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For 16,524 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 2.3 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Timecode
    A clever way of providing crucial layering and heightening a hip, satirical take on bad old Hollywood ways.
  2. Bulgarian Lovers
    Sly, swift, succinct -- and very sexy.
  3. The Weather Underground
    A compelling piece of work that turns out to have unexpected relevance to the current world situation.
  4. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    She was guilty, no doubt, but as this immensely moving film makes clear, Aileen Wuornos was also heartbreakingly human.
  5. Life
    Gracefully bittersweet and balanced. [16 April 1999, Calendar, p.F-1]
    • Los Angeles Times
  6. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
    In the years since he first played Drebin, Nielsen has deepened the role, made it more subtle, more universal, more paramount. He's brought out an almost preternatural mellowness in a character who began as a relatively uncomplicated dimwit. [2 Dec 1988]
    • Los Angeles Times
  7. With All Deliberate Speed
    Rather than merely chronicling the events leading up to the May 17, 1954, Supreme Court decision that ordered the desegregation of public schools in the U.S., the film explores both its effect and ways in which it has fallen short in creating true equality.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Startup.com
    Nimbly documents the rise and fall of a Web company through its charismatic leaders.
  9. Civil Brand
    A compelling, highly charged film that brings a contemporary perspective to classic prison picture elements.
  10. Trembling Before G-d
    DuBowski has cast admirably far and wide for his interviews, giving the work global scope. In some instances, DuBowski is pretty clearly a proactive documentarian, inspiring some of his interviewees to dare to take steps that are risky and revealing.
  11. The Jungle Book 2
    A work of such charm and imagination it should enchant, as the old circus phrase goes, "children of all ages."
  12. Spy Kids
    Lively, imaginative, with a playful sense of humor.
  13. Get Shorty
    The jokes are quick, with clever jibes alternating with double-crosses and the occasional murder, and the streamlined plot unrolls like a colorful ball of twine.
  14. Beyond the Clouds
    A shimmeringly beautiful and wise reverie on love and desire.
  15. Frailty
    Well-crafted, disturbing Texas gothic thriller, a completely spooky piece of business that gets under your skin and, some plot blips aside, stays there for the duration.
  16. Better Luck Tomorrow
    It has the virtue of Lin's tangy wit but it also suffers from the vice of a director who, torn between personal vision and wide public reach, tends to smother his ideas under a veneer of cool.
  17. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Elle dresses in shades of sorbet and dolls up her Chihuahua like a bantamweight drag queen, but by fighting the good fight she's also giving alpha girls and women their due, rescuing them from the magazine horror stories and the taint of Hillary.
  18. The Seagull's Laughter
    A delicious pitch-dark Icelandic comedy centering on a femme fatale so enigmatic it brings into question just how fatale she may actually be.
  19. My Sister Maria
    A thoughtful look backward, a summing up that attempts to understand what is ephemeral and what truly lasts, what it is that matters in the final analysis.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Simple Plan
    The role of Jacob is greatly expanded from the book, and the unsatisfying way that Smith and Raimi resolve the brothers' relationship in the movie is the only major change--major compromise--made in transporting the novel to the screen.
  21. Agent Cody Banks
    A clever and lively action-adventure with a warm sense of humor and smart dialogue that allows for an affectionate and fleet-footed satire of the classic elements of the Bond franchise.
  22. The Trip
    Swain balances the personal and the political, allowing his film to be intimate while keeping a larger perspective. It is refreshing to see people on screen who are living in a real world.
  23. Stir of Echoes
    What gives the movie its teeth is the very earthy Witzky family, who behave so much like real people you might think they are.
  24. Die, Mommie, Die!
    With his hilarious spoof Die Mommie Die! Charles Busch takes the melodramatic woman's picture of the '40s and '50s to delirious extremes.
  25. The Siege
    A political thriller with more plausibility -- and yes, more thrills -- than most.
  26. An Ideal Husband
    Parker has shaped the play to make it more film-friendly and relevant, but he has done so with such subtlety you would have to be a Wilde authority even to notice.
  27. Trekkies
    A laid-back excursion through the "Star Trek" phenomenon that boldly goes where millions and millions of fans have gone--in and out of costume.
  28. Torque
    A terrific action picture, fast-moving, studded with great stunts and smart enough not to take itself too seriously. Amid a plethora of high-minded, big-deal, year-end Oscar contenders, it offers a welcome contrast (and respite).
  29. At First Sight
    An exceptionally touching and provocative love story. [15 January 1999, Calendar, p. F-4]
    • Los Angeles Times
  30. The Fifth Element
    The cast is a delight, but it's Willis who is the film's true "fifth element," giving it life, depth and humanity.
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