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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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  1. The Way of the Gun
    In the end the film has absolutely nothing to say.
  2. The Bulls' Night Out
    Amateurish performances from nonprofessional actors undermine this ultra-low-budget crime drama.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Pola X
    Through Carax's eyes, even squalor looks fabulous.
  4. Clouds
    It has the air of a particularly accomplished student film, by a student whose philosophical concerns outweigh his interest in narrative filmmaking.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Ça commence aujourd'hui
    A superb performance from Torreton, easily one of the finest actors working in France today.
  6. Anatomy
    The film's tone is hard to pin down, especially with the actors dubbed flatly into English.
  7. Backstage
    Fiore captures various artists horsing around with groupies, smoking dope and hanging out backstage, and cuts the material together in the kinetic but meaningless manner of MTV promos.
  8. Nurse Betty
    Uncomfortable hodgepodge of poignant fantasy, showbiz satire and crime thriller.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Solas
    The acting is superb.
  10. The Watcher
    If Reeves weren't onboard this picture would have gone straight to video.
  11. Turn It Up
    A rapper doesn't make the story fresh.
    • 10 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Whipped
    A misconceived roundelay that crosses the thin line dividing gross-but-funny from just plain gross.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Titanic Town
    Holding nothing back, Walters is, once again, remarkable.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Madadayo
    Kurosawa's farewell film is full of sentiment, tears, toasts and songs.
  15. Highlander: Endgame
    This convoluted, time and continent-tripping tale is heavy on the adolescent angst and swoony romanticism.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Wildflowers
    Meandering melodrama.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Dark Days
    Remarkable film.
  18. The Art of War
    The winning cast makes the twist-heavy plot plausible.
  19. Bring It On
    Engaging, high-spirited tale.
  20. Solomon & Gaenor
    The performances are uniformly excellent.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Waga jinsei saiaku no toki
    A wildly entertaining detective thriller that succeeds entirely on its own terms.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    The kind of film only a mother could really love.
  23. Bittersweet Motel
    Clearly Phish's appeal is fundamentally experiential, and the experience doesn't lend itself to being captured on film.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Fastpitch
    Marvelously entertaining.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Orfeu
    Dazzlingly colorful.
  26. Love & Sex
    A romantic comedy whose sour take on romance never manages to be comic.
  27. The Crew
    Much better than you'd expect, largely thanks to an extremely game cast.
  28. Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
    Ambles to a surprisingly affecting conclusion, almost despite itself.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    God's Army
    Not everyone will be comfortable with a story that's as geared toward recruitment as any Army film, be it God's or Uncle Sam's.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Place Vendôme
    Deneuve has never been better.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    A rare treat for anyone interested in the American folk revival of early 1960s.
  32. The Original Kings of Comedy
    The relentlessly self-congratulatory tone is oppressive.
  33. Steal This Movie
    It's a compelling story, and very of its tumultuous time.
  34. The Cell
    The costumes are phenomenal, the set design ravishing and the sadistic inventiveness extraordinary.
  35. Godzilla 2000
    Fans won't want to miss this addition to the canon.
  36. Bless the Child
    Satanic silliness undermines this gloomy horror picture.
  37. Cecil B. DeMented
    Has a giddy silliness that's thoroughly endearing.
  38. The Replacements
    A genial and instantly forgettable sports comedy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Intern
    This relentlessly name-dropping comedy lacks the teeth that could have made it really interesting.
  40. The Opportunists
    The plot isn't what makes this movie worth watching anyway -- it's the performances and the ambiance.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    An Affair of Love
    This short, gentle film is surprisingly involving.
  42. Sunset Strip
    None of it really amounts to anything, even as a nostalgic snapshot of a time and place.
  43. Autumn in New York
    Weepy, overwrought love story.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Aimee & Jaguar
    A bold, remarkable film.
  45. The Tao of Steve
    So adorable you don't ever mind that the story's so slight it's in danger of shriveling up and blowing away, or that it drags a little in the middle.
  46. Saving Grace
    Thoroughly dotty and surprisingly endearing.
  47. The Tic Code
    Preachy and predictable, an afterschool special in all but name.
  48. Better Living
    It's all terribly schematic, thematically obvious and not in the least bit funny.
  49. Psycho Beach Party
    This unsubtle parody probably worked better on stage; its candy-colored artifice looks more than a little strained on film, and the actors are all trying really hard to be camp.
  50. Space Cowboys
    If only this amiable shaggy dog story...didn't degenerate into an implausible, second-rate thriller after takeoff.
  51. Coyote Ugly
    The bar scenes are the only reason to sit through this jello shot of a movie.
  52. Hollow Man
    This mean-spirited invisible man movie tries to hide its poverty of fresh ideas behind a load of state-of-the-art special effects.
  53. Mad About Mambo
    This genial little picture, which has been kicking around for more than a year, doesn't have a mean bone in its body.
  54. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    An amazing technical accomplishment that never becomes a coherent movie.
  55. Girl on the Bridge
    This rather obvious parable about soul mates benefits from luminous B&W cinematography, Paradis and Auteuil's luminous performances and the picturesque carny atmosphere.
  56. Wonderland
    The material is familiar, and doesn't have anything new to say about the ways men and women wound each other.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    Chock full of personality and irreverent detail.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Wind Will Carry Us
    On the surface, nothing really happens, but to call it a nonevent would be to miss the point entirely.
  59. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    A welcome alternative to such hyperkinetic drivel as Pokémon.
  60. New Waterford Girl
    Balaban and Nairn are radiant, with none of the mannerisms that so often make Hollywood actresses look like Stepford teens.
  61. Loser
    A sweet-natured and refreshingly uncartoonlike look at the trials of an unworldly Midwestern college boy negotiating his freshman year at NYU.
  62. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Whatever the complicated truth about PTL, Tammy Faye's homespun charisma is undeniable; if only the Lord would give her the strength to say, "Get thee behind me, false eyelashes!"
  63. $pent
    The main characters are defined by their problems, and the secondary characters (notably Brigette's parents) are so crudely drawn it's hard to imagine what Cates was thinking.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Alice et Martin
    That Techine manages to coax a somewhat happy ending from this staid, somber film is heartening proof that what doesn't kill us might indeed make us stronger.
  65. What Lies Beneath
    This slow, derivative chiller (which lifts liberally from "Ghost Story," "Rear Window" and "A Stir of Echoes") wastes far too much time on red herrings and telegraphs its plot points with painfully obvious dialogue.
  66. Rififi (re-release)
    Manages to inject more than a little humor into this tension-filled genre classic.
  67. Les amants criminels
    Imagine "Hansel and Gretel" by way of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
  68. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    No better than the first.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Benjamin Smoke
    Make sure you catch this spooky and strangely moving portrait of this highly unusual artist while you can.
  70. The In Crowd
    The greatest mystery, though, is how this thoroughly trashy picture wound up opening theatrically, rather than going direct to video.
  71. Fear of Fiction
    While his film is less than satisfying, it's a refreshingly off-kilter experience.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
    It exudes a slightly stale air that does nothing to dispel gay stereotypes.
  73. The Five Senses
    A self-consciously arty ensemble piece that's alternately exploitative, implausible and cliche ridden.
  74. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    Nearly strangles in its own stylishness but benefits from smoldering performances.
  75. Shadow Hours
    Very entertaining, if thoroughly silly.
  76. X-Men
    Stylish, exciting and an occasionally poignant sci-fi adventure spectacle.
  77. Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    The whole thing has the air of a parlor trick, but it's a good trick, beautifully acted.
  78. The Big Blue
    Deeply adolescent; its impact is visceral rather than intellectual.
  79. Chuck & Buck
    Arteta wrings some laughs from their bizarre (and more than a little frightening situation), but they're uncomfortable laughs, emotional protection from the freak show.
  80. The Kid
    Manipulative but fitfully entertaining "Twilight Zone"-ish comedy of redemption.
  81. All the Rage
    The climactic shootout might have more impact if we actually cared about the so-called characters.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    Spheeris succeeds in creating a touching portrait, although the depressing nature of their dead-end, emotionally numb lives offers little hope for a cheerful resolution.
  83. I'm the One That I Want
    On the downside, it's slackly edited -- comedy is, after all, all about timing and there are way too many lengthy shots of Cho waiting for her audience to respond.
  84. Shower
    This gentle, slow-moving film contains some charming sequences but no new insights into the pleasures and burdens of family.
  85. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Most of the film's imagination and energy seem to have gone into the clever casting and flamboyant costume and set design.
  86. Scary Movie
    Surprisingly cohesive.
  87. The Perfect Storm
    Overall, the book is a far more rewarding experience than the movie.
  88. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    This megastar mix of CGI animation and live action is remarkably faithful to the spirit of the original.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Trixie
    In the long, hit-and-miss career of writer-director Alan Rudolph, this misbegotten comedy falls squarely into the miss bin.
  90. The Patriot
    Undeniably handsome..., but no cliché is left unturned, right down to the spray of toy soldiers falling from the hand of a dead child. Everything old isn't new again.
  91. Praise
    Their doomed fling is oddly hypnotic and ultimately haunting.
  92. Me, Myself & Irene
    A disappointment that mines the same vein of gross-out romantic comedy as"There's Something About Mary," without that film's oddball charm.
  93. Boricua's Bond
    If this is even a reasonably accurate account of someone's real life, then we as a culture may be in worse shape than we imagine.
  94. Chicken Run
    Who'd have thought you'd find yourself caring so much about the fate of a flock of fryers? This chicken has legs -- lots of them.
  95. Titan A.E.
    Not only one of the most spectacular cartoons ever made, but also a reasonably adult piece of sci-fi.
  96. Shaft
    It's a bad sign when audience enthusiasm peaks during the credits sequence.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Jesus' Son
    But for all the divine touches, FH is no Jesus, or even his son: He's just another wide-eyed American Adam on the road again, a dazed and confused Huck Finn of the highways.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Resembles an Impressionist masterpiece come to life, and ends with a tremendously moving acceptance of art and mortality.
  99. The Woman Chaser
    Gorgeous but seriously unsatisfying.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Humanité
    This curiously empty film was awarded the Jury Prize at the 1997 Cannes film festival.
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