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For 16,531 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 16531
  2. Mixed: 5,812 out of 16531
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16531
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  1. Blue Streak
    (Lawrence) has every right to be proud of carrying this rickety film on his stooped shoulders.
  2. For Love of the Game
    Those who have even a small soft spot for baseball's soothing rhythms will be hard-pressed to resist it.
  3. Romance
    As pretentious as it is hard-core specific, this fiercely anti-erotic film makes even the chilly "Eyes Wide Shut" play like "The Big Easy."
  4. American Beauty
    A blood-chilling dark comedy with unexpected moments of both fury and warmth, a strange, brooding and very accomplished film that sets us back on our heels from its opening frames.
  5. The Minus Man
    Eerie, quietly compelling... a fresh and mesmerizing experience...such an unsettling experience you find yourself still taking it all in well after the lights have gone up.
  6. Earth
    Telling things through the eyes of a spoiled, precocious, troublemaking 8-year-old narrator is both an overdone device and not a particularly engaging one.
  7. B. Monkey
    As skilled, resourceful actors, (Argento and Harris) make...a more believable couple than you would have thought possible.
  8. Love Stinks
    Low comedy doesn't get any lower than Love Stinks.
  9. Stigmata
    Essentially a late-'90s MTV version of "The Exorcist," a half-serious, half-silly piece of business that keeps us involved despite (or maybe because of) being more than a little overdone.
  10. Best Laid Plans
    A fine mood piece with lots of atmosphere and boasts terrific performances from its stars.
  11. Black Cat, White Cat
    Kusturica works marvels with his endlessly amusing cast, and his film has an appealingly free and easy tone.
  12. All the Little Animals
    There's something plodding and uncomfortably strident about Little Animals that keeps the audience from sharing, much less understanding, Bobby's enchantment.
  13. Outside Providence
    Corrente's gift for evoking the lives of blue-collar men that made his debut film, "Federal Hill," so appealing blends perfectly with the antic sensibility of the Farrellys.
  14. Chill Factor
    Melts swiftly...don't expect a shred of credibility.
  15. The Muse
    The sharpest inside Hollywood comedy in quite a while.
  16. The Astronaut's Wife
    A moderately diverting thriller that builds suspense and entertains effectively... strongest selling point is Charlize Theron.
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  17. The Very Thought of You
    Glowing, amusing movie that's a good bet to lift your spirits.
  18. A Dog of Flanders
    This is a movie for younger children -- they won't notice that the children deliver their lines with all the conviction of an airline flight boarding announcement.
  19. The 13th Warrior
    Thinking too much about the contents will ruin what little pleasure there is in the experience.
  20. Dudley Do-Right
    Tiresome, inept farce that's not even a fraction as clever or entertaining as it likes to imagine it is -- a complete waste of time.
  21. In Too Deep
    Script resounds throughout with astringent dialogue and stark authenticity.
  22. Mickey Blue Eyes
    With preposterously convoluted plot twists, not even Grant is enough to make us smile all the way through the end.
    • Los Angeles Times
  23. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    In his knockout directorial debut writer Kevin Williamson taps into such universal memories with his shrewd and energetic dark comedy.
  24. Universal Soldier: The Return
    Sleek...This is one "return" that's surely welcome.
    • Los Angeles Times
  25. Perfect Blue
    Adapted by Sadayuki Murai from Yoshikazu Takeuchi's novel, "Perfect Blue" creates an increasingly terrifying world and pulls you into it with the effectiveness of a Hitchcock suspense classic. [07 Oct 1999, p.F16]
    • Los Angeles Times
  26. Brokedown Palace
    Just another lurid, contrived, xenophobic tale about Americans trapped in hideous foreign prisons.
  27. Bowfinger
    Has it's share of downtime.
    • Los Angeles Times
  28. Detroit Rock City
    This aggressively stupid film is merely business as usual, a compendium of all the current obsessions and fixations that make so many of these films such unhappy experiences.
  29. Better Than Chocolate
    Even though you could wish that Better Than Chocolate was a little more substantially developed, it nonetheless brims over with good humor and high spirits and has some moments of stunning yet tasteful eroticism. [13 Aug 1999, p.F10]
    • Los Angeles Times
  30. Autumn Tale
    Droll and delicious.
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