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For 16,534 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: 8,704 out of 16534
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16534
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16534
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  1. The Closer You Get
    A droll, hearty Irish comedy with a serious undertow all the more effective for its unexpected candor and depth.
  2. Wonder Boys
    A handsomely mounted, graceful production that is well-played across the board.
  3. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    Aviva Kempner's warm and intelligent mash note to a man who clearly deserved it.
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  4. Beautiful People
    Lives up to its ambitiousness in all its aspects.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Boiler Room
    Tries to make larger points, but it trips over itself just trying to make the small ones.
  6. Hanging Up
    All the ingredients of a success--a stellar cast, a promising premise, a strong production team--but nothing comes together in satisfying fashion.
  7. The Whole Nine Yards
    A peppy affair that works in fits and starts but is unable to put its successful moments together in any consistently satisfying way.
  8. Not One Less
    Has a warmth and sweetness that is especially hard to resist.
  9. Pitch Black
    A routine sci-fi/horror action-adventure, takes us where we've been countless times before.
  10. Cotton Mary
    Not only is it Merchant's best directorial effort to date but also is among the finest films the Merchant Ivory company has ever made.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Snow Day
    Isn't for teens, it's for the kids who aspire to be teens.
  12. The Tigger Movie
    Parents and older siblings...may grow impatient with the uneven execution that weakens the genuine charm the film sporadically exhibits.
  13. The Beach
    As (DiCaprio's) character heads for The Beach's predictable heart of darkness denouement, only die-hard fans will have the heart to tag along.
  14. Knockout
    This story of an East L.A. Latina determined to follow in her father's footsteps to the boxing ring does pack a punch.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gun Shy
    What use is journeyman acting, quality set design and a kicky, eclectic score in a movie that's so ineptly scripted?
  16. Scream 3
    Genuinely scary and also highly amusing.
  17. The Cup
    Charming, slyly comic and far from conventionally religious.
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Eye of the Beholder
    It isn't insultingly bad; it's just incompetent.
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Grizzly Falls
    Cinematographer Thom Best never captures the glory of the Canadian Rockies, and the uncredited editing is jarring and unconvincing in key action sequences.
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  20. Isn't She Great
    Ah, what glorious casting!
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  21. Santitos
    Has the same kind of humor, charm and sensuality that made "Like Water for Chocolate" the most popular foreign-language film until "Life Is Beautiful" came along.
  22. The Big Tease
    A cheerful and smart mock documentary about hairdressing and Hollywood that knows enough not to take itself too seriously.
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
    Richly imagined, gracefully written and delicately realized. [10 Mar 2001, p.F15]
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  24. Down to You
    The best the makers of Down to You can hope for is that girls in their early teens--clearly the film's target audience--will be so carried away by its charismatic stars that they'll overlook the film's various flaws.
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  25. Wirey Spindell
    May be too heady for some tastes but can stir you deeply, if you're open to it.
  26. Supernova
    Supernova isn't so super.
  27. My Dog Skip
    A standard-issue Hollywood family film about a boy and his dog growing up in a Southern small town during World War II.
  28. Next Friday
    There is plenty of nasty patter and aimless jokes about hard-core sex, soft-core drugs, dog feces and flatulence to keep you occupied while you wait, in vain, for any reason to laugh out loud.
  29. Fantasia 2000
    Grainy as it looks in its massive Imax blowup, Mickey's misadventures with water and a broom still have the kind of magic even modern technology can't always manage.
  30. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
    An exciting, upbeat film, but not a very impressive example of the animator's art. [01 Feb 1989, p.8]
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