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For 2,984 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: 1,815 out of 2984
  2. Mixed: 939 out of 2984
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2984
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  1. The Best Man
    This agitated comedy could be called "The Big Chillin'" if it had a smidge of the 1983 film's wit and charm.
  2. Bringing Out the Dead
    Like its title -- blunt, thruthful, uncompromising. It is hard on an audience, even harrowing. But that's exactly what Martin Scorsese was put on earth to do.
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  3. The Story of Us
    Mostly the movie is like the marriage: good casting, golden promise, yet somehow a grating ordeal.
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  4. The Straight Story
    Alvin's tragic memories give perspective to the triumph of his trek, even as Farnsworth's weathered brilliance makes this movie a G as in gem.
  5. Fight Club
    Both actors are excellent--but there's something conventionally gimmicky about the way it plays its reality/unreality game.
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    • 14 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Omega Code
    Given its budget, the quality of its writing, acting and production is remarkably high--about miniseries level.
  7. Random Hearts
    A grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal.
  8. The Limey
    Soderbergh slices, dices and Cuisinarts the script into flashbacks, scene shifts, stop motion and other distracting foolery.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Boys Don't Cry
    The movie lets down the material. It's to cool: all attitude, no sizzle.
  10. Happy, Texas
    An easy charm, a cleverly unforced sense of humor and a benignity toward all its genially oddball characters. If moviegoers skip this one, they'll be missing a real treat.
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  11. Three Kings
    A brilliant exercise in popular but palpable surrealism.
  12. Romance
    It's mostly an ordeal--for actress and audience.
  13. For Love of the Game
    You will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning.
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  14. Blue Streak
    Not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing.
  15. Get Bruce
    Fond, zippy new documentary about the Bruce who, on the Hollywood circuit, is the real Boss.
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  16. American Beauty
    Kevin Spacey (gives) a truly great performance.
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  17. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    It's too empty to applaud, too insignificant to deplore.
  18. Mickey Blue Eyes
    Director Kelly Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce.
  19. Bowfinger
    Perhaps the funniest movie for grownups so far this year.
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  20. The Iron Giant
    A smart live-and-let-live parable.
  21. The Sixth Sense
    Unfolds with a patient intelligence. The Sixth Sense might not scare you out of your wits, but it could reward them.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Here's another warning: you may laugh yourself sick--as sick as this ruthlessly funny movie is.
  25. 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.
  26. An Ideal Husband
    An ideal play is degraded into an indolent film
  27. 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.
  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. The Mummy
    Hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey movie.
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