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For 9,302 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,160 out of 9302
  2. Mixed: 2,656 out of 9302
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9302
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  1. Breakfast of Champions
    It's both amazing and depressing how much talent goes to waste in the lame adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1973 absurdist novel.
  2. Lucie Aubrac
    French director Claude Berri's exquisite, methodical Lucie Aubrac is a romantic thriller so tightly drawn it almost leaves one breathless.
  3. Get Bruce
    An extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the comedy game.
  4. Blue Streak
    Apart from Lawrence's goofing, Blue Streak isn't much of a movie.
  5. For Love of the Game
    It is impossible to think of anyone but Costner in this role. His commitment and sincerity are never in doubt.
  6. Romance
    It's like watching a bad update of an Antonioni film.
  7. American Beauty
    A wonder of a film -- a luminous, beautifully executed drama that gathers the best cast of the year -- the best American film of the year.
  8. The Minus Man
    A half-baked disappointment...never flies, never comes close to meeting its own expectations.
  9. Earth
    It's a passionate, beautifully mounted film -- but the agenda she sets for herself is too large and the conflicts she portrays too complicated to be illustrated in a single drama.
  10. Love Stinks
    A mean-spirited comedy...that steals the rampaging-psycho-chick formula from ``Fatal Attraction'' and tries to make it funny.
  11. Stigmata
    What is bloody and full of holes?
  12. Black Cat, White Cat
    This is not comfortable comedy.
  13. Outside Providence
    Everything comes up forced and predictable in the nostalgic overload of bongs, Top 40 rock and boys' bluster about sex.
  14. Chill Factor
    This poor excuse for a thriller turns, with a great crunching of gears, into a mess of a buddy comedy. Either way, it misfires.
  15. The Muse
    Largely and insider's joke.
  16. The Astronaut's Wife
    It's scary. It's well-acted. It's filmed with a degree of flash and elegance.
  17. A Dog of Flanders
    There are times when watching this film is like a near-death experience.
  18. The 13th Warrior
    It falls short where it counts: In the final confrontation.
  19. Dudley Do-Right
    Eric Idle--a royal among sillies--turns in a wonderfully wacky performance.
  20. In Too Deep
    Epps is a leading man on the rise, and Cool J. is something to see.
  21. Mickey Blue Eyes
    A sour misfire.
  22. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Williamson's script, which he also directed, is spiteful and shallow.
  23. Universal Soldier: The Return
    Has a shameless B-movie exuberance.
  24. Perfect Blue
    Perfect Blue manages, through animation, to take the thriller, media fascination, psychological insight and pop culture and stand them all on their heads.
  25. Brokedown Palace
    The specifics of their predicament are well handled -- being thrown in a Third World prison may be every tourist's nightmare -- even if the movie eventually goes soft and squishy.
  26. Bowfinger
    A venemous Valentine to Hollywood sugarcoated with laughs.
  27. Detroit Rock City
    While it's possible to have a great time with the movie without having any interest in Kiss, it should be noted that the band does make an appearance.
  28. Better Than Chocolate
    Better Than Chocolate is smart, funny adult entertainment -- the sex scenes are bold and convincing -- with a love story that is touching and surprisingly cheerful.
  29. Autumn Tale
    They talk and talk, and somehow it's delightful.
  30. Mystery Men
    Maybe it's no mystery how they did it, considering the aggregate comic talent, but this bunch achieves peaks of sublime nuttiness.
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