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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. Go
    Like circus acrobats who bounce up smiling, the characters end up on their feet, and you realize in retrospect that they survived because somebody, finally, stopped to think. A final thought on Go: Go.
  2. The Out-of-Towners
    Strictly a middle-aged comedy, which consists of more easy lobs than sharp smacks, but manages to get the job done.
  3. Cookie's Fortune
    A trifle compared to Robert Altman's great films -- But it's a very assured trifle, and an unusually good-natured Altman film.
  4. 10 Things I Hate About You
    With her high forehead, pale eyebrows and solemn face, Stiles could have understudied Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth -- another dignified smart girl surrounded by conniving idiots.
  5. The Matrix
    For those who have been waiting for movies to catch up with the graphic possibilities of comic books, wait no longer: The Matrix is among us.
  6. A Walk on the Moon
    Standing back a step from A Walk on the Moon's dippy charms, the movie delivers less than it initially promises.
  7. Edtv
    EDtv is precisely the kind of brisk, straightforward, amiable and accessible material that shows Howard’s skills to advantage.
  8. The Mod Squad
    A flawed fraud, a youth movie so disjointed, witless and condescending that it's painful to watch.
  9. Ravenous
    It's not really serious, not especially funny, and not noticeably scary. Strikeout.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Forces of Nature
    The man (Affleck) is something of a force of nature himself, and it ain't pretty.
  11. True Crime
    On the whole, the film is content to lumber awkwardly between the condemned man on death row and the intrepid reporter on his save-a-life beat -- there's about as much rhythm in the style as there is sense in the plot.
  12. The King and I
    It's doubtful that today's children would have any patience for the stagy 1956 version, so the current animated offering, despite its flaws, at least opens a door to the music.
  13. The Deep End of the Ocean
    The verdict is easy: Pfeiffer terrific, movie not.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Trekkies
    By the end of Trekkies,you almost feel the best way to bring peace to the Middle East would be to hold a Star Trek convention there.
  15. Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    Dopey.
  16. Baby Geniuses
    About as endearing as unanesthetized gum surgery.
  17. The Rage: Carrie 2
    It's possible to insult even a teenager's intelligence.
  18. The Corruptor
    The Corruptor is visually lively and filled with gratuitous destruction. [12 Mar 1999]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  19. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    The best one can say is that it's a smart cartoon, and a fairly exhausting viewing experience.
  20. 200 Cigarettes
    But there's no sign of the writerly derring-do that is really essential to daisy-chain storytelling. 200 Cigarettes burns itself out well before midnight.
  21. 20 Dates
    It doesn't take a foolish romantic to hope that Myles and Elisabeth live happily ever after. The world just isn't ready for 20 More Dates.
  22. The School of Flesh
    This is a great film for those who share the disabused French view of grownup life, but more particularly for those who want to see one of the great actresses of her generation at the height of her powers.
  23. The Other Sister
    The movie is, however, generous in its condescension: Given enough tolerance, cash and a good sex manual, it says, even the mentally handicapped can be just as middle-class and cute as you or me.
  24. Office Space
    What began as discomfiting satire soon devolves into silly farce. By the time Friends star Jennifer Aniston pops up as a waitress-cum-love-interest (quite a stretch for her), it's a sure sign we're back within the smug confines of the Tinseltown formula flick.
  25. October Sky
    Now if that isn't an inspirational story, it's hard to know what is.
  26. Jawbreaker
    Jawbreaker breaks ground in one way. The movie is notably unpleasant, not just because it's morally offensive, but because it strives for this arch, artificial John Waters tone without any accompanying pay-off in wit.
  27. Message in a Bottle
    This hunk of celluloid flotsam will come back sooner rather than later, washed up on the remote shelves of your local video store. My advice: shred the message, recycle the bottle.
  28. My Favorite Martian
    The bafflingly unfunny and terrifically irritating new Disney version of My Favorite Martian is so empty that it makes the original TV show look like a lost work from George Bernard Shaw. [12 Feb 1999, p.D2]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  29. Simply Irresistible
    Both actors seem too callow and shallow to actually feel all those emotional raptures they are supposedly experiencing. This is a problem exacerbated by the talent of the supporting cast.
  30. Payback
    In the last third, Payback turns into a joke.
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