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For 3,956 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,217 out of 3956
  2. Mixed: 1,376 out of 3956
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3956
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  1. Arlington Road
    If the bad guys in the real world were all this obvious, life would be a whole lot easier.
  2. Summer of Sam
    It's all been done before, and better.
  3. Wild Wild West
    From the look of this film, its prime appreciators will be heavy-metal futurist dweebs.
  4. Big Daddy
    Sandler being Chaplinesque isn't pretty; he's just doing his smart-aleck slacker shtick with a moister eye.
  5. Tarzan
    Some first-rate animation and some second-rate storytelling.
  6. Run Lola Run
    A movie that really zips along; it offers some of the same pleasures as the silent slapstick comedies, particularly the Keaton films, with their sense of how sheer velocity carries its own wit.
  7. An Ideal Husband
    Our familiarity with the actors, and their comfort in this period setting, lend the piece an unexpected air of naturalism.
  8. Instinct
    In the end, Powell thanks his doctor for sharing the journey, but audiences who sit through this zoologically daft back-to-nature clinker may feel far less charitable.
  9. Buena Vista Social Club
    I've never seen another movie that so clearly expresses the sensual sustenance that great folk culture provides its practitioners.
  10. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    What I experienced was a lot of fetid experimental-film folderol perfumed by Chopin nocturnes on the soundtrack.
  11. Tea with Mussolini
    The film may have its roots in reminiscence, but it doesn't feel like it comes from the heart: Zeffirelli's, as usual, is swathed in tinsel. Still, the villas on display are gorgeous, and watching those dowager martinets intimidate the Fascisti is fine sport.
  12. Pusher
    Each film in Nicolas Winding Refn's mesmerizingly brutal Pusher trilogy can stand on its own, but it's fun to see all three and observe the way the bad guys in one become the sympathetic heroes (or anti-heroes) in another.
  13. Entrapment
    Connery and Zeta-Jones not only look great together, they work well together.
  14. The Winslow Boy
    Mamet doesn't take the material as far as it can go -- we're left with a pleasing fable about the battle of the sexes and the virtues of persistence in a just cause. The neatness of it all is both appealing and appalling, and perhaps this combo is what finally hooked Mamet.
  15. Pushing Tin
    Barely rates faint praise.
  16. Never Been Kissed
    Barrymore pulls off the neatest trick of the year: She makes all this pop schlock matter.
  17. Cookie's Fortune
    Pleasingly shaggy.
  18. Edtv
    I've never been sold on this anti-TV thesis. It's snooty. It assumes we in the audience have seen the light denied the lower orders. Invariably, the people in these movies who are rendered blotto by the tube are dingbat common folk. EDtv takes this notion to a new low.
  19. Ravenous
    Don't go to this movie on a full stomach. Better yet, don't go.
  20. True Crime
    In political terms, True Crime is a far cry from "Dirty Harry" -- it actually stands up for due process of law. In Hollywood, I believe this is known as mellowing.
  21. The Deep End of the Ocean
    The emotional resolutions aren't pat, exactly. But they're not messy either, and for material this inherently volatile, that seems like a cheat.
  22. Analyze This
    It's still possible to have a good time at this movie, and the primary reason is De Niro.
  23. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is in the scabrous mode, and I like it better than "Trainspotting" -- it doesn't pretend its shenanigans are revolutionary.
  24. 200 Cigarettes
    The film is filled with actors you want to see -- just not in this thing.
  25. 8MM
    Wallows in its own muck.
  26. Office Space
    Office Space is so enjoyable that you wish it were even better...Once the scheme to bilk Initech is set in motion, the off-kilter humor flattens into a take-this-job-and-shove-it thing, and the ending seems pooped-out.
  27. Forever Mine
    A noir written and directed by Paul Schrader that's so listless and numbing we need not wonder why it went directly to cable.
  28. A Civil Action
    I'm all for films that don't flow from the usual Hollywood test tubes, but A Civil Action is basically the standard formula with a dash of downbeat.
  29. Central Station
    In this otherwise rather schematic swatch of social catharsis, Brazil's Fernanda Montenegro gives the best performance by an actress I've seen all year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Happiness
    A brilliant, disturbing, but unstable and half-crazy piece of work.
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