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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. Holy Smoke
    Either Campion is the most inspirational director of performers or Winslet the most carnal.
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  2. Ride with the Devil
    Brave enough to take up the war from the Southern point of view.
  3. End of Days
    Arnold has a gem for the third millennium in End of Days.
  4. Toy Story 2
    Toy Story 2, like its forebear, will stand the test of time.
  5. Flawless
    Hoffman's turn as the drag queen has its endearing and comically catty moments, but Flawless' utter phoniness subsumes all efforts at honest acting.
  6. The World Is Not Enough
    Spoofing James Bond in the '90s may lack an original comic bite, but making James Bond in the '90s is positively toothless.
  7. Sleepy Hollow
    Your body's sitting there in the theater, but it feels as if your head is someplace else.
  8. All About My Mother
    This is more than a movie: It's Almodovar's design for living.
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  9. Mansfield Park
    Enormously satisfying.
  10. Liberty Heights
    As pleasant and rosy and optimistic as it is, Liberty Heights doesn't really soar, emotionally or otherwise.
  11. Dogma
    It does commit a cardinal sin of filmmaking. It's boring.
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  12. Felicia's Journey
    In this, Alfred Hitchcock's centenary year, Felicia's Journey so startlingly channels the obsessions of the late director that it might be the greatest Hitchcock movie the master of suspense never made.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  13. Anywhere But Here
    Corny and blubbery as it is, still packs an emotional wallop.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  14. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    You might be occasionally dumbfounded by The Messenger, but you won't be bored.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Light It Up
    Heartbreaking and sometimes dazzlingly effective, the film still has flaws -- most of them in a too-often-maudlin script.
  16. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    Essentially, the film functions as a holiday catalog, introducing fans to a new Pokemon whose effigy they can collect in trading cards.
  17. The Bachelor
    Feeble and formulaic.
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  18. The Bone Collector
    Weaknesses are confirmed in the movie's laughable climax.
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  19. The Insider
    Few American directors drive this wedge between mind and gut as masterfully as Michael Mann.
  20. American Movie
    It's never entirely clear whether Borchardt is also an object of ridicule for documentarian Chris Smith.
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  21. The Legend of 1900
    There is one scene in The Legend of 1900 that is easily worth the price of admission. It finds the ship heeling in an Atlantic storm. In the ballroom Roth plays the piano as it moves and slides in an eerie waltz around the floor.
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  22. Music of the Heart
    The choppy film is like a composition crowded with competing themes.
  23. Princess Mononoke
    In theme and technique, it pushes the boundaries of animation and opens up new and imaginative possibilities.
  24. Being John Malkovich
    So jaw-droppingly out there, so bracingly bizarre, and, much of the time, so fall-over-funny that even its flaws don't matter. Easily the oddest movie of the year, it is also one of the best.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  25. Three to Tango
    Perry and Campbell are charming despite this straitjacket plot.
  26. Body Shots
    The kind of date movie that should do a lot to promote celibacy.
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  27. The Best Man
    A chick movie for guys that zings and pings like a game of supersonic pinball.
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  28. Bringing Out the Dead
    Develops microclimates of mood without fully developing the same shadings of character.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Show Me Love
    Moodysson has an uncanny eye and ear for teen speech and attitude, and is able to capture it without the usual condescension and exploitation.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  30. Bats
    If you are unlucky enough to stray into the presence of Bats, I strongly recommend you follow their wise example. Hang from the ceiling and go to sleep.
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