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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. Men in Black II
    Some motion pictures portray ultimate passion; others create ultimate thrills. Men in Black II achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as Whiffle-Ball epic.
  2. Godzilla
    There are some clever and exciting sequences, but this $120 million epic of reconstituted Atomic Age trash lumbers more than it thrills.
  3. Planet of the Apes
    Are there surprises? A couple of big money ones, notably the ludicrous would-be jaw-dropper of a finale.
  4. The Last Castle
    This is, after all, not just Robert Redford. It's Redford in the nobly burnished self-mythologic perfection of his late-middle-aged golden god-ness.
  5. The Majestic
    Maybe this well-loved Luke is who his neighbors want him to be, a good fellow who, with his father, reopens the old movie house in town -- the Majestic -- thus allowing his neighbors to dream in the dark again.
  6. Men in Black
    The aliens aren't particularly scary or funny, and so the joke of watching Smith and Jones crack wise in their faces wears thin.
    • 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.
  8. Shooting Fish
    Wafer-thin, content-light, structure-wobbly, and whimsy-heavy.
  9. End of Days
    Frequently silly, yet eminently more watchable than such leaden Schwarzenegger efforts as ''Eraser.''
  10. I Capture the Castle
    Smith's book is a charmer, but the keys to this ''Castle'' have been misplaced.
  11. Club Dread
    A few gags are brilliantly staged, but most have a smug, collegiate take-it-or-leave-it quality that makes full-on belly laughter feel optional.
  12. The Faculty
    In a strange way the Williamson of "Dawson's Creek" is now at odds with the sophisticated joker who wrote "Scream."
  13. Titus
    Remains a sampling of stagy scenes barreling to a gruesome climax, parts greater than the sum of the whole.
  14. Rugrats Go Wild
    Mildly amusing, but compared to Pixar's splashy fish story, the rudimentary drawings and childish gags of Nickelodeon's latest feature look, in a word, cartoonish.
  15. The Scorpion King
    Isn't incompetent; it's just plodding and obvious. If anything holds it together, it's The Rock's ironic ability to tread lightly, which the movie is neither fast nor inventive enough to recognize as different from the spirit of Arnold.
  16. Agent Cody Banks
    The real mission is product placement, of course: The movie seems to be set against the silvery backdrop of the Sharper Image catalog.
  17. Stir of Echoes
    Offers tricky fragmentation without mystery or mood; it's a mosaic of fear that grows less and less unsettling as it comes together.
  18. Love the Hard Way
    Adrien Brody completists will appreciate Love the Hard Way, if only as an example of the kind of self-conscious, brat-noir projects their man probably won't be doing anymore.
  19. Borstal Boy
    A quaint, romanticized rendering.
  20. The Real Blonde
    Modine, as a morosely self-involved actor, looks as if he's about to strangle someone -- and the movie, an attack on superficiality, never quite makes it out of the shallow end.
  21. What Dreams May Come
    So diaphanous it practically dissolves as you watch it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark City
    It's a little short on coherence and long on comic-book sensationalism -- dig the hokey, climactic Battle of the Minds between the hero and a cadaverous Mr. Big -- but there's no denying the nightmarish pull of the film's aesthetic.
  23. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
    This sloppy, pleasant comedy by playwright and TV producer Robin Schiff (Almost Perfect) is an amiable mess, a padded-out expansion of a play called "Ladies' Room."
  24. Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
    Elegant yet surprisingly remote royal-court drama.
  25. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    A dismayingly impersonal piece of anime, genial yet chaotic.
  26. Spartan
    Just cryptic enough to keep you guessing, and for some viewers that may qualify as a night out. But Mamet's gamesmanship was more fun when it was less eager to look important.
  27. Bamboozled
    Nothing Lee has done is as flashy or as mucked up as Bamboozled.
  28. Beloved
    Winfrey's performance is full of stoic anger, and individual moments have ferocity and pull, yet you're always aware of them as moments.
  29. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    With its ungainly double-deception premise, How to Lose a Guy feels like it was made out of two connect-the-dots drawings laid haphazardly on top of one another.
  30. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    Gentle Bingenheimer, who retreats from being ''figured out,'' is dubiously honored with unenlightened commentary by people hell-bent on doing so.
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