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For 16,532 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,702 out of 16532
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16532
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16532
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  1. Grass
    This turns out to be an informative, involving, even sobering advocacy film.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Better Living Through Circuitry
    Circuitry plugs into the underground world of raves. The scene, complete with drugs and its own culture, is blissfully examined in a documentary that speaks the language of its youthful generation.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Passion of Mind
    Like a hall of mirrors, casting back at us distorted images from other movies. It even calls to mind "The Sixth Sense." It isn't engaging in the least.
  4. 8 ½ Women
    A nod to Fellini--and that "half" turns out to be a typically dark Greenaway twist. Yet this film, one of Greenaway's most amusing and accessible, actually arrives at moments of tenderness, even love, fleeting though they may be.
  5. Shanghai Noon
    Jackie Chan's best American picture to date, breathes fresh life into the virtually dormant comedy-western.
  6. Kikujirô no natsu
    A heart-tugger made totally irresistible because of the combination of Kitano's wry, sly sense of humor and his rigorous detachment.
  7. Mission: Impossible II
    The power of film to irrationally transform and exalt is almost a religion to Woo, and another reason why he was the natural go-to guy for this lucrative movie franchise.
  8. Luminous Motion
    What counts here is the acute psychological validity with which Gordon evokes a coming of age that's seen with a darkly outrageous sense of humor--and no small amount of compassionate detachment.
  9. Small Time Crooks
    Handsome as all Allen films are, and it proceeds with the brisk, sophisticated air of throwaway confidence and lack of pretense that we expect from the contemporary master of grown-up comedy.
    • Los Angeles Times
  10. Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
    Unnecessary and silly.
    • Los Angeles Times
  11. Dinosaur
    A technical amazement that points computer-generated animation toward the brightest of futures, it's also cartoonish in the worst way, the prisoner of pedestrian plot points and childish, too-cute dialogue.
    • Los Angeles Times
  12. Held Up
    A pleasant diversion, and its makers have been smart enough to keep it unpretentious.
  13. Coming Soon
    It's amazing how boring endless talk about more and better orgasms can become.
  14. Kadosh
    Gitai has created a film that is as beautiful as it is all but unbearable to watch.
  15. Center Stage
    Only really kicks in when it is dancing, which is about half the time.
  16. Hamlet
    Almereyda imagines Hamlet taking place in present-day Manhattan with such vigor, insight and originality that the power and immediacy of his film makes Shakespeare accessible in an exciting and provocative manner beyond all expectations.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Compounded by a dated visual style, patched-together special effects and ludicrous dialogue, Battlefield Earth is a wholly miserable experience.
  18. Gladiator
    Like an aging athlete who knows how to husband strength and camouflage weaknesses, it makes the most of what it does well and hopes you won't notice its limitations.
  19. Luminarias
    Consistently entertaining and offers some sharp observations of the Latino experience.
  20. La Nouvelle Ève
    A beautiful film that flows with a luminous ease and assurance.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Basket
    It may be a hard sell to the Gameboy generation, but The Basket has charms that may be more evident to adults.
  22. I Dreamed of Africa
    This is a Laura Ashley on Safari meditation on bored rich people searching for fulfillment and a new life among the photogenic wildlife of Kenya. Just wake me when it's over.
  23. Up at the Villa
    The melodrama of the Maugham original is too simplistic to involve, and the places the film's plot goes are so obvious that even the presence of quality actors can't create sufficient interest.
  24. Adorenarin doraibu
    A rip-roaring romantic comedy that's as funny as it is light on its feet.
  25. Human Traffic
    There's an underlying emptiness to Human Traffic and it's difficult to say for sure whether Kerrigan fully acknowledges it.
  26. Michael Jordan to the Max
    Made with such verve and clarity that you don't have to be a basketball fan to enjoy it.
    • Los Angeles Times
  27. The Idiots
    The group's intent is not to insult those physically or mentally challenged in any manner of degree but, rather, to disturb middle-class types as much as they possibly can.
  28. Frequency
    After keeping its balance over much treacherous terrain, greedily overreaches and stumbles badly at the close.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    It feels more like a cartoon, and when you're dealing with modern Stone Age families, that can only be a plus.
  30. Bossa Nova
    Tilts toward the slight and merely pleasant when it could have had much more emotional impact.
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