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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Hilary and Jackie
    Neither the stars' harmonious interplay nor director Anand Tucker's insistent urbanity of camera work can disguise that the cello drama is melodrama.
  2. The Faculty
    In a strange way the Williamson of "Dawson's Creek" is now at odds with the sophisticated joker who wrote "Scream."
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Stepmom
    Older and younger movie star snipe and glare at each other with little subtlety, and little chemistry either. The two characters appear to be skirmishing only because they're supposed to by convention.
  4. A Civil Action
    Starts out well, but it turns into an almost perversely undramatic legal thriller.
  5. Patch Adams
    Oooh, this is toxic.
  6. Mighty Joe Young
    Neat as Joe looks, you do wish that someone had bothered to give him a personality.
  7. Down in the Delta
    Roots matter, is Angelou’s Hallmark-style lesson. So for good measure, novice screenwriter Myron Goble also includes an unsubtle subplot about a candelabra that has been in the family since slaves were freed, thereby throwing one more ingredient into this thick dramatic gumbo.
  8. The Theory of Flight
    [A] gimmicky actors' holiday.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    You've Got Mail
    A perfectly enjoyable star vehicle that does exactly what it sets out to do. [7 May 1999, p.66]
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  10. The Prince of Egypt
    Moses was elevating mankind to a place closer to God, but when the Red Sea parts here, the feeling it gives you isn't awe; it's closer to deep impact.
  11. The General
    The General, for all its panache, is ultimately an unsatisfying movie. The reason, I think, is that Boorman’s slightly puerile romanticization of Cahill keeps getting in the way of the reality he’s showing us.
  12. A Simple Plan
    Lean, elegant, and emotionally complex -- a marvel of backwoods classicism.
  13. Star Trek: Insurrection
    That's the moral nut of this highly unexceptional episode, a midlife production in which each Enterprise crew member does his or her vaudeville act.
  14. Shakespeare in Love
    The richest and most satisfying romantic movie of the year. It's really about two great loves at once -- the love of life and of art -- and the way that Shakespeare, like no writer before him, transformed the one into the other.
  15. Rushmore
    Murray, meanwhile, turns in a thrillingly knowing, unforced performance--an award-worthy high point in a career that continues, Max Fischer style, to defy the obvious at every turn.
  16. Jack Frost
    Jack Frost is so treacly and fake it makes you feel like you’re trapped in a winter-wonderland paperweight.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Little Voice
    The movie adaptation suffers the symptoms of so many stage-to-screen transplants: What seemed thrillingly big and bold in live performance comes across shrunken and hemmed in when "opened up" to fill a feature film.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Psycho
    The film is shot in color and includes an amped-up Danny Elfman version of Bernard Herrmann's haunting score.
  19. Home Fries
    Adorable or what?
  20. Very Bad Things
    Peter Berg's scandalous sick-joke thriller is packed with rude and clever twists, and it delves, with surprising force, into the hypocritical postures of corporate-era male bonding. The cast is terrific, especially Christian Slater.
  21. A Bug's Life
    So obsessed with wowing you, in every corner of every frame, that as a movie it doesn't quite breathe.
  22. Babe: Pig in the City
    Don’t miss this astonishingly bleak, inventive, funny, sumptuously designed film.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Waking Ned Devine
    Unfolds with such unforced inevitability that absurdity never condescends to sticky adorableness.
  24. Celebrity
    Allen's canniest hire of all is Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays a bratty, destructive young star, juicing the proceedings with a power surge that subsides as soon as he exits.
  25. Central Station
    A richly tender and moving experience.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rugrats Movie
    The tapes of the TV episodes are in heavy rotation at our house, and the movie is not. And that’s because even a 4-year-old can tell when something has gotten a little too big for its Huggies.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Enemy of the State
    A high-adrenaline, high-concept action thriller that mixes hot-button issues of privacy and surveillance, easy-to-identify good and bad guys, attention-getting stars, and well-choreographed chase scenes.
  28. Meet Joe Black
    Sometimes clever and enjoyable, even touching, yet too often the film makes you feel as if you're in Sunday school.
  29. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
    Lacks even the good, guilty setup of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" -- the sense that the heroes are fleeing the consequences of their own crime.
  30. Velvet Goldmine
    Velvet Goldmine is no masterpiece, but, at its best, it's a ravishing rock dream.
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