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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 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. Amistad
    Consistently earnest and well-intentioned but only occasionally moving, despite the efforts of a generally top-notch cast.
  2. Afraid of Everything
    It's cool and spare, but there's an essential lightness to the film's tone despite the heavy material, and Deborah Eve Lewis' glistening B&W cinematography is simply luscious.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    5x2
    A wickedly entertaining bit of domestic tragedy.
  4. Ted Bundy
    Bright, who reworked co-writer Stephen Johnston's screenplay, changed all the names except Bundy's so he could "make up stuff," but the irony is how close to the facts -- at least to the degree they're known -- he stays.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    About a Boy
    Wickedly funny and surprisingly sweet film may be the perfect star vehicle for Grant. He's full of piss and vinegar and has at long last set aside the wobbly, stammering persona best left at "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The River
    A good film for the viewer who isn't interested in being entertained but is willing to be thrown into the muck of the problems facing hard-working American farmers.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Burning
    A few effectively directed sequences and special makeup effects by Tom Savini (most of which were cut to avoid an "X" rating) are the only reasons to sit through this terribly familiar material.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Sylvia
    While there's plenty of Shakespeare, Lawrence and Yeats scattered throughout John Brownlow's screenplay, there's precious little Plath -- no doubt the unfortunate result of the stranglehold the Hughes estate still maintains over her work.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Alice in Wonderland
    Most of the superstars in this fascinating but offbeat production are thoroughly unrecognizable, buried under pounds of makeup or smothered in cumbersome costumes.
  10. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    With the exception of a brief sequence on the Galapagos Islands, where Maturin briefly indulges in some pre-Darwinian study of its unique ecosystem, the entire film takes place aboard the ship, and Weir's greatest accomplishment may be that it never feels claustrophobic.
  11. In & Out
    It's not about sex -- it's about Barbra and Bette and the Village People: That's the lesson of this cheerful, mainstream comedy about tabloid TV, Hollywood sophistry and family values that finally gets discussion about gay people out of the bedroom and into the record store, where it belongs.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Star Is Born
    The fourth remake of this story, this is a fairly good, though overlong, film.
  13. Original Sin
    Ridiculous, yes, but in an eminently watchable way. Most of the plot twists work surprisingly well, and the frequently naked leads work up some genuine chemistry.
  14. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    A bravura tap-dancing finale as exhilarating as it is bizarre.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Who's That Knocking at My Door?
    This is the ultimate student film.... The film is a creative, ultra-low-budget effort with a good sense of place and character. Scorsese presents a detailed look at the lives of these confused boys struggling to become men in an oppressive environment.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Ong Bak
    The meat of the matter is fight sequences, and rather than being goosed with now-common digital effects and Hong Kong-style wirework, it's all real and all breathtaking.
  17. CQ
    A triumph of art direction over narrative, but what art direction!
    • 38 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Wolves of Kromer
    Totally daft and a lot of fun.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Elizabeth
    The conspicuous lack of emotional resonance makes this film "Queen Margot's" poor cold English cousin.
  20. The Last Samurai
    Unwilling to offend, Zwick whitewashes a culture in which brutality and contemplative beauty were inextricably intertwined and, afraid to alienate audiences, he shies away from the story's logical downbeat conclusion, replacing it with an "ambiguous" ending that recalls, of all things, "The Road Warrior."
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Dust to Glory
    The swooping helicopter shots, the POV camerawork from the front seat of a 800 hp trophy-truck and the propulsive soundtrack will have your heart racing towards the finishing line along with the drivers.
  22. Music of the Heart
    It all seems terribly familiar.
  23. Beyond Vanilla
    Though this frank documentary about extreme sexual practices comes with a cautionary message, it could perhaps use a stronger one.
  24. Osmosis Jones
    While there's no denying that the film's animation is technically impressive and is sometimes quite clever, its inventiveness is frequently at the service of gags so distasteful that gag is the operative word.
  25. Scooby-Doo
    As live-action adaptations of cheap, unapologetically stupid cartoons go, this is top of the line: The cast is appealing, the sets brightly colored and fun to look at, the mystery as lame and goofy as any featured in the many inexplicably beloved Scooby-Doo cartoons.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Marley & Me
    As a modest little dramedy about the everyday adventures of starting a family, Marley & Me is pretty solid, but as a movie about the joy and heartbreak of owning a dog, it goes straight for the jugular.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Scumrock
    Moritsugu's film is really just a loose collection of encounters between characters that at times barely hangs together.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Batman: The Movie
    Shot in the same campy style that characterized the TV show, all the cast members look like they are having a great time chewing up the scenery. Meredith as the Penguin and Gorshin as the Riddler are the villainous standouts.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The House of the Seven Gables
    Luckily the atmospheric photography and fine sets (Universal claimed it built an exact duplicate of the original Salem house) pull the sometimes melodramatic performances through.
  30. The Devil's Own
    An earnest, thoughtful, surprisingly well-written (given the number of writers who worked on it) drama about guilt and betrayal that features excellent performances by Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt and dares to defy the juvenile wham bam thank you ma'am aesthetics that have turned mainstream action pictures into feature-length video games.
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