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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Mars Attacks!
    In its nothing's-quite-at-stake way, Mars Attacks! has Tim Burton's flaked-out spirit -- it makes you feel like a very knowing 8-year-old, seeing through the artifice yet believing in it at the same time.
  2. Twelve Monkeys
    As the jabbering psychotic Jeffrey Goines, Brad Pitt has a rabid, get-a-load-of-me deviousness that works for the film's central mystery: We can't tell where the fanatic leaves off and the put-on artist begins.
  3. Step Into Liquid
    Even from the safety of a movie seat, you can just about feel the stinging hardness of the surf. Blue crush? This is more like white smash.
  4. Lost in La Mancha
    Nothing more than a modest, streamlined ''making of...'' diary about a movie that never got made -- it's ''Project Greenlight'' with bigger stars and bigger disasters.
  5. Below
    In the handsome, haunting submarine thriller Below, the usual perils of deep-sea maneuvers are heightened by psychic unraveling.
  6. Slums of Beverly Hills
    Slums of Beverly Hills has the kind of big heart, strong voice, vivid look, and original sense of humor many young artists -- particularly young female artists -- don't find until they're riper, and some never find at all.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Amistad
    Becomes a too-stately courtroom drama, with the Africans in the dock, the issue of slavery on trial at didactic length, and the top-billed Morgan Freeman as an abolitionist shunted to the sidelines with too little to do. [26 Jun 1998, p. 130]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  8. The Rules of Attraction
    The cast is a pitch-perfect assemblage of pretty young things, but James Van Der Beek, as a slit-eyed dorm stud, proves that he can be an actor of cruel force.
  9. The X Files
    Dark, funny, paranoid, arbitrary, humming with tamped-down eroticism and in love with all things weird: That's the good news.
  10. The Legend of Drunken Master
    May be the most kick ass demonstration yet, for the majority of American moviegoers, of what the fuss is all about.
  11. Out of Time
    Entertainingly deft sleight-of-hand thriller.
  12. The Company
    The key to The Company is the quiet, focused rapture of Neve Campbell, who formally trained in ballet and performed all of her on-screen dances. The tranquil delight she takes in her body becomes its own eloquent form of acting.
  13. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Packs appeal for both kids and parents.
  14. Winged Migration
    Mesmerizing.
  15. The Eye
    Part supernatural thriller, part Oliver Sacks-style meditation on the neurological mysteries of perception, and part Buddhist treatise on reincarnation, the story luxuriates in shadows.
  16. Adorenarin doraibu
    Clever, laid-back.
  17. Palmetto
    Palmetto has a satisfyingly deceptive plot that ultimately takes one too many turns.
  18. The Negotiator
    The Negotiator, once it gets going (there's a rather lengthy prosaic setup), is a satisfyingly tense and booby-trapped thriller about the meeting of two relentless minds.
  19. X2: X-Men United
    X2 sparkles with a lightness of spirit that was missing from ''X-Men.''
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    The result has the dingy grace of pigeons flying across an urban wasteland.
  21. Hannibal
    Hannibal lacks the rounded emotional elegance of ''The Silence of the Lambs'' (that was a great film; this one is merely good).
  22. Ghosts of the Abyss
    Cameron wants to take the audience ''back to 'Titanic,''' but the journey's magic is hemmed in, paradoxically, by the transcendence of his previous effort; surely he must know that a lot of us never left.
  23. Orange County
    Arriving amid the traditionally withered harvest of January releases, Orange County is peachy.
  24. Solomon & Gaenor
    A "Romeo and Juliet" tragedy of surprising power.
  25. Sweet and Lowdown
    Allen draws a snappy, loose-limbed performance from Penn.
  26. Punch-Drunk Love
    Deeply rich and strange new romantic comedy.
  27. Tupac: Resurrection
    It's no insult to Tupac to say that he was gangsta rap's greatest matinee idol, or that he lived the part only too well.
  28. He Got Game
    As is often the case with Lee, though, the film left me wishing for even more scenes of casual intimacy, still the most powerful way to carry any message.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The War of the Roses
    DeVito doesn't hesitate to send the camera anywhere to goose the humor.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  30. Starship Troopers
    The movie is sensationally exciting, but its hey-kids-let s-put-on-a-war! story line plays like Beverly Hills, 90210 recast as a military-recruitment film for the Third Reich.
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