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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. The Sixth Sense
    It's a psychological thriller that actually thrills.
  2. Dick
    A gaily funny, shrewdly inventive satire.
  3. Twin Falls Idaho
    A quietly dazzling microcosm that's always just this side of eerie, just that side of tragic.
  4. Runaway Bride
    The difference between "Pretty Woman" and Runaway Bride is that we can no longer buy Roberts in her tearful romantic-melancholy mode. It seems vaguely patronizing now.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Deep Blue Sea
    How refreshing: a big-budget, F/X-happy action flick that actually appears to be intentionally stupid.
  6. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    A cheap cut-glass tiara of a booby prize goes to Drop Dead Gorgeous for messing up so utterly.
  7. Inspector Gadget
    The image of this kitchen-magician dream robot comes at us in little jolts and spasms that have the zappy, self-contained rhythm of a fast-food tie-in commercial.
  8. The Haunting
    The scariest thing about The Haunting is how awful it is. No, worse than awful: desperate. It’s a horror flick afraid of its own audience, as lost in its own geography as the fictional film crew in The Blair Witch Project.
  9. Lake Placid
    Instead of rooting for Pullman and Fonda, we end up praying that the crocodile is hungry enough to put them out of their misery.
  10. The Wood
    A genial story of friendship among three young African-American men that gets far on charm even when the cinema technique falters and stalls.
  11. Eyes Wide Shut
    The director's famously over-deliberate, pause-laden style verges, for the first time, on amateurville, and that gives us too much time to linger on the movie's more bizarre details.
  12. The Blair Witch Project
    As a horror picture, Blair Witch may not be much more than a cheeky game, a novelty with the cool, blurry look of an avant-garde artifact. But as a manifestation of multimedia synergy, it's pretty spooky.
  13. Muppets from Space
    The Muppets were once devilish and sly, but this ploddingly whimsical musical caper, which uses too many ’70s soul songs to signify its rainbow-demographic cred, is enough to make you want to see them get slapped around by the Teletubbies (at this point, a far funkier crew).
  14. Arlington Road
    Slippery issues about trust, parental responsibility, and the inalienable American right to personal and political freedom are ceded to Hollywood's inalienable right to stage high-pitched chase scenes and a shocking big finish.
  15. American Pie
    A lively, disposable hybrid of the sincere and the synthetic.
  16. Summer of Sam
    Spike Lee noisily attempts to place the hunt for real-life serial killer David Berkowitz at the center of a hotheaded sociological fantasy linking disco glitz, punk rebellion, ethnic insularity, sexual craving, and sizzling heat into one rattling chain of urban hysteria.
  17. Wild Wild West
    The fusion of cheekiness and deliberately overscaled fantasy never jells.
  18. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Turns out to be the funniest, most risk-taking, most incisive movie of the summer.
  19. The Dinner Game
    Veteran French farceur Francis Veber proves that feature-length idiot humor is not limited to the Farrelly brothers.
  20. Big Daddy
    Much of Big Daddy looks like it was made up on the spot, but Sandler, with his bad-dog eagerness to get caught in the act of misbehaving, pulls you through it.
  21. Tarzan
    One of the great virtues of Disney's most elegant animated ''classic'' in years is how blessedly sermon-free this zippy, dignified retelling of Edgar Rice Burroughs' ripping 1914 yarn is.
  22. Run Lola Run
    An existential chain reaction, yet as remarkable as his cinematic gamesmanship is the way that he traces the anatomy of feeling in Lola.
  23. The General's Daughter
    The plot is a nonsensical mess -- which just caps off the ugliness.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Red Violin
    Carefully crafted, lushly romantic.
  25. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    As a character, Austin Powers hasn't worn out his welcome, exactly, but he has outlived his novelty.
  26. Buena Vista Social Club
    What the film leaves unexplained is how this joyous musical outpouring, which predated the revolution, could fare under a system with a pathological distrust of beauty.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Instinct
    Never mind that the film's portrayal of the mentally ill is on a par with "There's Something About Mary" -- the clumsy moral that we were all better off as hunters and gatherers couldn't be sillier.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Thirteenth Floor
    So what is real? Only the boredom of the audience as the film collapses from one meaningless false-bottom environment to the next.
  29. Notting Hill
    Blithe and exhilarating romantic comedy.
  30. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    It's one of those woozy Jungian art jobs, a series of elliptical, nearly wordless vignettes that are meant to strike a universal symbolist chord. Director Mike Figgis frames the movie with his baroquely contemporary documentary-like version of the Fall.
  31. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    Fails to recapture the elemental magic of Star Wars, and that, ironically, is because it represents the coarse culmination of the original film's adrenaline aesthetic.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Kline turns in a bravura performance -- he's one of the few in this star-packed cast who actually knows what to do with Shakespeare's poetry.
  33. Tea with Mussolini
    The film values quips and declamations over natural conversation (or an explanation of how such intelligent women could have been so blind to world events).
  34. After Life
    The simplicity and poignancy of the choices — riding a bus, swinging on a swing — and the great variety of interviewees result in a film of nonsticky freshness, as well as unforced profundity.
  35. The Mummy
    There is much to look at--it's like spending two hours in Michael Jackson's Undead Neverland--but not a lot at stake.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Idle Hands
    Let us now praise Seth ''Scott Evil'' Green, whose beautiful delivery of otherwise generic wisecracks is all that stands between this painfully derivative horror comedy and a premature date with the eject button.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Winslow Boy
    This genteel period piece invites a typically Mametian tension between its characters' stylized manners and their underlying motivations.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Entrapment
    This is one sexy and satisfyingly twisty dance.
  39. Pushing Tin
    Makes you wish that Newell and company had had the gumption to finish what they so enticingly started.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Lost & Found
    Long on smarm and short on charm.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    eXistenZ
    Typically icky and unusually witty.
  42. Election
    Alexander Payne's scathing, subtle, and complexly funny tragicomedy builds a perfect, off-kilter universe--it's a first cousin to "Rushmore."
  43. Life
    Life desperately wants to let Murphy and Lawrence be actors, but it can't imagine them as anything more than rowdy showmen. That's a kind of prison as well.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    SLC Punk!
    For a while, angry young Stevo (Lillard) turns his quest for total anarchy into a grungy, giddy, randomly violent rave. Then reality creeps up and, well, it bites.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Shuang long hui
    Chan hams it up throughout -- to little avail -- but the final brawl should please fans of his balletic action sequences, that is, if they can endure the full hour of silliness before it.
  46. Go
    The one truly thrilling movie I've seen so far this year.
  47. Never Been Kissed
    Labored miscalculation of a teen-trend comedy.
  48. Metroland
    It's the rare portrait of a happy marriage that is honest about the complex currents of desire, and the drama is beautifully played by Bale, who gawks with soulful sweetness, and Watson, who does her most piercing work since "Breaking the Waves."
  49. Cookie's Fortune
    In theaters, the lazy haziness of this Southern ensemble comedy made the story feel like it was stuck in the mud.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Out-of-Towners
    Don't hate yourself for chuckling at this sweetly anachronistic update of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy.
  51. 10 Things I Hate About You
    The film's crank-case snappishness doesn't break any molds, but it certainly gives you a lift.
  52. The Matrix
    The real soullessness here is built into the production, a polished adaptation of Hong Kong-style filmmaking that, with its cast of depressive characters, allows for little Hong Kong-style joy.
  53. Edtv
    The fact that Ed's life has been channeled into entertainment never achieves much tension or comic zest. That's because Howard thinks in cookie-cutter ''situations'' to begin with.
  54. The Mod Squad
    Presents undercover law enforcement less as a profession than as an accessory, an excuse to pout and glower chicly, to stand around in nightclubs acting like a sullen version of the Last American Rebel.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    A Walk on the Moon
    The tone of this tale is more easy-listening than acid rock.
  56. Forces of Nature
    The movie has the structure of a madcap romantic chase without the wiggy, busting-out freedom.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Ravenous
    Oddball period tale of cannibalistic shenanigans.
  58. The King and I
    It's a puzzlement how so many pros could have so wrecked one of the most beloved, hummably familiar movie musicals in the Rodgers and Hammerstein repertoire.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    True Crime
    Woefully misconceived reporter-saves-innocent-man-from-execution cheese grater.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    The effects are laughably primitive, the dialogue hilariously atrocious -- and those are the good parts.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Deep End of the Ocean
    If the film was less than satisfying as a big-screen event, it's still worth renting for Pfeiffer, who valiantly portrays the devastating complexities of grief and guilt.
  62. Trekkies
    Trekkies is hilarious, fascinating, and, at times, almost scary.
  63. The Rage: Carrie 2
    Emily Bergl plays the misfit heroine -- pale Goth grrrl Rachel Lang -- with a nicely sulky empathy, equal parts hurt and hope.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Baby Geniuses
    The worst movie of 1999.
  65. The Corruptor
    Beneath The Corruptor's explosive body count is a rock-solid, visually slick crime thriller set in the squalid netherworld of Manhattan's Chinatown.
  66. Analyze This
    Crystal turns in his best (read: least sappy) performance in ages, getting through an entire movie -- most of it, anyway -- without mugging.
  67. Cruel Intentions
    Never shocks or even offends by ascribing fully adult cruelties and erotic activities to obnoxious kids; such harshness wouldn't flatter a cast this moussed and magazine-layout-ready.
  68. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    The film's lures, while undeniable, are synthetic, and we never do learn what fuels all the greed besides pints of beer.
  69. The School of Flesh
    Jacquot economically conveys the small, painful sacrifices both lovers -- but particularly the woman -- must make, and the constant, ongoing negotiations of power required to maintain no-strings freedom.
  70. 20 Dates
    Raging ego aside, the penny-ante hucksterism of his I'm-going-on-dates-to-get-famous-making-a-movie-about-dates approach is too cloying and opportunistic to bear.
  71. 200 Cigarettes
    A gaggle of hip actors squander their gifts in this unfunny, out-of-control comedy.
  72. The Other Sister
    Still, there's no mistaking the central message: Slow people have much to teach us. Or is it: Slow people -- aren't they funny? Either way, it's pretty vile stuff.
  73. 8MM
    The whole movie turns into a violent, pointless, torture-or-be-tortured chase.
  74. Office Space
    Feels cramped and underimagined. I think Judge is capable of making an inspired live-action comedy, but next time he'll have to remember to do what he does in his animated ones--keep the madness popping.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    October Sky
    Duller than rocket science and more reliant on formulas.
  76. Jawbreaker
    A synthetic yet shrill sadomasochistic cartoon.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Blast from the Past
    As pleasantly plastic as its retro-chic sets.
  78. Message in a Bottle
    On paper, the movie sounds unbearably schlocky, but Costner plays Garret the reluctant backcountry prince as mythic but also foxy and life size.
  79. My Favorite Martian
    Flubber was more edifying than My Favorite Martian — and more fun.
  80. Simply Irresistible
    A tuneless variation on the working girl-captivates-Mr. Big formula that has propelled fairy tales as old as Cinderella.
  81. Payback
    Payback is a thriller so mean and degraded it carries a low-down, vicious charge. Sadism is its only real subject, and its only real life as well.
  82. She's All That
    The two stars are like cool kids pretending to be tortured poets pretending to be cool. Neither can match the screen presence — the shameless self-infatuated ebullience — of Matthew Lillard, who does a wickedly grotesque turn as Brock Hudson, a kind of goggle-eyed Puck manqué in the film's dead-on send-up of "The Real World."
  83. Gloria
    Stone's latest penance is Gloria, the Sidney Lumet-directed dud that sprung from the singularly bad idea of remaking John Cassavetes' oddball 1980 character study. I mean, really, did anyone even like the original?
  84. Children of Heaven
    The plot feels less like a realistic dilemma than it does a willed exercise in neorealist catharsis — a way of inviting Western audiences to bask in their materialist ”empathy.”
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Playing by Heart
    With relationship patter that sounds like acting-class exercises, almost none of these stories feel true.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Virus
    The pathogenic agent to fear, however, is the one that evidently turned every line of dialogue into inane gibberish.
  87. Varsity Blues
    The movie is also brisk and wholehearted and smarter than you expect.
  88. At First Sight
    Here's a romance without a spark of excitement.
  89. The Thin Red Line
    An epic aestheticization of World War II, a movie at once bold and baffling, immediate and abstract.
  90. Affliction
    Affliction -- a beautiful bummer, a magnificent feel-bad movie -- is American filmmaking of a most rewarding order.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Hilary and Jackie
    Neither the stars' harmonious interplay nor director Anand Tucker's insistent urbanity of camera work can disguise that the cello drama is melodrama.
  92. The Faculty
    In a strange way the Williamson of "Dawson's Creek" is now at odds with the sophisticated joker who wrote "Scream."
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Stepmom
    Older and younger movie star snipe and glare at each other with little subtlety, and little chemistry either. The two characters appear to be skirmishing only because they're supposed to by convention.
  94. A Civil Action
    Starts out well, but it turns into an almost perversely undramatic legal thriller.
  95. Patch Adams
    Oooh, this is toxic.
  96. Mighty Joe Young
    Neat as Joe looks, you do wish that someone had bothered to give him a personality.
  97. Down in the Delta
    Roots matter, is Angelou’s Hallmark-style lesson. So for good measure, novice screenwriter Myron Goble also includes an unsubtle subplot about a candelabra that has been in the family since slaves were freed, thereby throwing one more ingredient into this thick dramatic gumbo.
  98. The Theory of Flight
    [A] gimmicky actors' holiday.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    You've Got Mail
    A perfectly enjoyable star vehicle that does exactly what it sets out to do. [7 May 1999, p.66]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  100. The Prince of Egypt
    Moses was elevating mankind to a place closer to God, but when the Red Sea parts here, the feeling it gives you isn't awe; it's closer to deep impact.
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