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For 2,133 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 One Battle After Another
Lowest review score: 0 15 Minutes
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,159 out of 2133
  2. Mixed: 748 out of 2133
  3. Negative: 226 out of 2133
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  1. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Am I the only one who finds the substance of this movie repulsive?
  2. Drowning Mona
    The script plays goofy games, stopping the action for Tarantino-style small talk; piling on alternate, "Rashomon"-style flashbacks; and divulging its characters' secrets in no particular order.
  3. Mifune's Last Song
    Material so utterly conventional that you can predict every plot turn after the first half-hour.
  4. Wonder Boys
    Quite pleasant.
  5. Reindeer Games
    The picture is an empty parlor trick, but it's carried out with a master's concentration.
  6. The Whole Nine Yards
    A second-rate but bearable black comedy.
  7. Boiler Room
    If Boiler Room isn't an especially challenging movie, it's still a damn good melodrama -- a boilermaker.
  8. The Beach
    Monumentally unimaginative. Thumbs down!
  9. Gun Shy
    A grave screwball comedy. Its gags aren't just hilarious -- they have a weighty, plaintive soul.
  10. Scream 3
    A lot more fun than "Blair Witch," and it's more relaxed and goofy than its two predecessors -- a farcical bloodbath.
  11. Isn't She Great
    It used to be that Midler was a life force, but whenever she tries to play one, she looks like she's floating in formaldehyde.
  12. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    The director's beautiful detachment suggests a kind of cowardice.
  13. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Matt Damon can't quite piece together a compelling poseur.
  14. Angela's Ashes
    Has anyone involved in this disaster ever heard a real story?
  15. Man on the Moon
    I bet that what Carrey saw from inside Kaufman's head would be more illuminating than anything in the movie.
  16. Topsy-Turvy
    A monument to process -- to the minutiae of making art -- Topsy-Turvy leaves you upside down and breathless.
  17. Magnolia
    Anderson must have needed that bonkers third-hour climax because there was nowhere to go short of spontaneous combustion.
  18. The Green Mile
    Superficially respectful but ultimately cruel.
  19. The End of the Affair
    A religious conspiracy disguised as a romance.
  20. A Map of the World
    Occasionally dissonant, but it's remarkably cleareyed.
  21. Sweet and Lowdown
    Unexpectedly delectable.
  22. Tumbleweeds
    Tumbleweeds is gorgeously nuanced.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Flawless
    Corny, predictable, and packed with gay stereotypes.
    • Slate
  24. The World Is Not Enough
    The movie is better than you've heard, although that's not saying a lot.
  25. Sleepy Hollow
    A ferocious yet lyrical piece of filmmaking--an enchanted bloodbath.
  26. All About My Mother
    Even though the film is full of laughs, the jokes hover on the edge of the abyss: This is a world in which lurid colors and extravagant gestures are means of filling the void.
  27. Liberty Heights
    I think Levinson missed a chance to get something unique and audacious on screen.
  28. Dogma
    The first truly countercultural apocalypse fantasy.
  29. Felicia's Journey
    Apart from a few choice flashbacks, the action is crawlingly linear--and opaque.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Milla Jovovich is not quite up to the task of playing a nuanced and thoughtful Joan.
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