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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. Stigmata
    A leaden exercise in what can go wrong when movies attempt to explore mysterious forces with dated special effects and easy symbolism...a soggy mess.
  2. Outside Providence
    Wonderful...It's funny and offbeat, sometimes raucous, but it still manages to come at you in gentle layers.
  3. Chill Factor
    A movie that wants to be "Speed" so badly that it runs roughshod over the essentials, including a decent script.
  4. The Astronaut's Wife
    Far from unwatchable. It's not a good movie but at least, on its own schlocky terms, the story makes sense (which is a lot more than you can say for "The Sixth Sense").
  5. The Muse
    As The Muse chugs along, it becomes more apparent how tired and pointless it is.
  6. Dudley Do-Right
    Enough flickers of Jay Ward's gloriously subversive sensibility to make it watchable, but it also has enough lengthy stretches of pure triteness to make it easy to skip altogether.
  7. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    A wildly uneven and sloppily directed movie, full of clashing tones and undigested bits of superior films.
  8. Mickey Blue Eyes
    An uninspired, recycled Mafia gags caper.
  9. Brokedown Palace
    The penalties for drug trafficking in Thailand are very, very stiff. If there were any justice in the world, the penalties for saddling fine actors with terrible dialogue would be even stiffer.
  10. Bowfinger
    Mechanical plot that seems dull even before it laboriously clanks and screeches into motion.
  11. Detroit Rock City
    It's not a full-on go-for-broke love letter to rock 'n' roll or a broad, joyous spoof, but something stuck awkwardly in between.
  12. The Thomas Crown Affair
    It's a deluxe vacation for adults with all frills included: glamorous settings, glamorous clothes, glamorous sex.
  13. Mystery Men
    Mystery Men is supposed to be an action comedy, but there isn't nearly enough of either.
  14. Illuminata
    A masterful accomplishment...teems with its own sense of life, crackles with daring, walks the tightrope between satire and pathos with a rare assuredness.
  15. The Iron Giant
    Surprising as it sounds, as far as examinations of trust, loyalty and identity go, the big metal dude's story winds up far more satisfying than the plodding Kubrick opus any day of the week.
  16. The Sixth Sense
    Because the movie never fully engages us, it never quite manages to allay our queasiness about watching the boy's distress.
  17. Dick
    A flinty and deeply enjoyable little comedy. There's genius in its absurdity.
  18. Runaway Bride
    You would never have predicted it from the breakout success of "Pretty Woman" nearly a decade ago, but it turns out that the pairing of Richard Gere and Julia Roberts has ripened over the years into something resembling month-old brie.
  19. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    So genuinely, viciously funny you can't help laughing -- even when you feel really bad about yourself for doing so.
  20. Eyes Wide Shut
    Kubrick's much-anticipated final film boils down to the most elaborate monogamy lecture ever.
  21. The Blair Witch Project
    The most inventive and genuinely frightening horror movie to appear in years.
  22. Lake Placid
    As irritating as Lake Placid sometimes is, it also has an easygoing sense of fun, along with one of the more memorable movie monsters of recent years. The mismatched ingredients blend into a blissfully, stupidly surreal summer cocktail.
  23. Arlington Road
    A movie where style and craft are fatally confused with substance, and where almost no effort is made to make the characters seem like believable people.
  24. American Pie
    I'd appreciate toilet humor more if it weren't so often so unimaginative.
  25. Late August, Early September
    Assayas' triumph here is in making sense of confusion and emotional drift -- bringing his characters gently forward into life, and making the film feel full and rounded while still resisting easy resolution.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Summer of Sam
    An urban epic, a noisy, swirling, flawed, hilarious, witty, tender, violent, questionable train wreck.
  27. Wild Wild West
    A movie that's dazzling as you watch it and immediately unsatisfying afterward.
  28. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Beneath the veneer of fake dicks and fart jokes, it's really a righteous paean to saying whatever the hell you want.
  29. Big Daddy
    It's a concept not without its sweet appeal -- if only it were a little wittier, I might actually be convinced.
  30. The General's Daughter
    Isn't the worst film in the world, but its vision of reality seems so stylized, so fake, that I came out of it wondering whether it has the slightest idea what it's talking about.
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