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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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    • 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.
  2. Trekkies
    Trekkies is hilarious, fascinating, and, at times, almost scary.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Analyze This
    Crystal turns in his best (read: least sappy) performance in ages, getting through an entire movie -- most of it, anyway -- without mugging.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 200 Cigarettes
    A gaggle of hip actors squander their gifts in this unfunny, out-of-control comedy.
  12. 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.
  13. 8MM
    The whole movie turns into a violent, pointless, torture-or-be-tortured chase.
  14. 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.
  16. Jawbreaker
    A synthetic yet shrill sadomasochistic cartoon.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Blast from the Past
    As pleasantly plastic as its retro-chic sets.
  18. 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.
  19. My Favorite Martian
    Flubber was more edifying than My Favorite Martian — and more fun.
  20. Simply Irresistible
    A tuneless variation on the working girl-captivates-Mr. Big formula that has propelled fairy tales as old as Cinderella.
  21. 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.
  22. 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."
  23. 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?
  24. 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.
  27. Varsity Blues
    The movie is also brisk and wholehearted and smarter than you expect.
  28. At First Sight
    Here's a romance without a spark of excitement.
  29. The Thin Red Line
    An epic aestheticization of World War II, a movie at once bold and baffling, immediate and abstract.
  30. Affliction
    Affliction -- a beautiful bummer, a magnificent feel-bad movie -- is American filmmaking of a most rewarding order.
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