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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. Boogie Nights
    Moore, who may be the most unpredictably talented actress in movies right now, plays Amber with an inseparable mixture of maternal feeling and lust that's flabbergasting.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seven Years in Tibet
    The bad news is that Pitt, despite this film's high-minded intentions (there are Yo-Yo Ma cello solos on the soundtrack, and China expert Orville Schell acted as an advisor during the shoot), or more likely because of them, finds himself trapped in a long, earnest movie that fails to ever feel very alive.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gang Related
    Best described as not too bad. Much of the time, though, it's pretty terrible.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    U Turn
    There's no overt message in this fatuous montage of crowd-pleasing brutality, just double and triple crosses, gory shoot-outs set to ironically cheerful Peggy Lee songs and tons of horrific, technicolor Americana.
  5. The Ice Storm
    Ricci's Wendy captures the volatile combination of aggressiveness and uncertainty in a young woman trying to come to terms with her sexuality like no performance since Emily Lloyd's in "Wish You Were Here." It's a very different performance, quieter, harder and yet more vulnerable.
  6. The Peacemaker
    Punishingly dull.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    L.A. Confidential
    A movie that refuses to kick into gear until it's far too late.
  8. In & Out
    The movie swirls around Kline a little too much -- he's a brilliant comic actor, but he isn't allowed to cut loose as much as we'd like, to show us the slightly loony person we know is lurking beneath this ultrasane. character's veneer.
  9. The Myth of Fingerprints
    The Myth of Fingerprints is only 90 minutes long, but watching all this tasteful torment, you can't help thinking that if you were watching a Jewish family or an Italian one, the air would be cleared -- and you'd be out of the theater -- a hell of a lot quicker.
  10. The Game
    Fincher is still working on the assumption that he has better things to do than entertain an audience. Which would be fine if he weren't drawn to such schlocky material.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    She's So Lovely
    This movie isn't just stupid, it's offensive in its stupidity.
  12. G.I. Jane
    This hot-button picture isn't especially well thought-out, but it might be crafty and manipulative enough to rile up audiences.
  13. Cop Land
    It's a shame when an actor like Sylvester Stallone, who's always at his most appealing when he just hunkers down and lets himself be a big galoot, feels he has to make a bid for respectability.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Event Horizon
    Trying to figure out just what went wrong in the creation of a movie as dreadful as this may ultimately be as futile as trying to ascertain what might lie on the "other side" of a black hole.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Full Monty
    So seamlessly buoyant and enjoyable that it's easy to miss how carefully and sensitively it's made.
  16. Conspiracy Theory
    Conspiracy Theory doesn't know whether it wants to be a comedy, a political thriller, a romance or a satire.
  17. In the Company of Men
    A singularly unpleasant movie.
  18. Picture Perfect
    What Picture Perfect sells as romance is a junior high school health class morality lecture we all got years ago. And it was a crock then, too.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Spawn
    The special effects look model-shop cheesy, as if they'd been created using a handful of action figures and MacPaint, and the rest of the picture has the flat visual finish and phoned-in performances of a TV movie.
  20. Air Force One
    If you've ever sat in a jet waiting on the runway, feeling it lumbering along in place and then bucking and shaking when it's cleared for take-off, you know what it's like to sit through Air Force One.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
    Scottish comedian Billy Connolly shows ample ability in the role, but he can't locate much charm in the character.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Contact
    Faithful to Sagan's brand of popularized science, the film never reaches beyond Hollywood spectacle and sentimentality.
  23. Men in Black
    Behind its mask of deadpan goofiness, it's a friendly, clever picture, one that doesn't feel untouched by human hands. And at an hour-and-a-half, it doesn't wear out its welcome.
  24. Face/Off
    Florid, passionate, frequently hilarious and loaded with messy emotions that nobody in his or her right mind should even attempt to explain, it's operatic in its nutball intensity.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Batman & Robin
    There's something almost maniacally heroic about packaging the fourth sequel of a superhero action series without resorting to the old standbys of good writing, capable acting or inspired directing.
  26. Speed 2: Cruise Control
    Speed 2 is such an inept piece of direction that it's anybody's guess whether De Bont understands how to convey where two characters are in spatial relation to each other or in relation to the action.
  27. Con Air
    How's the movie? Big, loud, brutal and stupid, that's how it is. But then, you don't need a critic to tell you that -- anyone with a grade-school education who's seen the previews can figure that out.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Addicted to Love
    Has the same relationship to the dark emotions it glosses that Disneyland's Jungleboat Cruise ride has to an actual excursion down the Amazon.
  29. Brassed Off
    Herman isn't sure if he's doing a big-statement picture or a tiny treasure of a comedy, and his confusion throws Brassed Off off balance.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Night Falls on Manhattan
    The problem -- as anyone who gets home from the movie in time to catch even a portion of "NYPD Blue" can tell you -- is that the genre that Lumet invented has buried him alive.
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