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For 2,931 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Peter Pan
Lowest review score: 0 Mindhunters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,824 out of 2931
  2. Mixed: 872 out of 2931
  3. Negative: 235 out of 2931
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  1. Mission to Mars
    Here and there an inspired shot makes the film come alive, and at least three of its sequences had me positioned well on the edge of my seat.
  2. The Ninth Gate
    Exotic Ninth Gate breaks down into clichés.
  3. What Planet Are You From?
    Falls disastrously flat.
  4. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    [Jarmusch] seems...to introduce gratuitous bloodshed that is out of sync with the engaging, offbeat tempo and dark, comedic moral fable that has come before.
  5. Drowning Mona
    Scores high on nastiness, but it has as many surprisingly funny moments as offensive ones.
  6. The Next Best Thing
    Has good intentions and the element of surprise -- it's never quite clear where it's going at any given point.
  7. Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    Its overall effect is haunting, hypnotic and moving in a profound and unexpected way.
  8. Mifune's Last Song
    An edgy comedy with heart.
  9. Wonder Boys
    A terrific movie about middle-age malaise and a comedy of unusual wit and drollness.
  10. Reindeer Games
    He's (Affleck) vaguely likable, but he's outshone by his co-stars and never particularly believable in his role.
  11. Pitch Black
    A total guilty pleasure.
  12. Beautiful People
    Dizdar humorously compares and contrasts extremes in economics and lifestyles and looks at the west through the eyes of an outsider.
  13. Hanging Up
    If you find her (Ryan) distinctive persona to be too irritatingly cute to bear, this mannered movie is likely to play like fingernails on a blackboard .
  14. The Whole Nine Yards
    A pedestrian movie with a predictable romance at its heart.
  15. Not One Less
    An empowering film for children, showing them at their most capable, working through problems and finding innovative solutions to overcome what seems like an insurmountable obstacle.
  16. Boiler Room
    Ends up being empty, anti-climactic and overlong.
  17. The Tigger Movie
    Both sophisticated and elemental enough for all ages to grasp the message.
  18. Cotton Mary
    Most of its characters come off as being one-dimensional and stereotypical, and the film's sensibility leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.
  19. Snow Day
    It's an original and rather clever premise, but first-time director Chris Koch doesn't do anything with it.
  20. The Beach
    It doesn't really come off, but it's an admirably ambitious, and mostly very engaging, coming-of-age adventure that apes the spirit of Joseph Conrad.
  21. Gun Shy
    A mildly amusing but forgettable and way-too-scatological black farce.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Scream 3
    Scream 3 also has wit and intelligence, but at their core the Scream movies are still slasher films and this one is no exception.
  23. The Big Tease
    An innocuous, hit-and-miss affair.
  24. The Cup
    Never offers much enlightenment through its message.
  25. Santitos
    It's remarkably bright, funny and sweet for a film that wades through so much sleaze, though it can't escape all of the weirdness it worms through.
  26. Isn't She Great
    Though it does present the facts of Susann's life, it skims them so quickly and with such glorious glee that we never get a sense of who this woman really was.
  27. Eye of the Beholder
    A perfect example of form without content.
  28. My Dog Skip
    It works because it never tries to be more than the very personal memory piece it is.
  29. Next Friday
    After its midway mark, just lumbers until it fizzles out.
  30. Fantasia 2000
    Lacks the cohesive flow of "Fantasia" and suffers from an attention deficit that seems to mark and flaw our current fast-paced technological era.
  31. The Hurricane
    Jewison handles this rich tapestry of non-linear scenes with the skill of the old pro he is, and carefully modulates the drama to create the maximum emotional impact.
  32. The Third Miracle
    A foreign film feel despite its strong American cast.
  33. Play It to the Bone
    In this movie, he (Shelton) falls so hard he becomes, for the first time in his career, genuinely offensive.
  34. Titus
    Gorgeous in its gore and, for all its destruction, despair and death, concludes on an optimistic and vibrantly alive note.
  35. Galaxy Quest
    Instead of making fun of the series' fans and their lifestyle, Galaxy Quest targets actors and how an onscreen image can forever lock a performer in a particular role. And that proves to be its saving grace.
  36. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    It demands people pay attention and look inward to find the private compass that will navigate us through murky sensibilities that are as capable of seducing us as they are Tom Ripley.
  37. Any Given Sunday
    As always with Stone, the film has some gritty performances and a certain likable audacity.
  38. Angela's Ashes
    It's the first film I know of in which we get to see all five of the top-billed actors vomit
  39. Man on the Moon
    It offers no special insights into its subject, it doesn't connect on any higher level, and it left me feeling vaguely dissatisfied and let down.
  40. Snow Falling on Cedars
    As good as it is in many ways, the film is not as emotionally gripping as it should be, and comes off as a rather predictable liberal statement.
  41. Girl, Interrupted
    For all its somber heaviness and reverential gravity, it never quite pulls all the elements and themes together.
  42. Topsy-Turvy
    At 160 minutes, it's a bit long and uneventful for anyone who is not at least a moderate fan of the musicals.
  43. Anna and the King
    It pales in comparison to its two classic predecessors, and also just generally feels like one too many trips to the well.
  44. Onegin
    (Fiennes's) Onegin is clueless to anything other than the sensual world, and is finally more repellent than sympathetic.
  45. Stuart Little
    Enormously cute, but it doesn't allow us to ever completely suspend our disbelief.
  46. Simpatico
    As has been the case with most of Shepard's plays, transfer to the movies spells doom.
  47. Bicentennial Man
    Finally becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science-fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the '90s.
  48. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    Quite long and violent enough to have made several critics squirm in their seats during a recent press screening.
  49. Magnolia
    Like Spielberg, even if the content is questionable or the performance is missing, his scenes always manage to be visually thrilling.
  50. The War Zone
    Sticks in the mind and simply won't go away.
  51. The Cider House Rules
    Many will find the subject matter disturbing, but it's clearly one of the holiday season's richest and most daring movie entries.
  52. Cradle Will Rock
    It's an interesting and likably ambitious movie with an ensemble of mostly engaging character vignettes, but, sadly, it misses its mark.
  53. Diamonds
    A movie in which almost nothing works.
  54. The Green Mile
    A richly textured thriller.
  55. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    An insufferably insipid comedy with a cruel subtext.
  56. Miss Julie
    As dreary an hour-and-a-half as you could ever want to spend at the movies.
  57. Stir of Echoes
    (Bacon's) most believable, heart-wrenching and charismatic lead performance in many years.
  58. Agnes Browne
    Anges has nothing but affection for its characters and fondness for their quirkiness.
  59. The End of the Affair
    An engaging but essentially routine tragic romance.
  60. A Map of the World
    What makes this film truly chilling is the fact first-time feature filmmaker Scott Elliott and his writers somehow make every step of this descent harrowingly believable.
  61. Holy Smoke
    It's a funny, insightful film whose feminist undertones don't overwhelm the story and characters.
  62. Sweet and Lowdown
    A real showcase for Penn, who seems to positively delight in playing a slimy, hateful character that most stars would not go near.
  63. Tumbleweeds
    An indie film that was lavishly praised and won the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, rolls along in the well-rutted, dusty tire tracks of other mother-and-daughter road trip
  64. Ride with the Devil
    Doesn't offer much texture or depth of character.
  65. End of Days
    A credible action spectacular.
  66. Toy Story 2
    It not only pushes the computer-generated film envelope to the very edge, it's every bit as charming, funny and exciting as the original. In fact, I enjoyed it quite a bit more.
  67. Flawless
    It finally just rings false as a human drama.
  68. The World Is Not Enough
    Despite a few places where the air of déjà vu is a bit too thick, it's a class act, with a textured script, one of the series' more stunning title sequences.
  69. Sleepy Hollow
    It all comes together to be a remarkably dull movie.
  70. All About My Mother
    As dark as a Greek tragedy yet it has a vibrance and joie de vivre that can't be contained by grief.
  71. Mansfield Park
    Daring, gorgeous.
  72. Liberty Heights
    As good as the film is in so many ways, it also altogether rings a bit false and contrived.
  73. 42: Forty Two Up
    Difficult to weigh and rate precisely because it deals with real life and real people.
  74. Dogma
    Smith has badly overextended his modest filmmaking gifts.
  75. Felicia's Journey
    Has difficulty reaching a resolution. In the final half-hour, the film becomes almost hysterically out of sync with its prior quiet reserve.
  76. Anywhere But Here
    Susan Sarandon has never been more outrageously appealing. Natalie Portman is simply exquisite.
  77. Where's Marlowe?
    Attempts to do for "The Big Sleep"-type detective movie and film-noir genre what "Blair Witch" did for horror films.
  78. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    The horror and spectacle of medieval battle has never been re-created on film before with such ghastly beauty.
  79. Light It Up
    It has moments of effectiveness, some of the performances -- especially Whitaker and Robert Ri'chard -- are moving.
  80. The Bachelor
    An innocuous waste-of-time.
  81. Rosetta
    This devastating film is buoyed by Dequenne's bravura willingness to go all out; she's a baby-faced kid when the camera focuses full on and an exceptionally beautiful young woman in profile.
  82. The Bone Collector
    Quickly assumes the characteristics of a bad slasher movie.
  83. Last Night
    Rather incredibly ends up being a kind of inspirational upper.
  84. The Insider
    It's a terrific movie -- intelligent, magnificently acted, highly compelling as a thriller, and downright scary in its implications for the corporate-run world of the new millennium.
  85. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    A documentary that is half confessional memoir.
  86. Man of the Century
    A kind of homage to that more simple and elegant time.
  87. The Legend of 1900
    An intriguing concept, a storybook vision life in the great age of trans-Atlantic travel, a fine Ennio Morricone score and a credible performance by Roth.
  88. Beefcake
    A heady, impressionistic mixture of biography, fantasy and social history in which it isn't always clear which is which.
  89. Music of the Heart
    A teary appreciation of the value of a good teacher, the joy of music and the payoffs of discipline and hard work.
  90. Princess Mononoke
    A dazzling movie, gorgeous to look at, involving on both emotional and intellectual levels, and often thrilling.
  91. Being John Malkovich
    It's essentially a one-joke situation, but screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and first-time director Spike Jonze definitely make the most of it.
  92. Three to Tango
    The vapid plot line follows the same narrative arc as "Tootsie" but hasn't the heart or purpose of that film.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Body Shots
    A thinker's film about the ever-shifting paradigm of man-woman relationships.
  94. Crazy in Alabama
    Funny, eccentric and touchingly just, combining a unique interpretation of the time with an offbeat sense of humor.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Best Man
    A delightful, inspiring and ultimately redemptive comedy-drama.
  96. La Ciudad (The City)
    Breathtaking visual accomplishment.
  97. Bringing Out the Dead
    Has a certain morbid fascination, but it has no real bite, and finally seems so contrived and pointless it borders on being out-and-out exploitation.
  98. Show Me Love
    Not only feels real, but it avoids preciousness and cute eccentricity and, in its lean, almost grave, cut-and-dried delivery makes more of an emotional impact because we're able to imprint our own memories of adolescence upon it.
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  99. The Story of Us
    I scratched my head in wonder as to why this pair of one-dimensional characters couldn't find happiness in such a shallow story.
  100. L'ennui
    Kahn manages to turn his feast of flesh, navel-gazing talk and self-destructive jealousy into a thoughtful reflection on the subject.
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