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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. Music of the Heart
    Falls flat for its skittish reluctance to bear any resemblance to an actual Wes Craven film.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    House on Haunted Hill
    I would rather feed Jesse Helms a rancid peanut butter sandwich, and then have him slowly lick my face off, than sit through House on Haunted Hill again.
  3. Princess Mononoke
    A big movie for the ages, full to the brim with sympathy, imagination and sheer visual delight.
  4. Being John Malkovich
    It's a gleeful, nitrous-oxide high.
  5. Body Shots
    A grim, sour view of single life.
  6. Crazy in Alabama
    Disappoints with its simplistic, hollow narrative and characters.
  7. Bringing Out the Dead
    Curiously and disappointingly lethargic.
  8. Show Me Love
    Isn't a good movie. It's drab, visually ugly and a little pokey...but the two heroines are so recognizable as real girls, and the young actresses who play them are so appealing, that you keep rooting for these kids.
  9. The Story of Us
    Fragmented and contrived, like a badly mapped-out scrapbook.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Julien Donkey-Boy
    The filmmaker brings the audience to a precipice of discomfort, implying that the discomfort is itself the point.
  11. The Straight Story
    And now in The Straight Story, no director has been so buzzingly alert to the emotional lives of those people or to the beauty of the world they inhabit as David Lynch.
  12. Fight Club
    But imagination and energy are often not enough. On balance, this is the dumbest of the entries in Hollywood's anti-consumerist new wave.
  13. Random Hearts
    Marginally romantic and only the tiniest bit thrilling.
  14. The Limey
    An art noir that courts pretension but just manages to keep from succumbing to it.
  15. Superstar
    You'd have thought, in his infinite wisdom, the Lord would at least send stinkers like this direct to video.
  16. Boys Don't Cry
    Gripping, and it's moving, but it isn't particularly subtle. There's a strong thread of tabloid drama running through its core -- but at least it's sensationalistic storytelling with a heart.
  17. Happy, Texas
    So full of winning performances and so disarmingly uncynical in its affection for its characters, it manages to leave you with a Texas-size grin on your face anyway.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mystery, Alaska
    There's no buildup, just emotional peak after emotional peak.
  19. Three Kings
    One of the most exciting Hollywood action films in years, and the best Vietnam movie since "Apocalypse Now."
  20. Double Jeopardy
    An intermittently engaging thriller.
  21. On the Ropes
    Walking out of the theater, I felt so bereft that I couldn't speak. And it doesn't hurt any less thinking about the movie now, as I write this.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mumford
    Features one of the rare complex portraits of a therapist.
  23. Guinevere
    It doesn't take Rea long to decide that he's more interested in extending his record for Longest Acting Career Sustained on One Expression, and he's back to his baggy-eyed, hangdog look.
  24. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    By no means a great movie...the movie is most liable to rekindle warm gratitude for all the pleasure he gave us.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sugar Town
    Isn't profound, but it is perceptive...it's a pile of fun.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Romance
    A landmark -- the first movie to give a convincing, feature-length account of sex from a woman's point of view.
  27. For Love of the Game
    A dreary, humorless affair, with no real feeling for the rhythms of either baseball or love.
  28. American Beauty
    It remains a puzzling dream, vivid in detail and overly obvious in symbolism, fueled by half-digested lumps of malice and wonder.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Minus Man
    If you're dragged to the theater to be someone's not-dumb date, pack a crossword and a light pen. It'll be the only puzzle worth solving.
  30. Black Cat, White Cat
    It's thrilling to see something this profane, mythic and, most of all, not bored with life, love and the possibilities of cinema.
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