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For 7,797 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 2.2 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. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  9. 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.
  12. Election
    Alexander Payne's scathing, subtle, and complexly funny tragicomedy builds a perfect, off-kilter universe--it's a first cousin to "Rushmore."
  13. 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.
  16. Go
    The one truly thrilling movie I've seen so far this year.
  17. Never Been Kissed
    Labored miscalculation of a teen-trend comedy.
  18. 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."
  19. 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.
  21. 10 Things I Hate About You
    The film's crank-case snappishness doesn't break any molds, but it certainly gives you a lift.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  26. 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.
  28. 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.
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