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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sonatine
    The best parts of Sonatine reach into that space where the fear ends and death begins, and find there the music of life. [01 May 1998, p.C4]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  2. The Spanish Prisoner
    Mamet's stylized dialogue, elaborate plot puzzles and the angry cleverness of his characterization makes for an invigorating, if not exactly likeable, mix.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Lost in Space
    This good movie could have been great if writer Akiva Goldsman had been able to -- or been permitted to -- dump the boundaries of the TV source altogether.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Mercury Rising
    Willis has a gift for turning formulaic action flicks -- Die Hard, even Hudson Hawk -- into something with an identifiable personality, but much of Mercury Rising challenges even his charms. [3 Apr 1998, p.C5]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  5. Barney's Great Adventure
    As a testimonial to the powers of creativity and the imagination, Barney's Great Adventure is pretty unconvincing. [03 Apr 1998, p.C7]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  6. The Newton Boys
    On the flimsy wings of this familiar fairy tale, Linklater tries to fly himself a movie, dressing up the quartet (and the strapping he-men cast to portray them) in the audience-friendly vestments of picaresque charm.
  7. Primary Colors
    Sophisticated and unsentimental political film.
  8. Wild Things
    This picture breaks through the limits and goes way beyond the pale -- it seems to enjoy irking us for the sheer hell of it.
  9. The Man in the Iron Mask
    The result is the kind of picture you can sit through quite contentedly, the cinematic equivalent of an innocuous seatmate on an airplane trip -- it neither bores nor insults you, and, when the ride's over, is promptly gone and forgotten.
  10. The Big Lebowski
    It's a pinball arcade of a flick -- the Coens invent a bunch of wonderfully flaky characters, stick them into a Plexiglas narrative, and let them bounce off each other.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Love and Death on Long Island
    It is a slight, charming, filmic oddity, well acted and intelligently written
  12. U.S. Marshals
    Who really wants to go to an escape movie and have to work this hard to figure it out?
  13. Hush
    [Lange] does give the movie the only excitement it possesses -- the frisson of a hideous thrill -- but it's still an excruciating embarrassment.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Real Blonde
    Like the fakery it satirizes, DiCillo's Real Blonde ends up ringing hollow.
  15. Dark City
    An almost really good movie...risks leaving the viewer feeling like one of the bewildered automatons that move through the plots.
  16. Senseless
    Just how dumb is Senseless? So dumb it even takes the fun out of stupid.
  17. Palmetto
    The result, as a colleague once so aptly put it, is less film noir than film beige.
  18. The Wedding Singer
    Finally, an Adam Sandler comedy that you can sit through without wanting to throw a mallet through the screen.
  19. Sphere
    Filled with visual potential, yet Levinson can't tap it. He's just a whole lot more comfortable trying to tame the human software than the technical hardware.
  20. The Replacement Killers
    A plot so thin you could filter coffee through it.
  21. Great Expectations
    You may well watch this film and not buy into a single frame. Me, I couldn't help myself.
  22. Phantoms
    For about 20 minutes, Phantoms, based on Dean Koontz's bestseller, keeps you guessing. After that, it barely keeps you awake.
  23. The Gingerbread Man
    And, in a pointless riffing on the title, there are ginger kitties galore -- this flick has enough cats to launch a Broadway musical.
  24. Spice World
    Critic-proof, devoid of plot or acting, and quick to mock anyone who might make something of it.
  25. Hard Rain
    The characters don't stay still long enough for the audience to worry about them. The high-priced actors (Freeman is especially wasted) are so much flotsam in the big water-tank action scenes.
  26. Live Flesh
    Live Flesh is an often surprising assemblage of attractive parts that never seems to earn a full emotional response. [06 feb 1998]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  27. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
    In a movie world where every new release promises to be something you've never seen before, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs succeeds in being genuinely different -- even if you can't quite figure out exactly what it's supposed to be. [26 Sep 1997, p.E3]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  28. The Boxer
    There is little chance for the movie's talented stars, Day Lewis and Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves) to establish and develop their characters, beyond their set-piece declarations of love.
  29. Oscar and Lucinda
    In a sometimes misguided narrative, their scenes together are right on track -- they add lightness, even a shimmering hint of humour, to a symbol-laden drama. Theirs is a unique romance that has a sparrow's frail beauty -- it beats with a trembling, fluttering heart.
  30. Afterglow
    Despite his flair for trenchant dialogue, nicely complemented by Mark Isham's bluesy jazz score, Rudolph whets our appetite but then fails to deliver. The picture limps to its ending and leaves us with nothing to hold onto.
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