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For 7,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. The Wood
    Tilting between a teen sex comedy and a more sensitive tale about male bonding, The Wood is too anxious to please to quite make up its mind what it is.
  2. Eyes Wide Shut
    Eyes Wide Shut still towers above most of the movies out there, immersing the viewer in a web of emotional complexity, at once raw and personal and, at times, theatrically overcooked.
  3. The Blair Witch Project
    An ultra-cheap movie, ingeniously promoted through the Internet -- is notable primarily as a model of guerrilla-style niche-marketing.
  4. Lake Placid
    A formulaic thriller, treated in a style that's just shy of outright parody.
  5. Summer of Sam
    It's a kaleidoscope of ideas that range from exciting to silly and gaudy.
  6. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Undoubtedly the rudest and possibly the most inspired comedy of the summer.
  7. The Dinner Game
    It's a long time since I've heard a press screening audience applaud a foreign film, but then it's a long time since a French movie has been as funny as The Dinner Game.
  8. Big Daddy
    The film lacks the moronic consistency that graces the Sandlerian oeuvre at its most pristine.
  9. Tarzan
    Too busy to be boring or deeply engaging, Tarzan is an efficient Disney treatment of a time-tested story. The results aren't bad, just not quite worth a chest-pounding victory yell.
  10. The General's Daughter
    To divulge the plot would spoil the experience -- you'll be shocked to discover, and maybe even surprised to learn, just how lame the damn thing really is.
  11. Run Lola Run
    Fun, fun, fun. Take the title at its word, because this movie is nothing less than a flat-out, lung-pumping, 76-minute sprint.
  12. The Red Violin
    The plot's larcenous resolution is something of a cheat, tying things up dramatically if unethically.
  13. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    At this point, the effect of Myers' one-man Sixties love-in already feels less shagadelic than just shagged out.
  14. Instinct
    Pardon my pulling anthropological rank, but Instinct -- a movie about an ape-man savant -- seems a quart low on common sense.
  15. Notting Hill
    In the slow coast down Notting Hill, we approach the blessed land of Nodding Off.
  16. The Thirteenth Floor
    Well acted and crisply directed, this latest version can at least make a claim to competence.
  17. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    The Loss of Sexual Innocence is not bad, as in the sense of inept; it's artful enough to show how truly trite it is.
  18. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    It does the job just fine. That job, as director George Lucas freely admits, is quite simply to thrill the beating hearts and the inquiring minds of 12-year-old boys.
  19. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    The well chosen cast helps -- no one strikes a false note.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tea with Mussolini
    The most sentimental Italian movie about surviving the war since "Life is Beautiful."
  21. The Mummy
    Big, lavish and dumb as camel spit -- is proof that sometimes it's better to let sleeping genres lie.
  22. Idle Hands
    This briefly inspired bit of surreality quickly descends into gratuitous bondage, mayhem and dumb humour, marking the usual progression from mildly absurd premise to gratingly idiotic conclusion.
  23. Entrapment
    The film doesn't work, it ain't charming.
  24. The Winslow Boy
    The result is a rare treat, a revival of a period piece that doesn't descend into mere quaintness or prettiness, and that manages to capture the spirit of an earlier time without sacrificing the perspective of our own.
  25. eXistenZ
    EXistenZ, unlike existence, just lacks that certain mystique.
  26. Election
    At best, the humour in Election is perceptive, nasty, pointed, and lets no one off its barbed hook, not even the audience. In other words, it's a lovely piece of satire, made all the more relevant by the setting.
  27. Lost & Found
    A mundane sitcom with feature pretensions, the kind where the comic "situation" is simply a coat-rack for hanging a rag-tag assortment of inflated sight gags and telegraphed punch lines.
  28. Pushing Tin
    An entertaining takeoff and a high-altitude ride eventually runs into some bumpy weather and a clumsy landing in Mike Newell's new comedy.
  29. SLC Punk!
    Though Lillard's excitable tone keeps promising wild comic adventures, the sequences are uniformly flat and humour-free.
  30. Life
    The result is a movie that's both odd and mediocre: not as bad as doing hard time, but not a particularly good time, either.
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