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For 4,677 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,969 out of 4677
  2. Mixed: 1,022 out of 4677
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4677
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  1. Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
    Beguiling Victoriana. [18 July 1997, p.4D]
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  2. George of the Jungle
    This one's aimed at those airheads who, like George, have been swinging on a grapevine and slamming into too many trees. [16 July 1997, p. 3D]
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  3. 4 Little Girls
    This subject demands consummate screen treatment and now has absolutely gotten it from director/producer Spike Lee. [10 Jul 1997, Pg.02.D]
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  4. Men in Black
    The snappy sci-fi hoot Men in Black...is a kind of "Independence Day" for smart people.
  5. Face/Off
    It could be argued that this movie's callousness toward human life is nihilistic and nasty. But Woo takes everything so absurdly far that audiences laugh at what horrified them moments before. [27Jun1997 Pg01.D]
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  6. Hercules
    Furiously fast and fiendishly funny, Disney's 35th animated feature, Hercules outlines its musical-comedy agenda pronto. Even its villainous super-schmoozer Hades, well-ignited by the neurotic natterings of James Woods, would appreciate such get-to-the-pointedness. [13 June 1997, p.1D]
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  7. My Best Friend's Wedding
    Mulroney is a drip with not a milliliter of chemistry with either woman. Roberts doesn't really seem to care about him so much as the fact that life is passing her by. Though, that may be the point.
  8. Speed 2: Cruise Control
    The filmmakers, who include the hitherto ace action director Jan De Bont ("Speed", "Twister"), have neither hearts nor minds in gear. [13Jun1997 Pg.04.D]
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  9. Ulee's Gold
    An emotionally honest low-ebber that builds to a satisfying wrap-up.
  10. Addicted to Love
    This twisted romance possesses the soul and edgy atmosphere of an independent film but not quite the conviction.
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  11. Brassed Off
    The pitch of the script, written by director Mark Herman, isn't perfect. But these earthy blokes are an engaging lot, the soot of the earth, with an admirably wry view of their bleak situations. [23May1997 Pg 03.D]
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  12. Love! Valour! Compassion!
    Even the nasty zingers here seem tiresomely windy. [16May1997 Pg 02.D]
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  13. Night Falls on Manhattan
    Lumet (who also wrote the script) seems to feed on lousy cop-precinct furniture, political showboating and confrontations between street-savvy adversaries played by synergic actors. [16May1997 Pg.01.D]
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  14. The Fifth Element
    But for all the fancy-schmancy effects (budget: $90 million-plus), the vision of a hypercongested metropolis is not much more sophisticated than an episode of "The Jetsons." [9 May 1997]
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  15. Fathers' Day
    No masterpiece but undeniably heavy on laughs, the movie is put over by the buffed, lubricated dynamics of two leads who substantially transcend what is otherwise a borderline tepid dose of family values. [9 May 1997, p.13D]
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  16. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    His (Myers) affection for the era and its gaudy, bawdy movies inject this bit of fluff with giddy energy.
  17. Breakdown
    Breakdown exploits so many traditional thriller situations that any suspense fan vet can easily devote a hand to counting off the predecessors it plunders. [02May1997 Pg 12.D]
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  18. Children of the Revolution
    Uneven but also unflaggingly lively, the movie presents F. Murray Abraham as a corseted and bewigged Stalin in expository bits whose broadness recalls the Billy Wilder-scripted Soviet satires ("Ninotchka" and "One, Two, Three") without being as funny. [16 May 1997, Pg.02.D]
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  19. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
    Isn't smart enough to cut it as the ultimate blond joke. [25 April 1997, p. 4D]
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  20. Grosse Pointe Blank
    The kind of quirky, character-driven comedy they don't make much anymore.
  21. Anaconda
    An enjoyably cast, superbly shot, jolt-generating device...It isn't art, but it'll crush your bones.
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  22. Shall We Dance?
    Has its moments - but far too many of them. It runs two hours and seems to end five times.
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  23. Paradise Road
    It settles for the recycled emotions of the past despite the fact "Schindler's List" has forever made such treatment shamefully passe. [18Apr1997 Pg.03.D]
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  24. Chasing Amy
    For all its inconsistencies, this is Smith's most provocative outing yet and certainly the toughest to forget.
  25. Inventing the Abbotts
    Inventing the Abbotts would be a lot more fun were it a trashy Troy Donahue-Diane McBain vehicle ground out by Warner Bros. in 1960, the year this hormonally motivated high school-college romance mercifully concludes. [4 April 1997, p. 4D]
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  26. Double Team
    Rodman is more fun to watch here than either co-star, given his array of earrings and nose rings, plus hair that changes color more frequently than the first lady changes her do.
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  27. The Devil's Own
    Though Hour 2's heavy emphasis on physical and emotional confrontations stimulates dramatic momentum, this respectable superstar meeting is finally, of all things, ordinary. [26Mar1997 Pg04.D]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Crash
    Crash seems incredibly prescient, yet rather naive. The film is a stunning document of our alienated civilization, all the more compelling with its dolorous, almost liturgical tones.
  29. Love Jones
    Happily, the two leads click throughout in a movie that's just good enough to engender curiosity over filmmaker Witcher's follow-up effort. [14 Mar 1997]
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  30. Jungle 2 Jungle
    For all his talent, Martin Short has been consistently snakebitten in his choice of movies, a streak now extended by Disney's Jungle2 Jungle. Worse, this laugh-numbing venom has been transfused to co-star Tim Allen, until now a consistently successful big bwana in movies and bookstores and on TV. [07 Mar 1997, p.4D]
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