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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. Isn't She Great
    Has to be among the worst movies ever made.
  2. Eye of the Beholder
    So stupid, so stupefying, so stupendously bad.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 13 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Down to You
    The highlights of the movie are a great song, Sam Phillips' "I Need Love,'' which comes at the end, and Stiles' affecting crying scene.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  4. Supernova
    Really lost in space.
  5. My Dog Skip
    This is a sweet, gentle film - slow and sunny like a summer day, with a message that growing up can be hard, but can also serve as the wellspring of memories that will sustain you for a lifetime.
  6. Next Friday
    A slaphappy, slapdash type of affair familiar to fans of Cheech & Chong and Pauly Shore. It's your basic object lesson in why marijuana is called dope.
  7. Fantasia 2000
    It musters both the merits and the drawbacks of the landmark original.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  8. The Hurricane
    Washington blows you away. To say he gives the performance of his career is an understatement.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  9. The Third Miracle
    So profoundly does The Third Miracle live up to its title that Agnieszka Holland's exceptional meditation upon a priest's crisis of faith might win the endorsement of archdiocese and agnostic alike.
  10. Play It to the Bone
    This is no "Raging Bull."
  11. Titus
    Visually brilliant and thought-provoking.
  12. Galaxy Quest
    It's quite a lot of fun.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  13. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Takes startling - and startlingly unpleasant - turns. This is not a film with anything approximating a conventional ending.
  14. Any Given Sunday
    A turbocharged and pungently enjoyable take on the sport so many observers see - Stone, of course, included - as a reflection of the darker side of American life.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  15. Angela's Ashes
    Parker has honored the core of the work and in the process turned a great memoir into a memorable movie.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  16. Girl, Interrupted
    The performances in Girl, Interrupted resonate, but the movie does not.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  17. Topsy-Turvy
    A triumph.
  18. Anna and the King
    Yun-Fat is magnetic and majestic, and the story, no matter that it is not entirely true, continues to fascinate.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  19. Onegin
    Fiennes does this sort of inner pain thing exceedingly well, Tyler is beguiling and believable, and there is an edge of wit and grace to the proceedings.
  20. Stuart Little
    Doesn't have the exuberant inspiration or seamless, polished dazzle of "Toy Story 2," but if the latter is sold out at the multiplex this weekend, the mouse is a passable substitute.
  21. Bicentennial Man
    I'll be darned if I can think of a more excruciating, ponderous, remarkably unfunny and inert cinemagoing experience to come down the pike in ages.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  22. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    A gorgeous, gory epic, is a blow-your-mind masterpiece about the emperor who ruled more than 2,000 years ago.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  23. Magnolia
    Anderson, 29, does so much in Magnolia, with such nerve, with wily humor and out-of-the-blue bravado, that the film's flaws and lapses don't really matter. It ain't perfect, but it's awe-inspiring.
  24. The Cider House Rules
    He (Irving) has been able to capture the quirky tone of the popular novel.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  25. Cradle Will Rock
    An ambitious effort that fails as satire and as history, although it probably succeeds as a cautionary tale.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  26. The Green Mile
    Surely a life sentence goes by quicker.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  27. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    The jokes are unabashedly pitched at 12-year-old boys, with flatulence, masturbation and excretions as the leading themes.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  28. Stir of Echoes
    The effectively creepy Stir of Echoes, is enough to make your blood chill.
  29. Agnes Browne
    Even though the soap employed is Irish Spring, this is still a soap opera.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  30. The End of the Affair
    Rather prosy until its final third. Then it grabs you with unexpected force.
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