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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. American Beauty
    A triumph of acting, writing and directing that defies glib description...the kind of artful defiance that Hollywood is usually too timid to deliver: a jolting comedy that makes you laugh till it hurts.
    • Rolling Stone
  2. The Minus Man
    A potent thriller that grows in intensity as the audience realizes that the character it likes most is most likely a nut job.
    • Rolling Stone
  3. Best Laid Plans
    Director Mike Barber springs a twist ending that makes you sit up and stifle those yawns.
    • Rolling Stone
  4. Stigmata
    There should be a place in hell for hacks who turn out derivative terror trash and then pretend they're doing an important investigative piece on Vatican corruption.
    • Rolling Stone
  5. Outside Providence
    Baldwin is a marvel in a casting surprise that pays off.
    • Rolling Stone
  6. The Muse
    Built on a slender, one-joke whimsy -- and a tough one to buy into, at that.
    • Rolling Stone
  7. Bowfinger
    Inspired funny business that allows Martin to hilariously torpedo Hollywood's corrupt heart.
    • Rolling Stone
  8. Tarzan
    Propelled by Mark Mancina's percussive score, this Tarzan swings.
  9. The General's Daughter
    Watching John Travolta ease into a role is always a pleasure, but this film version of Nelson DeMille's 1992 best-selling mystery novel is a lurid mess.
  10. An Ideal Husband
    What shakes the dust off this period piece is the vibrant acting.
  11. Limbo
    Limbo is vital personal filmmaking from a world-class practitioner of the art.
  12. Never Been Kissed
    Toothless satire relatively inoffensive and relentlessly mediocre.
  13. Cookie's Fortune
    Altman clarifies a convoluted plot with a magician's ease, creates an atmosphere that brims with the pleasures of the unexpected and explores character nuances.
  14. A Walk on the Moon
    Whenever the drama drifts into soap opera, the actors restore the balance.
  15. Edtv
    Satire in a blanket of bland.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Ravenous
    You don't want to see this bilge. Director Milcho Manchevski, who was fired in midproduction, is the only one with cause to celebrate.
  17. Forces of Nature
    Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck as star-crossed lovers, is the cinematic equivalent of Styrofoam: a weightless romantic comedy of synthetic feelings.
  18. True Crime
    At first it's a kick to watch Clint Eastwood play Steve Everett, a horn-dog newsman...Is Clint being Clinton-esque? Even if he's not, these scenes are the liveliest part of this dog-tired movie.
  19. The Deep End of the Ocean
    The film ultimately gives in to a case of TV-movie blahs.
  20. The Corruptor
    What you get in this cop drama is NYPD Blue lite. That's not bad. In fact, it's compulsively watchable. But there are no leaps, just fits and starts.
  21. Analyze This
    Watching De Niro take Paul through his first panic attack ("I'm crying like a woman") is an unalloyed joy.
  22. Cruel Intentions
    It's not the trite talk that sends Cruel Intentions into a tailspin, it's the lightweight casting.
  23. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    A dynamite bundle from British writer-director Guy Ritchie. Even when the accents are as indecipherable as the plot, Ritchie keeps the action percolating and the humor on high.
  24. 200 Cigarettes
    Hit-and-mostly-miss.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    The Other Sister
    It's not the emphasis on tics and grimaces that mars their essentially well-meaning performances, it’s the sitcom crassness of director and co-writer Garry Marshall.
  26. October Sky
    The film is rich in period flavor and refreshingly unhip.
  27. Message in a Bottle
    It's love with tragic complications, and director Luis Mandoki drags the torture out for two-plus hours.
  28. Payback
    Payback is a brutally entertaining crime drama that should have been a little more brutal and a little less entertaining.
  29. Gloria
    When studios plant these stink bombs in theaters, do they really think that audiences won't notice the stench?
  30. At First Sight
    May be only loosely true, but it is thoroughly Hollywood.
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