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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. Entrapment
    While the film glistens a bit now and again, a closer look reveals you've been diverted not by a diamond but by a genuine synthetic zircon.
  2. Pushing Tin
    It's an intriguing film, one of the year's most interesting, but involving as much of it is, it leaves an unsatisfied taste when it's over.
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    • 10 Critic Score
    Lost & Found
    All of this points to the two major differences between "Mary" and "Lost": Ben Stiller's character in "Mary" was likable (if pathetic), and "Mary" was sporadically funny.
  4. eXistenZ
    The Cronenberg trademarks are here in full force, including an outrageous sexual suggestiveness in his bizarre special effects.
  5. Election
    This is a nearly flawless little film, a cheerful nightmare that knows just where it wants to go and uses precisely calibrated comic effects to get there.
  6. Life
    Gracefully bittersweet and balanced. [16 April 1999, Calendar, p.F-1]
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  7. Shuang long hui
    Mindless escape. [12 April 1999, Calendar, p.F-4]
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  8. Go
    Offers breathtaking comic-action fantasy….Exhilarating and sharp, it never stops for a second. [9 April 1999, Calendar, p.F-6]
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  9. Never Been Kissed
    An easygoing and amusing romantic confection.
  10. Metroland
    A satisfying story of love and marriage told with humor and insight.
  11. Cookie's Fortune
    Cookie's Fortune, which knows how to treat serious matters with humor, is to be treasured as an utterly distinctive work by one of America's finest filmmakers. [2 April 1999, Calendar, p.F-1]
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  12. The Out-of-Towners
    You may want to take a chance on this new Out-of-Towners because of its stars, but keep in mind that while its characters take chances, the picture itself plays it awfully safe. [2 April 1999, Calendar, p.F-12]
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  13. Following
    As a psychological mystery it plays persuasively if not profoundly. Nolan relishes the sheer nastiness he keeps stirred up, unabated for 70 minutes. You can, too, provided you don't ask more of it.
  14. 10 Things I Hate About You
    Lutz's dialogue is consistently sharp and snappy, and the large cast forms a sparkling ensemble under Junger's adept direction.
  15. The Matrix
    A wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination, The Matrix combines traditional science-fiction premises with spanking new visual technology in a way that almost defies description.
  16. Edtv
    Like the television medium it genially satirizes, EDtv is a grab bag that's both amusing and frustrating.
  17. The Mod Squad
    A great-looking picture that zips along with grace, light on its feet but possessed of just enough gravity to allow us to take its people rather than its old TV series premise seriously.
  18. A Walk on the Moon
    A film of exceptional emotional honesty.
  19. Forces of Nature
    Turns out to be an extremely likable vehicle with a genuine sense of fun.
  20. Ravenous
    Has all the ingredients for a cult film success but most definitely is not for everyone. It's stylish, sophisticated, venturesome--to say the least.
  21. The King and I
    A dismal pastiche of threadbare plot devices and not-so-comic interludes.
  22. True Crime
    It's a gritty story made in the director's more elegiacal mode, a confusion of style and content that is not in the film's best interests.
  23. Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    You won't feel anything. Period. Oh, maybe bored or disoriented by the inside jargon and alien references that will be comprehensible only if you happen to have played the computer game on which Wing Commander is based. [12 March 1999, Calendar, p.F-10]
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  24. The Deep End of the Ocean
    Ends up insisting on pat and overly tidy resolutions that are at variance with the emotional chaos it's nominally attempting to convey. [12 March 1999, Calendar, p.F-1]
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  25. 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.
  26. The Rage: Carrie 2
    Dares to take a different tack, taking its young people seriously in a more realistic context. If ever there was a director ready to graduate from genre films, it surely is Shea. [12 March, 1999, Calendar, p.F-6]
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  27. The Corruptor
    The Corruptor manages to make a meat-and-potatoes action flick into a cunning little meditation on personal loyalty and situational morality. [12 Mar 1999]
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  28. Analyze This
    Both too unfocused and overly familiar. It has enough comic energy to generate some chuckles, but even when we laugh we're always wondering why the jokes aren't funnier. [5 Mar 1999]
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  29. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    Dark, dangerous and a great deal of wicked, amoral fun. A film that manages to be as clever, playful and mock violent as its title, Lock, Stock was a major hit in its native Britain and its cheeky tone, simultaneously calculated and off the cuff, is as hip as anyone could want. [5 Mar 1999]
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  30. A Fish in the Bathtub
    A strained and overly obvious battle-of-the-sexes tale.
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