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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Santitos
    Springall also deftly weaves the film's most dramatic moments with lighthearted comedy, and the result may be Mexico's best film in years.
  2. Isn't She Great
    Lame comic-strip excuse for a biopic.
  3. Eye of the Beholder
    Intriguing for a while, then steadily more confusing and finally just incoherent.
  4. The Boondock Saints
    (Duffy's) assembled a fine cast -- it's hard to take your eyes off the two young leads -- but he's given them little to do but squeeze triggers and mouth platitudes.
  5. Down to You
    One of those puppy-love movies that make you feel like you're slowly drowning.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Wirey Spindell
    The strangeness is sometimes amusing, often showy, and laid on so thick that it's difficult to make the connection.
  7. Supernova
    Given the tainted history of Supernova, it's difficult to figure out where to place blame for either the undernourished screenplay or the moribund action.
  8. Creature
    It's this trip home that lifts this unpolished, homegrown documentary above the ordinary.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Dog Skip
    Adds to the current crop of great kids' fare with a most-welcome old reliable.
  10. Next Friday
    After enduring 30 minutes of awful slapstick, shit jokes, gags revolving around used condoms, cholo caricatures, and women who are all psychos, sluts or Latina fuck-dolls, I walked.
  11. Fantasia 2000
    What's missing from Fantasia 2000 is the shamelessly pandering Disney cutesy that made the original such a full-blooded nostalgic memory.
  12. The Hurricane
    This is the deepest of Jewison's three racially themed films, the other two being "In the Heat of the Night" and "A Soldier's Story."
  13. The Third Miracle
    Harris and Heche are simply electric together, and "Hill Street Blues'" Charles Haid is wonderfully brash as the venal bishop.
  14. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Leuchter is such a riveting, disturbing and finally pathetic character that his story hardly needs embellishing with Morris' fancy visuals and ominous mood music.
  15. Play It to the Bone
    Throws us directly into the ring for one of the most brutal fight scenes in American film.
  16. Titus
    Taymor has done an inspired job of resurrecting one of Shakespeare's unruliest works, just in time for the new century.
  17. Galaxy Quest
    Dean Parisot's direction of the funny, affectionately satirical script by David Howard and Robert Gordon is crisp and assured.
  18. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Although he never matches the book in either brilliance or sheer perversity, Minghella has remained essentially true to his source.
  19. Any Given Sunday
    The director has created a slick, newer-than-new, faster-than-fast entertainment to end all entertainments.
  20. Angela's Ashes
    140 minutes of flat vignette, as dreary and uninvolving as the driving rain that never lets up on the benighted streets of Limerick.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Man on the Moon
    The sort of sick humor even Andy Kaufman would have recognized as well beyond the pale.
  22. Snow Falling on Cedars
    The narrative chronology is so heavily hacked about, its tenses so addled and the material so thinly spread across so many characters, one can scarcely keep it straight in one's head without going cross-eyed.
  23. Girl, Interrupted
    Mangold can't escape the fact that instead of someone in the throes of a genuine existential crisis, his star comes off as -- to paraphrase nurse Whoopi Goldberg -- a spoiled, lazy girl who's afraid to face life.
  24. Topsy-Turvy
    We never seem to be looking at actors, but at people; never at scenes, but at life unrehearsed.
  25. Stuart Little
    It's (Stuart's) utter believability that lets us follow him into the ecstasy of absurdity that is the rest of the film.
  26. Simpatico
    Demands full attention, if only for the pleasure of watching great actors mine Shepard's harsh, beautiful language for all it's worth.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bicentennial Man
    With this desperately eager-to-please fable based on a short story and novel by Isaac Asimov, director Chris Columbus clinches his berth as the master of shiny-happy message movies.
  28. Magnolia
    Part poem, part jungle blossom, all brilliance.
  29. The War Zone
    Roth can obviously direct actors sympathetically, and he paces the movie adroitly.
  30. The Cider House Rules
    It's Tobey Maguire, doing fine, subtle work, who holds it all together -- he puts a human touch to what is otherwise expertly wrought hokum.
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