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For 20,311 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: 9,399 out of 20311
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20311
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20311
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  1. Ulee's Gold
    Beautiful and heartfelt, an oasis of humanity in a season of furious hyperbole.
  2. Con Air
    The colorfully written Con Air is a solid chip off "The Rock," pumped up and very well cast, with the prettiness and polish of advertising art.
  3. The Pillow Book
    The film is best watched as a richly sensual stylistic exercise filled with audaciously beautiful imagery, captivating symmetries and brilliantly facile tricks.
  4. Addicted to Love
    Ms. Ryan's lean, eagle-eyed golden girl is enough to curdle milk.
  5. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
    Where the original film was a cut-and-dried Pop-Art-flavored allegory pitting scientific hubris against the unpredictable, ungovernable forces of nature, the sequel is an all-stops-pulled, edge-of-your-seat adventure film whose messages are not so neatly packaged.
  6. Brassed Off
    Brassed Off is shamelessly manipulative and sentimental, but in an agreeably familiar way.
  7. Love! Valour! Compassion!
    One reason the film version of Terrence McNally's play Love! Valour! Compassion! is so moving is that this complicated group portrait never loses its slippery emotional footing.
  8. Night Falls on Manhattan
    But Night Falls on Manhattan is also oddly listless. It doesn't often live up to the doomy eloquence of its title.
  9. La Promesse (The Promise)
    The integrity of the film, whose directorial team has collaborated on numerous Belgian documentaries, extends to its sad final moments, in which nothing is left neat and tidy.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Brave
    The movie isn’t terrible, exactly — it’s not good — but it does raise the question: Why?
  11. The Fifth Element
    As a yammering, swishy talk show host, Chris Tucker is flat-out incomprehensible, while Mr. Oldman preens evilly enough to leave tooth marks on the scenery.
  12. Fathers' Day
    Not surprisingly, there are some slow patches and formulaic touches, but that's a fair trade for the fun of watching Mr. Williams and Mr. Crystal make an irresistible comic team.
  13. Nowhere
    If it weren't so overpopulated and desperate to shock, Nowhere might have succeeded as a maliciously cheery satire of Hollywood brats overdosing on the very concept of Hollywood. But the movie is so hectically paced that it doesn't have time to develop its characters or to flesh out the tales it sets in motion. Even comic books are better at telling stories.
  14. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    As goofy and throwaway as the "Brady Bunch" movies, but it has the same winking appreciation of vintage kitsch.
  15. Breakdown
    His Breakdown is a tough, vigorous exercise in pure action, shot with throwback expertise and, most refreshingly, without special effects.
  16. Children of the Revolution
    This comedy has less to do with narrative than with sheer chutzpah and a first-rate cast. It manages to be irreverently funny despite a subject that is no laughing matter.
  17. Irma Vep
    A minor but witty entry on the exceptionally strong slate of French films at the New York Film Festival this year.
  18. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
    Cheerful, giddy fun.
  19. Volcano
    In Volcano, the thrills are so well wrought that they eventually lose their novelty and become numbing.
  20. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
    The heads may be dead, but at least they have a comical look.
  21. Murder at 1600
    Directed by Dwight Little of "Free Willy 2," and written by onetime high school classmates, Wayne Beach and David Hodgin (Mr. Hodgin died in 1995), Murder at 1600 eagerly invokes other films and stock images without showing much style of its own.
  22. Traveller
    Traveller is just a hot little sleeper with strong characters and a story to tell.
  23. McHale's Navy
    Leaky PT boat of a comedy, descended from the television series.
  24. Grosse Pointe Blank
    Enough wild-card energy to keep it bright and surprising.
  25. Anaconda
    A trashily entertaining reptilian version of ''Jaws'' set in the steaming heart of the Amazon rain forest.
  26. Shall We Dance?
    And the dancing, as in ''Strictly Ballroom,'' is filmed with a wishful Fred-and-Ginger sweetness that gives the film a studiously effervescent mood.
  27. Paradise Road
    In trying to keep track of everybody while providing enough melodrama to sustain an atmosphere of controlled terror, Paradise Road stumbles all over itself and never really finds its center.
  28. Schizopolis
    It winds up illustrating the very emptiness it mocks.
  29. Inventing the Abbotts
    Best watched as a showcase for radiant young talent.
  30. Chasing Amy
    Smith's knowing humor and unruffled style make a good antidote to gender chaos. Music by David Pirner contributes to the film's loose, inviting mood.
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