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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. Terror Firmer
    More entrails, more bare bosoms, more R-rated sex, more flatulence, more mayhem, more brutality and more violence. But it adds up to less and less.
  2. Beefcake
    An illuminating and engrossing look at the life and times of pioneer Los Angeles physique photographer Bob Mizer
  3. Music of the Heart
    A lot of heart and a lot of music. It just doesn't sing.
  4. The Legend of 1900
    Tantalizingly structured to intrigue us right from the start.
  5. Speaking in Strings
    An extraordinarily intimate, deeply affecting and revelatory documentary on how pain and passion can come together in a creative artist.
  6. Princess Mononoke
    Amore satisfying use of the medium would be difficult to imagine.
  7. Being John Malkovich
    A clever and outrageous piece of whimsical fantasy that is unique, unpredictable and more than a little strange.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    House on Haunted Hill
    Soon enough, it becomes clear how much this movie disrespects both the audience and the genre.
  9. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    A beautifully articulated and acutely perceptive work with impeccable, carefully shaded performances.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Best Man
    Lee's attempt at making a romantic comedy that black audiences can enjoy without having to reimagine themselves as Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Three to Tango
    Typical of this movie's cluelessness is the way it cavalierly traffics in stereotypes.
  12. Bats
    So uninvolving it scarcely matters what it looks like.
  13. Body Shots
    Constant shifts between past and present and between individual stories creates varying perspectives that add dimension and insight to material that might play tritely if presented in straightforward narrative form.
  14. La Ciudad (The City)
    A most-affecting experience, an impressive accomplishment in all its aspects.
  15. Crazy in Alabama
    The juxtaposition of grim reality and pure fantasy doesn't work...the entire film seem artificial and contrived.
  16. Show Me Love
    A completely charming reality-based romantic fantasy, both sweet-natured and sympathetic, Show Me Love is a leader of the pack.
  17. Bringing Out the Dead
    Dances on the edge of flat-lining just like the DOAs that are Frank's stock-in-trade.
  18. That's the Way I Like It
    A tale that's sweet-natured, funny and surprisingly touching.
  19. Julien Donkey-Boy
    A film of piercing beauty and pain.
  20. The Story of Us
    Wants to be an honest look at the problems that can beset a modern marriage, and be funny at the same time, but it doesn't have the skills or the temperament to pull all that off.
  21. L'ennui
    Such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film.
  22. The Source
    An ambitious and largely successful documentary testimony-tribute to the founders of the so-called Beat movement.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Omega Code
    A hokey doomsday/millennialist thriller.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Joe the King
    Antisentimental to a fault.
  25. The Straight Story
    Too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing.
  26. Defying Gravity
    A straightforward drama done with a maturity and conviction impressive for a first film.
  27. Fight Club
    What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.
  28. New Rose Hotel
    No place for literalists, but Ferrera fans should be pleased with this tale.
  29. Whiteboyz
    Documents accurately the capacity of pop culture to make mongrels of its consumers. But it doesn't quite know (or want to know) what to make of it.
  30. Random Hearts
    The film's underlying concept is so irredeemably screwy and far-fetched that no amount of fine work can hope to make it convincing.
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