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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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  1. Universal Soldier: The Return
    A mind-numbing exercise in high body counts and big tits.
  2. Brokedown Palace
    An exploitation flick, but without the thrills or cleavage.
  3. Bowfinger
    A terrifically clever film; has a soft-boilded heart.
  4. The Acid House
    Sympathy is disturbingly cast aside so we can wallow in the pathetic. It’s a bad trip, man.
  5. The Thomas Crown Affair
    An improvement on the original, but that isn't saying much.
  6. Mystery Men
    Mystery Men gives proof that satire isn't dead.
  7. Illuminata
    Very much a fully realized cinematic experience. John Turturro, even if you have to act less, be sure to direct more, and often.
  8. The Iron Giant
    One of the best films of the year thus far.
  9. The Sixth Sense
    Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan lets the tension rise slowly, leads you everywhere you don't expect, doesn't rip you off and totally freaks you out -- all without stale effects or gore.
  10. Dick
    The limp title says it all.
  11. Runaway Bride
    In "Pretty Woman" Roberts played a tough whore with a soft heart. Here, she's a business owner whose sense of self is so tenuous she doesn't even know how she likes her eggs done.
  12. Twin Falls Idaho
    Proves that it's possible for a movie to be reckless and adventurous merely by being sedate, unhurried and contemplative.
  13. Inspector Gadget
    Within a few minutes of the film's frenetic opening set piece, however, it's obvious that director David Kellogg and screenwriters Kerry Ehrin and Zak Penn have no idea how to capture the spirit of the source material.
  14. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    The film means to be a darkly funny look at the perils of winning at all costs, but there's nothing dark and searching about its take.
  15. The Wood
    What feels genuine in the film -- mother-son bonds, the wedding party -- is surrounded by overdetermined and formulaic scenes lifted from other films.
  16. Eyes Wide Shut
    It's good -- when it's not adrift in an absence of meaning.
  17. The Blair Witch Project
    It's a small film whose power is derived from its stripped-down scale.
  18. Lake Placid
    By the end of this mercifully short excuse for a horror movie, you'll be wishing the beast had chowed down on the entire ensemble.
  19. Arlington Road
    Despite its flaws, Arlington Road romps home as an absorbing, unpredictable thriller.
  20. American Pie
    The movie lover in you will recoil; your inner sophomore will rejoice.
  21. Summer of Sam
    Brilliant, goofy, vindictive, incoherent and compassionate, Summer of Sam begins as a work of startling ambition, spins out of control, and finally limps to a bland halt.
  22. Wild Wild West
    The film's gadgetry is pricier, but the leering is strictly the Playboy joke page circa 1967.
  23. The Dinner Game
    The fun is in getting there, and in the mechanics, charted by writer-director Francis Veber.
  24. Big Daddy
    Sander has turned mediocrity into the triumph of the smug.
  25. Tarzan
    Of the many excellent animated features Disney has produced over the past decade, this is the one that feels the freest, and sweetest.
  26. Run Lola Run
    It doesn’t add up to much, which is part of the point as well as the fun, but what makes the film noteworthy is its pure pop adrenaline.
  27. An Ideal Husband
    Parker has boiled An Ideal Husband into a thuddingly unimaginative costume drama laden with frocks, riding crops, servile butlers and very good actors desperately treading water.
  28. The Red Violin
    Audaciously conceived, yet at times curiously flat, at others incongruously prosaic in its emotional tone.
  29. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    A movie that's nearly as good as its publicity campaign.
  30. Instinct
    John Turtletaub directs Gerald DiPego's silly script, pumping it full of sudden shocks and cheap dramatics where there should be steady tension and character development.
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