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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. Anywhere But Here
    Wang once again works splendidly with actresses, and boy, does he have a lot to work with this time.
  2. Felicia's Journey
    Visually, and in its soundtrack of overlapping voices, the film sustains a mood of heightened consciousness.
  3. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Though Ms. Jovovich's performance dominates the film, she remains pedestrian and underwhelming.
    • The New York Times
  4. Dogma
    Smith makes a big, gutsy leap into questions of faith and religion. He miraculously emerges with his humor intact and his wings unsinged.
  5. Light It Up
    Turns out to be a pretentiously righteous drama that drowns any claim to serious attention in a sea of superficial characters.
    • The New York Times
  6. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    But the animation, with its rich colors and stylized angles, is fun to watch and at times does seem like a psychedelic "Sesame Street."
  7. A Moment of Innocence
    Almost forbiddingly austere.
  8. Portraits chinois
    The characters...are well cast, well directed and skillfully acted, if not a particularly admirable lot.
  9. Rosetta
    Instead of feeling universal, the movie feels claustrophobic.
  10. The Bachelor
    Its satire is too broad to carry much of a sting.
  11. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    Serves as an eloquent coda to their unforgettable creative partnership.
  12. Train of Life
    What saves Train of Life from sinking into sudsy Holocaust kitsch is its sustained comic buoyancy.
  13. American Movie
    The rare documentary that combines a wildly charismatic subject with an elegant structure...not-to-be-missed.
  14. The Bone Collector
    A cinematic game that might be called Urban Creep Show, New York-style.
  15. The Insider
    Is still sleek, gripping entertainment with a raw-nerved, changeable camera style that helps to amplify its meaning.
  16. Last Night
    Softening that apocalyptic undercurrent is a counter-strain of quiet nobility.
  17. Some Fish Can Fly
    Given genuine life by the dimpled enchantress Nancy St. Alban, Nora makes palpable the bittersweet love at the honest heart of Some Fish Can Fly.
  18. The Suburbans
    It's cute and jokey and has no particular edge.
  19. Terror Firmer
    Couldn't be more artless.
  20. Beefcake
    A fascinating double-edged portrait of 1950s Los Angeles.
  21. Music of the Heart
    An affirmation of the power of music to provide beauty, pleasure and a sense of accomplishment.
  22. Speaking in Strings
    Draws a curtain over her intimate personal life.
  23. Princess Mononoke
    A landmark feat of Japanese animation from the acknowledged master of the genre.
  24. Being John Malkovich
    Irresistable, nimble and very funny.
  25. 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.
  26. Man of the Century
    Amusing one-joke film.
  27. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    Tells its glumly bodice-ripping tale with somber sensitivity.
  28. The Best Man
    Another demonstration that current movies about upscale black characters have much more traditional values than ones about catty white teen-agers.
  29. Three to Tango
    In trying to be both bold and nonthreatening, the movie ends up seeming tame and mildly offensive.
  30. Bats
    Cause for fright in only one respect: the possibility that it could spawn sequels.
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