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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. The Story of Us
    A squirmy mix of therapy-session slogans, pop psychobabble, and lots of crying, yelling and pouting on the part of its two stars, who appear in various alarming hairpieces.
  2. The Straight Story
    A beautiful, appropriately loping little gem about growing older, daring to take risks and follow your heart. That probably sounds corny, and The Straight Story is.
  3. Fight Club
    A knockout...So feverish is Fight Club...that thermometer contact might make mercury shatter.
  4. Random Hearts
    Sorely needs the injection of skepticism - a quality that would have been even more useful when Pollack was mulling over doing Random Hearts in the first place.
  5. The Limey
    The pleasure of The Limey lies in watching what actors who have aged like fine wine can do in that world.
  6. Superstar
    How'd this thing get made?
  7. Boys Don't Cry
    To say this bone-chilling, gut-turning feature is "The Crying Game"-meets-"In Cold Blood." But this is a film - writer/director Peirce's first - that matches those pictures in power, in surprise, and in unnerving drama.
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  8. Bandits
    If you enjoy visuals with substance as well as flash, look no further than this exuberant movie.
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  9. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    There's probably not much of an audience for Elmo in Grouchland beyond the toddler crowd.
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  10. Happy, Texas
    Illsley's fine cast, with a riotous contribution from William H. Macy as the sheriff who falls for Harry, plays out the comedy without condescension.
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  11. Mystery, Alaska
    Yet another Hollywood serving of everyman pluck, sports division.
  12. Plunkett & Macleane
    Cheerful mishmash.
  13. Drive Me Crazy
    Buoyed by the appealing Hart and Grenier.
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  14. Three Kings
    Exhilarating, alternately funny and horrific film.
  15. Double Jeopardy
    Preposterous, if diverting, revenge fantasy that rivals Rambo in sheer narrative chutzpah and vigilantism.
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  16. Mumford
    This eccentric fairy tale with the feel of "Our Town" has a number of remarkable performances.
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  17. Guinevere
    At the heart of the film, Polley - with her wary, unsure stares, her open smile and beguiling intelligence - is terrific.
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  18. Sugar Town
    A far more trenchant - and funnier - satire of the fame-afflicted than Woody Allen's "Celebrity."
  19. Lucie Aubrac
    Achieves the rare feat of fusing tightly ratcheted suspense with intense romance.
  20. American Beauty
    Mendes nonetheless works this screenplay like a jazz virtuoso plays with a familiar theme such as "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
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  21. Stigmata
    Begins with a scene of mass repentance, but the real sin here is a profligate waste of talent.
  22. Outside Providence
    Despite its familiar formula, feels fresh.
  23. The 13th Warrior
    Warrior has the underwritten, overproduced bluster of "Conan the Barbarian."
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  24. A Dog of Flanders
    Two of its youthful actors, although adorable, are not skilled enogh to carry their parts.
  25. The Muse
    Laceratingly funny Hollywood comedy.
  26. In Too Deep
    It's old, old hat.
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  27. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Williamson's screenplay doesn't match the cleverness of his conceit; it lacks the requisite archness and wit.
  28. Mickey Blue Eyes
    While Grant is sublime, the "Godfather" spoof he's in sleeps with the fishes.
  29. Bowfinger
    Spoofy and sweet... endearingly old-fashioned.
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  30. Better Than Chocolate
    An upbeat-if-shapeless Canadian comedy about two adorable young women, an artist and an aspiring writer, who fall in love at first sight. [26 Jul 1999, p.C06]
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