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For 20,323 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 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: 9,408 out of 20323
  2. Mixed: 8,448 out of 20323
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20323
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  1. Secret Things
    There is no denying the force of Mr. Brisseau's bizarre imagination and the personal conviction he brings to it.
  2. Shower
    Uplifting, witty.
  3. Benji: Off the Leash!
    After a summer of computer-generated blockbusters, the amiably low-tech Benji: Off the Leash! seems like a breath of fresh air.
  4. Garden State
    Small, smart, off-kilter comedy.
  5. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Mr. Anderson's screenplay provides a steady series of inventive action situations, and the director, Alexander Witt, makes the most of them. His work is fast, funny, smart and highly satisfying in terms of visceral impact.
  6. 8 Mile
    What Mr. Hanson has done with 8 Mile is make a pop movie instead of a movie about pop. There's nothing disreputable about this.
  7. Forrest Gump
    Has the elements of an emotionally gripping story. Yet is feels less like a romance than like a coffee-table book celebrating the magic of special effect. [6 July 1994, p. C9]
  8. Ginger Snaps
    Because the characters are so well established -- Ms. Perkins is particularly good as the shy, resentful Brigitte -- the film can have fun with its own premises without turning into an empty camp exercise.
  9. Ratcatcher
    The power of Ratcatcher comes from its hushed lyricism and Ms. Ramsay's talent for conveying emotional complexity.
  10. Ocean's Twelve
    Enjoyable, unabashedly trivial caper flick.
  11. Two Brothers
    Yes, it's all terribly hokey. But once you accept the premise as a conceit that allows the director, Jean-Jacques Annaud, to offer an intimate, utopian vision of the animal kingdom, Two Brothers succeeds as an inspirational pastorale and passionate moral brief for animal rights and preservation.
  12. The Woodsman
    What is more remarkable is that he (Bacon)has found a way, without the slightest hint of vanity or ostentation, to convey the inner life of a man who is almost entirely shut down.
  13. Hotel Rwanda
    A political thriller based on fact that hammers every button on the emotional console.
  14. From Dusk Till Dawn
    Mr. Rodriguez demonstrates his talents more clearly than ever -- he's visually inventive, quick-witted and a fabulous editor -- while still hampering himself with sophomoric material.
  15. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
    Nastily amusing
  16. Beautiful Girls
    Has warmth and good cheer. The film is loosely focused, but its ensemble cast is as affable as anything on television these days.
  17. Superman
    Superman is good, clean, simple-minded fun, though it's a movie whose limited appeal is built in.
  18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    A comedy that can't quite support its tragic conclusion, which is too schematic to be honestly moving, but it is acted with such a sense of life that one responds to its demonstration of humanity if not to its programmed metaphors.
  19. The Rock
    Seldom is it clearer that a film is nothing more than high-gloss jokey escapism, or that when visual cliches are this relentless they become weirdly fascinating in their own right.
  20. Booty Call
    This contemporary sex farce, directed by Jeff Pollack, has the attention span of a hyperactive child, but its bawdy sexual humor rarely flags.
  21. Brassed Off
    Brassed Off is shamelessly manipulative and sentimental, but in an agreeably familiar way.
  22. Cube
    Cube, the story in question, proves surprisingly gripping, in the best ''Twilight Zone'' tradition.
  23. Scent of a Woman
    The good thing is that the principals and film makers make the absolute most of a conventional opportunity.
  24. The Substance of Fire
    The film, to its credit, never tries to pluck your heartstrings. As it follows the Geldharts around New York, they are figures in a meditative dialogue on human values that reaches no easy conclusions.
  25. The First Wives Club
    The film is played as witchy, all-star vamping with a lethal sting. What makes its premise especially funny is that, at heart, it's no laughing matter.
  26. Stealing Beauty
    This film maker's supremely tactile, sensual style and his taste for exoticism are captivatingly on display in Stealing Beauty, even if the film's philosophizing sometimes lacks the intellectual heft of a cotton puff.
  27. Videodrome
    Though Videodrome finally grows grotesque and a little confused, it begins very well and sustains its cleverness for a long while.
  28. Kicking and Screaming
    The film succeeds in finding something sweetly romantic and visually fresh in Grover's flashback memories of Jane, along with allowing Grover plenty of room for wisecracks.
  29. Heavy
    Though Heavy begins beautifully, it isn't always able to sustain its balance between narrative subtlety and inertia.
  30. Indecent Proposal
    Mr. Lyne's films may not cast any new light on the human condition, but they do keep you glued to the screen.
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