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For 2,973 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,806 out of 2973
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2973
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2973
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  1. Romance
    It's mostly an ordeal--for actress and audience.
  2. For Love of the Game
    You will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning.
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  3. Blue Streak
    Not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing.
  4. Get Bruce
    Fond, zippy new documentary about the Bruce who, on the Hollywood circuit, is the real Boss.
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  5. American Beauty
    Kevin Spacey (gives) a truly great performance.
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  6. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    It's too empty to applaud, too insignificant to deplore.
  7. Mickey Blue Eyes
    Director Kelly Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce.
  8. Bowfinger
    Perhaps the funniest movie for grownups so far this year.
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  9. The Iron Giant
    A smart live-and-let-live parable.
  10. The Sixth Sense
    Unfolds with a patient intelligence. The Sixth Sense might not scare you out of your wits, but it could reward them.
  11. Dick
    Sells out real satirical possibilities to its marketing potential as teen fluff. Everyone loses -- except Hedaya, who keeps faith with his character's nutsiness.
  12. Muppets from Space
    Bringing Gonzo to his senses gives the Muppets briskly economical opportunities to satirize government, media excesses and cult sci-fi's more tiresome tropes.
  13. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Here's another warning: you may laugh yourself sick--as sick as this ruthlessly funny movie is.
  14. Run Lola Run
    Invigorating and annoying, Lola could use a dose of Ritalin. Best to take this 76-minute riff on alternate destinies as an antidote to Europe's minimalist art-house cinema and to enjoy Potente's sweaty radiance.
  15. An Ideal Husband
    An ideal play is degraded into an indolent film
  16. The Red Violin
    These stories, alas, are utterly predictable. Still, Samuel L. Jackson breaks through the crust of cliches as an expert called in to verify the instrument's provenance, and violinist Joshua Bell plays and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts John Corigliano's score ravishingly.
  17. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    AP2 starts out bright and clever--shagnificent, we might almost say--before sinking into a swamp of shagnation.
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  18. Tea with Mussolini
    Maggie Smith and Judi Dench are glorious comic actresses, while Joan Plowright provides a firm, touching moral center to the film. They almost make you forget Cher's totally out-of-it work as a disapproved-of American and carry the film to its destiny, which is one of inoffensive inconsequence, prettily staged. [24 May 1999, p.88]
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  19. The Mummy
    Hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey movie.
  20. eXistenZ
    Like the virtual game he plays on us, the film is weird, it's addictive, and Lord, it's alive!
  21. Pushing Tin
    Tin tailspins into silliness and never regains its flight pattern.
  22. Shuang long hui
    The real fun is in seeing Hong Kong pop cinema at its innocent, crowd-pleasing best. And for Jackie, that goes double.
  23. Go
    Here is a picture that has wit, a hairpin-turn narrative, high pizazz and ensemble star quality. Ready, set, Go.
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  24. Metroland
    Metroland finally makes a good, subtle case for the bearable weightiness of middle-class being, for the higher morality of muddling through.
  25. Cookie's Fortune
    The film mostly simmers.
  26. The Matrix
    Given a budget that encourages their kinesthetic skills, the filmmakers tend to go on a bit, but it's mostly a kind of quick, glancing hipness that's being indulged here.
  27. Forces of Nature
    All its desperate plot maneuvers (Ben and Sandra making like Tarzan on a train roof) can't give the film wit; all the slo-mo sleet, rain and confetti can't give it style. [March 22, 1999]
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  28. The Deep End of the Ocean
    Pfeiffer restores honor to the family drama.
  29. The Corruptor
    Chow Yun-fat, the epitome of swaggering suavity in John Woo's Hong Kong crime films, wears his role as a good-bad cop dapperly in this good-middling drama set in Manhattan's Chinatown.
  30. 200 Cigarettes
    The first few minutes have promise (with an all-star list of Gen-X actors), and the last few minutes provide fun (with snapshots of lovers and losers). In between there is a void--feeble jokes, a lot of falling down and foolish declarations.
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