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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 8.1 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 Night Flier
    A grade better than the made-for-cable market whence it came.
    • New York Daily News
  2. Great Expectations
    Lean's wonderful 1946 movie are taken down a peg with a tawdry update of Great Expectations set in modern-day Florida and New York. [30 January 1998, p. 44]
    • New York Daily News
  3. Fallen Angels
    Dull it is not, but Wong's trademark sense of romantic melancholy fails to jell amid all the excess, and the film turns frankly silly once the mute starts imagining himself in love with a can of sardines. [21 Jan 1998, Pg.37]
    • New York Daily News
  4. Phantoms
    Phantoms is fear-less.
    • New York Daily News
  5. Half Baked
    Reefer mildness.
    • New York Daily News
  6. Oscar and Lucinda
    Armstrong is usually a strong and original director of actors (her 1979 "My Brilliant Career" launched the inimitable Judy Davis). But here, her taste seems to have deserted her. [31Dec1997 Pg.30]
    • New York Daily News
  7. Afterglow
    At his best, as he is here, Rudolph is always able to locate the emotional reality inside the dream. [26Dec1997 Pg53]
    • New York Daily News
  8. Kundun
    Brilliant. [24 December 1997, p. 24]
    • New York Daily News
  9. Mr. Magoo
    CRUSHingly unfunny. [24 Dec 1997, p.34]
    • New York Daily News
  10. As Good as It Gets
    The material has no dramatic center, a problem pointed up by Brooks' failed solution to it -- his use of an ugly-cute little dog, Simon's pet.
  11. Titanic
    It leaves the port of enterprise and arrives on the far shore of art.
  12. Mousehunt
    Aa bit too familiar an American tail. [19 December 1997, p. 82]
    • New York Daily News
  13. Tomorrow Never Dies
    Tomorrow Never Dies delivers the goods with tongue in cheek, if not Bond's tongue in someone else's cheek.
  14. Good Will Hunting
    You'd never guess this just-off-center movie was directed by indie hero Gus Van Sant. Maybe, like Will, he's casual about his gifts and feels no need to trot them out.
  15. Flubber
    Children may get a kick out of Flubber's lowest-common-denominator antics. They may not recognize that Williams' prodigious talent has been reduced to something sub-blobular. [26Nov1997 Pg 38]
    • New York Daily News
  16. Welcome to Sarajevo
    Winterbottom uses effective imagery to establish the horror and absurdity of war. [26Nov1997 Pg.39]
    • New York Daily News
  17. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
    It wastes no time getting to the punching, kicking, stomping and zapping that passes for a cinematic event. [22Nov1997 Pg. 35]
    • New York Daily News
  18. Bean
    Nevertheless, Bean has been a huge hit in Europe, where it opened last summer, and it may contain enough laughs to work here. Well enough, one hopes, to produce a funnier, sharper, better crafted "Bean 2." [07Nov1997 Pg.63]
    • New York Daily News
  19. Mad City
    Unfortunately, Mad City merely pumps up the volume on material that has already been picked clean. [07Nov1997 Pg 74]
    • New York Daily News
  20. A Life Less Ordinary
    This aggressively "sincere" movie is without a single authentically lived moment a sense exaggerated by Brian Tufano's overcomposed cinematography, which imitates the glossy hollowness of fashion photographs. [24Oct1997 Pg 51]
    • New York Daily News
  21. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    It's killer, dude! [17 October 1997, p. 52]
    • New York Daily News
  22. Gummo
    Virtually plotless, the movie does its best to be offensive, but not in the service of any particular theme. The use of mentally impaired youngsters as actors is cheap and exploitative. You can only wonder about the emperor's new clothes, and how much Hollywood paid for them. [17 Oct. 1997, p.52]
    • New York Daily News
  23. Boogie Nights
    Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has perfectly wedded form to function by filming Boogie Nights in a style suggesting the grainy texture of porn and the ambivalence of the era.
  24. Gang Related
    A cleverly written thriller in which he and Jim Belushi portray corrupt police detectives whose actions unleash an unpredictable chain of sometimes dire, sometimes hilarious events. [8 Oct 1997, p.32]
    • New York Daily News
  25. L.A. Confidential
    A juicy noir stew of amorality that's the best thing since "Chinatown."
  26. My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
    Desplechin's film sustains its running time by continually revealing new aspects to its characters that reverse our initial judgments.
  27. A Self-Made Hero
    Jacques Audiard's amusingly stinging A Self-Made Hero toys with the subjectivity of historical truth by presenting one Albert Dehousse (Mathieu Kassovitz), loser, cipher, liar. But a brilliant liar. [12 Sept 1997, p.44]
    • New York Daily News
  28. Fire Down Below
    "On Deadly Ground," "Out for Justice," "Marked for Death" these are the last times Seagal gave us nothing. With Fire Down Below, he outdoes himself. [6 Sept 1997, p.32]
    • New York Daily News
  29. The Delta
    The movie then becomes John's story, making an unbelievable leap of psychodrama to do so.
    • New York Daily News
  30. Steel
    The film is slow-moving, overlong and never more ambitious than a TV feature, though younger kids will probably respond to O'Neal's amiability. [16 Aug 1997, p.24]
    • New York Daily News
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