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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% 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 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Iron Man 3
    Iron Man 3 is an ominously exciting, shoot-the-works comic-book spectacular.
  2. Alien: Resurrection
    By rocketing ahead 200 years from the previous film and jiggering the story cleverly (with a script by Toy Story coscreenwriter Joss Whedon as late-'90s wiseacreish as Alien3 was early-'90s portentous) to create a Ripley reconstructed through a mix of human and alien DNA, Alien Resurrection power-kicks the whole definition of the Horrifying Other into a fresh, deep, exhilaratingly thoughtful, millennium-sensitive direction. [5 Dec 1997, p. 47]
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  3. Hollywoodland
    The chief frustration of this otherwise well-made, well-acted, well-heeled picture -- a movie classy in its artful modesty, with every detail of plot and period furnishings lovingly conceived, every lick of jazz-influenced score true to the times -- is that it is so very self-absorbedly graceful about something so very insular and...unremarkable.
  4. Executive Decision
    Such a bluntly impersonal thriller that the title might almost be describing the production honcho who greenlighted yet another Die Hard clone.
  5. 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.
  6. Set It Off
    Enough does work, and well, to make Set It Off a valuable model for a new kind of girl-pack story: one that’s not just for girls.
  7. Skin
    A tragic, enraging, and uplifting tale.
  8. 42
    Helgeland works in what I think of as a conservative — or maybe it's just really, really basic — neoclassical Hollywood style, spelling everything out, letting the story unfold in a plainspoken and deliberate fashion, with a big, wide, open pictorial camera eye. It's like the latter-day Clint Eastwood style, applied to material that's as traditional as can be.
  9. Disturbia
    If it's possible to be a rip-off with wit, Disturbia qualifies.
  10. California Solo
    There's a lovely gravity and specificity to the story that transcends instances of bumpy filmmaking.
  11. Jackie Brown
    Each scene is staged methodically, overdeliberately, as if it concealed some payoff zinger. But the zingers don't arrive. All we see is a reasonably clever Elmore Leonard caper that needed to be treated as fast, trashy fun.
  12. Beneath the Harvest Sky
    The film’s first half feels almost as directionless as its characters, but the detailed specificity of the milieu and story proves engrossing.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Saving Shiloh
    Saving Shiloh is like one of those wholesome, old-fashioned films that you used to watch with your third-grade classmates during visits to the library.
  14. Piglet's Big Movie
    A collection of shorts, here presented as flashbacks. All three derive from A.A. Milne's original tales, but retain only a smidgen of his droll, easy-chair wit.
  15. Outside Providence
    This unexceptional 1970s coming-of-age story is neither outrageous, new, nor comedic.
  16. Godzilla
    He doesn't seem too interested in his actors — they're more plodding than their reptilian costars and you don't care about a single one of them — but Edwards does know how to fashion some serious monster mayhem.
  17. Jesus Camp
    As a documentary, Jesus Camp could lose its haunted-house score and contrapuntal Air America refrains and still deliver its message: that, here and elsewhere, fundamentalism is no longer content with a separate peace. It wants the meat.
  18. Wristcutters: A Love Story
    The whole film is cracked, but in a stylish, downtown way.
  19. Jacob's Ladder
    The movie, a piece of luridly baroque metaphysical trash, is about a Vietnam veteran who keeps getting jolted by demonic visions.
  20. Cherry Blossoms
    There's a grace to it all, and moments of oddball poetry.
  21. Killer Joe
    Killer Joe throws down a dare by expecting its audience to be the cool connoisseurs of the story's "comic" outrageousness, then rubbing viewers' faces in close-up scenes of brutality that reasonable people ought not to be able to watch. That up-close experience, however effectively done, is a movie specialty that's its own kind of mean.
  22. Lord of War
    The result is a dead pile of information in search of a movie.
  23. Prelude to a Kiss
    Prelude to a Kiss is squishy yet blah. It teaches the characters a lesson they don’t need to learn.
  24. Dead Man
    The film has barely started, and already we can tell what we're in for -- two hours of metaphysical drift.
  25. Bitter Moon
    Sadly, the movie indicates that Polanski’s erotic narcissism may have consumed not just his life but, by all appearances, his art as well.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The German Doctor
    The family he preys on is a tad too unsuspecting to be believable, but the film still hits notes of deep tension. And the cast is superb, especially Àlex Brendemühl as the “Angel of Death” himself.
  27. A Jazzman's Blues
    [Perry] also has a way of making even the most telegraphed twists and overheated dialogue ring with conviction, a consummate entertainer to the end.
  28. White Fang
    Despite some splendid snowcapped vistas and one rather frightening grizzly-bear attack, White Fang, a loose adaptation of Jack London’s classic novel is dramatically inert. Nothing in the picture really takes hold — certainly not the relationship between young Jack (Ethan Hawke) and White Fang, who seem like near-strangers even at the final clinch.
  29. Begin Again
    "Once" was a small and well-loved heirloom, its imperfections part of the charm. But Begin Again has been burnished to a shiny dullness.
  30. The Year of the Yao
    A skillful and winning piece of honest booster portraiture.
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