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For 1,518 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Final Destination 3
Lowest review score: 0 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 678 out of 1518
  2. Mixed: 604 out of 1518
  3. Negative: 236 out of 1518
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  1. Isn't She Great
    An utter drag, a tepid and sterilized telling of Susann's life.
  2. My Dog Skip
    Particularly unsuitable for cinematic adaptation, but when has that ever stopped anyone.
  3. Next Friday
    All the new plot stuff is way old hat, as though straight from a textbook chapter called "Conflict Drives Your Narrative!" And at times the motivations are either unclear or senseless.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Hurricane
    (Washington's) performance is halfhearted, soft.
  5. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    An affecting film, but it just may not be everyone's cup of cyanide.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Play It to the Bone
    A road movie trapped in a cul-de-sac.
  7. Titus
    Taymor moves Titus completely out of time and into all time.
  8. Galaxy Quest
    The makers of this film are clearly fans, and they've put more heart and genuine humor into this piece than Paramount has into the original franchise in years.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Numbs as much as it unnerves.
  10. Any Given Sunday
    A football film made by a man who apparently has seen little of the game outside of movies, and not very good ones at that.
  11. Angela's Ashes
    A sharp and pungent distillation of the book. However, as far as the theme of childhood under duress goes, I found "My Life as a Dog" or the stridently Irish "Into the West" to be significantly more fulfilling.
  12. Man on the Moon
    If this movie is a pedestal, it is far too tall and wide for a performer of Kaufman's stature.
  13. Snow Falling on Cedars
    This badly muddled adaptation of a complex novel chases after Guterson's many skeins and themes with no unifying principle in mind.
  14. Girl, Interrupted
    Doesn't come close to matching the emotional depth and power of Frank Perry's 1962 "David and Lisa," the most involving and affecting film I've ever seen about teenagers and mental illness.
  15. Topsy-Turvy
    A masterful film about the magic of performance and the foibles of the artists behind it.
  16. Anna and the King
    Grand entertainment in the old-fashioned sense.
  17. Stuart Little
    Forces its snuggly weirdo upon us and instructs us from the get-go to love him.
  18. Simpatico
    Proves only intermittently engaging as its twisted plot loses energy and becomes confusing in the latter half.
  19. Bicentennial Man
    It's not really a kids' film, nor it is particularly funny, by either design or execution. It is, rather, Columbus' latest attempt at a comically tinged tearjerker.
  20. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    For those with a taste for epics that integrate the historical and the intimate.
  21. Magnolia
    A brilliant piece of garbage -- mesmerizing, but only because you can't believe someone has the temerity to put so much into so little.
  22. The War Zone
    A bleak, beautiful film.
  23. The Cider House Rules
    Rich in story, character, and design, The Cider House Rules is obviously a collaborative effort, but above all it is a triumph for director Hallström.
  24. Cradle Will Rock
    In the end, it's all just too damned much. It's more exhausting than edifying.
  25. Diamonds
    As by-the-numbers as VCR instructions. And, inexplicably, it's also a blast.
  26. The Green Mile
    A loud and ghastly movie to sit through and not short on gratuitous hideousness, but Darabont has also done his best to baste it with humanity and sweetness.
  27. Miss Julie
    A strong contender for Worst Picture of All Time.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stir of Echoes
    The scares early on are potent and get Stir of Echoes off to a chilly horror-movie start.
  29. Agnes Browne
    Those needing their Irish fix will be satisfied and no doubt will leave the theater in far greater spirits.
  30. The End of the Affair
    Satisfying in its setup and execution, and the Catholic guilt streaked through its dank, rainy atmosphere serves it well. Nonetheless, the story's subtleties in this version are often outweighed by melodrama, sometimes verging on sap.
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