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On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. The World Is Not Enough
    The hero himself has been denatured for a young, late 1990s audience with little appreciation for real suavity or sex play.
  2. All About My Mother
    Almodóvar's masterwork, is a spectacular synthesis of everything that has always interested him -- proud women, lovely boys, beautiful drag queens, grand movie stars, gorgeous frocks, wild wallpaper .
  3. Sleepy Hollow
    Little more than a lavish, art-directed slasher movie.
  4. 42: Forty Two Up
    It would be tempting to describe the Up movies as a miracle in the history of nonfiction filmmaking, if they didn't also represent one of the cinema's most singularly squandered opportunities.
  5. Mansfield Park
    The Australian actress Frances O'Connor is a true find. She's as beautiful as the young Barbara Hershey, with a stare that's pensive yet playful, and she puts us in touch with the quiet battle of emotions in Fanny.
  6. Liberty Heights
    But Levinson's passion to explain how he got from there to ''Sphere'' gives Liberty Heights its own farkatke Hollywood integrity.
  7. Anywhere But Here
    What's missing from this by-the-numbers drama is a sense of abandon.
  8. Felicia's Journey
    Like a dowser who can divine hidden sources of water, Atom Egoyan has a talent for locating the dream-state perversity that runs just under the surface of everyday life;
  9. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    There's precious little in Luc Besson's solemnly inflated, battle-weary historical epic.
  10. Dogma
    It's not every day you get to see a movie that begins in satire and ends in reverence, but then, for Kevin Smith, they may ultimately be the same thing.
  11. Light It Up
    As an actor, Raymond is whiny and annoying, but not nearly so much as the film.
  12. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    A dismayingly impersonal piece of anime, genial yet chaotic.
  13. Portraits chinois
    A light romantic do-si-do.
  14. Rosetta
    Rosetta is a character of raw pride in a film of lingering power.
  15. The Bachelor
    The mood is ruined by the bitchy 1990s stereotyping of the husband hunters.
  16. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    Herzog's fascinating, rambling, love-hate documentary about their friendship and creative partnership, and in its discursive, anecdotal way it gets at the essence of one of cinema's indelible crackpots.
  17. American Movie
    A tacit auteur-to-auteur endorsement of the inalienable right to make movies--regardless of talent or sobriety or adult responsibilities--is what gives American Movie its uneasy kick.
  18. The Bone Collector
    A skeleton-thin thriller wrapped in glamorous production values.
  19. The Insider
    A good but far from great movie because it portrays truth telling in America as far more imperiled than it is.
  20. Last Night
    A surreal, elegantly melancholy, and yet witty ensemble story.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    The Suburbans
    By appearing in The Suburbans, a stunningly laugh-free comedy, (Jennifer Love Hewitt)'s already gotten her career-worst movie out of the way.
  22. Music of the Heart
    A sentimental epic that forgets to include the sentiment
  23. The Legend of 1900
    It's usually a good idea to avoid anything billed as ''a fable,'' but The Legend of 1900 offers almost enough merits to warrant an exception
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Princess Mononoke
    Has the effect of making the average Disney film look like just another toy story.
  25. Being John Malkovich
    The most excitingly original movie of the year.
  26. House on Haunted Hill
    Trash, but always just a little creepier than you expect.
  27. Man of the Century
    A premise masquerading as a movie.
  28. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    Let loose in a plot that's surprisingly modern about sex and relationships, Morton gives Eva's torn longings an immediacy that transcends a lot of damp, 1950s rusticated preciousness.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Best Man
    It's a tribute to the actors' appeal that they can sling this hash and keep our sympathies, but they can't squeeze much drama from pure soap.
  30. Three to Tango
    I didn't think Matthew Perry could find a romantic comedy more inert or inane than the 1997 fiasco ''Fools Rush In.''
    • 23 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Bats
    The kind of rote schlocker that rarely makes it to big screens anymore.
  32. Body Shots
    A distasteful zeitgeist cocktail tracking the booze-fueled sexcapades of eight repellent L.A. singles.
  33. La Ciudad (The City)
    In their stark, black-and-white visual style, they are redolent of Italian neorealist cinema or fine muckraking WPA photojournalism.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Crazy in Alabama
    As campy as a flick by Banderas' evident artistic mentor, Pedro Almódovar.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bringing Out the Dead
    Works more in your head than on the screen.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    That's the Way I Like It
    Cute, but there's no movie here -- just a transcultural replication.
  37. Julien Donkey-Boy
    Korine remains unnecessarily smitten with sordidness, and there's plenty of it here.
  38. The Story of Us
    Pungent, funny, and surprisingly forceful.
  39. The Source
    The rare case in which a filmmaker's unadulterated worship of his subjects adds force and resonance--and not just luster--to the way that we see them.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    The Omega Code
    Even Christians hip to TBN preachers' peculiar eschatology may be baffled by the incoherent wrap-up, which provides the stingiest Second Coming since the third ''Omen ''movie.
  41. Joe the King
    So willfully bleak and profanity-filled, it could only have been written and directed by an actor.
  42. The Straight Story
    Lynch's first movie since ''Blue Velvet'' that truly envelops you in its spell. It's a piece of celestial Americana -- his journey to the light side of the moon.
  43. Fight Club
    If, as Fincher has said, this movie is supposed to be funny, then the joke's on us.
  44. Whiteboyz
    Dopey, not dope.
  45. Random Hearts
    Might best be described as bereavement porn.
  46. The Limey
    A small cubist masterpiece about crime and punishment set in that most split-level of environments, Los Angeles.
  47. Superstar
    It barely boasts enough funny material to fill four minutes.
  48. Boys Don't Cry
    It's Swank, however, who's the revelation. By the end, her Brandon/Teena is beyond male or female. It's as if we were simply glimpsing the character's soul, in all its yearning and conflicted beauty.
  49. Molly
    Viewers will never be molly-fied by this tripe.
  50. Plunkett & Macleane
    Watchable in a facile, trashy way. Unfortunately, most of the movie is mired in sludge, slime, mud, blood, and studiously dank cinematography.
  51. Mystery, Alaska
    The enterprise might also be called ''Picket Fences on Ice."
  52. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    A gaily busy kid flick.
  53. Happy, Texas
    A comedy of '90s sexual inclusiveness as effervescent as a cold sody pop -- and about as intoxicating.
  54. Three Kings
    So overstuffed with random fireworks that despite its politics, it's easy to imagine the film getting a four-star rave from Bush or Saddam.
  55. Drive Me Crazy
    Amusing in its very shallowness.
  56. Double Jeopardy
    This toothless thriller...feels like a strained reworking of ''The Fugitive.''
  57. Mumford
    Turns the tricks of psychology into duplicitous high play.
  58. Jakob the Liar
    Of course, there's still the Williams schmaltz factor.
  59. Dog Park
    This shambling romantic comedy...clings to a sensibility that's imperviously, uncompromisingly Canadian.
  60. Simon Sez
    The movie, a shoddy mess, is a bargain-basement rip-off of ''Ronin."
  61. Guinevere
    This patient, perceptive, nonjudgmental love story about age difference is the first to convincingly explain the temporal physics of May-December romances.
  62. Splendor
    It gradually loses wattage. Robertson, however, is a real sparkler.
  63. Sugar Town
    That durable, sexy powerhouse Beverly D'Angelo steals every scene she's in.
  64. Breakfast of Champions
    A movie so unhinged it practically dares you not to hate it.
  65. Lucie Aubrac
    Manages to take great characters and a great plot and leach them of all blood, terror, and excitement.
  66. Get Bruce
    An affectionate puff profile.
  67. Blue Streak
    How lame have high-concept, no-brain comedies gotten?
  68. For Love of the Game
    Costner's determination to avoid change keeps this baseball movie at a low line drive when it might have knocked one into the bleachers.
  69. Romance
    The movie is a footnote as well, a minor reference back to the days when people yearned for a cinema that was serious and erotic at the same time.
  70. American Beauty
    You know you're in the hands of a true filmmaker when you feel invited, at every turn, to share his sense of entrancement. I got that feeling in just about every frame of American Beauty.
  71. The Minus Man
    With no climactic showdown and no comforting revelation of motive or reassuring psychoanalytic diagnosis, the nerve-rattling potential of this sly, paranoia-inducing story may sink in only later.
  72. Earth
    Even blood, spilled so freely, has a distinctive intensity of red in this beautiful and harrowing film.
  73. B. Monkey
    You may roll your eyes a bit at the glib, transparent, indie-grunge romanticism.
  74. Love Stinks
    Rancid, misogynist comedy.
  75. Stigmata
    A crude, silly supernatural thriller.
  76. Best Laid Plans
    An inept low-budget thriller.
  77. Black Cat, White Cat
    A warm embrace of tradition and boisterous, ethnographically rich local culture.
  78. I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
    Just... bad. As in BAD bad.
  79. All the Little Animals
    Where the movie falters is in sustaining the tricky balance between pastoral life lessons and creepy suspense.
  80. Outside Providence
    This unexceptional 1970s coming-of-age story is neither outrageous, new, nor comedic.
  81. Chill Factor
    God-awful?Gooding screams out lines like ''I'm about to get in yo' ass like last year's underwear!''
  82. The Muse
    An embarrassment--a fairy-tale showbiz satire that seems to defang itself, scene by scene.
  83. The Astronaut's Wife
    Nothing but mood... it simply has too few surprises to justify its indulgent atmosphere of malignant revelation.
  84. The Very Thought of You
    Features the dullest, least lifelike collection of pals this side of "Eyes Wide Shut."
    • Entertainment Weekly
  85. A Dog of Flanders
    If you've been longing to see the worst family entertainment of 1966, A Dog of Flanders may be the movie for you.
  86. The 13th Warrior
    The most unexpectedly audacious, exhilarating, wildly creative adventure thriller I've seen in ages.
  87. Dudley Do-Right
    The balance of inspired idiocy to hackneyed buffoonery is out of whack.
  88. In Too Deep
    A weakly scripted shambles.
  89. Mickey Blue Eyes
    Never lets Grant develop his pidgin-Italian nice-guy-gone-sociopath routine.
  90. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    A derisively vicious show-off satire, a plastic exercise in authority bashing.
  91. Universal Soldier: The Return
    Jean-Claude Van Damme's latest dud.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Brokedown Palace
    It's strangely enjoyable to see her(Danes) and Beckinsale busted on a bogus heroin-smuggling rap and thrown in the slammer with bad 'dos and no makeup.
  93. Bowfinger
    Disciplined script -- bitingly funny.
  94. Detroit Rock City
    It's an utterly fake nostalgia piece -- stupid and pandering, a bad-boy teen flick that plays less like a loving look at the late '70s than a terrible movie from the late '70s.
  95. Autumn Tale
    Rohmer treasures the undervalued glories of discourse and the intimacy of conversation over the obviousness of action or sexual display.
  96. Mystery Men
    This hip send-up of the superhero lifestyle has a bunch of great comic bits from a group of great, eccentric talents, but not enough bourgeois discipline to see the story through.
  97. The Thomas Crown Affair
    A romp of romantic larceny built out of spare parts we've seen in countless other films.
  98. The Acid House
    Three stories by the guy who wrote Trainspotting, banged and smashed into a film by Paul McGuigan with none of Trainspotting's charm and all its grotesquerie.
  99. Illuminata
    The production feels self-congratulatory and illuminated only dimly.
  100. The Iron Giant
    At times, The Iron Giant is more serene than it needs to be, but it's a lovely and touching daydream.
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