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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. Best Laid Plans
    Style overwhelms substance by default.
  2. Black Cat, White Cat
    Made with such overriding jubilation that its coarseness is mostly liberating...well worth admiring for its sheer glee.
  3. I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
    It's sad and misguided and boring.
  4. 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.
  5. Outside Providence
    Eminently likable...a splendid performance from Alec Baldwin in a far cry from his usual roles.
  6. Chill Factor
    A mechanically efficient chase-by-numbers movie.
  7. The Muse
    A delectable comic performance by Sharon Stone.
  8. The Astronaut's Wife
    Depp moves through the film suavely and imperturbably, never letting the particulars bog him down.
  9. The Very Thought of You
    The story is a clever sitcomy contraption, the dialogue is pedestrian.
  10. A Dog of Flanders
    Difficult to swallow.
  11. 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.
  12. Dudley Do-Right
    Works well as family entertainment.
  13. In Too Deep
    Treats its characters seriously and doesn't resort to the obvious very often.
  14. Mickey Blue Eyes
    A lightweight comedy that has more than enough laughs to justify its silly, scatterbrained premise.
  15. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Newly benign and noticeably clumsier than the hits (Williamson) has written.
  16. Perfect Blue
    With smarter dialogue, it might have made a fascinating film.
  17. Brokedown Palace
    Brokedown Palace is good enough so that you wish it were better.
  18. Bowfinger
    Smoothly directed and acted with glee... showing quick-witted comic spirit.
  19. Detroit Rock City
    The cast never has much chance to shine. And the main attraction is kept all too understandably under wraps.
  20. 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.
  21. Autumn Tale
    As sublimely warming an experience as the autumn sun that shines benevolently on the vineyard owned by the film's central character.
  22. Mystery Men
    A terrific offbeat cast operating on one shared, loony wavelength.
  23. The Thomas Crown Affair
    Hard to believe that real emotion was involved anywhere in this story.
  24. 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.
  25. Illuminata
    Summons the stock characters of behind-the-scenes theater stories and affectionately invests them with new life.
  26. The Iron Giant
    A smooth, skilled example of animated filmmaking.
  27. 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.
  28. Dick
    An uproariously dizzy satire...Hedaya has created the year's funniest film caricature.
  29. Twin Falls Idaho
    An eerily effective film...Twin Falls Idaho has style, gravity and originality to spare.
  30. 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.
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