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For 20,312 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: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. The Cup
    A very funny movie, alive with a sense of absurdity and human foible.
  2. Eye of the Beholder
    Impenetrable mess of a movie.
  3. Grizzly Falls
    Combines old-fashioned boys' adventure with a heavy-handed modern lecture on parenthood. The film possesses a decent heart but suffers from a simple mind.
  4. Isn't She Great
    If you're looking for laughs, give "Valley of the Dolls" another read instead.
  5. Santitos
    Disarmingly endearing.
  6. The Big Tease
    As it rubs our noses in our own fascination with vanity and the silliest values in life, it's charming enough to make us like it.
  7. Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
    Eloquent, understated film.
  8. Down to You
    Extremely good-looking people tend to be shallow, self-involved and not very bright. Let's call this statement what it is: a form of prejudice, a stereotype. It is, sadly, a stereotype that Down to You does everything in its power to promote.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Wirey Spindell
    To say that this movie is true to life is only to say that it's banal, boring and confusing.
  10. Supernova
    Light on originality and low on suspense though high on design and special effects.
  11. My Dog Skip
    Works best when it sticks with the gentle humor and pathos of its literary source.
  12. Next Friday
    Most of the principal female characters are either sexually voracious, sexually promiscuous, pregnant out of wedlock or angrily bent on revenge.
  13. Fantasia 2000
    Not especially innovative in its look or subject matter.
  14. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
    An interestingly wild hybrid of visual styles and cultural references.
  15. Close-Up
    It is Mr. Sabzian's poignancy that makes "Close-Up" much more than a clever reflection on film-versus-life as an endless hall of mirrors.
  16. The Hurricane
    Washington leans into an otherwise schlocky movie and slams it out of the ballpark.
  17. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Morris, instead of evoking the solemnity that surrounds most films that touch on the Holocaust, has directed Mr. Death as the blackest of comedies.
  18. The Third Miracle
    This intelligent, well-acted movie is not helped by the fact that its story in some ways parallels that of "Stigmata," the trashy supernatural spookfest that flared briefly at the box office earlier this year.
  19. Play It to the Bone
    Are they fools or heroes? Because the movie can't decide, neither can we. And without an emotional payoff, Play It to the Bone ends up stranded in serio-comic limbo.
  20. Titus
    Makes the best possible argument for a cautionary drama that contemplates the absolute worst in us.
  21. Galaxy Quest
    It keeps its tongue firmly in its cheek, offers a few genuine laughs, moves swiftly, if not at warp speed, and is led by a talented cast.
  22. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Carnal, glamorous and worth the price.
  23. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Admirably high-minded and visually gorgeous but fatally anesthetized by its own grandiosity.
  24. Angela's Ashes
    Not since the latest fashion layout flirted with arty desolation, has misery looked this fabulously pristine.
  25. Any Given Sunday
    For much of the movie, the kinetic furor of the game sequences helps camouflage the weaknesses of a screenplay that is a mechanically contrived series of power struggles.
  26. Man on the Moon
    What is missing here, though it might have been the first thing expected from an ostensible film biography, is an answer to the simplest question: Who was Andy Kaufman, and how did he get that way?
  27. Girl, Interrupted
    A small, intense period piece with a tough-love attitude toward lazy, self-indulgent little girls flirting with madness.
  28. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    Crammed with enough melodrama to fill several soap operas.
  29. Onegin
    Feels too cramped, indoorsy and bloodless to catch romantic fire.
  30. Bicentennial Man
    Except for Williams, the sitcom-meets-sci-fi acting throughout the movie is strictly of television caliber.
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