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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. The Filth and the Fury
    It's just twice as much as we need to know about the Sex Pistols.
  2. Joe Gould's Secret
    Holm is dazzling as the grubby little misfit, just a little brilliant and a little insane.
  3. Rules of Engagement
    Sometimes, movies would work better if you couldn't see them.
  4. Return to Me
    This romantic comedy is about a love that is destined to be, and it celebrates that warm huddle of caring and craziness called family.
  5. Ready to Rumble
    See it only if potty-training is still the most vivid life experience in your book of memories.
  6. Me Myself I
    A fascinating contrast in lifestyles.
  7. Black and White
    There's something deeper at play in the film, something psychologically foul, voyeuristic and personal.
  8. Price of Glory
    Fathers and sons with problems expressing their feelings makes for a story that is universal, and that has also been done to death. Thankfully, the boxing scenes are extensive and pack the appropriate punch.
  9. The Road to El Dorado
    Pretty much a road to nowhere.
  10. The Skulls
    Never graduates above the boneheaded.
  11. Beau Travail
    "Chocolat" was just a warmup for the stunning display of the male form against National Geographic settings in her new Beau Travail.
    • New York Daily News
  12. High Fidelity
    When director Stephen Frears worked with (Jack Black), he must have yelled "Let 'er rip!" instead of "Action!"
  13. Here on Earth
    The three actors do their best to breathe life into their caricatured roles.
  14. Waking the Dead
    It's a romantic weepie.
  15. The Color of Paradise
    Another perfect little gem from Iran in which the simplest story unleashes a torrent of emotion.
  16. Such a Long Journey
    Seth, who played Nehru in the Oscar-winning "Gandhi," gives a subtly layered performance as a complex, tormented and very decent man in crisis.
  17. Buddy Boy
    If you want pretentious and unsavory, check out Buddy Boy.
  18. X
    About as many characters, dragons and force fields as "Pokémon" has pocket monsters, so it may be difficult for the uninitiated to keep track.
  19. Whatever It Takes
    A teen comedy so stupid that a long nose -- perhaps with a red bulb on it -- actually would have helped.
  20. Winter Sleepers
    Kinetic, sexy and full of meaningful coincidences and intertwined fates.
  21. Romeo Must Die
    This is not for the Merchant-Ivory crowd, but action fans will feel their pulses quicken.
  22. Erin Brockovich
    Roberts carries the film in the best sense, by taking us on a human journey of genuine discovery and growth.
  23. Beyond the Mat
    Doesn't flinch from the serious stuff.
  24. Final Destination
    A mediocre fright-fest.
  25. Soft Fruit
    A slog to get through, but Jeanie Drynan's nuanced performance as the enduring matriarch makes it all worthwhile.
  26. Les convoyeurs attendent
    Poignant, eccentric comedy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Disappearance of Finbar
    Nothing that makes much sense in Sue Clayton's strained fable about friendship, betrayal and the escapist dream of disappearing in the midst of a miserable patch of life. [17 Mar 2000]
    • New York Daily News
  28. Mission to Mars
    Earthlings beware: The dialogue and characters have less weight than bodies freed from gravity's grip.
  29. The Ninth Gate
    The movie falls apart toward the end as it enters "Eyes Wide Shut" territory, but until then, it's fun to see bookworms cast in the James Bond mode.
  30. Deterrence
    A taut and thought-provoking thriller .
  31. Condo Painting
    The film is otherwise a self-indulgent lark.
  32. What Planet Are You From?
    The film's asset, in a walk, is Bening, whose comic timing puts Shandling to shame.
  33. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Perversely funny.
  34. Drowning Mona
    Excuse me, but didn't Bette Midler already play this role?
  35. The Next Best Thing
    Not even Rupert Everett is able to breathe life into soapy Thing.
  36. 3 Strikes
    This needlessly vulgar exercise in overuse of the n-word bills itself as a comedy. Even the outtakes over the closing credits don't live up to that.
  37. The Waiting Game
    Ken Liotti's script barely earns a C+.
  38. Mifune's Last Song
    Refreshingly nondogmatic.
  39. Wonder Boys
    Among the movie's oddball treats are Robert Downey Jr. as Grady's flamboyant editor and Rip Torn as a pedantic author and sermonizer known only as Q.
  40. Reindeer Games
    The material here, written by Ehren Kruger, is beneath banal, and the three leads are so miscast that it's like watching a dress charade.
  41. Judy Berlin
    Its leisurely pace and surreal poetry won't break box-office records, but will surely serve to introduce Mendelsohn as a major new talent.
  42. Pitch Black
    It has a distinctive look but a few too many recycled ideas; better luck on the next crash-landing.
  43. Beautiful People
    Behind the inspired wackiness is a story about how our warlike nature needs some changing before we can all live in relative harmony.
  44. Hanging Up
    Characters seem phony.
  45. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    Kempner demonstrates how the star's success and dignified bearing inspired a generation of Jews to fight through the ethnic barriers in all fields.
  46. The Whole Nine Yards
    It provides the first genuine laughs I've had at the movies in this young year.
  47. Not One Less
    It's an uplifting movie about the rewards of perseverance and community.
  48. Boiler Room
    Energetic, provocative.
  49. The Tigger Movie
    That there was no squirming among the kids at my screening may be the best recommendation of all.
  50. Cotton Mary
    An unsubtle allegory about a way of life withering on the vine.
  51. Snow Day
    Chevy Chase looks tired, Pam Grier looks embarrassed, and pop star Iggy Pop gives a performance that -- if you can believe it -- is even sillier than his name.
  52. Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    Never gets at what makes Quek tick.
    • New York Daily News
  53. The Beach
    There's only so much meaningful interplay you can get out of a beachful of slackers and some tanning oil.
  54. Gun Shy
    Blakeney's script contains more hackneyed dialogue and misfired jokes per minute than would seem possible, and the result embarrasses every actor in it.
  55. Scream 3
    For the initiated, the third time's a charm. For everyone else, it's just a scream.
  56. Grizzly Falls
    To be avoided by anyone considering a vacation to anything wilder than a zoo.
  57. The Big Tease
    One of those bright ideas for a TV sketch that convinces someone it's too good to waste on the small screen. It's not.
  58. The Cup
    Could well end up on the coming Oscar ballot for best foreign language film.
  59. Isn't She Great
    Intermittently funny.
  60. Eye of the Beholder
    Truly weird and unworkable thriller.
  61. Down to You
    Just another cutesy, rather toothless comedy about the pitfalls of first love.
  62. Supernova
    It just goes to prove that in space, no one can hear you scream when the studio massacres your movie.
  63. My Dog Skip
    Certainly there are people who will welcome this kind of "wholesome" family entertainment, but it feels false.
  64. Fantasia 2000
    Whether it's any good depends on your expectations.
  65. The Hurricane
    Washington can bank on an Oscar nomination for the most forceful work of his career.
  66. The Third Miracle
    It tries to be more existential than gumshoe but falls way short.
  67. Play It to the Bone
    Ron Shelton's boxing pic is long on road work but strictly a flyweight.
  68. Titus
    Julie Taymor's beautifully stylized but nauseatingly violent adaptation of Shakespeare's first play.
  69. Galaxy Quest
    No masterpiece, but in a season dominated by films as heavy -- and about as time-consuming -- as brain surgery, a little brain candy is sweet.
  70. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Matt Damon's performance isn't bad, but it pales in comparison with Law's.
  71. Any Given Sunday
    While the football sequences are carefully constructed, the sensation we get from the blizzard of images and teeth-jarring sound effects is of having our head used as the football.
  72. Angela's Ashes
    The question is not whether the movie exactly duplicates the experience of the book, but whether the movie stands on its own. Angela's Ashes clearly does.
  73. Man on the Moon
    Carrey gives an otherworldly, possessed performance as Kaufman.
  74. Snow Falling on Cedars
    A prettily photographed yet morbidly gloomy movie.
  75. Girl, Interrupted
    Unusual in that it spotlights a common but largely unsung variety of teenage female angst.
  76. Topsy-Turvy
    A hive of broad, brilliant performances.
  77. Anna and the King
    If you're seeking transcendent love this season, skip the morose "End of the Affair" and go with Anna and the King.
  78. Onegin
    Makes you appreciate opera, or NoDoz.
  79. Stuart Little
    Parents, who are more apt to be bored by the simple story line, are going to be amazed nevertheless by the smooth, convincing animation that lends Stuart his lifelike physicality and expressive facial gestures.
  80. Simpatico
    Star-packed fiasco.
  81. Bicentennial Man
    A fragmented, episodic feel and a conclusion that seems both remote and remote-controlled.
  82. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    Based on the true story of the first emperor of unified China, could be downsized and told as an American Western.
  83. Magnolia
    But while this terrific cast gets to strut and preen, it's difficult to make an emotional connection with most of them.
  84. The War Zone
    Showing as much courage and talent behind the camera as he has while acting in front of it, Roth has crafted for his first film one of the most bluntly graphic and disturbing movies ever done on the subject.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Cider House Rules
    "I write 19th-century stories; they're supposed to affect you emotionally," says Irving, explaining why Tinseltown keeps knocking at his door.
  86. Cradle Will Rock
    A missed opportunity to shed light on one of America's most turbulent times.
  87. Diamonds
    A depressingly hollow vehicle.
  88. The Green Mile
    Has a simple but exceptionally powerful and uplifting emotional lure.
  89. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    A little Disney Christmas release that comes wrapped in used toilet paper.
  90. Miss Julie
    A brutally claustrophobic battle of wits and will, whose cruel nature ultimately seems to turn on the audience.
  91. Stir of Echoes
    Little internal logic and too many signposts. It's easy to see who in the neighborhood knows more than they're letting on, even without X-ray vision or ESP.
  92. Agnes Browne
    A standout feature of the movie is its representation of female friendship.
  93. The End of the Affair
    Many of the right elements -- the '40s look, the melodrama, the love that transcends reason.
  94. A Map of the World
    If it's not one of the five best of 1999, it's a personal best for Weaver, and that's pretty good.
  95. Holy Smoke
    Winslet and Keitel are brilliant as cult member & deprogrammer.
  96. Sweet and Lowdown
    Penn hasn't attempted much comedy since "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," but he's masterful here.
  97. Tumbleweeds
    What keeps these mother-daughter tumbleweeds from drifting right out of consciousness is the unique rapport between the actresses.
  98. Ride with the Devil
    The best movie I've seen this year.
  99. End of Days
    It's brain-dead start to finish.
  100. Toy Story 2
    With its agile, clever script and winning characters, Toy Story 2 is that rare thing -- an excellent children's movie with no upper age limit.
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