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For 16,550 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: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. The Astronaut's Wife
    A moderately diverting thriller that builds suspense and entertains effectively... strongest selling point is Charlize Theron.
    • Los Angeles Times
  2. The Very Thought of You
    Glowing, amusing movie that's a good bet to lift your spirits.
  3. 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.
  4. The 13th Warrior
    Thinking too much about the contents will ruin what little pleasure there is in the experience.
  5. 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.
  6. In Too Deep
    Script resounds throughout with astringent dialogue and stark authenticity.
  7. 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
  8. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    In his knockout directorial debut writer Kevin Williamson taps into such universal memories with his shrewd and energetic dark comedy.
  9. Universal Soldier: The Return
    Sleek...This is one "return" that's surely welcome.
    • Los Angeles Times
  10. 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
  11. Brokedown Palace
    Just another lurid, contrived, xenophobic tale about Americans trapped in hideous foreign prisons.
  12. Bowfinger
    Has it's share of downtime.
    • Los Angeles Times
  13. 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.
  14. 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
  15. Autumn Tale
    Droll and delicious.
  16. Mystery Men
    It's clever, amusing, clever, visually inventive, clever, well-cast .
  17. The Thomas Crown Affair
    A moderately diverting entertainment as sleek and aerodynamically sound as the glider its characters tool around in, it takes no extraordinary chances and delivers no major surprises.
  18. The Acid House
    A virulent but thoroughly entertaining trilogy of tales about the besieged lower classes of Edinburgh, ripe with vulgarity, self-loathing, violence and economic disorder.
  19. Illuminata
    Everything falls into place and seems exactly right: the brisk tempo, the crisp, witty performances, the slightly sooty touch.
  20. The Iron Giant
    Both a step back and a step forward from the trends of modern animation, it feels like a classic even though it's just out of the box.
  21. The Sixth Sense
    So disarmingly eerie it's virtually guaranteed to rattle the most jaded of cages.
  22. Dick
    So sharp and funny it should appeal to all ages.
  23. Twin Falls Idaho
    A graceful mood piece that is infinitely moving.
  24. Runaway Bride
    Runaway Bride's Josann McGibbon & Sara Parriott script is so muddled and contrived, raising issues only to ignore them or throw them away, you wonder why so many people embraced it.
  25. Deep Blue Sea
    An example of how expert action filmmaking and up-to-the-minute visual effects can transcend a workmanlike script and bring excitement to conventional genre material.
  26. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    Occasionally heavy-handed and overdone -- and scarcely free from a self-congratulatory tone -- this latest spoof is nonetheless lots of fun, clever and fearless, and loaded with wicked lines and touches.
  27. Inspector Gadget
    Gadget instead ends up as another mindless, noisy thrill ride that gorges its audience on bright effects and leaves it queasy from overconsumption.
  28. The Haunting
    Haunting almost serves as a reverse image of a successful film, demonstrating by what it lacks exactly what is needed to do things right. [23 July 1999, p.F15]
    • Los Angeles Times
  29. The Wood
    An across-the-board delight featuring a spot-on ensemble cast that treats the most awkward and embarrassing moments in the rites of passage with affectionate hilarity.
  30. Eyes Wide Shut
    This is finally a film that is better at mood than substance, that has its strongest hold on you when it’s making the least amount of sense.
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