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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. Leaving Las Vegas
    A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best.
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  2. The Doom Generation
    It’s a savagely funny ride fueled by Araki’s insight and blunt compassion.
  3. Get Shorty
    One of the best movies of the year and by far the most entertaining.
  4. Blue in the Face
    What a bold notion for a movie, and what a bust in terms of execution.
  5. Strange Days
    Undeniably thrilling and troubling...Dazzling, era-defining.
  6. Kicking and Screaming
    Scenes move from hurt to resigned laughter and ring poignantly true. The heroically unfashionable result is a minor but distinct pleasure.
  7. Devil in a Blue Dress
    Writer and director Carl Franklin ("One False Move") scores a triumph in using the brooding atmosphere and racial tension of the sun-kissed, seedy City of Angels to reveal character and reclaim a neglected past that ace cinematographer Tak Fujimoto brings to vivid life.
  8. To Die For
    To Die For, sparked by a volcanically sexy and richly comic performance by Kidman that deserves to make her an Oscar favorite, is prime social satire and outrageous fun.
  9. Seven
    It's not the identity of the killer that gives Seven its kick -- it's the way Fincher raises mystery to the level of moral provocation.
  10. Unstrung Heroes
    Keaton has crafted something rare: a screwball comedy that cuts to the heart.
  11. To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
    When Leguizamo lets go, this cautious crowd pleaser of a film takes on a defiant shine that shows just where the rest of Wong went wrong.
  12. Kids
    Cautionary tales aren't new. What sets Kids apart as daringly original, touching and alive is its authenticity.
  13. Desperado
    The stunts dazzle until you miss the low-key charm and cost-conscious inventiveness of the original. Desperado is best when Rodriguez lets his playful side cut through the blare of a born filmmaker indulging his first chance at high-end Hollywood fireworks.
  14. The Brothers McMullen
    The women's characters are as well drawn as the men's in a splendidly acted film that captures the confusion of love in ways that are ardent, affecting and wonderfully funny.
  15. Dangerous Minds
    And Pfeiffer gives a funny, scrappy performance that makes you feel a committed teacher's fire to make a difference.
  16. A Walk in the Clouds
    Take this walk for the appetizing scenery, which includes Reeves and Sanchez-Gijon. The rest deserves squashing.
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    • 38 Critic Score
    Virtuosity
    Though Virtuosity connects all the dots to give audiences a roller-coaster ride, the movie begets nothing new: It's stillborn.
  18. Something to Talk About
    At times director Lasse Hallstrom lets the film slip into an upscale version of Brett Butler’s Grace Under Fire sitcom. Even when melodrama threatens, Roberts’ steadying, sharply observed performance keeps things touchingly real. Khouri’s script has the buoyant wit to deal with Grace’s anger without turning her into a lethal avenger.
  19. Clueless
    OK, the plot is inane, Val-gal-speak is a clichT, and Heckerling was more incisive covering similar hormonal ground 13 years ago in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." But there's still wicked good fun to be had.
  20. First Knight
    Whenever Zucker stops piling on battle scenes as if he were directing Braveheart, his film casts a romantic spell.
  21. Apollo 13
    Howard lays off the manipulation to tell the true story of the near-fatal 1970 Apollo 13 mission in painstaking and lively detail. It's easily Howard's best film.
  22. Pocahontas
    Disney deserves praise for raising the ante on its ambitions in animation. Next time, though, a little less civics lesson and a little more heart.
  23. Batman Forever
    Schumacher's method is to use a lighter touch, to stay closer to the cartoon that Bob Kane created for DC Comics in 1939 and to temper Burton's nightmare world with an accessible, brightly colored TV palette.
  24. Smoke
    A sharply observant and witty film that plumbs unexpected depths of feeling.
  25. Party Girl
    What makes it delicious fun is Posey, a party girl for the ages.
  26. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
    It's a tense, terrifically funny action dazzler with a wow level in special effects that will be hard to top.
  27. Amateur
    Amateur is Hartley heaven, a sharp-witted thriller that takes off into dark and uncharted territory.
  28. Crumb
    A brilliant chronicle of the life and twisted times of a most unlikely bad boy, a skinny, four-eyed, sex-obsessed misanthrope with no weapons to fire back at the society that rejected him save one: The nerd can draw.
  29. The Basketball Diaries
    [Kalvert] best serves the movie by simply focusing on DiCaprio, who communicates the spirit and blunt truth of the diaries even when the movie keeps trying to soften the blow.
  30. Kiss of Death
    Cage and Caruso strike sparks in this riveting piece of pulp fiction, but it’s that first Kiss you’ll remember.
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