoche's steadily appealing performance.
  20. What Lies Beneath
    A few scenes indulge in overstated hokum or thriller clichés, but Pfeiffer is first-rate and several sequences are suspenseful enough to deserve that overused adjective, Hitchcockian.
  21. Rififi (re-release)
    Among the picture's many surprises is a superb robbery scene filmed in a near-total silence that contrasts exhilaratingly with the noisy flamboyance of more recent films in this venerable genre.
  22. Les amants criminels
    Its eventual failure to make sense indicates that it's intended more as a surrealistic fable than an ordinary sex-and-violence adventure.
  23. The Five Senses
    Traveling from the tragic to the comic, this multifaceted film is richly acted and imaginatively directed.
  24. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    The picture is a little too pretentious to achieve its artistic and emotional goals, but its ambition and imagination are impressive at times.
  25. X-Men
    The mood is awfully dark for an escapist fantasy, though, and the high-tech mayhem gets repetitious.
  26. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    The best scenes capture the blend of irony, melodrama, and real emotion that distinguishes Fassbinder's most memorable pictures.
  27. Chuck & Buck
    The acting is excellent.
  28. The Kid
    The result is fine fantasy fun.
  29. All the Rage
    Its ideas are worth pondering, but as a movie it's less memorable than its interesting cast suggests.
  30. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    There's lots of atmosphere and information to be gained, but stay away unless you can tolerate graphic plunges into the wildest kinds of youthful excess.
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