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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. Solomon & Gaenor
    Nicely filmed and acted.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bittersweet Motel
    It falls short of its tie-dye target.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  3. Love & Sex
    Feels thoroughly canned.
  4. The Crew
    The "Golden Girls" with gats.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  5. Place Vendôme
    A slow and knotted-up film, but one imbued with a keen sense of what motivates people beyond mere avarice.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    What gives the story added insight - and detracts from it - is the personal quest of the filmmaker who bears the scars of having an itinerant rogue who was never around as a father.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  7. The Original Kings of Comedy
    Side-splitting concert film.
  8. The Cell
    Has its effectively nasty, chilling moments -- and it also brings body piercing to new heights of ickiness.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  9. Godzilla 2000
    An enjoyable throwback to the way monster movies used to be made.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  10. Bless the Child
    The unintentional effect of movies like Bless the Child is that they are enough to make agnostics out of true believers.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  11. Cecil B. DeMented
    Maybe Waters set out to prove Karl Marx's observation that all great events happen twice, first as tragedy and the second time as farce.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  12. The Replacements
    Harmless, mindless and shameless.
  13. The Opportunists
    It's a character study, nicely realized.
  14. An Affair of Love
    An extraordinarily perfect little film: A bittersweet drama that explores sexuality and love, and their reverberations across the landscape of human emotions.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  15. Autumn in New York
    Not only do they (Gere and Ryder) lack chemistry, they lack physics, zoology, botany and geology.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  16. Aimee & Jaguar
    A standout.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  17. The Tao of Steve
    Loose, eminently likable stuff.
  18. Saving Grace
    A comedy of the old school. Depending on your view of the current state of screen humor, that's either a promise or a warning.
  19. The Tic Code
    An honest, plainspoken and unsentimental movie.
  20. Space Cowboys
    An amiable mix of "Grumpy Old Men" comedy and "Apollo 13" can-we-fix-this-jalopy-before-we-die? Drama.
  21. Hollow Man
    Verhoeven's most deeply disturbing film yet.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  22. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Yes, bestiality in a PG-13 movie. It's the end of life as we know it.
  23. Girl on the Bridge
    Girl on the Bridge, with its doomed art-house romanticism and echoes of Fellini, may not be the deepest piece of filmmaking out there now, but it is easily the most intoxicating. Take the leap.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  24. Wonderland
    A crushingly sad, beautiful film.
  25. Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Serves up a dramatic comedy piquant as its title.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  26. The Wind Will Carry Us
    If you've had enough of the loony tunes coming from Florida, this piece of absurdist serio-comedy is the perfect picture.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  27. Loser
    She may not be the most cinematic of film artists, but Heckerling will make you smile.
  28. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    It's a tale of survival and kitsch that will win you over.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  29. What Lies Beneath
    Dumb, dumb, dumb - borrowing scare tactics from Hitchcock and other suspense masters, but forgetting basic story.telling essentials such as character development and logical exposition.
  30. Rififi (re-release)
    The new print does justice to Philippe Agostini's splendidly atmospheric cinematography.
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