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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. Dr. Dolittle
    A weird delight.
  2. Out of Sight
    What makes "Out of Sight" a grown-up treat is that the mixture of lust and longing is as flawlessly proportioned as the ingredients in a perfect cocktail.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mulan
    The incredible special effects, which make lush cherry blossoms as vivid as the intense battle scenes, are balanced by Disney's tradition of care and painstaking detail in developing and animating its characters.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The X Files
    It's a two-hour episode of the show, except with better production values and a nicer wardrobe for Scully.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Edge of Seventeen
    From time immemorial, for youths of all orientations, the first few stabs at sex often turn out to be troubling predicaments rather than the romantic events they've imagined, something Edge conveys quite well.
  6. Six Days Seven Nights
    Part of what's so entertaining about Six Days, Seven Nights is the way Reitman happily mixes all the conventions of the stranded-on-an-island motif -- unpleasant encounters with creepy-crawly nature, the building of stuff out of bamboo and found objects, the first kiss in paradise.
  7. A Perfect Murder
    A Perfect Murder is more like a handful of anemic ice cubes floating in a lukewarm puddle.
  8. Mr. Jealousy
    As events in Mr. Jealousy grow more entangled, there is no corresponding escalation in the pace of the movie, and Baumbach misses out on some laughs...But Mr. Jealousy is one of those movies where the less assured passages are a good sign, the mark of a director trying something new.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last Days of Disco
    There's something kind of sweet about Stillman's enthusiasm for the long-despised era's thumping backbeat, even if the rhythm of his own work is a lot closer to chamber music.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    It is as deeply satisfying as only the yowling, primal trashing of several rental cars and hotel rooms while in the grips of a hopelessly depraved ether jag and several sheets of blotter acid can be... A cinematic masterpiece.
  11. Bulworth
    As a movie, it's a disaster. As political speech, it's imprecise, shrill and sometimes clichéd, but it's also alive.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Godzilla
    The plot is about as ridiculous as you'd expect, but for the most part its absurdities are tolerable.
  13. The Horse Whisperer
    The Horse Whisperer is just the latest example of tab-A-into-slot-B moviemaking to come out of Hollywood, a weeper that's built according to a solid set of rules.
  14. Deep Impact
    Deep Impact is the work of someone crass enough, and in some essential way mad enough, to try to turn the apocalypse into a tear-jerker.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    He Got Game
    Awkward and often downright silly, He Got Game is nonetheless heartfelt, a moving portrayal of a man who finds his long-lost son through faith, hope and basketball.
  16. Les Misérables
    At 2 hours and 20 minutes Les Miserables is an unholy slog. It's the sort of movie where, when a title pops up saying, "Ten Years Later," you sink down in your seat certain it's going to be 20 before you get the hell out of there.
  17. Sliding Doors
    At least entertaining enough to keep you amused for an hour or two.
  18. Two Girls and a Guy
    You slip into the movie so easily that by the time it reaches its emotional climax, you're unprepared.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    City of Angels
    Neither Ryan nor Cage indulges in their usual excesses -- hers a perky, chipmunk vivacity and his a rampant goofiness that's always struck me as disingenuous…doesn't try too hard, doesn't lean on or overexplain its spiritual underpinnings and doesn't push for tears. As a result, it turns out to be pretty effective in drawing them.
  20. The Spanish Prisoner
    The picture is moderately diverting. But it's never much fun.
  21. Mercury Rising
    Unpleasant would be the word for Mercury Rising if "tired" weren't a more appropriate one.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Newton Boys
    You have seen this movie before, every morsel of it.
  23. Primary Colors
    A slack, tepid picture stuck in a no man's land between satire and drama.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wild Things
    One reason Wild Things works so well is that director John McNaughton sustains a darkly comic tone throughout the film without letting it degenerate into farce.
  25. The Man in the Iron Mask
    Not 10 minutes into the smeary mess that is The Man in the Iron Mask, the only sensible question to ask yourself is, "What am I doing here?"
  26. Love and Death on Long Island
    With Love and Death on Long Island, writer-director Richard Kwietniowski makes a very pleasing feature debut.
  27. The Wedding Singer
    Frank Coraci's '80s-nostalgia comedy is predictable and unevenly paced, and it lunges too often for the easy joke.
  28. The Replacement Killers
    The Replacement Killers has a plot -- barely -- but no story.
  29. Nil by Mouth
    This film is a portrait, and it's a mesmerizing, unforgettable one. The story of how a boy like Gary Oldman comes out of this world and becomes something different -- that's a drama, but perhaps its end has yet to be written.
  30. Great Expectations
    Great Expectations is a triumph because Cuarón's vision prevailed. He seems to be one of those artists capable of reminding us how we first experienced movies, as an overpowering enchantment.
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