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For 4,544 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: 2,927 out of 4544
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4544
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4544
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  1. Analyze This
    Watching De Niro take Paul through his first panic attack ("I'm crying like a woman") is an unalloyed joy.
  2. Cruel Intentions
    It's not the trite talk that sends Cruel Intentions into a tailspin, it's the lightweight casting.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  6. October Sky
    The film is rich in period flavor and refreshingly unhip.
  7. Message in a Bottle
    It's love with tragic complications, and director Luis Mandoki drags the torture out for two-plus hours.
  8. Payback
    Payback is a brutally entertaining crime drama that should have been a little more brutal and a little less entertaining.
  9. Gloria
    When studios plant these stink bombs in theaters, do they really think that audiences won't notice the stench?
  10. Varsity Blues
    Director Brian Robbins ("Good Burger") and screenwriter W. Peter Iliff ("Prayer of the Rollerboys") have wrapped their moral fable in a glossy package of hard football action and towel-slapping, hard-body fun that might seem exciting if you've never seen a movie before.
  11. At First Sight
    May be only loosely true, but it is thoroughly Hollywood.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Little Voice
    Taking it's framework from classic fairly-tale characters like Cinderella, the British story of Little Voice is one of compassion, humor and music.
  13. Very Bad Things
    This is Berg's debut outing as a director, but other first-timers, namely Joel Coen (Blood Simple) and Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave), had it all over him for blending horror and hilarity.
  14. Celebrity
    Suffers from lulls and lapses and one lulu of a casting gaffe, but this keenly observant spoof of the fame game is hardly the work of a burnout.
  15. Enemy of the State
    Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott have wisely set their course by Will Smith, who is sensational in a dramatic role that leans on him to carry a movie without the help of aliens or Big Willie-style jokes for every occasion.
  16. Meet Joe Black
    A movie about death that stubbornly refuses to come to life.
  17. Velvet Goldmine
    The plot only slows a film that works best as a feast of sight and sound.
  18. The Siege
    The Siege is not a documentary but a glossy Hollywood entertainment that is prey to all the exaggerations, simplifications and acting histrionics that come with the genre.
  19. The Waterboy
    Offers dumb fun without apology.
  20. Elizabeth
    The film belongs to Blanchett -- this hellcat Virgin Queen is something to see.
  21. Gods and Monsters
    Elegantly witty and haunting . . . McKellen gives the performance of his career . . . and Brendan Fraser excels.
    • Rolling Stone
  22. Living Out Loud
    LaGravenese may be unsteady at the helm, but his film insinuates like a torch song that keeps messing with your head.
  23. Beloved
    What is surprising -- remarkable even -- is that Beloved arrives onscreen with a minimum of dull virtue, gagging uplift and slick Hollywood gloss.
  24. Slam
    Any cornball contrivances in the plot dissipate in watching the knockout talent of Williams, a performance artist with the exhilarating fire that only the best actors possess.
  25. What Dreams May Come
    How can a film look so radiant and be so hollow?
  26. Antz
    Refreshingly naughty and nice.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Ronin
    Ronin represents an exhilarating return to form for Frankenheimer.
  28. One True Thing
    Even director Carl Franklin, an artful purveyor of sterner stuff in "One False Move" and "Devil in a Blue Dress," can't prevent One True Thing from descending into chick-movie hell.
  29. Rounders
    Stylish entertainment and smartass fun when director John Dahl ("The Last Seduction") plays his strong suit (a gifted cast) instead of his weakest (a derivative plot).
  30. Simon Birch
    Admirers of Irving's sprawling tome are sure to find Birch a botch.
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