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For 2,129 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: 1,156 out of 2129
  2. Mixed: 747 out of 2129
  3. Negative: 226 out of 2129
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  1. Happiness
    An aching roundelay, a triumphantly benumbed ensemble farce that mingles condescension and compassion in a manner that's disarmingly--and often upsettingly--original.
  2. What Dreams May Come
    Weds an epic, sometimes visionary, depiction of the afterlife to a script and story with fewer psychological layers than the average Hallmark card.
  3. Clay Pigeons
    The film, smoothly directed by David Dobkin, has a neat farcical structure but is too in love with its overly tight-lipped protagonist and deadpan pacing.
  4. Ronin
    It has a gritty feel and a tight, methodical, one-thing-after-another tempo.
  5. Pecker
    Pecker is a breezy, agreeable picture--a charmer, thumbs-up, three stars--but there's something disappointing about a John Waters film that's so evenhanded and all-embracing, even if its sunniness is "ironic."
  6. Rush Hour
    The first real Jackie Chan picture crafted for the American market, is a terrific piece of junk filmmaking.
  7. One True Thing
    The movie's themes are enormously resonant, which makes its doddering tastefulness that much more frustrating.
  8. Rounders
    Because I'm a sucker--I was entertained...The script is good at making you think that it has better cards than it really does. And the actors constitute a royal flush--OK, OK, enough with the poker metaphors.
  9. The Avengers
    There's something reassuring about the fact that The Avengers is so rotten: proof yet again that people with piles of money can hire wizard production designers but can't fake class.
  10. Slums of Beverly Hills
    The Slums of Beverly Hills never gels, but it has a likable spirit, and it's exceedingly easy on the eye, with lots of pretty girls and wry evocations of '70s fashions and decor.
  11. Return to Paradise
    Return to Paradise doesn't boast many surprises. It's straight-on, morally uncomplicated. Emotionally, though, it's dense and twisty -- and smashingly potent.
  12. Snake Eyes
    A thriller of serpentine excitement all the way up to that dud of a climax.
  13. Saving Private Ryan
    What Steven Spielberg has accomplished in Saving Private Ryan is to make violence terrible again.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lolita
    Lyne has created, from a screenplay by Stephen Schiff, an earnest movie about a man who, by falling in love with his emotionally immature stepdaughter, ends up destroying himself.
  15. There's Something About Mary
    Even when you're able to guess the next calamity, it's still a shock in its ejaculatory intensity. The Farrellys never throw in the towel. Pretentious Sundance independents could learn a lot from such pistols.
  16. Pi
    This is very much a first feature, with all the hyperbolic, sometimes indiscriminate cinematic energy of a student film. But it's also sensational, a febrile meditation on the mathematics of existence.
  17. Armageddon
    Armageddon is awesome, dude, but it's, like, short on awe.
  18. Buffalo '66
    Gallo’s movie is terrific, an original and disarming vision of a life that's all skids.
  19. Out of Sight
    Soderbergh contrives the perfect voice for Leonard's prose--laid-back and grooving when it needs to be, but also taut, with the eerie foreboding of violence about to erupt.
  20. The X Files
    The X-Files isn't so much a bad movie as it is a crackerjack piece of television. It's crisply made--not sodden like many of the "Star Trek" pictures. But it's as annoyingly open-ended as the rest of the series' episodes.
  21. The Truman Show
    A sharp-witted, visually layered, gorgeously designed, meticulously directed piece of formula pablum.
  22. A Perfect Murder
    It has been sexed up, opened out, and finished off with a disappointing bang-bang climax, but it's still good fun.
  23. The Last Days of Disco
    This is a rhythmless, stupefying work. A person with no discernible pulse ought not to be directing a movie about disco.
  24. The Opposite of Sex
    A truly unformulaic comedy of lust and greed, a farce that seems to write itself, slap-happily, as it goes along.
  25. Bulworth
    The film has a kamikaze comic spirit that's spectacularly disarming.
  26. Godzilla
    Size really is about all that this tedious, underpopulated beanbag of an epic has going for it.
  27. He Got Game
    Uneven, ludicrous, but--oh man!--fun to watch.
  28. Sliding Doors
    That neither tale is especially interesting doesn't matter -- the contrast alone is enough to make Sliding Doors an irresistible romantic fantasy.
  29. Two Girls and a Guy
    The movie becomes more and more lugubrious, finally ending on a note of high-tragic operatic bathos.
  30. The Object of My Affection
    The film that Nicholas Hytner has directed (from a screenplay by the playwright Wendy Wasserstein) is slick, sweet, and disastrously unmoving -- even people who live to cry at the movies will find themselves depressingly dry-eyed.
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