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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 3.1 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 X Files
    What we have here is a pretty good TV show huffed and puffed into a rather mediocre film.
  2. Henry Fool
    Hal Hartley's latest film, an odd and mentally stimulating black comedy that may or may not have a point. In any case, the ride is delectably weird and entertaining. [17 Jul 1998]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  3. Edge of Seventeen
    Edge of Seventeen is a gentle American coming-out and coming-of-age story set in 1984 in Sadusky, Ohio, and suffers slightly from a sugary after-school-special approach to its subject matter. [02 Jul 1999, p.C5]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  4. Can't Hardly Wait
    [The soundtrack] manages to serve up new rock, eighties dance music, rap and Barry Manilow -- a combination custom-made to annoy audiences of all ages.
  5. High Art
    Has a subtle magnetism, and a real human pulse, especially as it concentrates on its two main characters.
  6. Six Days Seven Nights
    This fluffy escape flick, directed by Ivan Reitman, is a TV sitcom plot grafted onto a travel brochure.
  7. Dirty Work
    There's an audience for this sort of rude and rough comedy, though it might consist mostly of guys who wear raincoats a lot and prefer their women on glossy paper with staples. [13 Jun 1998, p.C3]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  8. The Truman Show
    The result is a rarity on any screen: intelligent fun.
  9. A Perfect Murder
    By the head-scratching dénouement, the "perfect" in the title seems particularly misplaced. How about Dial M for Muddle.
  10. Mr. Jealousy
    A deceptively light and impeccably structured comedy that owes a clear cinematic debt to others -- Ernst Lubitsch, Woody Allen and Whit Stillman among them -- yet still manages to speak with a fresh and distinctive voice. [21 Aug. 1998, p.D4]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  11. The Last Days of Disco
    The score (a nifty collection of vintage but never clichéd period tunes) complements the mood perfectly, and the ensemble cast members hit their own notes to perfection.
  12. Hope Floats
    This is a frustrating film that takes its cutesy title way too literally.
  13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    The one source of relief comes from the score -- a sampling of period ditties by the likes of the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Neil Young.
  14. The Opposite of Sex
    You'll laugh, though you might hate yourself in the morning.
  15. Bulworth
    To his credit, Beatty has designed Bulworth along the classic lines of Shakespeare's Fool -- the antic truth-speaker who has the ear of the court.
  16. Godzilla
    Watching inept American actors and wishing they were badly dubbed into Japanese isn't any fun at all.
  17. Clockwatchers
    Quite consciously, Sprecher has dramatized that wry riff from Frank Zappa: "Life is high school with money." [12 Jun 1988, p.C3]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  18. Deep Impact
    Deep Impact, a triple-strand ensemble disaster flick, has a few good opening minutes, the biggest tidal wave you've ever seen in the closing minutes, and a cluster of little meandering melodramas in between.
  19. He Got Game
    Coming from a major director like Spike Lee, this is a colossal disappointment. And a surprising one.
  20. Shooting Fish
    At its best the movie is still innocent enough to slide past your guard, and inventive and lively enough to make the average Hollywood comedy seem to be on heavy tranquilizers.
  21. Wilde
    The best thing about the movie is the performance of Stephen Fry, who makes you hope that the real Wilde was like him. [05 Jun 1998, p.C5]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  22. Les Misérables
    Short on wrenching passion, but never less than competent, Les Misérables is merely passable. It might have been titled Les Compétents. [01 May 1998, p.C4]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  23. Sliding Doors
    Ultimately, Sliding Doors becomes a victim of its own cleverness, shutting down all that early promise.
  24. The Big Hit
    This isn't a movie so much as a marketing strategy -- a moving poster loosely disguised as a motion picture.
  25. Two Girls and a Guy
    And the climax, where fake tears suddenly become real, doesn't ring true. By then, nothing does, leaving the film's successful deception to double as its eventual failure -- cast adrift in this fog of appearances, we appear not to care.
  26. The Object of My Affection
    Judged esthetically -- the only yardstick worth applying -- it can be safely placed in that long line of indistinguishable Hollywood mediocrities, all of them trying in vain to resurrect an awfully weary genre.
  27. Suicide Kings
    For most of its duration, Suicide Kings turns into something like a hoary murder-mystery theatre piece in the Agatha Christie/Clue tradition.
  28. Nightwatch
    With its glum litany of naked corpses and mutilations, and understated actors looking bluish under the morgue's fluorescent lights, Nightwatch drains the fun out of horror. [17 Apr 1998]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  29. City of Angels
    A lovely oddity.
  30. Species II
    Brain-melting, head-spinning rank toxicity that shows no evidence of intelligence as we know it.
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