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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. 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.
  2. The Bone Collector
    Quickly assumes the characteristics of a bad slasher movie.
  3. Last Night
    Rather incredibly ends up being a kind of inspirational upper.
  4. 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.
  5. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    A documentary that is half confessional memoir.
  6. Man of the Century
    A kind of homage to that more simple and elegant time.
  7. 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.
  8. Beefcake
    A heady, impressionistic mixture of biography, fantasy and social history in which it isn't always clear which is which.
  9. 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.
  10. Princess Mononoke
    A dazzling movie, gorgeous to look at, involving on both emotional and intellectual levels, and often thrilling.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  14. 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.
  16. La Ciudad (The City)
    Breathtaking visual accomplishment.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
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  19. 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.
  20. L'ennui
    Kahn manages to turn his feast of flesh, navel-gazing talk and self-destructive jealousy into a thoughtful reflection on the subject.
  21. Joe the King
    Has enough simmering beneath its sweaty, grimy and disconsolate surface to be more than just another rite-of-passage missive set in the '70s.
  22. That's the Way I Like It
    A low-maintenance crowd-pleaser, but we've seen the entire film, in thematic snippets, before.
  23. Julien Donkey-Boy
    Often unsettlingly funny, though it ultimately recedes into a dark womb of despair.
  24. The Straight Story
    I loved it...Without trying very hard, Farnsworth commands a unique and immensely appealing screen presence that could be called "a compilation of all the great western heroes of the movie past."
  25. Fight Club
    It assaults us with violence, brutality, sexual confusion and anarchy and has enough bruising, punishing humor to keep us laughing with relief.
  26. Random Hearts
    A sloppily scripted film that contains a silly and superfluous subplot about a crooked cop.
  27. Superstar
    Strikes a universal chord, no matter what rung of the popularity ladder we were on in high school.
  28. Boys Don't Cry
    A radically disturbing and memorable movie whose images don't easily fade or diminish in power.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bandits
    For film buffs who want to see what's hot in Germany, Bandits is probably worth the price of a ticket. Those looking for action, drama, or rock 'n' roll may find the mix less than satisfying.
  30. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    While adults may feel out of their league, there are a few jokes that will appeal to them.
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