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For 20,271 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,377 out of 20271
  2. Mixed: 8,430 out of 20271
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20271
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  1. Speaking in Strings
    Draws a curtain over her intimate personal life.
  2. Princess Mononoke
    A landmark feat of Japanese animation from the acknowledged master of the genre.
  3. Being John Malkovich
    Irresistable, nimble and very funny.
  4. House on Haunted Hill
    All the special effects in the world cannot compensate for an inability to generate tension, establish and sustain pace or create any character whose survival is worth rooting for.
  5. Man of the Century
    Amusing one-joke film.
  6. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    Tells its glumly bodice-ripping tale with somber sensitivity.
  7. The Best Man
    Another demonstration that current movies about upscale black characters have much more traditional values than ones about catty white teen-agers.
  8. Three to Tango
    In trying to be both bold and nonthreatening, the movie ends up seeming tame and mildly offensive.
  9. Bats
    Cause for fright in only one respect: the possibility that it could spawn sequels.
  10. Body Shots
    More focused on surface than true revelation.
  11. La Ciudad (The City)
    Indelible, deeply disquieting film.
  12. Men Cry Bullets
    A muddled film with John Waters aspirations.
  13. Crazy in Alabama
    Banderas directs capably enough to keep the film lively.
  14. Show Me Love
    The film has some charm and a winning simplicity but not an iota of depth.
  15. Bringing Out the Dead
    An intense, volatile film full of sorrow and wild, mordant humor.
  16. That's the Way I Like It
    Amounts to recycling rather than reinvention.
  17. Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
    Oddly charming.
  18. Julien Donkey-Boy
    The territory where the circus sideshow meets the avant-garde...visually arresting, dramatically blurry.
  19. The Story of Us
    Though it sets out to explain why this marriage is worth saving, The Story of Us could prompt even single members of the audience to file for divorce.
  20. L'ennui
    Overly schematic, not always believable in its crude sexual mechanics and ultimately unsensual. But it lays out the laws of erotic attraction with a brutal directness that is downright scary.
  21. The Source
    A stirring, kaleidescopic documentary.
  22. Joe the King
    Dramatically Joe the King feels unglued, as if crucial sequences had been left on the cutting-room floor.
  23. The Straight Story
    Switching gears radically, bravely defying conventional wisdom about what it takes to excite moviegoers, Lynch presents the flip side of "Blue Velvet" and turns it into a supremely improbable triumph.
  24. Defying Gravity
    Plods along, never catching dramatic fire, sometimes suffering from amateurish acting and often relying on its intrusive and treacly music to impart mood and rhythm.
  25. Fight Club
    The sardonic, testosterone-fueled science fiction of Fight Club touches a raw nerve.
  26. New Rose Hotel
    Affirms that soft-core porn is alive and well in cyberpunk.
  27. Whiteboyz
    Deceptively silly, ultimately intelligent.
  28. The Sticky Fingers of Time
    Works, in its deliberately low-key way.
  29. Random Hearts
    The film confines them to an affair that is the sexual equivalent of Easy Listening.
  30. The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
    A one-joke mockumentary.
  31. The Grandfather
    Brims with understanding of the complexities of relationships, the frailties of humankind and the possibilities of joy.
  32. Beyond the Clouds
    The impact of these stories is not in the words but in the way the mood, texture and the acting build each situation into a visually intense parable about the similarity of spiritual, erotic and aesthetic aspiration.
  33. The Limey
    Among Soderbergh's widely varied films ("sex, lies and videotape," "Kafka," "The Underneath," "Schizopolis," "Out of Sight"), this one actually has the best chance of becoming anyone's sentimental favorite.
  34. Superstar
    A comedy with several good laughs but no convincing cohesion.
  35. Boys Don't Cry
    Stunning...a film much tougher and more transfixing than its wan title.
  36. Molly
    (Shue's) sweetly likable performance is the only coherent element in a film that has the impersonal feel of a television drama slapped together in a rush.
  37. Plunkett & Macleane
    None of it adds up to terribly much beyond a rip-roaring adventure that shows off Carlyle and Miller as cynical British city cousins of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
  38. Love, etc.
    Artfully treading a fine line between operatic tragedy and romantic comedy.
  39. Mystery, Alaska
    An upbeat meat-and-potatoes movie.
  40. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    The somewhat complicated plot may disappoint or confuse some tiny Elmo fans.
  41. Happy, Texas
    So soft-hearted it wouldn't hurt a fly.
  42. Bandits
    Its winning cast, spirited music and mordant view of establishment figures, from the police to cocaine-sniffing record industry executives, make Bandits a stylish, buoyant entertainment.
  43. Three Kings
    It isn't nearly as successful a showcase for this filmmaker's extraordinary talents.
  44. Drive Me Crazy
    When it comes to an ending, Drive Me Crazy offers no surprises, but it arrives there in amiable, sensible style.
  45. Divorce Iranian Style
    Reminds you that marital discord knows no geographic boundaries.
  46. Double Jeopardy
    Would-be Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse games...are more memorable for their settings...than for their sense.
  47. Out of Season
    Serious, competent and unsurprising debut film.
  48. Mumford
    At heart a Frank Capra-style social fable for the '90s.
  49. Fever Pitch
    Just because a first-person analysis of a sociocultural phenomenon is fascinating in print, it should not necessarily be turned into a movie.
  50. Jakob the Liar
    Alternates between bumbling group antics and strained poignancy...anticipates all laughter and emotion in ways that make it its own worst enemy.
  51. Guinevere
    Affectionately told ...beguiling.
  52. The Jaundiced Eye
    A passionate, angry piece of advocacy, but it is equally, and in consequence, a brave and necessary act of truth-telling.
  53. Taxman
    An offbeat little charmer of a mystery.
  54. Splendor
    Almost a textbook example of what can go wrong when an artistic bad boy decides to be good.
  55. Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    A fine and loving memorial that preserves his charm, his intellect and his splendid body of work.
  56. Sugar Town
    Warmly funny ...wise little comedy.
  57. Breakfast of Champions
    The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon.
  58. Lucie Aubrac
    Stirringly romantic...a gripping period thriller that clicks along without resorting to hyped-up shock effects or gimmicky suspense.
  59. Get Bruce
    Endearing, very funny and utterly unpretentious.
  60. Blue Streak
    The buoyancy is only intermittent.
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  61. For Love of the Game
    Sometimes even a talented lineup produces unexceptional results.
  62. Romance
    Hovers between passion and philosophical argument without fully achieving its ambition to fuse the two.
  63. Crane World
    Powerfully gritty.
  64. American Beauty
    If you don't share the film's piercing vision of what really matters, someday you will.
  65. The Minus Man
    Takes such pains to avoid narrative and verbal cliches and anything that could remotely be construed as sentimental or romantic that it feels curiously flat.
  66. Earth
    A powerful and disturbing reminder of how a civilization can suddenly crack under certain pressures.
  67. B. Monkey
    The best part of B. Monkey is reveling in the dark side of Rupert Everett.
  68. Love Stinks
    A one-dimensional comedy that mostly falls flat.
  69. Stigmata
    (Patricia Arquette's) irritated reactions to her dire situation have all the force of a pet owner's whiny complaints when her feline refuses to use the cat box.
  70. Best Laid Plans
    Style overwhelms substance by default.
  71. Black Cat, White Cat
    Made with such overriding jubilation that its coarseness is mostly liberating...well worth admiring for its sheer glee.
  72. I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
    It's sad and misguided and boring.
  73. All the Little Animals
    Would seem hokey if it didn't have powerful, extraordinary central performances and cinematography that lends the English landscape around Cornwall a mythical cast.
  74. Outside Providence
    Eminently likable...a splendid performance from Alec Baldwin in a far cry from his usual roles.
  75. Chill Factor
    A mechanically efficient chase-by-numbers movie.
  76. The Muse
    A delectable comic performance by Sharon Stone.
  77. The Astronaut's Wife
    Depp moves through the film suavely and imperturbably, never letting the particulars bog him down.
  78. The Very Thought of You
    The story is a clever sitcomy contraption, the dialogue is pedestrian.
  79. A Dog of Flanders
    Difficult to swallow.
  80. The 13th Warrior
    Gives you the delirious thrill of ripping off your enemy's head and watching the blood gush by providing a ringside seat.
  81. Dudley Do-Right
    Works well as family entertainment.
  82. In Too Deep
    Treats its characters seriously and doesn't resort to the obvious very often.
  83. Mickey Blue Eyes
    A lightweight comedy that has more than enough laughs to justify its silly, scatterbrained premise.
  84. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Newly benign and noticeably clumsier than the hits (Williamson) has written.
  85. Perfect Blue
    With smarter dialogue, it might have made a fascinating film.
  86. Brokedown Palace
    Brokedown Palace is good enough so that you wish it were better.
  87. Bowfinger
    Smoothly directed and acted with glee... showing quick-witted comic spirit.
  88. Detroit Rock City
    The cast never has much chance to shine. And the main attraction is kept all too understandably under wraps.
  89. Better Than Chocolate
    For all the real problems faced by its characters, Better Than Chocolate is finally a comic rhapsody to romantic love, the possibility of happily ever after within an all-accepting subculture.
  90. Autumn Tale
    As sublimely warming an experience as the autumn sun that shines benevolently on the vineyard owned by the film's central character.
  91. Mystery Men
    A terrific offbeat cast operating on one shared, loony wavelength.
  92. The Thomas Crown Affair
    Hard to believe that real emotion was involved anywhere in this story.
  93. The Acid House
    With a cackling nihilistic glee, the movie rubs our faces in the stinking, screaming muck of raw human appetite and insists that that's all there is.
  94. Illuminata
    Summons the stock characters of behind-the-scenes theater stories and affectionately invests them with new life.
  95. The Iron Giant
    A smooth, skilled example of animated filmmaking.
  96. The Sixth Sense
    Because it unfolds like a garish hybrid of Simon Birch and What Dreams May Come, with some horror-movie touches thrown in to keep us from nodding off, "The Sixth Sense" appears to have been concocted at exactly the moment Hollywood was betting on supernatural schmaltz.
  97. Dick
    An uproariously dizzy satire...Hedaya has created the year's funniest film caricature.
  98. Twin Falls Idaho
    An eerily effective film...Twin Falls Idaho has style, gravity and originality to spare.
  99. Runaway Bride
    More often, the film is like a ride through a car wash: forward motion, familiar phases in the same old order and a sense of being carried along steadily on a well-used track. It works without exactly showing signs of life.
  100. Deep Blue Sea
    Imagine a cut-rate "Titanic" stripped of romance and historical resonance and fused with "Jaws," shorn of mythic symbolism and without complex characters, and you have the essence of this live-action horror comic.
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