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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. High Fidelity
    A sharp and satisfying romantic comedy.
  2. Beau Travail
    A ruggedly beautiful landscape of desert and sea provides a dramatic setting for a psychological drama told with the utmost rigor--and unabashed eroticism.
  3. The Color of Paradise
    As worthy and moving as The Color of Paradise is, it is not entirely free of the manipulative, the arbitrary and the downright punitive.
  4. Here on Earth
    Just the ticket for girls in their early teens.
  5. Buddy Boy
    Production notes for Mark Hanlon's Buddy Boy describe it as "a dark and twisted exploration of faith, alienation and madness"--and is it ever!
  6. Whatever It Takes
    It's guys like Floyd who make a movie like Whatever It Takes feel like high school. And the rest of the losers make it feel like a movie.
  7. Such a Long Journey
    A thoughtful but uneven film.
  8. Waking the Dead
    It is a film of uncommon intelligence and rigor that illuminates a complex era, and the romance at its center is also one of exceptional passion and honesty.
  9. Winter Sleepers
    Offers a riveting depiction of the classic collision of fate and character, with geography in this instance playing a crucial role.
  10. Romeo Must Die
    Has a great look and an edgy feel, along with some broad swaths of humor.
    • Los Angeles Times
  11. Erin Brockovich
    Irresistible, hugely satisfying feminist fairy tale.
  12. Final Destination
    A terrific theatrical feature debut for television veterans Glen Morgan and James Wong.
  13. Beyond the Mat
    Connects the antics of professional wrestlers with their lives out of the ring with such compassion, humor and perception that the result is utterly captivating.
  14. Soft Fruit
    Asks us to spend 101 minutes with people most of us wouldtake pains to avoid in real life.
  15. Deterrence
    Lurie undermines his high-wire act with the melodramatic carryings-on of the diner patrons.
  16. Mission to Mars
    It's a wonderful piece of filmmaking, but once any mouth is opened the magic is immediately tarnished.
  17. The Ninth Gate
    Lacking noticeable energy or drive, its almost visceral distaste for dramatic momentum is puzzling, especially in a film about the black arts.
  18. Condo Painting
    Has an edgy feel and a knockout soundtrack.
  19. The Next Best Thing
    A misguided romantic serio-comedy aimed at women and gay men that ends up caricaturing both.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    It's a nearly pitch-perfect melding of genres, influences and modes of expression--it's the first Mafia movie for the hip-hop age.
  21. Drowning Mona
    With a hilarious script and capable cast, the film puts a clever spin on the everyone-is-a-suspect plot.
  22. What Planet Are You From?
    Sporadically funny, often strange and almost never poignant.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    3 Strikes
    The bad news is that it's also vile, not to mention sophomoric and unfunny.
    • Los Angeles Times
  24. Judy Berlin
    A comedy of the most delicately balanced perfection.
  25. Brown's Requiem
    An uncommonly satisfying private-eye mystery that is at once classic in form and deeply personal in feeling.
  26. Mifune's Last Song
    A pow-in-the-kisser kind of movie.
  27. Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    A wonder several times over.
  28. Reindeer Games
    Its twisty film noir world of down-on-their-luck men and unfathomable women is vintage B-picture material, but, in the grand B tradition, the games it plays are more ambitious than successful.
  29. The Closer You Get
    A droll, hearty Irish comedy with a serious undertow all the more effective for its unexpected candor and depth.
  30. Wonder Boys
    A handsomely mounted, graceful production that is well-played across the board.
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