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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. That's the Way I Like It
    A further dose of "been there/done that."
  2. The Straight Story
    The best news the G rating has had since the ratings system was instituted in 1968.
  3. Fight Club
    It's fun to talk about...but the price you pay is enduring its excesses and pummeled-home thematic points.
  4. The Grandfather
    The material has enough meat to enable charitable viewers to drift in and out, but the result is too arch to conjure up much affection.
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  5. Random Hearts
    Likely one-week box office wonder.
  6. The Limey
    One of those movies in which pacing, dialogue and the right actors enliven a familiar story.
  7. Superstar
    Bless me, Father, for I actually laughed once during this gosh-awful spinoff...about as funny as an oozing fever blister.
  8. Boys Don't Cry
    A weeper poised to endure as one of the dominant independent features of the year.
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  9. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Only a grouch wouldn't be a little tickled.
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  10. Happy, Texas
    Neither the actors nor their characters engender much affection.
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  11. Mystery, Alaska
    If you drop the "c" in hockey you get a perfect description of Mystery, Alaska.
  12. Plunkett & Macleane
    The plunk-ing of a rap/disco soundtrack onto a movie about debtors' prisons and 18th century British highwaymen?
  13. Drive Me Crazy
    A minimally tolerable excuse to splice one or two perfunctory scenes between song cues.
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  14. Three Kings
    Visual pyrotechnics and dark humor aside, Three Kings rules because it dares to dig for such truths, whether banal or significant.
  15. Mumford
    Kasdan hasn't lost his touch at gathering terrific ensemble casts, although the performances are uneven.
  16. Jakob the Liar
    What it isn't ... is a particularly compelling contribution to the impressive and by now enormous collection of Holocaust movies.
  17. Guinevere
    The cumbersome wrap-up, which follows a four-year narrative gap, seems too fanciful and bogs down what has been a stronger second hour.
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  18. Sugar Town
    While entertaining with its swipes at everything from health food to the Latin pop craze, the semi-sweet story is about as deep and meaningful as a groupie grope.
  19. For Love of the Game
    Tested my own love of the game more than anything since the time Roseanne screeched the national anthem.
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  20. Blue Streak
    Thinking isn't going to do anyone a bit of good during Blue Streak. Turn off your brain instead and you might enjoy it.
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  21. American Beauty
    A singular accomplishment so specifically keyed to Spacey's talents that it mandates going out on a limb to say it contains the performance that will ultimately be regarded as "the one."
  22. The Minus Man
    There is no tension here. Actually, The Minus Man is minus a lot - intensity, a point of view, maybe even a point - and that equals an unsatisfying film.
  23. Love Stinks
    Love Stinks is what bad network TV comedy would be like if there were no censorship and less talent.
  24. Best Laid Plans
    Has the refined taste to crib from classics like "Double Indemnity."
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  25. Stigmata
    The scariest thing about this appalling and seemingly endless movie is that you paid for your ticket and now have to sit through it.
  26. Outside Providence
    Reeks of the kind of atmosphere that makes you reach for the Lysol.
  27. Chill Factor
    A substandard ebony-and-ivory buddy pic.
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  28. The 13th Warrior
    Dramatically empty Norse warrior adventure.
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  29. A Dog of Flanders
    A mongrel of a movie.
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  30. The Astronaut's Wife
    Allen Daviau's cinematography is so striking that the movie would probably play better with the sound off.
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