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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 Parent Trap
    The visual illusion that Ms. Lohan is actually two characters has been accomplished so seamlessly that it barely diverts attention from one of the film's greatest passions, its product plugs.
  2. Saving Private Ryan
    Steven Spielberg's soberly magnificent new war film, the second such pinnacle in a career of magical versatility, has been made in the same spirit of urgent communication. It is the ultimate devastating letter home.
  3. Western
    A funny, romantic film filled with cozy intimacies and lovely, wide-screen images of the French countryside.
  4. Lolita
    The film's master stroke is its understanding that this is Humbert's story, told in his own lyrical voice, from his own passionate, sad, tortured perspective.
  5. The Mask of Zorro
    This is hot-weather escapism so earnestly retrograde that it seems new.
  6. There's Something About Mary
    A romantic comedy that's a hoot in every sense, worth a smidgen of disapproval and a whole lot of helpless laughter...The film works ridiculously well because it never stoops to being mean-spirited or (despite all appearances) authentically inane.
  7. Pi
    As smart as it is, Pi is awfully hard to watch. Filmed with hand-held cameras in splotchy black-and-white and crudely edited, it has the style and attitude of a no-budget midnight movie.
  8. Lethal Weapon 4
    The characters remain funny and likable, and they all live on Earth.
  9. Armageddon
    The actors mark time, and the gung-ho heroics on display are embarrassingly hollow.
  10. Out of Sight
    The film's sleek moodiness and visual sophistication are so effective that there's even a scene here that makes Detroit look like the most romantic city in the world.
  11. Smoke Signals
    Shows colorful style and a wisdom beyond precocity about its setting and its people.
  12. Buffalo '66
    Cool, stark compositions and the occasional audacious visual trick give Buffalo '66 a memorable look even when its narrative enters the occasional uneventful stretch.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dr. Dolittle
    There is the language to consider, but despite the film's slow start, small children should take to the idea of communicating with animals.
  14. I Went Down
    I Went Down owes much of its novelty to steering clear of Irish movie stereotypes and instead showing off a spare and quizzical indie spirit.
  15. The X Files
    Though both stars are sometimes eclipsed when the film strains for big action episodes, Mr. Duchovny sustains enough cool, deadpan intellect and suppressed passion to give the story a center. Ms. Armstrong has the harsher, more restrictive role, but she plays it with familiar hardboiled glamour.
  16. Mulan
    A film that not only breaks the cross-dressing barrier but also ratchets up the violence level for children's animation.
  17. Henry Fool
    This film aspires to be a meditation on (among other things) art, trust, loyalty, politics and popular culture. With utter simplicity, and with unexpectedly intense storytelling, it achieves all that and more.
  18. Edge of Seventeen
    The movie gets the music, the clothes and the tone of the teen-age culture of that era exactly right.
  19. High Art
    To their credit, the actors immerse themselves deeply in the film's self-conscious aura. Ms. Sheedy reinvents herself as a tough, fascinating presence, while Ms. Mitchell's earnest bewilderment also serves the story well.
  20. Six Days Seven Nights
    Ms. Heche and Mr. Ford make an appealing, wisecracking team, and they look comfortable with the rugged demands of their roles.
  21. Can't Hardly Wait
    [The writers/directors] show easygoing humor and the wisdom to borrow well. Their film at various times recalls tenderhearted coming-of-age comedies from "American Graffiti" onward, with strong homage to the works of Cameron Crowe, Amy Heckerling and John Hughes.
  22. A Perfect Murder
    The story has enough nasty twists and tantalizing clues for its ingenious mechanics to remain engaging.
  23. The Truman Show
    Warm, affecting and refreshingly shtickless, he (Carrey) occupies center stage here through sheer, beguiling force of personality.
  24. Mr. Jealousy
    The film, which is better written than staged, could have been funnier if its actors weren't playing against type.
  25. The Last Days of Disco
    Humorously and fondly, with an entertaining supply of what he has called "prosaic license," Stillman again displays a pitch-perfect ear for both the cattiness and the camaraderie that bind his characters into collective friendship.
  26. Hope Floats
    Hope Floats, which often resembles a rosy commercial, does indulge in too much awkward slow motion, and in occasional embarrassing romps that are meant to signify family fun.
  27. The Opposite of Sex
    What redeems the film's surface bitterness are sharp observations, laceratingly funny dialogue and something Dedee claims to find especially loathsome: a secret heart of gold.
  28. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    The closest sensory approximation of an acid trip ever achieved by a mainstream movie and the latest example of Mr. Gilliam's visual bravura.
  29. Bulworth
    Its best moments come from witnessing the Senator's inspired unraveling, not from watching where it will end.
  30. Godzilla
    Godzilla is so clumsily structured it feels as if it's two different movies stuck together with an absurd stomping finale glued onto the end.
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